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  • Losing Weight

    I’ve lost weight with just about everything you’ve heard of.

    I’ve lost weight with Weight Watchers, I’ve lost weight with Jenny Craig, I’ve lost weight with hypnosis.

    What I have been unable to do, is keep the weight off. The minute something takes my attention off of losing weight, or keeping the weight off, I gain it all back.

    I even lost 100 pounds once. That was with hypnosis, and it was easy. But then a life event came around (okay, a couple), took my focus off of losing weight, back it was on.

    Even this year, I’ve managed to lose some weight — then my husband broke his hip, and back the weight came.

    The sad part, is that I usually get MORE weight, not just what I lost.

    It also gets harder to lose the weight each time.

    And that is why I think it is a disease. I don’t think other people have to think about losing weight all day, every day — or keeping weight off, all day every day.

    But then maybe they do.

  • I really agree with this article

    MSNBC – Getting Rid of Extra Pounds

  • Medco Saga — or is it Zyrtec Saga

    FYI: Zyrtec is the only drug I’ve had to deal with when it comes to managed care.

    All the other scripts — insulin, Zocor, Altace, test strips etc. have not been a problem. They haven’t even bulked on the insulin even though they have a cheaper one in their formulary. But I do have a documented allergy to the formulary insulin.

    Anyway, they shipped on Friday, after predicting a ship date of Monday. So it is on its way.

  • Zyrtec Redux

    Good news!

    Medco received my script. They are processing it.

    I was worried because the post office box was absolutely stuffed and I wasn’t sure it was going to get picked up. I kept thinking I should have taken it inside.

    And since I mailed it yesterday at 5:00, this isn’t bad.

    They claim they will ship on the 10th.

  • This is the type of thing I worry about

    Obesity Causes Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Type 2 Diabetes Patientsa>

    March 2, 2004

  • More Zyrtec fun

    It’s a VERY good thing I knew the allergy medication game was coming. Here’s the latest in the saga…

    The doctor’s office didn’t get the precertification back quick enough for Medco. On Feb 26, Medco sent the script back to me. The precertification came through on Feb 27.

    So now I have to wait until the script is returned to me, and then send it back to Medco to be filled. So far, we’re talking about the following:

    I went to the doctor on February 16, and got the prescriptions.
    I dropped them off at the mailbox on the way home — but it was a postal holiday so it didn’t get mailed until February 17th.

    The rest of the order arrived on February 27th — a 10 day turn around.

    SO, if the script arrives in the mail today, I’m looking at March 12 to get my Zyrtec.

    NEVER NEVER put off filling medications. In fact, I’d be totally screwed (though I didn’t let onto this), if I had not built up a 60 day cushion on my meds.

    ALWAYS make sure you have a full month’s supply at all time otherwise you’ll have to pay a 30 day copay rather than a 90.

  • iShape is working out well

    I am liking iShape more and more each day. Though I think it might make be obsess over food more than I would like.

    Their food database is fantastic. They had Tagalong Girl Scout cookies in it. And of course, my EzManager doesn’t.

    Having a good wide database makes life much easier.

  • Zyrtec

    Medco is still showing the order cancelled, but I am figured they didn’t get it until late in the day and won’t hollar at humans until the end of the day on Monday.

    A hint: any medication you REALLY REALLY need, and you are mail ordering? Make sure you have at least a month overlap. They tell you that in the documentation. They say always get a 1 month script and a 90 day script at the same time. You don’t want to run out! And they don’t seem to care if you might.

  • iShape

    iShape is working out well. I signed up yesterday and it became live today. Entering my Diet Gourmet food was very easy. I like the way it tracks everything.

    No person is intimately involved in your workouts — but then I haven’t had that at all since I started working with the local online personal trainer. A few nags about a food diary that does not work, and that’s about it.

    Okay, he did tell me what weights to buy.

    But the workouts aren’t flexible at all. iShapes are. You can move the iShape workout to a different day, you can change to a different exercise, etc.

    Live and learn!

    If you are interested in iShape, they do have a referral program. Please email me at kathleen_w-weblog8301 at mailblocks.com and I will “set you up”. That will give me a free month.

  • Man, they are finally “getting it”!

    code: theWebSocket; – A weblog of Al Hawkins, RN

    A year-long intensive glucose management protocol using a blood glucose goal of less than 140 mg/dL at a mixed medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) resulted in a 6% absolute reduction in in-hospital mortality — a 29% relative risk reduction, according to results reported here at the 33rd Critical Care Congress, the annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

    One of the more common things to discuss on the insulin pumper logs is how to manage blood sugar during surgical procedures. This article is definately worth registrating, printing and keeping if you have to go to the hospital.