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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

problem number 7 with dieting


problem number 7 with this stinking diet.

i keep trying so hard to remember to log my food that i occasionally forget to program my insulin pump to give me insulin for what i've eaten.  i then suddenly remember when my blood sugar has gone up to 537....

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Eep.

I thought of you when I read this.

4:53 PM, March 28, 2006
gfygrl said...

i'll keep my pump thank you. it's my friend. at nite i share the bed with jeff, the cat, and my pump. one big happy family.

besides. if smoking cigarettes gives you lung, throat, mouth, and tongue cancer - what do you think over exposure to enhaling a cloud of insulin is going to do to your lungs, huh??

no thank you. pumpy and i will stay connected. um. cause that's how it works and all...

4:58 PM, March 28, 2006
Anonymous said...

I would guess the particles absorb into your blood stream through all the blood vessels in the lungs... Just like oxygen does.

Smoking cigarettes gives you those problems because the tobacco, et al are carcinogens (sp?). Chewing tobacco causes cancer. Smoked tobacco causes cancer. It doesn't matter the delivery system. If insulin would give you cancer, I think it would give you cancer no matter how it gets into your body.

10:13 AM, March 29, 2006
gfygrl said...

well it's still not a risk i wanna take...

10:25 AM, March 29, 2006
Anonymous said...

I realize that :)

This is more for the people that have a deep phobia of needles. You're perfectly comfortable with shots so no big whoop.

You do know that I quit smoking right?
I smoked for a couple months after I first came to Tulsa, then quit shortly after.

10:07 AM, March 30, 2006
gfygrl said...

just cause i've been using needles for almost 15 years doesn't mean i like them. nice thing about the pump - one needle every three days versus at least 4 needles every day. no brainer...

jeff quit last year after his dad died. will be a year in two weeks.

10:16 AM, March 30, 2006
Anonymous said...

Wow. Awesome for him. Tell him congrats for me. It's easy for me to do, but I know other people have a hard time with it.

Hmm. I guess I don't know what the pump is. :)

12:13 AM, March 31, 2006
gfygrl said...

losing his dad made it a little easier i think. he used the patch.

here. this is a pump.

http://www.minimed.com/products/insulinpumps/paradigm/index.html

9:07 AM, March 31, 2006

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