{"id":1281,"date":"2009-03-17T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/the-rest-of-the-day-in-new-orleans\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:53:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:53:35","slug":"the-rest-of-the-day-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/the-rest-of-the-day-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"The rest of the day in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got situated in the room and got an internet fix.&#160; Then we decided to do some New Orleans stuff.<\/p>\n<p>We walked over to the Riverfront \u201cMall\u201d \u2013 It is a mall, but I don\u2019t know if they call it that.&#160; Probably says on the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the pictures are here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kath_weaver\/sets\/72157615437187141\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kath_weaver\/sets\/72157615437187141\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They had a Caf\u00e9 De Monde so I made Rich eat beignets and drink coffee.&#160; He liked the coffee, I didn\u2019t even with chocolate.&#160; It was okay, but I\u2019ve never liked the coffee there and don\u2019t drink coffee most of the time anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We got on the street car, rode it to the end of the line and then got off at Harrah\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>We played nickel poker slots.&#160; I like nickel poker slots.&#160; Rich won over $20 and I lost $3.00 of his so he was happy.<\/p>\n<p>We walked back to Embassy Suites and had their Manager\u2019s Hospitality hour with a po-boy and fries (Rich had pizza).<\/p>\n<p>Now we are upstairs chilling, I\u2019m waiting to check my blood sugar and see where I am.&#160; 317 \u2013 yuck and needed 7 more units.&#160; However, before the hotel hurricane and dinner and after beignets, I was at 137.&#160; I have 113 units in the pump and a little over 100 in a cartridge.&#160; I still don\u2019t trust the partial bottle so put it in cartridges \u2013 that way I have an estimate on the amount.<\/p>\n<p>Plan:&#160; I have called Walgreen\u2019s.&#160; They don\u2019t have my insulin in stock but think they can get it tomorrow.&#160; Doctor\u2019s office was to phone in script and they were to fax it.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to eat Embassy\u2019s breakfast by 9:30, call Walgreens and then take the street car up Canal Street to get the insulin if it is in.&#160; If not, we\u2019ll punt, I have enough for most of the day tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure how I am going to get the insulin home, but should be exempt from TSA restrictions and I am already a problem child.&#160; I should have 5 vials and I don\u2019t think they will work in the plastic bag.&#160; I also don\u2019t want it out of the boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got situated in the room and got an internet fix.&#160; Then we decided to do some New Orleans stuff. We walked over to the Riverfront \u201cMall\u201d \u2013 It is a mall, but I don\u2019t know if they call it that.&#160; Probably says on the pictures. Oh, the pictures are here http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kath_weaver\/sets\/72157615437187141\/ They had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}