Still taking it easy, on dose #4 of the antibiotics which thankfully haven't screwed up my digestive system at all. Or yet, I suppose ( Read more... )

A1C = 5.9! Woot-woot!


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Yesterday, Josh and I volunteered for the 4-H "Coop-ville" Tour. Basically, we were to help distract folks between the Chicken Olympics by bringing showy chickens and answering chicken questions as an on-site chicken expert or 'chixpert ( Read more... )

Purification through sweat, I suppose you'd call it ( Read more... )

With the snowdays, we've been sleeping in past our usual 6am weekday and 8am weekend wake up. And knowing this, I've been taking my insulin at midnight instead of at dinner time (as the doctor requested), and I'm still waking up low ( Read more... )

After speaking with Rainbear, it turns out I was doing something a bit possibly dangerous with my insulin out of confusion and good intentions gone awry. At his directions, I went in this morning and spoke with the Diabetes Educator and she agreed, so I've been given a new testing regiment and new dosing levels which have effectively doubled by ( Read more... )

Hiccups. Third time tonight.

Did I mention that due to being born with an immature epiglottal valve and having near-immediate surgery to correct it, I'm not supposed to swallow them? Yeah. Gonna be a long, loud night.

*sigh*

*hic*

I took today off from the workshop, thankfully because I'm coughing up a lung at present. Ugh. I've taken a nap and want another one already, even though Nyquil did a really good job of quieting down things last night ( Read more... )

Could not sleep last night due to a burning, itching sensation in my knees. What the hell? I wasn't being active, just lying in bed trying to sleep!

Thankfully, Flash came in to curl up with my legs and the applied heat of his body seemed to cool whatever the hell this was right down.

After getting my "missing" prescription refill filled yesterday after much kerfuffling, I was happy to run into Lynn (my doctor's nurse) who assured me she'd handle it. Given how incredibly she's taken care of me over the years, I had every confidence everything would be fixed post-haste ( Read more... )