My New Reality: Living (and Riding) With Diabetes #RideWithGinny

Last Friday, my doctor’s office called with a terse message. It wasn’t my own physician, it was one of the assistants.

“Your A1C was 6.6, and your blood glucose was 220. You’re diabetic.”

She went on to say that I’d need to come in for a follow-up appointment with a different doctor and speak with a diabetic counseling nurse; for some reason my own doctor wasn’t available (probably booked up) and so I’d have to see the practice on-call doc on the night the specialist nurse was in. I was handed a free kit, with a scrip for more test strips and a scrip for getting nutritional counseling and another for a better glucosemeter if I wish.

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Here’s my new gear, which I must use consistently per doctor’s orders (which will be a challenge for me, as I’ve always been consistently inconsistent).

So last night at the follow-up I was quickly trained on how and when to use the glucosemeter, and used the lancette to test my pre-dinner glucose. This morning, I got up and tested before breakfast, like David does. I did ask the follow-up doctor whether that alarmingly high 220 glucose was from the fasting blood test, as opposed to a second test I went back for that was non-fasting. It was somewhat of a relief to find that my “fasting” test glucose was about 137, still on the high side of the prediabetic range.

Okay, I’m diabetic now, this is my new reality, and this is me, living with diabetes. Woo?

In June I’m riding 40 miles in the Chicagoland Tour de Cure, with a goal of raising at least $2000. Please help support my ride with diabetes by visiting my Tour de Cure fundraising page, via either one of these links:

http://blogula.ridewithginny.com
http://main.diabetes.org/goto/GinnyRED57

Please check the hashtag #RideWithGinny, too – I’ll use it on Twitter and Facebook, too.

The first page re-directs to my fundraising page, but adds some tracking stuff that will plot the donations by location on a map that is just for fun and gives me an idea of whether someone gave via a Twitter link, a Facebook link, via this blog, or some other source.

Hop below the fold to see more about my new reality; for now, I need to get a healthy breakfast, jump into my cycling gear, and get on the indoor bike to log some miles, because my butt is In Training.

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Amazon Affiliate Program Removes Jewelry

Just received an email that as of January 1 2015, there are changes to the Affiliates program.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/operating/compare

Apparently the only change is that Jewelry has been removed entirely as a category under the Affiliates program. All the other percentages (I guess you’d call them sales commissions) remain the same.

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Bill O'Lielly, The Pants-On-Fireman, Calls For Resignation of…(this week's Dem in the hot seat)

NYC Mayor Bill DiBlasio, for "Associating with Provocateurs."

As Crooks and Liars points out, he DIDN'T call for any resignations after those two wackjobs in Vegas spent time with Clive Bundy, then shot cops.

With these guys, if they can't elect a Republlican, they always call for the Democrat to resign or be impeached, because in their heads, they can't lose and the election was rigged against them.

If they can elect a Republican and it was hotly contested, you should wonder whether the election was rigged the other way, whether by gerrymandering, caging, or worse means. It's my theory that they assume all elections are rigged, but they think they're better at hiding it.



Bill O’Reilly Wants DeBlasio To Resign For ‘Associating With Provocateurs’
Will he be calling for Sean Hannity’s resignation, too?

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Understand The Foundation, Understand The Structure

Because the "true history" of the BYU archaeology department described in this 1970 paper acknowledges that solving the "authenticity problem" was paramount in the past, I usually question any "discovery" they announce in the presence.



: THE TRUE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
THE TRUE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY . By Ross T. Christensen. Adapted from a paper of the same title read at the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on the Archaeology of the Scriptures, held at Brigham Young University on October 18, 1969. A misleading report has lately been …

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When Scientists Stretch The Truth To Make Discoveries Seem Important

I don't think this happens often in science, but I have to question whether the lead scientist's personal frame of reference influenced his rather inflated claims.



Million Mummy Discovery Under Dispute
A massive cemetery with up to 1 million mummies has reportedly been found in Egypt, but the announcement of the discovery apparently landed a U.S. research team in hot water, and possibly even kicked off the project.

Archaeologists from Brigham Y…

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