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Wayback Wednesday...I Wasn't EVEN Running with Scissors OR Bloodletting Diabetes Style..


Way Back Wednesday- I wasn't even running with scissors!! OR Blood Letting Diabetes Style

So I originally wrote this post back on 12/22/2007, back when Diabetesaliciousness was just over a month old.

What's SO special about this post in my eyes? 
Well, of course there's the whole Julia Child/ Dan Akroid reference, and the kick-ass blood sugar number, AND the fact that when one loses a crazy amount of blood- odd things can go through a gals head. 

BUT, even more special to me was that this particular posts marks the VERY first time two of my VERY good friends, Ninjabetic and Scott K. Johnson,  EVER left a
 comment on Diabetesaliciousness.  

Friends in Real Life
This post marked the beginning of a very beautiful friendship!

I finally had the opportunity to meet them a few weeks ago and they are just as awesome in real life as they are on-line!


I Wasn't Even Running with Scissors..OR Bloodletting Diabetes Style..

I was washing dishes this morning and had tossed a pair of cutting shears in the sink the night before. I'd left them outside all summer in my thyme/ oregano pot and they really needed to be washed.

I grabbed the sponge, squirted some soap on the shears and started to scrub. Perhaps it was because I'd only had 1/2 a cup of coffee, or maybe I was blasting Gwen Stafani a little to loud, more likely it was because I was lost in a day dream which is typical in my pre coffee world. BUT, yours truly cut her thumb pretty badly.

Keep in mind that I take a baby aspirin every day to keep my Endo a happy camper.
I was bleeding like something out of "Friday The 13th."

Note to Self: Call Sears and get the dishwasher fixed.

As visions of Dan Akroid dressed as Julia Child screaming "I'm getting light headed" danced in my head, I quickly dried my hand, applied some pressure and took a good look at what was causing all the commotion. The tip was still intact, so that was a relief. I looked at the cut and thought,"Wow look at all that blood - that's a good one - I wonder if it will affect my finger print permanently? I'm not wasting this." 
I grabbed my blood sugar machine and test strips and took a test. 94, VERY NICE...at least I had that going for me.

I sat on the couch with my hand wrapped in a towel and raised over my head. Once again my comedy routine was coming to life and I had to laugh. I had just used a very similar joke at a hospital gig I'd had few weeks ago. Only it had been about a paper cut on my index finger, and that B.S. had been closer to 200.

On the brite side, I still had my thumb and I didn't need stitches. I wouldn't have to wash dishes for the rest of the day, and as long as I didn't need to slice a lemon, I'd be fine. AND my B.S. was under 100.

Original Comments from the original post- and can I use the word original anymore in this post? 

George said...

I cannot decide what is funnier, the fact that whenever I cut myself I think "I am not wasting this!" and test or the very sweet (no pun I swear) name of your blog! I love it! I am going to add you to my blogroll right now!

I apologize for not getting here sooner. I have been caught up in Christmasy Goodness for the past month or so.

Scott K. Johnson said...

I too will test myself anytime I have any kind of finger/hand related bloody injury! Funny how we all think alike sometimes! I've wondered before if all of the pokes to my fingers make my fingerprints easier to identify, or harder. Hehe!

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Blue Candles And Standing The Storm.



Blue candles are lighting up facebook, two more young adults taken too soon, and another is in the hospital with DKA - And everyone I know in the Diabetes On-line community is feeling the affects of losing family members we've never met.

And it sucks.

Losing loved ones we know or don't know, to a disease that we share is incredibly scary.

It makes you wonder about your future, your past, and your life in real time. It makes you second guess how your handling your life, and your life with diabetes.



It can stop you in your tracks and makes you feel that you can't move past the grief. It makes you angry and mad and you wonder how you're going to get through it.

What I've learned from losing those I've love to diabetes is this: YOU HAVE TO KEEP GOING, EVEN WHEN YOU THINK YOU CAN'T.

You have to keep living and working and trying and doing - Because now your not just living, working, trying & doing for you - You're doing it for those who no longer can.
And by doing so, you are honoring their memory each and every day.
And you fight for a cure even harder because your diabetes fight has now become even more personal and has reached an entirely different level.

Crying is OK and encouraged, being sad is expected, and depression and diabetes go hand in hand.

So reach out to your family and friends - Reach out to a professional, but reach out to somebody - And tell them how you're feeling. And if you see a family or friend in need of help reach out to them - We are in this together.

In the DOC we cry together, laugh together, and are there for one another regardless of geography or demographics.

When one of us needs to be carried, we lift them up and hoist them on our shoulders.

And in times of flicking bluecandles, many need to be carried, and we lean on one another - So that we can stand the storm together.

Posted by Mr. Boy at 06.39, Add Comment
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Superbugs and Antibiotics

Superbugs and Antibiotics
News about a 'new' superbug in the UK is beginning to emerge, a bug which cannot be treated by even the strongest ConMed antibiotic. See, for example,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10935996

News is emerging at the same time that government ministers are now considering whether to ban antibacterial drugs from  being sold 'over the counter' - because of the public health dangers of rising antibiotic resistance.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=4126763&cid=Latest_headlines_1_120810&sp_rid=NDE0NjI1MDQzMgS2&sp_mid=35687853

The NHS and ConMed doctors have been overprescribing antibiotics for many years, and apparently continue to do so. One reason is that doctors know they have a drug that works, and which for decades, they have thought to be entirely safe.

But you cannot set out to attack/block/inhibit the body, as all ConMed drugs do, without the body having to respond. Nor can you seek to try to attack bacteria, living naturally within the body, and helping to sustain us, without the bacteria fighting back - as they are doing.

ConMed and creation of illness

More about Superbugs

So ConMed is rapidly losing yet another battle - and this one for one of the drugs it has always presented to the public as proof of its effectiveness.


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Breast Cancer - a ConMed triumph?

Breast Cancer - a ConMed triumph?
I have spent most of this morning listening to the BBC giving us news that breast cancer deaths have fallen in the UK, since the 1980's. Apparently French researchers have shown that the UK breast cancer rate has dropped by about one-third - "thanks to better care and speedier diagnosis".


Wonderful news - a triumph for ConMed?
Well, no, not really. What was never mentioned was that the cause of much breast cancer, certainly from the 1980's until a few years ago was that most women were given HRT for menopausal symptoms, and one result of this was a major epidemic of breast cancer. Then, as always happens, after decades of prescribing a dangerous treatment, ConMed discovered that it was dangerous, and stopped prescribing it.
So what is happening here? ConMed gives us a drug that causes an epidemic. Then withdraws it. Then claims that it has stopped an epidemic. It is marvellous propaganda, which the mainstream media is willing to pass on to us, without question! But it is an enormous lie!
It is a well-known technique however, which ConMed has often used. ConMed, for instance, claims to have been so successful it has led to increased longevity. That is, we are all living longer because of ConMed drugs! What they have actually done, of course, is to take as its baseline a time when death rates were higher than they have ever been (early and mid-19th century, when all the ravages of the agrarian and industrial revolutions had resulted in high population density, non-existant sanitation, poisonous water supply, squalid housing, poor diet, and dangerous working practices, et al), and compared it with today, when public health measures, and 150 year of social policy, have removed many of those lethal factors.
The History of Conventional Medicine
So whilst everyone is led to believe that ConMed has transformed our lives, it is merely taking credit for public health policies, for which it deserves little credit. ConMed has indeed reduced breast cancer - but only by being forced to withdraw one of its most profitable drugs



Posted by Mr. Boy at 04.00, Add Comment
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Drug Money

Drug Money
The US healthcare industry is the world's biggest, with $300bn per year spent on prescription drugs. It is equally important throughout the world. But in recent years there has been a series of health scandals, and two of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies have been fined US$ billions after investigations into their secret working practices.

Revelations uncovered in several civil and criminal cases have emerged of pervasive fraud, fatal side effects, and huge kick-backs paid to doctors. 

If you want to know more about drug company corruption, and how dangerous drugs are foisted on us, this Aljazeera investigation by Melanie Newman and Chris Woods reveals how ConMed is making massive profits, and making us unhealthy.


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