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Good-bye Vox.  You've made it clear that your version of blogrolling (hand typing each entry) is the way it's gonna be.  No thanks, that's why Blogrolling was invented.

Y'all can find me back at Blogger.

One of my uncles, my mum's oldest sister's husband, had heart problems for a long time.  Surprisingly, that is not what killed him.  Last Friday he was diagnosed with lung cancer (he didn't smoke) that had spread to his spine. He had a very short time to live and was in agonizing pain.

My uncle was a long-time residence of Oregon and completely eligible for the Death with Dignity Act. This last Wednesday he, with his wife and son with him, decided to participate in the act and committed suicide.

Godspeed, Jack.

After a year and a half of hemming and hawing we've finally bought a new car.  It's a Nissan Versa Hatchback. The colour is Airstream (a light silver-grey), not my first choice but not bad.  When we had car problems last year (long story) I rented the Versa Sedan.  It's a nice solid car, gets good mileage and has a good safety rating.  And best of all - we can afford it!

My beloved Jeep is part of the down payment *sob*.  I'm not really that sad. I've had it nine years and had lots of fun with it. The Jeep's a soft top, so being able to actually talk to each other in the car, instead of yelling, will be great.

I don't know when I'll be able to drive it as I'm currently not licenced.  Yeah. Not fun.  When I got my licence renewed in December I was asked if there was anything health-wise that I might want to divulge.  I told the agent that I was diabetic, silly me.  It was renewed with conditions.  I had to get a doctor's physical stating I was okay to drive.  I had two months to do that but between illnesses and being a slacker it didn't get done.  My licence got rescinded sometime in March.  I had the physical done in April and we're still waiting to hear back from the government.

On the BG/insulin front there's been some setbacks.  I guess the 8.6 reading was a fluke.  I'm up to 16 units and my reading this morning was 11.0.  I know a lot of it depends on what I eat during the day but it seems that the readings vary wildly even eating the same things.  It's very frustrating to say the least.

My BG reading was 8.6 this morning, yay me!  I'm up to 10 units of insulin so far. I'm sure it'll have to add more units to have consistent morning BGs of less than 7, but it's good start.

My doc finally decided it was time for me to start using insulin (Humulin N).  I wish I had started it a year ago when his substitute doc thought it was time for me to start using insulin.  How much damage, if any, would have been avoided in that year?  I suppose I'll never know.

I had a one-on-one class with the diabetes educator at the local hospital to learn how to inject.  I was given a free pen (thank Buddha - those puppies are spendy!), some needles, etc.  I picked up my insulin and some other supplies (Dex4, sharps container, more needles, etc.) and was set for my first injection this last Friday evening (May 10).  All went well except I almost forgot to dial in the units (6 to start) and did forget to pinch up some fat.  Ah well.

Saturday morning - my blood glucose reading was as high as usual 16.3 mmol/l.  A little background - my BGs were running high (10-12) but not that high until recently. I think my meds gave up the ghost.  Anyway, I was told to wait every three days to up the insulin by 2 units until my morning BG was 7 or below.  Today, Sunday, my morning reading was 14.8.  *Sigh*.  I'm not going to wait another day, I'm going to up it to 8 units with tonight's shot.

In other news I finally had an eye exam for new glasses about a month ago.  Yay new glasses!  BUT the examiner noted that she saw a haemorrhage in my right eye.  Between this 'n' that I'm way over due for my twice-yearly eye exam. I now have an appointment for June or July.  I'm quite sure more laser surgery is in the offing.

So between the eye doc, a mammogram (my first!) and a follow-up appointment with my urologist for the kidney stone I had a few months ago, it's gonna be non-stop doc appointments for the next couple months.

Are we having fun yet?!

The mister and I are going to see TGC this weekend.  I started reading the book Wednesday evening and I'm about halfway through it.  I'm really enjoying the book and hope the movie lives up to it.

Pereus

Get your own daemon here.

I think the mister has brought home the plague.  Blergh.

I'm sorry I missed seeing both of these:

Saturday afternoon:

The mister heard a racket he thought was coming from our neighbours.  He walked down the hallway and found that the noise was coming from our laundry room.  He went inside the room to find out what was going on.  To his amazement he saw Mingo inside the open washing machine with an empty Kleenex box on his head.  The noise was Mingo flailing about trying to get the box off of his head.  How, you ask yourself, did he get his head stuck inside an empty Kleenex box?  It was sitting on the dryer on it's way to the recycle bin.  And cats being cats...

Sunday morning:

Fanty has decided he needs to see what's inside of our cupboards and the pantry.  We can't keep the cupboards closed yet (we're going to get child safety locks) but the mister came up with a solution for the pantry.  He used a small bungee cord around the two knobs and that keeps it closed.  Or so we thought.  The mister was making breakfast but heard a disturbance in the hallway.  Apparently Fanty had stretched the bungee cord enough to get a large enough gap in the pantry doors to slip inside.  He couldn't figure out how to work it in reverse and was stuck inside the pantry.  Mingo was cheering Fanty on by pounding on the outside of the doors and yowling.

What movie did you expect would be terrible, but was actually really good?

I didn't think Batman Begins would be terrible, I just had no desire to see it.  The mister talked me into it and I was surprised at how good it was.  I see they're filming the sequel - The Dark Knight, and they've replaced Katie Holmes with Maggie Gyllenhaal.  Yay!

How are you celebrating Halloween today?

I'm dressing up as a witch and handing out candy to the little monsters ..er.. kids.