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Insulin Here I Come

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:00:05 -0700

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?!

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The Golden Compass

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:46:57 -0800

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.

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Bring Out Your Dead!

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:16:27 -0800

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

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Stupid Pet Tricks

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:57:18 -0800

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.

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QotD: This One Got A Bad Rap

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:42:47 -0700

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!

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QotD: Happy Halloween

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:35:39 -0700

How are you celebrating Halloween today?

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

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This Bird Can Rock!

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:29:12 -0700

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You have to watch it until the end. It's just ...well, you'll see!

[ via Metachat ]

Edited to add:

I found the full video on Youtube and it's below. Apparently Snowball is a Cockatoo living at Bird Lovers Only Rescue in Indiana. Site is here and their blog is here. I saw Snowball on Ellen two days ago and, apparently, he's been on most of the network news shows as well.

Snowball - Our Dancing Cockatoo

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Passionately Pink for the Cure

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:49:31 -0700

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Do you have a flickr stream? If so, join and add your photos to this group (I had three appropriate photos to add). For every photo in the group, Yahoo! is donating a dollar to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure fund up to $50,000.00.

My local Safeway (probably all of them) is having their employees wear pink shirts under their vests and aprons for the month of October. You can donate money to the cause at the checkstand. It's not a lot but I'm donating a few bucks each shopping day (Thursday for me) in memory of my grandmother.

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Hey Stranger

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:39:27 -0700

Wow. This has been one of my longest blogging gaps since I started blogging six years ago. No real excuse except World of Warcraft has captured my attention. I've met up with an old chat buddy from eight years ago (I met him before I met the mister in the same chat room) and we've been playing like there's no tomorrow. I finally have a high level character - I hit 62 last night with my Night Elf Hunter. Playing in Outland is quite the experience. It's hard to explain but it's more fantasy landscape-wise than Azeroth or Kalindor. Those two places have landscapes based in reality, Outland is way out there.

Non-WoW stuff is the same old stuff:

Fanty and Mingo are scheduled to get broken (geddit?) Friday morning. Poor little saps, they don't have any idea what's gonna happen to them. I have new photos of them (and the trip to Terrace in July) but can't be arsed to post them to Flickr.

Autumn has made it's presence known; it snuck up on me this year. I've been pretty much house-bound for a while and didn't notice it coming. It's been a bit cooler than the norm for this time of year and we're getting lots of rain. That's too bad because Autumn is usually a really nice time in BC.

The mister and I have been fighting the remnants of a flu bug and I'm tired of being tired.

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QotD: My News Sources

nobody@vox.com(deborah) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:18:00 -0700

What sources do you count on for national news coverage? How about international and local news?

I get the CNN headlines emailed to me every morning as well the Canada.com headlines. I look at Google's news page at least a couple times a day. Once in a while I'll turn on the TV and watch the local news (Global) or CNN or HNN. I prefer the local (Canadian) newscasters, tho'. They're not the hysterical talking heads that U.S. newscasters tend to be. And I usually get a chance to read The Province once a week.

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