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So I took the plunge and purchased a blogging app for the iPhone. But does it work????
Numbers
NUMBERS
There are all sorts of numbers in our diabetes world.
Blood sugar numbers, carb counts, carb ratios, bolus and basal numbers, etc.
But there are other numbers related to diabetes as well.
Here are a few numbers that personally represent my diabetes life.
12,045: Number of days I’ve lived with "the betes,now"
Number of injections given: This is tricky because now I’m on the pump and when I was on multiple daily injections, the rates varied. So, I need to get back to you on this one.
1418: Number of infusion sites I’ve used in my pump wearing life: Here’s how the breakdown - And please keep in mind I was a Litt major in college.
I’ve been on an insulin pump for 8 years. There are 365 days a year. 8 X’s 365 = 2,920 days.
Divide 2,920 by 2.5 (2.5 being the average number of days I wear an infusion set, give or take a few days =1168.
Take into account the number of unexpected doorknob infusion set extractions, which I’m guesstamating to be somewhere around 100.
ADD (thanks Val) 100 + 1168, for a new grand total of 1268.
Remember to take into account the number of infusion that was actually on a dead spot. Because of the “dead” factor, those sites absolutely refused to absorb insulin and needed to be replaced. Let’s say…100 + 1268 = 1368.
Now, add the number of infusion sets that for some reason didn’t stick properly due to inadvertently folding sticky part of infusion set and had to be replaced with in 1 day. Lets say…... Lets say…. 50. Final Grand Total: 1418.
792: number of insulin bottles used in the last 33 years. This not number doesn't include the the insulin bottles that broke and had to be replaced - Because I have no idea what that number actually is. But I do know that the broken insulin bottle phenomenon usually occurs when you don't have another bottle of insulin on hand.
300: Estimated number of times someone has asked me if my insulin pump was a beeper.
3: number of times I’ve worn my insulin pump in my bra. Seriously, I don’t have the boob ratio to get away with that.
4: Number of times I’ve gotten my infusion set caught on my car’s emergency break.
2: number of times in 8 years I went to work and forgot my insulin pump at home.
1: Number of times I left my insulin pump at my chiropractors office and went home without it after an adjustment.
10ish: Number of times I forgot my meter at home and didn’t have a spare.
2: Number of times my meter case was stolen because some thief thought it was a wallet.
I’m not kidding. It happen once at a bar when my hand bag and the contents spilled out, and once at a coffee shop on Walnut Street where some dude took swiped it off the table I was sitting at. But the joke was on them!!
52: Number of Flavors Ben & Jerry’s currently available for purchase.
7: Number of pounds I’d like to loose.
????????: Number of carbs I’ve bolused for in my diabetes: OK, there’s no fucking way I can figure that number out! NEXT configuration
35 – 65: Number of carbs in a boutique cupcake. Carb configurations are based on the size and icing ratio of said cupcake.
IN THE THOUSANDS: Number of times I’ve uttered the term “ I’M HIGH” in public when referring to my blood sugar.
IN THE THOUSANDS: Number of times I’ve reached Blood Sugar Nirvana
IN THE MILLIONS : Number of Diabetes Police in the world
6,000,000,000: Number of times I’ve had to say: Yes, I’m allowed to eat that.
ENOUGH TO PURCHASE A GINORMOUS BEACH HOUSE & NOT HAVE A MORTGAGE: MONEY spent on living a diabetes life.
OK, I can’t do anymore Diabetes Math, because my head really hurts.
Any numbers you’d like to add?
The Failure of ConMed. HPV Vaccination, Gardasil and Cervarix.
Big Pharma vaccines are dangerous. My last blog in the series focused on articles covering many types of vaccines. This one focuses on just one: the HPV vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix); those given to pubescent girls, allegedly to 'prevent cervical cancer'.
I am not sure whether these vaccines are just more dangerous that others, or if the damage they cause is more noticeable or apparent in young people rather than with babies and young children. But the evidence against them is now quite immense - although, as usual, the evidence does not get through the censorship exercise in the mainstream media!
There has always been concern about what the evidence, and the quality of evidence, that supports giving this vaccine. This article goes over the paucity of the evidence, both for its efficacy (does it, or will it, do what it says it will do); and is it safe.
So what damage has the HPV/Gardasil/Cervarix vaccines caused?
This articles states that 'at least' 12 schoolgirls in New York have been damaged by a 'mystery illnesses'. The mystery illness is Tourette's Syndrome. And, of course, only to those who don't wish to acknowledge the most likely cause of this condition are really mystified!
This important article outlines the damage done to 213 women who have suffered permanent disability after having the vaccine. The article states that the vaccine is known to cause paralysis, and MS-type symptoms, as well as seizures, blindness, and many other conditions. It goes into some of the detail about the problems being caused by the vaccines, and includes individual videos of young girls whose lives have been devastated by it. It also asks, pertinently, whether some deaths have caused by the vaccine, but explained away as 'a coincidence'.
This VacTruth article does suggest that this vaccine is 'killing us softly'. It states that there is no HPV crisis, that HPV does not lead to cancer, that the vaccine does not prevent cancer - and much else.
Rarely does the mainstream media bother to report the dangers of these vaccines. With perhaps this exception, the tragic story of a 13 year old girl put into a 'waking coma' after receiving the vaccine; the article appeared in the Sun; and here in the mirror. But isolated appearances such as this give the unfortunate impression that these are 'isolated' incidents, and not as common as they are.
The fact is that these vaccines can destroy the lives of young people, and cause devastation within families, when healthy young people are involved in vaccine-induced tragedy. These mums have expressed their views about their damaged children - after a bland (but typical) statement was issued about the 'excellent safety record' of Gardasil.
Yet even Medical Journals, so often quiet in matters concerned the the dangers of drugs and vaccines, are now raising questions about HPV vaccines. This article goes into the questions being asked about the adequacy of testing prior to the vaccines being used, and the ethics behind the testing. However, there appears to be no suggestion that their licenses should be withdrawn!
This article tells the same story - that HPV vaccines are unproven, ineffective, and lack evidence. The article states that:
the latest Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. VAERS statistics clearly show that HPV Vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, have been associated with 22, 619 adverse reactions; 8,926 of those reports requiring emergency hospitalization; and 4,616 cases where the victim did not recover. Death reports stand at 102.
The first State in the USA to use the Gardasil vaccine is now beginning to withdraw it. But this is the exception. Throughout the world, governments and politicians seem to positively, and sometimes aggressively, sanctioning this vaccine. This article also includes data about the vaccines:
VAERS data show that Gardasil has been associated with 24,184 adverse effects since its debut in June of 2006, including seizures, anaphylaxis, paralysis, transverse myelitis, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (uncontrollable movement of the eyes back and forth and jerking movements of the extremities), brachial neuritis, loss of vision, postural tachycardia syndrome, facial palsy, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, chronic fatigue syndrome, blindness, pancreatitis, speech problems, short term memory loss, miscarriage, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune disorders, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, abnormal Pap smears and even cervical cancer.[24][25][26]
Yes, you read that correctly – VAERS reports 41 cases of cervical cancer following vaccination with Gardasil!
With all this vaccine-induced mayhem, Sanevax is now calling for approval to be withdrawn - because of the lack of post-licensing monitoring. In other words, there has not been adequate oversight into wht is happening to the young people who receive this vaccine. And in another letter, Sanevax is calling for educators to monitor the dangers of this vaccine - perhaps because, in many (too many) cases, schools and teachers are being used by health authorities to promote it, and even to enforce it.
And now, in some parts of the world, the drug companies are trying to persuade us that boys, and well as girls, need this vaccine! I wonder, is this to prevent boys getting cervical cancer? Or is it more to do with boasting Big Pharma profits? The 'debate' can also be found in this Dr Mercola article.
So will the boys fare any better than the girls? It does not appear that they will, with these 4 deaths already being reported. See here also for more information on this.
The silence of the ConMed Establishment, and the mainstream media about the dangers of vaccines, displays the usual lack of honesty and openness regarding drug and vaccine dangers, and health matters generally. This means that most people do not know, or understand what they are agreeing to, when they are vaccinated, or they agree to their children being vaccinated. The article emphasises this, and gives another example of a young girl, damaged by the HPV vaccine.
But at least one brave doctor, in Austria, has spoken out. The message is the same though. The vaccine is dangerous, and completely useless in preventing cancer. And a group of doctors in France have also stated that the vaccine should be de-listed and suspended because of the dangers.
So how do we protect our young girls from this dangerous vaccine? This article discusses the problem, suggesting that we tell them, quite simply, that the vaccine is neither necessary or effective!
And there are signs that the Big Pharma companies, who see vaccines as a way of earning vast profits, are at last being taken to task. Litigation in the USA is already underway.
And even some politicians are finding the issues difficult; not least when their campaign funds are made up of Big Pharma donations.
We need to protect our children from vaccines, and the HPV vaccine in particular. Recently, the UK government decided to give Gardasil rather than Cervarix. I am not entirely sure why this decision was taken. If there were 'outcome problems' with Cervarix, then a move to Gardasil (on which there is much more evidence of harm) seems to be a triumph of hope over experience!
I am not sure whether these vaccines are just more dangerous that others, or if the damage they cause is more noticeable or apparent in young people rather than with babies and young children. But the evidence against them is now quite immense - although, as usual, the evidence does not get through the censorship exercise in the mainstream media!
There has always been concern about what the evidence, and the quality of evidence, that supports giving this vaccine. This article goes over the paucity of the evidence, both for its efficacy (does it, or will it, do what it says it will do); and is it safe.
So what damage has the HPV/Gardasil/Cervarix vaccines caused?
This articles states that 'at least' 12 schoolgirls in New York have been damaged by a 'mystery illnesses'. The mystery illness is Tourette's Syndrome. And, of course, only to those who don't wish to acknowledge the most likely cause of this condition are really mystified!
This important article outlines the damage done to 213 women who have suffered permanent disability after having the vaccine. The article states that the vaccine is known to cause paralysis, and MS-type symptoms, as well as seizures, blindness, and many other conditions. It goes into some of the detail about the problems being caused by the vaccines, and includes individual videos of young girls whose lives have been devastated by it. It also asks, pertinently, whether some deaths have caused by the vaccine, but explained away as 'a coincidence'.
This VacTruth article does suggest that this vaccine is 'killing us softly'. It states that there is no HPV crisis, that HPV does not lead to cancer, that the vaccine does not prevent cancer - and much else.
Rarely does the mainstream media bother to report the dangers of these vaccines. With perhaps this exception, the tragic story of a 13 year old girl put into a 'waking coma' after receiving the vaccine; the article appeared in the Sun; and here in the mirror. But isolated appearances such as this give the unfortunate impression that these are 'isolated' incidents, and not as common as they are.
The fact is that these vaccines can destroy the lives of young people, and cause devastation within families, when healthy young people are involved in vaccine-induced tragedy. These mums have expressed their views about their damaged children - after a bland (but typical) statement was issued about the 'excellent safety record' of Gardasil.
Yet even Medical Journals, so often quiet in matters concerned the the dangers of drugs and vaccines, are now raising questions about HPV vaccines. This article goes into the questions being asked about the adequacy of testing prior to the vaccines being used, and the ethics behind the testing. However, there appears to be no suggestion that their licenses should be withdrawn!
This article tells the same story - that HPV vaccines are unproven, ineffective, and lack evidence. The article states that:
the latest Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. VAERS statistics clearly show that HPV Vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, have been associated with 22, 619 adverse reactions; 8,926 of those reports requiring emergency hospitalization; and 4,616 cases where the victim did not recover. Death reports stand at 102.
The first State in the USA to use the Gardasil vaccine is now beginning to withdraw it. But this is the exception. Throughout the world, governments and politicians seem to positively, and sometimes aggressively, sanctioning this vaccine. This article also includes data about the vaccines:
VAERS data show that Gardasil has been associated with 24,184 adverse effects since its debut in June of 2006, including seizures, anaphylaxis, paralysis, transverse myelitis, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (uncontrollable movement of the eyes back and forth and jerking movements of the extremities), brachial neuritis, loss of vision, postural tachycardia syndrome, facial palsy, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, chronic fatigue syndrome, blindness, pancreatitis, speech problems, short term memory loss, miscarriage, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune disorders, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, abnormal Pap smears and even cervical cancer.[24][25][26]
Yes, you read that correctly – VAERS reports 41 cases of cervical cancer following vaccination with Gardasil!
With all this vaccine-induced mayhem, Sanevax is now calling for approval to be withdrawn - because of the lack of post-licensing monitoring. In other words, there has not been adequate oversight into wht is happening to the young people who receive this vaccine. And in another letter, Sanevax is calling for educators to monitor the dangers of this vaccine - perhaps because, in many (too many) cases, schools and teachers are being used by health authorities to promote it, and even to enforce it.
And now, in some parts of the world, the drug companies are trying to persuade us that boys, and well as girls, need this vaccine! I wonder, is this to prevent boys getting cervical cancer? Or is it more to do with boasting Big Pharma profits? The 'debate' can also be found in this Dr Mercola article.
So will the boys fare any better than the girls? It does not appear that they will, with these 4 deaths already being reported. See here also for more information on this.
The silence of the ConMed Establishment, and the mainstream media about the dangers of vaccines, displays the usual lack of honesty and openness regarding drug and vaccine dangers, and health matters generally. This means that most people do not know, or understand what they are agreeing to, when they are vaccinated, or they agree to their children being vaccinated. The article emphasises this, and gives another example of a young girl, damaged by the HPV vaccine.
But at least one brave doctor, in Austria, has spoken out. The message is the same though. The vaccine is dangerous, and completely useless in preventing cancer. And a group of doctors in France have also stated that the vaccine should be de-listed and suspended because of the dangers.
So how do we protect our young girls from this dangerous vaccine? This article discusses the problem, suggesting that we tell them, quite simply, that the vaccine is neither necessary or effective!
And there are signs that the Big Pharma companies, who see vaccines as a way of earning vast profits, are at last being taken to task. Litigation in the USA is already underway.
And even some politicians are finding the issues difficult; not least when their campaign funds are made up of Big Pharma donations.
We need to protect our children from vaccines, and the HPV vaccine in particular. Recently, the UK government decided to give Gardasil rather than Cervarix. I am not entirely sure why this decision was taken. If there were 'outcome problems' with Cervarix, then a move to Gardasil (on which there is much more evidence of harm) seems to be a triumph of hope over experience!
Neither vaccine is safe. And both should be avoided.
More Big Pharma cuts
It has been announced today that AstraZenica, the giant Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company, is to cut 7,300 jobs throughout the world, including in the UK, where it employs 8,000 people. This is part of a continuing trend. Between 2007 and 2009 the company lost over 12,000 jobs. The current programme of cuts, which began in 2010, sees over 9,000 jobs being lost.
All Big Pharma companies are now contracting rapidly. Profits are still huge, but they are falling. There has to be concern and sympathy for all those people who are going to lose their jobs. And, of course, this contraction of the industry is seen my many to be damaging to the UK economy.
Yet in terms of health, it represents the beginning of the end for conventional, drug-based medicine (ConMed). AstraZeneca have admitted that it is losing patients - to competition - and they expect their losses to continue. In reality, their drugs are either coming to the end of their patents (and so are less profitable), or they are failing because they have been found to be either ineffective, dangerous, or both. And they have no new 'wonder' drugs coming through.
All Big Pharma companies are now contracting rapidly. Profits are still huge, but they are falling. There has to be concern and sympathy for all those people who are going to lose their jobs. And, of course, this contraction of the industry is seen my many to be damaging to the UK economy.
Yet in terms of health, it represents the beginning of the end for conventional, drug-based medicine (ConMed). AstraZeneca have admitted that it is losing patients - to competition - and they expect their losses to continue. In reality, their drugs are either coming to the end of their patents (and so are less profitable), or they are failing because they have been found to be either ineffective, dangerous, or both. And they have no new 'wonder' drugs coming through.
Yet the problem for the Big Pharma companies is doubly serious. The 100-year-plus belief that 'science' would ultimately solve the problem of health is certainly in tatters, with little prospect of it being revived. But in addition, as the profitability of Big Pharma decline, and their industrial and commercial power declines alongside, especially to countries such as the UK, so to will the influence that ConMed will have on Government health policy, in the 'monopolistic' commissioning arms of the NHS, and even in editorial censorship that exists within the mainstream media on matters of health.
What this means is that as Big Pharma companies decline, their ability to buy influence and power, and to dominate national health services, will also decline in the future.
A more rational health debate might become possible, a situation is which the variety of medical therapies will be allowed to demonstrate their worth to patients on the basis of their efficacy, effectiveness and safety - and not on the basis of political and industrial muscle.
