Ok, I got the show rolling on.

June 14, 2011

I got my meter out, got the CD in and got it read through for the first time.

will read it again in the morning. but got to get some one over here with eye

balls to read what the range is on the test solution so I can run a practice

test a few times. don't think my honey can read that small print even with her

glasses. the instructions sound a lot like the meter I use to have. but this

prodigy voice is a little thing compared to the big old acue check I had about

ten years ago. they certainly have improved over the years and come down in

cost. Just wanted you guys to know I haven't forgot my meter and how we should

get along and be buddies again. how many strips do you think I should tell my

doc I need him to write a scrip for? some of you say from 4 to 10 and all

between. I was thinking maybe ask for eight. this would give me before and after

all 3 meals and 2 extra for when ever. I know my insurance will cover most of

the cost, but does strips still cost around a dollar each like they once did? I

know what it is like to get over in the doughnut hole on the insurance and it

isn't a good place to be. I don't suppose there is a generic strip for a meter?

I see where the Prodigy people say only there strips will work on there meter.

but I can understand this because they can't make the money if I got strips from

some where else even if they would work. ok, I'm going to bed now and will

concern my self with all of it again to morrow. to day was the second day in a

roll I've done very well and I even felt better to boot. still would love to

grab a package of Oreo cookies out of the closet, but I keep walking by and

shooting the middle finger at the closet for support. it makes me feel better

anyway. I'm really not being nasty, I'm only telling the cookies that I'm number

one and to good to hang out with the likes of them!

June 14, 2011

O can't do that. my honey would kill me dead. snacks don't hurt her like they

hurt me. she and her sister both found out last year they are as well a type 2

diabetic like there Momma, but there A1C's are both very low and the doc is very

pleased. Neither one take there medicine every day like they should. well the

sister in-law doesn't take pills at all. the doc told her she is controlling her

diabetes with just diet. she doesn't exercise and she still eats like most

people who don't care. seems like I was this way when I found out I was a type 2

in 2002. seems like for the first 4 years I could eat in a crazy way and my A1C

never went up much. but as the years went by this eating wrong become a big

problem and my A1C has continued to rise. I figure the same thing will happen to

the both of them. but you couldn't tell me then and you can't tell them now.

this sugar control I know is a personal thing that we each have to take full

responsibility for as a individual. it isn't some thing that our family can beat

us up about and make us do right. Actually the more folks told me I was doing it

all wrong, the more I done the bad choices. call it rebellion or just

stubbornness or what ever the label is you like the best, but the truth is a

person has to decide on there own when they are sick and tired of the out of

control sugars.so I never tell them to keep all junk out of the house because

I'm weak and it isn't fair to me. I simply feel I have to be stronger then that.

If I go out to eat at a restaurant there too I got to be strong and make good

choices. if I go to some one's house to eat, again I have to make good choices.

so at home with stuff around me like junk food, I again got to make good

choices. I actually feel sorry and sad for you guys who got a family at home

with kids and you are a diabetic. of course there will be things in your home

that is bad for you to eat, but kids are kids and they eat junk. so you either

give in and eat junk too or you make a good choice and wave at the junk as you

go by. being around it is harder, but at the same time it can make you stronger

in the long run. I'm fixen to go in to the vending program here in Oklahoma

probably next year. I will be around piles of junk because junk food is how I

will be making my living selling the junk out of a vending machine. If I can't

be around that stuff now and say no, well when all that vending machine junk is

right here in the house I will probably kill my self trying to consume it all. I

know of other diabetics who are in the snack bars or vending machines and they

have figured out how to say no to all the junk. they did say it was hard at

first, but they knew they had to be stronger or deal with sugars to high. I know

you are correct when you say get rid of all the junk in the house, but that

probably only works if you live alone. but not every one decides to eat like one

another. I guess they could in a perfect world, but that isn't the case around

here. I can do it and I will do it. I guess what has finally got my attention

after all these years is the sick and tired feeling that comes from out of

control diabetes. but it was my choice and I must live with what ever problems

it caused from ignoring it for so long. for 2 days, going on 3 days now I have

felt better. will know my sugar readings 2 hours after I eat as soon as I can

get some eye balls over here to read the test solution bottle for me. then I

will post what it says and I will also know by that reading if 30 carbs a meal

is to many for me in a meal and if so, I will lower it to 25 and then 20 if need

be. I will find out by the meter exactly how many carbs I can eat and keep my

sugar no higher then 120 2 hours after I ate. I will get there and I'm back on

track. been flipping those Oreo cookies off for 4 straight days so far as I walk

by the closet where they live and it feels real good to tell them off like that!