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?

I have survived my first camping trip since being diagnosed 4 years ago.  I wasn’t really concerned at all about the diabetes issue while I was camping, because like I talked about in my last post, it was not true outdoor camping.  We had huge meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  I had a big bag of skittles on me almost 24/7.  I didn’t experience any lows at all, and didn’t really have any issues with morning highs either.  Maybe it was because I was not snacking all night long like I usually do when I am at home.

However, I did have two slight problems that worked themselves out very easily.  While I was in the pool, my infusion set decided it wanted to peel off my skin and float around the pool for a little swim, but we were almost done anyway, so I only went about 25-30 minutes without it.  Later that day I went to test my sugar and I couldn’t find my meter.  After searching for about 20 minutes, I found it in the backseat of the car, with all the windows up.  So the meter didn’t work for about an hour because the strips were almost melted, luckily I had that other vial of strips chillen next to the cooler.

It was not the campsite that I thought it was, this was a cowboy ranch.  It had a lot of free range animals, wild horses, cows, and bulls.  There was also a rodeo with bull riding and all that was pretty fun to watch.  I am glad to be back home though in my air conditioned office right now, but the vacation was fun to do.

Tonight is the final night of bowling. Last week since I went camping we bowled on Sunday, and we weren’t bowling against anybody so we did bad, and I think the best that we can finish is 2nd place. Which may sound good, but anything less then first is not good enough. In my eyes, 2nd is just the same as 3rd. 2nd and 3rd place teams lose the same amount of games.

Anyway, back to the diabetes. My girlfriend and I had a talk the other night about diabetes complications. She gets very upset when she hears something about someone dying from diabetes or some type of complication involved in it. It is tough to explain to her the different complications and see the look on her face during the whole thing. This conversation made me say to myself, ok you need to get more serious about losing weight, managing your diabetes, and eating correctly again. Then, I test my blood sugar last night before bed and it is 376. So I correct, and then wake up at 5:30 in the morning, sweating, shaking, and dizzy with a blood sugar of 50. All over the map.

Well on the brighter side of things, its the weekend!!!! Oh wait, whats so bright about that, its not the weekend to me, it’s “lets spend all weekend reading and studying because finals start in a week and I need to pass so I can graduate”