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First, thank you to Kathy and George for your thoughts on the new tv show I would like to develop. I honestly think there could be some sort of show made like this, and then profits go to a charitable organization. It would raise a lot of money and spread a lot of awareness about Diabetes and some myths that go along with it.

Next, I’m sorry to say but no more bowling and blogging Friday’s, at least not for now, I think the summer league starts up in about 3-4 weeks, but I don’t know if I am joining it. It is $1 Miller Lite drafts during the league, which thats worth the money by itself. This week, I am choosing to call it, Studying and Blogging Friday…and Saturday and Sunday. It is all I will be doing all weekend long.

Also, it is time to do my diabetes inventory. My parents are coming down in a week, and a lot of my extra supplies get shipped up there still, so I need to do a nice count to see what I need them to bring down to me. This is always fun (sarcasm) counting how many strips, lancets, pen needles, infusion sets, reservoirs, insulin, insulin pens, and also their expiration dates.

See you all on Monday, have a great weekend!

After the past couple days of seeing the weird movie about the diabetic girl, watching some of Big Brother last night, and remembering my post a while back about a diabetic survivor show.  So, mixing them all together, I really want a diabetic reality tv series.  It will be a mix of them all.  Let me know if you all like this idea.  It would be, lets say 8-10 diabetics in a house, kind of like Big Brother, and they would have to survive, but it would be different challenges, like whoever had the highest week average of their blood sugars gets kicked off.  It would be fun to watch other diabetics on t.v. survive in a house, and not Brett Michaels and Rock of Live (shoot me if I ever have to watch that again!)

If there were such a show, I would be on it in a second.  I’ve been saying, I would try to get on Real World because there hasn’t been a diabetic on there.  I don’t think my relationship with my girlfriend would ever last if I went on there.  When was the last time you saw a couple stay together after being on the Real World?

Maybe I am just tired and thinking crazy ideas, or do others like this idea of a show?

A1C test tomorrow morning, 11 a.m. My guess is a little higher then last time, right around…. 7.8 I am going to say. Mainly because of all the high mornings that I have had. I am starting today, to see how long I can go without getting a reading of over 200, and then if I do go over, I want to minimize them and see if I can get less then 3 for the whole week. I don’t see it happening though, because I’m lucky to get less then 2 a day.

I’m starting to realize that Olive Garden messes with my blood sugars a lot like pizza does almost. Maybe it’s because I eat about 4 large bowls of salad just by myself. Sometimes I order pasta, but sometimes it is just soup, but this past time I went, it was pasta also. It doesn’t spike until about an hour or so later.

I have a new stressful part of my life, I need only one class to graduate, and I signed up for it to be online, well they cancelled that one. Next, I signed up for another one and then I receive an e-mail today that the class is two students short of the minimum summer requirement, so now I have to stress and worry if that class is going to get cancelled also. What a stressful event.

Once again, another night of reaching the 400 level.  This is two nights in a row.  I don’t know why either.  The first night it was because the infusion set was leaking.  Right where it connects to the pump, it was leaking, this is about the 4-5 time this has happened in the past couple months.  I went to the movies last night to watch the free preview of the “Young at Heart”  I don’t want to give my opinion because I do not like to talk bad about many things.

I had my Sour Patch Kids like usual, but thats not the reason why the sugar went high, because I always splurge on them when I go to the movies.  I don’t know what it was, but I used my insulin pen to cover the high because it seems like the pump takes a very long time to correct.  My sleeping patterns have been thrown off big time because I have an exam tonight, if I do bad, I will not pass the class and I will have to retake it in the summer in order to graduate.  I am very nervous, and have been up all night the past few days.  I am at work, trying to study during my breaks.

Wish me luck!!

This week’s edition of the American Diabetes Wholesale Newsletter deals with a popular diabetic health topic these days - cinnamon. The benefits of cinnamon on diabetics is getting a lot of buzz lately, mainly due to the studies that indicate that it improves blood glucose levels and lowers cholesterol, which are critical concerns for anyone with diabetes. Check out the article “Cinnamon and Diabetes” for more information about cinnamon and how it might be incorporated into your health regimen!

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My diet has started again today, because its Monday. But seriously, this time, I am sticking to it. At least hardcore for two weeks before my parents come to visit me for vacation, then it will not be as serious. Even when they come down, I can still eat healthier and get a salad here and there when we go out to dinner instead of fast food all the time. Yesterday I made my lunches for the whole week that way I won’t go out and buy lunch, even though I will still be tempted to because my co-workers are very tempting when lunch time comes around.

To update you all on the bowling situation, we finished 1 point behind the first place team, which really irritated me. We were tied for second going into the night, and the other second place team had the tie breaker against us, so they bowled the 1st placed and we bowled the 3rd place. So we had to rely on the other team to beat the 1st place team, and they didn’t. We did our part by winning all 3 games, not just winning, humiliating them. Each game we won by over 150 pins!!!

There was also a lot of catered food because it was the final night. So guess who just kept on eating and eating and eating all night long. Pasta, chicken fingers, salad, wings, and 2 pitchers of Miller Lite. I did not have my meter (what a surprise!) and took a guess on how much insulin I would need. At the end of the night when I went to the car and found my meter in there, I tested and I was around 98. I was shocked, especially since I was really pissed off.

Over the weekend, I was flipping through the channels and came across this movie that was about these aliens that needed a lot of sugar to reproduce and they were nurses in a hospital. These nurses would seduce men and, even women, and suck the glucose out of their body. Well, what do you know there was a diabetic in the movie and as she was running from the aliens, she lost her insulin. Later in the movie her sugar was really high and the aliens could sense it. She went on a mission to find more insulin in the hospital and she came up with the bright idea of shooting the aliens with the insulin to kill them. By this time, I am feeling like I am in a bad crazy dream, but I wasn’t, this was really a movie. A weird, unique one, that made the diabetic the hero in the end.

This week’s edition of the American Diabetes Wholesale Newsletter has a great article about a serious topic that has gotten a lot of coverage in the media lately - using insulin as a means of weight loss. This very dangerous practice was the subject of a recent study on Type 1 diabetic women with eating disorders who were skipping insulin doses, mostly due to the effects of weight gain. Check out the article “Insulin & Weight Loss” for more details.

Our Product Spotlight this week is on our new line of Diabetic Books. Now you can get some great educational resources with your orders, with selections such as Diabetes for Dummies by Alan L. Rubin, MD, The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed - 2nd Edition by Gretchen Becker, and a great informative audio book for those on the go - My Pocket Doctor - Diabetic Reference Guide And Journal - 60 Minute Audio Book!

Don’t forget the tasty recipe at the end of the newsletter - a sweet and fruity treat - Cran-Apple Oatmeal.

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I have been lucky to not have any problems with my feet at all yet. However, whenever I go to the beach they become a lot more dry then I can ever remember them getting. This does provide me the opportunity to ask my girlfriend to rub them with some lotion. I’m not just doing it for the free foot massage, which does feel great, but she also knows the complications of diabetes and how it is good for me.

I previously just read something, I can’t remember where, but that wearing sandals, flip flops, whatever you want to call them, is not good for diabetics. Is this true, or has anybody else heard the samething? I don’t wear them that often anyway, only when I go to the beach or don’t have any clean socks :).

It seems like everyday I hear or see something new about a complication, or something I should be doing, or something that I shouldn’t be doing. Any suggestions from anybody?