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Well first darn it, I broke my blog. I will be fixing it until my hand is back.
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June 30, 2003
Doing good
I cannot wait until I get this bandage off my arm. It itches.
Good news, though! No pain! Carpal tunnel pain is gone from both hands.
The metforim is doing great, I think I figured out my dose of insulin. At least I haven't died yet. Or experienced any low.
I'm not holding my breath, but I think I've lost some weight. And my cardio workout got easier.
That was one side effect that I noticed before. I seem to have more "gas in the tank".
June 27, 2003
Darn It!
I swear I only took 20 units! Bloosugar is down where it was yesterday. This time I at least had a somewhat plan. Domino's Veggie Pizza.
I guess 15 units tomorrow
Glucophage + Insulin
It could be the hand -- its really not bothering, but I feel better today.
I took my first dose of glucaphage last night and boy did I see a difference in insulin usage. I dropped to 25 units and sugar stayed below 120 most of the everning. I did eat extra carbs and finally got sugar to 147.
It was at 97 when I woke up, and I took 25 ubits again. Sugar stayed below 150 all day without effort.
So I wouldn't have to eat more like last night, I only took 20 units. Cross fingers!
My high was 38 units twice a day with some sliding scale.
June 26, 2003
Change One Thing At A Time
While I've been recovering from surgery, a very frustrated diabetic post to the comment.
I couldn't find it but I have a piece of advice to share with anyone frustrated.
Pick one thing you can change in concentrate and that one thing.
I personally recommend exercise as that one thing to change. Pick something you can do and pick the time that you can do it. Find a way to reward yourself for doing it and reaward little steps.
If it is only five minutes at the end of the day you're doing five minutes more than you were.
Carpal Tunnel Recovery
I'm doing well with it. Not sleeping as well as I would like, and the pain the first three days was worse that I'd remembered.
The good news no pain from carpal tunnel. In fact my hand is the hurt unless I do something with.
Im trying this now
June 24, 2003
Continuous Glucose Monitoring Study
June 20, 2003
Man I sure don't post in the summer
Sorry, I'm so sporatic. Life is that way in the summer though.
Will be getting the surgery in the morning, they changed the time which may be hard on the blood sugar.
June 17, 2003
Still having weirdness
I'm on this major roller coaster and it is NO fun.
Upped the insulin dose, which is the right time to. Surgery is on Saturday. I want to get blood sugar down and stabilized, especially since I figure on no exercise for at least 2-3 days.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring Study
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Man, I thought they were futher along with this
:-(
But they get good results.
New Meter by my Favorite Company
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Hope they use the same test strips. Though I'm still hoping for the continuous system. I would switch though, if they use the same strips.
Good article on low carb dieting (and dieting in general)
Really REALLY good article. As always, diet isn't the answer. Well, it's PART of the answer.
June 16, 2003
Weird Day
I'm working with another teacher on a project for the district. I didn't really think it was stressful, but my blood sugar was running around 175 all day, which is high for me. The good news, is that I got it down to 110 at the gym.
So plan is to do my cardio in the morning this week and see if that fixes the problem.
I really want my sugar low for the next round of surgery.
Website
My Diabetes - Take Control of Your Diabetes
I have no idea if this is a good resource or not, but was referred here by an email newsletter from Therasense.
So far, no one was in the chat room, but probably not the right time of day.
Disposing of Sharps
Several months ago I found out I was disposing of my sharps wrong ....
Well, I dropped them off at the doctor's office and the receptionist barely blinked, so maybe that will work.
I also found an outfit called "OnSite Medical Waste Disposal" (Or close to that), who also offered to take them for free.
June 15, 2003
Alarming -- but not very clear
Yahoo! News - CDC Issues Diabetes Warning for Children
I think the article is referring to Type 2 diabetes throughout the article but it isn't clear.
Certainly delaying Type 2 diabetes is a good thing, and certainly teaching good life style early is a good thing.
Unfortunately we're sending mixed messages.
One of my problems this year, was shutting off the vending machines during lunch. Good idea but they are on the first few minutes and last minutes of lunch. And we have one of those machines that serve ice cream. Two problems I have ... kids don't need ice cream at school and they were smearing the ice cream all over the place! Unfortunately it was the most popular machine.
June 13, 2003
Snoring in Children
Yahoo! News - Snoring Kids Do Worse in School, Says German Study
Makes sense to me.
June 12, 2003
Already there
Yahoo! News - Statin Drugs Touted for Many Diabetics
I started that route first....do watch the lipidor though ... someone is conterfeiting it.
June 10, 2003
Time for a good update
I've been hit and miss lately, for a lot of reasons.
The school year ended on June 7th -- yeah, that was a Saturday, and it didn't make me real happy
I'm looking forward to next year now, had a good conversation with the Dean and with the Principal before I left, and it looks like I'll get to teach classes I can live with next year.
Next year is going to be interesting because we're going from teaching 6 out of 8 to 6 out of 7 classes. Lots of teachers got transferred and it hit the speciality teachers the hardest. I know of two schools who aren't teaching computer science any more. Very sad.
I feel lucky that I get to teach ANY. I'm only going to have 2 sections, the rest will be webmastering which we haven't taught for a while. Hopefully my CS enrollment will go up though after the webmastering. However, with the reducte number of classes, it makes it harder for kids to take electives.
The carpel tunnel surgery has gone well. Surgery was done on May 10th, bandages off the 20th, hand got infected last weekend, but got antibotics, and it has completely cleared up. I'm still having a little pain around the incision site.
I have no carpel syndrome sympthoms in that hand now, and the left hand has calmed down. I'm still having trouble finding just the right now. Right now, I'm alternating between a mouse and a thumb controlled trackball.
Blood sugars are doing well. Sleeping is still a problem, but I think its from the relief of stress.
All in all things are going well.
June 9, 2003
Lipidor Recall
This is so scary, and hope someone goes to jail over this.
FDA's Continuing Investigation Implicates Additional Lots of Counterfeit Lipitor
Drug for Sleep Apnea?
MSN Health - Antidepressant Is Promising for Sleep Apnea
Maybe I'm lucky, but the CPAP doesn't bother me at all, in fact, I really like it. the white noise blanks out any outside nice, the air flow is cool.
I will admit I don't like the fit of my current mask, and am going to do something about that in the next few weeks.
But a drug? and worse yet, and anti-depressant? I've never had a good time on anti-depressants, the few times I've taken them.
Besides, I'm doing 6 pills a day plus insulin. i have a theory that much more than that and they all stop working....
June 6, 2003
I said no today
Saying no to a boss type person is hard for me.
One of our Assistant Principals came and asked how fast I can type. Well, that's a really hard question to answer right now.
I can probably type from 120-180 from copy with my right hand, and down to 80-120 with my left hand. Also, my left hand hurts.
So the true answer to that question, is that I can't type fast at all and that typing isn't a good idea.
I, however, did a bunch of probing and was then able to determine that I already had what he wanted, he just didn't know it.
Came out smelling like a rose!
Saying no is good.
Argh!
Can't sleep. It's odd how having stressed relieved makes as hard to sleep as upcoming stress.
I've had three things really worry me lately. Two are work related, and one is the lack of doctor. All three things got resolved today, mostly, and think that is what is doing it. I'm still processing it all.
I'm actually very tired, but can't sleep. I took a pain pill, since that helped and I have a few and waiting a few minutes to see if it will take affect.
Weird.
June 5, 2003
Geek Meter
Give this a try. This is kinda of funny, I expected a higher score, but I think as I have been teaching high school I've become a bit less geekie. Translator fits though.
Thudfactor: Quantity over Quality.
| You are 35% geek | You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend. |
I met my new doctor today!
He does remind me of my dad. I am not sure this a good thing.
Hand is infected -- he figures where the stitches are dissolving. Sent me home with a script for Ceophalexin (take that HIPPA). I dropped it off at Albertson's -- I wish they had a drive thru for this -- went home, grabbed dinner -- much less stressful than waiting for it. Went back, picked it up, grabbed a diet coke and a few things and when waiting in line, went ahead and took one.
The guy in line ahead of me gave me a funny look -- "hey, they don't do any good in the bottle and I want this thing fixed NOW". Yeah, that's what I said. He did already graciously offer me his place in front of him. Guess I looked a little impatient -- and I rarely take those offered places, but did this time.
And I'm going to take a second one before I go to bed.... wonder if I can sneak in the third?
Hypnosis
Is it working? Yeah. It is.
I have had no food issues today, in fact, I have to work abit at eating. Didn't finish breakfast, or lunch, and had to make myself eat dinner.
I am a good hypnosis subject. I know, I've let a few people mess around with me
However, and I say this because one of my coworkers asked about it today. Hypnosis can't force you to do what you don't want to do. If it did, I wouldn't have weight issues.
It's pretty cool.
What is the chicken came before the egg?
Okay, I didn't even know they DID research in Turkey, much less on sleep apnea ... but this is interesting...
In my case, we think the sleep apnea came first...broke my jaw when I was 20.
June 4, 2003
Today
I slept better last night. Was able to go to bed at a reasonable time and go to sleep fairly quickly. That is an improvement!
Food was better too, yesterday evening.
Should I credit hypnosis?
June 3, 2003
Frye's Electronics in Irving
I think I mentioned this when I bought it, but I found a really great little cooler/heater -- they say holds 9 cans, perfect for putting insulin and fruit juice in when you're out shopping or on a trip.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005R2M4/qid=1054690872/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9354966-0954269?v=glance&s=home-garden&n=507846
Amazon sells it for $79.99 -- Fry'es had it for $39.99
Here's the deal though.
If you live in Dallas, you would understand that the rudest, non-English speaking people work at the Frye's on Northwest Highway. And they aren't even cheaper though the store looks like it should be. (Okay, maybe an equally rude, non-English speaking group work at the Walmart at Midway and 635).
They just opened a Frye's in Irving on 635. The only thing the same between the two stores is the name and logo. The people are nice, friendly and helpful.
Anyway, back to the cooler. There was a rebate on it. Nothing on the display, so I wasn't expecting it, and was thrilled at the price as it was. Cashier insisted though, went and looked for it, and couldn't find it. Frankly I was exhausted at that point, and again, didn't really think it was happening.
Well to my amazement, I got a rebate form in the mail today! I have NEVER had anyone do that before. $10.00!
Hyponosis
I'll know more later, but the hypnosis session went very very well.
June 2, 2003
I agree with this one!
TCS: Tech - 'No Matter What the Data Say'
I just have trouble getting things so that I burn more -- apparently had things perfect balance there for a while though!