I was going to do yardwork today. My list of things to take care of included getting rocks out of my front yard (they were dug up when Evan was repairing my sprinklers on Tuesday and Wednesday), doing some pruning in the back yard, trimming the hedge, cutting back the pampas grass on the side of my home, and mowing and edging the lawn ( Read more... )

Blood sugar levels: Pretty darned good, except for some lows that accompanied a change in diet recently ( Read more... )

I received 3 CDs today. That brings my collection up by 3 songs. I now have 1124 out of the 1216 tracks from KNAC 105.5 FM's 1994 A-Z playlist. I have only 92 more tracks to go. 16 more tracks are coming in the next few weeks ( Read more... )

I've been spending way more than I want to on food ever since I was diagnosed with diabetes. I need to do something to make my food have a far more controlled and predictable cost ( Read more... )

I've actually on the last of 9 consecutive days off from my job. Tomorrow, the OT starts again. I'll have a half-week's worth of e-mails to catch up on. Next mini-deadline is the middle of this week.

I was visiting my parents and one of my sisters (honeyedapricots) in Washington from Sunday afternoon through yesterday morning. This was supposed to be a chance to ( Read more... )

The medicine my cardiologist prescribed to me for my hypertension has been making me a little lightheaded. I've had some trouble telling whether it was from low blood sugar or the new drug. Turns out, sometimes it's both.

My last two paychecks were the ones that were short because of my time away from the office while recovering from my DKA and learning how to live with my condition. Tomorrow is payday, and it's going to be a full paycheck again at last. This means I won't be burning up my reserves, and can begin to replenish them. That's a huge relief!

I still have not yet heard a doctor give me a definitive statement as to which type of diabetes I have. They keep hedging their bets with statements like, "As far as I can tell, you're type 1," and "The test indicates an 85% likelihood that you're a type 2." Those are from two different doctors, of course. My body type is closer to a type 2, my GAD ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, the International Fraternity of Court Jesters tried to get a really good deal on health care. Specifically, they wanted a 0 deductible, 0 copayment policy on pharmacy costs. They almost got it, but didn't notice the fine print that said that there was an exclusion on diabetic supplies ( Read more... )

I finally heard back from Dr. Ulmer in Indianapolis. The GAD antibodies test I took then has come back negative, which means that I have about an 85% chance of having type II diabetes instead of type I.