In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

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Friday, September 8, 2023 1:19 PM

Out in a bit for my walk. Need something proper for supper tonight and see what else there maybe around that I need. At least it is sunny. A very slim chance of rain on Sunday. And most of the province is still at extreme for fire. Also sitting at level 4 or 5 for drought. We need the rains bad but not atmospheric rivers that can destroy highways.

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Friday, September 8, 2023 3:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Yeah, it's been that kind of year for you so far. 2023 ... sigh! I'm sure you're not a touchy-feely person, but virtual HUGS! anyway.

Thanks Sigs.

Yeah. I'm not one who likes to share the negative vibes or look for sympathy either. I'm sure this isn't the first time that I've stayed largely out of the Garden even though I was still here, but I do realize it's been long enough to make you wonder this time.

I'll get it together. You can't keep people you love from leaving, and outside of that there's nothing in my life so broke it can't be fixed.

Well...

Except my coffee pot.

... and my George Foreman grill.

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hahahahaha!!!

*gasp!*

Hahahahaha!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

Got my new pot and grill today. I'm already looking forward to chicken dinner tonight.

I saw my new endocrinologist today. What a huge upgrade!

He's fresh out of doctor school and looks like a kid to me. I told him at one point in my life I went about 19 years without seeing a doctor and when I came back a lot of them were half my age and somewhere along the way I got old.

I got him fresh, and it's apparent he isn't jaded yet and gives a shit about the job. Not one single time while I was there did I feel like I was being rushed out the door as quick as possible, which is something that happens even with the doctors that I considered good before.

He wants at least two glucagon pens in my possession. One for at home and one to carry around on me when I'm away from home. He said there's other options besides the super expensive epypen style ones that you need to mix first and he's going to get those to me. They require a little bit of work, but at least I'll have something better to tell friends and family to do for me if I ever pass out other than "I dunno... call an ambulance". I haven't really been worried about that anyhow though since it's been over a month since I even needed to take any glucose tablets. I've pretty much got this thing all under control, but it doesn't hurt to have some insurance.

We're also trying an insulin pump. We've been floating that idea around for going on 5 or 6 months now, but it all happened in a few hours this morning. I went to the pharmacy about 45 minutes after my appointment for a scrip that was ready for me yesterday and he already had the new pump waiting for me. A rep from the company called me about a half hour later and within a week from now I should be meeting with them for training on how to use it.

It sounds AMAZING. It's self-learning, and after several pods are used it starts building a profile on how my body "works". It will actually know to the .05 how many units of insulin to give me at different times of the day and night when my body behaves differently how much insulin I'll need when eating and not eating.

That's awesome. Right now I can't take any less than a full 1 or 2 units depending on which type of insulin I'm taking, and this thing goes down to 1/2 of 1/10th of a unit! No more long-active shots either. This thing will handle it all and will virtually be an external pancreas from now on. I'm going to be part cyborg.

I'd still have to make it give me some insulin ahead of time if I'm going to eat a large carb meal by letting it know ahead of time what I'm eating, but since I hardly take any rapid now with my diet that might not really be necessary most of the time.

The best part is that the days of having higher blood sugar while I sleep should be a thing of the past, and it sounds like with the way that I'm already kicking ass on the glucose readings this thing is going to make everything easy peasy.

We did an A1C while I was there too, and it's 6.4%. That's down from 11.9% when I first saw a doctor. It's also .3% higher than my CGM said it was, so that is something to keep in the back of my mind. Although, this was not from actual lab blood work. Whatever test they did was in between the accuracy of a finger prick stick reading and actual lab work.

He's thrilled about it though. He said that even though they say they want diabetics under 7% he'd be telling me that he wanted me between 6 and 6.5% at my age, but he would have been happy with a 6.7%. I'm sure with this pump working overnight while I sleep to keep me around 110 instead of my sleep-time peaks of 130 to 170, I'll probably be under 5.9%, which would be healthy person numbers (5.9% is considered pre-diabetic).

I can only manage my sugars while I'm awake, and I've felt like I've been held hostage by my liver overnight up until now. This should be the thing that gets me where I want to be.

Oh... and he's also looking into a clinical trial for me about a drug that inhibits the GAD65 from killing off the rest of my pancreatic function. He's going to see what hoops we'd need to jump through to get me into the trial. It's all pretty experimental still, but he said he's familiar with the class of drugs and what they're designed to do and there are little to no side effects from them. The only real downside he said is that they don't work for everybody.

I'm game. Sign me up.

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