tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98410452026-02-05T07:06:47.275-06:00<img src="http://www.hetepu.net/images/BlogTitle.gif">Scott K. Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06601851114190791084noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9841045.post-53574579843274686392008-03-19T12:26:00.004-06:002008-03-19T12:42:16.286-06:00

I have an announcement to make!I'm very excited to say that I've been invited to blog over at Diabetes Daily!David and Elizabeth Edelman have built an awesome home away from home over there, and I'm also following in the footsteps of two of my good friends and favorite bloggers, Amylia Grace and Bernard Farrell.While it is hard to pick up and move after such a long time here, it was an offer I

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Symlin.I can't express how beneficial this medication has been for me so far.Where has it been all these years? How have I made it so far without it?It's been somewhere around three weeks so far, maybe a little more, that I've been using it.Week one was on the pen, and it sucked. The nausea, the shot thing again, the new and unknown timing of digestion and how to match the insulin to it.It's all

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I think I'm set for a while...Thanks for the heads up Scott Strumello!

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It has been almost two weeks since I started experimenting with Symlin.While it has been pretty scary adding another variable into the mix, the benefits I've experienced show that this tool has some real potential to help me.To be honest, while I've been cautious with this new tool, I've also not done it justice in really trying to figure it out. I've not been logging my results, and have been

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A buddy I work with found these in a vending machine at a bowling alley. He just HAD to buy them for me.No, I haven't tried them yet... If they were Cheesy Tots in a bag I'd be all over them. Maybe. :-)

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I recently found a picture I took late last summer with my craptacular camera phone.In this picture you can't make out what I was seeing with my eyes, but let me tell you, it sent a shiver of fear up and down my spine. The picture first, then I'll explain...I know, I know. You can't see a damn thing. Honest, it's not even worth investigating.Allow me to set the scene for you.I was shopping for a

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Have you ever been excited about something and dreading it at the same time?I recently had my endo appointment. A1C is up, which caught me off guard. But considering we've just made it through the holiday season and all that jazz I guess I can't be too surprised. Still bums me out a bit. There's always something to work on isn't there?At my last appointment back in November I pitched the idea to

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Are any of you familiar with "Where's George" ? Maybe you've gotten a one dollar bill with that website stamped on it? It is basically a fun website where people can go to see where their paper currency has been. The bills can be tracked by their serial number, and if many people register the same bill you can literally see a map detailing where that bill has been.A coworker of mine was recently

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I have another bad habit that I would like to share with you all.I often grab handfuls of food here and there. Most often after I eat an unbalanced meal that leaves me craving something more, and most often I am pouring dry cereal into my hand and eating that.Maybe it's like a desert of sorts.One night after I ate my dinner and was munching on cereal I found myself thinking on things. As I was

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My family and I were recently at one of the YMCA's in the area.My wife and I were walking around the track. It's up on the second level and goes around both the basketball gym on one half and then the kids recreation area on the other half. It's a good setup because at all times when we're up on the track we can see the exits of the kids recreation area and actually see the kids for half of the

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Did all of you read G-Money's post from yesterday? The one titled "Times .10"?I had to chuckle to myself as I read this part:Until I woke up kicking the blankets off of myself. Covered in sweat I grab my machine to check. 52. I have 4 glucose tabs and immediately thought of the name of this post.Do any of you bloggers think about how you are going to blog a situation as it is happening? Is this

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I work in a typical cube farm. It's a big workspace with probably a few hundred people, all separated into little "cubes".One awesome lady has a dry erase board on the outside wall of her cube. She will put up quotes or motivational messages that I really enjoy.Every once in a while someone else will take it upon themselves to add a funny anecdote or smart assy remark to the message. I simply

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Today was my annual diabetic eye exam. Glad to report there's nothing to report.Doc said that on a scale of zero to ten (zero being perfectly healthy) I am a 0.01. Music to my ears. I don't know why, but every time I go in for this appointment I feel like I'm waiting for the hammer to drop.Thanks to mom &amp; dad for some good genes, because lord knows my blood sugar management needs a lot of

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I know that food is my downfall. I know that food is the root cause of most of my diabetes management woes. I know that I need to know more about food. I know that the Glycemic Index is a pretty important aspect of food. It is a measurement of how fast certain foods raise blood sugar.David Mendosa has been talking about the glycemic index for a very long time, and I'm sure that he is where I

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It is, quite simply, a tradition for me. For as long as I can remember, and for as long as I'm around, Christmas eve will have at least one constant.I know the characters. I know the props (even down the the cloth fake dog tail stuck in the door...). I know the lines. I've got my kids repeating parts of the story. I've been known, at any time, to pop a VHS tape in that I recorded during the

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I hate food.I hate that I love to eat.I hate that I don't really love to eat because there is all kinds of mental bullshit attached to it.I hate it doesn't even matter if the food is good or not. I sometimes keep eating in hopes that the next bite will somehow magically taste so much better than the last.I hate that I sometimes eat just to fill time.I hate that I eat because I'm tired or bored or

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UPDATE: We have a winner! Heidi over at D-Log Cabin guessed my middle name! Drumroll please.... "Karl" is my middle name. Karl is my grandfather's first name, and so following the tradition that my dad started, my son's middle name is my dad's first name. Allison was the only other person in the OC that knew what it was.---------------------------------------In doing my very best to keep up with

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I'm just not sure what to think. When that happens (being not sure what to think) I often turn to you (the blogosphere).I had my quarterly endo appointment recently. After arriving ten minutes early, I got into the exam room quickly, had a nice twenty minute nap, then saw the doc for a little less than five minutes. My A1C is exactly the same as last time, which I take as a good sign because I

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I really can't express how much the OC has changed my life. You have all made a real difference for me in how I manage my diabetes and how I cope with the mental challenges that it presents. I consider you all as a very important resource for my well-being. Thank you!A special "shout out" to Kathleen Weaver who was perhaps the first diabetes blogger. Kathleen - you opened up a whole world of good

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At times momentum is my greatest leverage against all that reaches to pull me down.It can also be my worst enemy when partnered with out of control blood sugars and high carb eating rampages. It attacks my motivation to crawl out of the hole, and saps whatever energy I have. It makes me want to just sleep it all away.There's a visual that I always see when I'm thinking about momentum. A giant

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I have a question for the all-knowing blogosphere.Symlin/Amylin. (no, that's not the question. Be patient...I'll get to it...)Symlin is the brand name of the man-made drug now available that resembles amylin. Amylin is a natural hormone that is created by the pancreas and released into the blood after meals. It's job is to slow the rate at which food is digested and absorbed, to reduce the

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What do the terms "Desert Dingo", "Class 11", and "Baja 1000" have to do with diabetes?That is a very good question.But before I answer, I would ask that you go watch this very short clip from a Baja 1000 documentary called "Dust to Glory".Got your attention? At least a little bit?Good.What ties it all together is that the Desert Dingo Racing Team decided to build a "World Diabetes Day Car",

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Eat Smart Nutrition ScaleI feel pulled in a couple different directions with this post.Disclaimer: I don't intend for this blog to become some commercialized dumping ground for marketers to flood my e-mail box with requests for posts and product reviews. Because I experienced such strong feelings of conflict through this experience, I don't plan on doing this again.With that being said, Mr.

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1:06 AM last night (today?). My pump had been vibrating for (it turns out) for about an hour, trying to get my attention. Blood glucose reminder.I finally wake up enough to acknowledge the alert and get it to stop bothering me. But I realize that I'm really honking hungry. REALLY hungry. Hungry enough to pursued me to actually check my blood glucose.I prop myself up on one elbow, fumble around

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The PictureI totally picture some sluff sleeping on the job at one of those pill separator contraptions. I don't mind a busted up pill, but please include BOTH HALVES!The AnnouncementGina over at DTF asked me to spread the word on a very cool chat they have scheduled for this approaching Sunday evening. Dr. Robert Elliot will be the special guest and he will be talking about Porcine Cell

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