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  • Better!

    I feel SO much better. I slept all night last night. And slept all night the night before. I was absolutely exhausted last night. I don’t show as much weight loss today as I did yesterday, and I think some of yesterday’s weight loss was due to dehydration. I still weigh less than I did when I left, but not as low as I was yesterday.

    I tried to see at least one of my medical team this week — I am seeing 3 next week, but they are all busy this week — it IS spring break for the largest school district.

    I also scheduled my cardiologist in June. I’m doing a nuclear stress test then.

  • I’d hate to see what happens if I wasn’t on CPAP, then

    Welcome To Diabetes In Control – Treatment of Sleep Apnea Lowers Glucose Levels in Diabetics

  • Interesting Study

    I know when I have trouble with food cravings sticking to low carb does help.

    Welcome To Diabetes In Control – Why Low-Carb Diets Produce Fast Results For Obese Diabetics

    Why Low-Carb Diets Produce Fast Results For Obese Diabetics

  • Weight after the trip

    Good news, my weight is the lowest I’ve seen in years. I started concentrating on losing weight about a year ago this week, after seeing my weight at several doctors. I’ve lost about 35 pounds in the year.

  • Diabetes traveling overseas

    One good thing about the trip is that diabetes didn’t get in the way. I will put the cause of that on the new pump.

    Several times I used the food list on the pump but a lot of the time I guessed and corrected later.

    I’m going to talk to CDE before I do any more tweaking but I do like the results I’ve seen so far.

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    From my Treo

  • Sleep

    Right now my biggest issue is sleep. Periodically I forget how to sleep. No one understands this.

    Weird things trigger it. This time its the trip and the other stress I am going through.

    I honestly don’t know how to fix this.
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    From my Treo

  • Trip to almost hell

    It started with a flight delay in Dallas. Our layover was about 1 hour in Gatwick, but the flight was delayed by two hours.

    I’ve got 2 minutes left on a Wifi card, and will update more on my Treo.

  • Trip to almost hell

    I’m coming home tomorrow as the trip has been the absolute trip from hell.

    I should have gotten off the plane in Dallas, and the trip just kept getting worse and worse.

    Somehow Rich convinced American Airlines to put me on a flight to Zurick and back to Dallas tomorrow after noon.

    More details on my diabetes blog when I get back.

  • Trip to Monte Carlo

    I decided to change the pump time when I got on the plane. I will have to watch things since I have dawn syndrome so bad.

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    From my Treo

  • Cure? for Type 1

    This won’t help Type 2’s, but it might help Type 1’s.

    The question that need to be answered though is

    a) does it solve the problem that started diabetes in the first place? Since we don’t know why Type 1 diabetics develop it in the first place…

    b) Are anti-rejection drugs better than taking insulin? Since I’m fairly stable on insulin, I’d pass, but then I’m not a Type 1 either.

    It’s an interesting development though. Other countries are also on this path.

    Health News – Islet Cell Transplants ‘Cure’ British Diabetic

    The first fully successful islet cell transplantation in the United Kingdom has “cured” a 61-year-old man who has had type 1 diabetes for about 30 years.