Re: just checking in.

[Guest guest]

Hi Mark,

You can listen to a boring book, LOL!

Becky

just checking in.

> can't sleep. 5 years ago this very evening is when I had my first heart

> attack that about done me in. spent the whole month of August in the

> hospital that year. maybe it is simply on my mind, even though I don't

> feel it is? well wanted to let you guys know my weight is hanging around

> 285 the first day of August. can get down to 282 and then back to 288. now

> hanging in at 285. sugars are running steadily between 100 and 115 for

> more then six weeks now. only using five units twice a day of the novalog

> flex pen mix that I got left to use up. in maybe 2 weeks or less I will

> start the ten units of lantus once a day. still riding my no where bike

> between 90 and 120 minutes a day. one problem this time of the year is all

> the fresh fruit and veggies that I can lay my hands on at the farmer's

> market and folks with gardens. love to eat fresh veggies and fruit this

> time of the year. hate the heat though! one good thing about being retired

> is no more working in the heat. 33 years of sucking saw dust down my

> throat every day and sweating like a horse I do not miss at all! not even

> a small bit. do feel sorry for those fellows that still are there, but

> they can retire any time they get tired of it I guess. they say you get

> use to working in the heat and cold if you do it long enough. well that

> wasn't true for me. froze my butt off in the winter and burned up in the

> summer. here in OkC we are enjoying between 100 and 110 degrees for the

> past 3 weeks or so. last year we only had sixty days over 100. don't look

> like we will beat it this year and that isn't hurting my feelings any. Go

> see the doc this Friday for more thyroid test to see what it is or isn't

> doing. suppose then is when they will put me on some kind of medicine to

> make it act right. maybe losing the pounds will be a bit easier then. it

> really isn't one bit fair though for us who are diabetic with all the

> fresh fruit that is around this time of the season. fruit is suppose to be

> better for you then a candy bar, but it will send our sugar in to next

> week if we eat to much at one time. I use to eat a whole cantaloupe at one

> time and could tare a water melon up by my self and it wasn't one of those

> little melons either. love to go to the farmer's market this time of the

> year. hate the heat, but can't have good gardens with out the summer. well

> suppose I should back on out of here and go on to bed. always in bed by 8

> pm most nights, but just couldn't make my self get sleepy to night no

> matter how hard I tried. kind of funny how we humans can really work our

> selves up over a little thing. I think we are our own worse emmenes most

> of the time. I heard as we age we don't need as much sleep as we did when

> younger. could very well be true. how do you make your self sleep for a

> solid eight hours a night if you can't stay a sleep? not that I know of is

> there a drug that will keep you sleeping through the night. know of a few

> that will cause you to relax, but you will continue to wake up through the

> night. the harder you try to get to sleep, the harder it is to sleep.

> maybe I should try harder to stay awake and this will fool my mind and I

> will go right to sleep? 4 a.m will come sooner then you think, but with 4

> hours sleep or eight hours sleep I will jump out of bed running and never

> lay down during the day for a nap. I don't know about you guys, but naps

> always make me feel ten times worse when I wake up. I do much better if I

> fight the sleeping's and go to bed when I mostly do at the same time every

> night. ok, enough pig ramble for now. just wanted you all to know I hadn't

> kicked off and still remain with the living. still fighting the good fight

> and still traveling many miles on the no where bike. stuck in the 280's

> right now and have been for a month, but soon I will over come the

> mountain that is blocking me and move on in to the 270's. all do try to

> have a blessed day to morrow and I will be smelling you up the trail!

>

>

[Guest guest]

I did think on recording my self singing and listening to that with head

phones on, but thought better of it because it could put me to sleep in a longer

stage then I wish. I really do have a very sexy voice though!

just checking in.

> can't sleep. 5 years ago this very evening is when I had my first heart

> attack that about done me in. spent the whole month of August in the

> hospital that year. maybe it is simply on my mind, even though I don't

> feel it is? well wanted to let you guys know my weight is hanging around

> 285 the first day of August. can get down to 282 and then back to 288. now

> hanging in at 285. sugars are running steadily between 100 and 115 for

> more then six weeks now. only using five units twice a day of the novalog

> flex pen mix that I got left to use up. in maybe 2 weeks or less I will

> start the ten units of lantus once a day. still riding my no where bike

> between 90 and 120 minutes a day. one problem this time of the year is all

> the fresh fruit and veggies that I can lay my hands on at the farmer's

> market and folks with gardens. love to eat fresh veggies and fruit this

> time of the year. hate the heat though! one good thing about being retired

> is no more working in the heat. 33 years of sucking saw dust down my

> throat every day and sweating like a horse I do not miss at all! not even

> a small bit. do feel sorry for those fellows that still are there, but

> they can retire any time they get tired of it I guess. they say you get

> use to working in the heat and cold if you do it long enough. well that

> wasn't true for me. froze my butt off in the winter and burned up in the

> summer. here in OkC we are enjoying between 100 and 110 degrees for the

> past 3 weeks or so. last year we only had sixty days over 100. don't look

> like we will beat it this year and that isn't hurting my feelings any. Go

> see the doc this Friday for more thyroid test to see what it is or isn't

> doing. suppose then is when they will put me on some kind of medicine to

> make it act right. maybe losing the pounds will be a bit easier then. it

> really isn't one bit fair though for us who are diabetic with all the

> fresh fruit that is around this time of the season. fruit is suppose to be

> better for you then a candy bar, but it will send our sugar in to next

> week if we eat to much at one time. I use to eat a whole cantaloupe at one

> time and could tare a water melon up by my self and it wasn't one of those

> little melons either. love to go to the farmer's market this time of the

> year. hate the heat, but can't have good gardens with out the summer. well

> suppose I should back on out of here and go on to bed. always in bed by 8

> pm most nights, but just couldn't make my self get sleepy to night no

> matter how hard I tried. kind of funny how we humans can really work our

> selves up over a little thing. I think we are our own worse emmenes most

> of the time. I heard as we age we don't need as much sleep as we did when

> younger. could very well be true. how do you make your self sleep for a

> solid eight hours a night if you can't stay a sleep? not that I know of is

> there a drug that will keep you sleeping through the night. know of a few

> that will cause you to relax, but you will continue to wake up through the

> night. the harder you try to get to sleep, the harder it is to sleep.

> maybe I should try harder to stay awake and this will fool my mind and I

> will go right to sleep? 4 a.m will come sooner then you think, but with 4

> hours sleep or eight hours sleep I will jump out of bed running and never

> lay down during the day for a nap. I don't know about you guys, but naps

> always make me feel ten times worse when I wake up. I do much better if I

> fight the sleeping's and go to bed when I mostly do at the same time every

> night. ok, enough pig ramble for now. just wanted you all to know I hadn't

> kicked off and still remain with the living. still fighting the good fight

> and still traveling many miles on the no where bike. stuck in the 280's

> right now and have been for a month, but soon I will over come the

> mountain that is blocking me and move on in to the 270's. all do try to

> have a blessed day to morrow and I will be smelling you up the trail!

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the update. I had a lot of insomnia after passed away.

But I find that if I have a day where I do a lot of vigorous physical

exercise or go out walking I will pass out to sleep at night for about 4

hours. Then sometimes after I am awake for a while I will need another

short nap.

I am working on our house because my son is preparing to remodel our kitchen

and I need to clear out the room of everything. Big job. But vigorous

exercise is the only way I can deal with grief and get to feeling better.

Yes, I love snacking on cherries, grapes, strawberries and melon in the

summer. Not quite the quantities you speak of but then I only weigh about

163 now.

Right after died I had one weight of 160.8 but that was the very

lowest so far.

just checking in.

> can't sleep. 5 years ago this very evening is when I had my first heart

> attack that about done me in. spent the whole month of August in the

> hospital that year. maybe it is simply on my mind, even though I don't

> feel it is? well wanted to let you guys know my weight is hanging around

> 285 the first day of August. can get down to 282 and then back to 288. now

> hanging in at 285. sugars are running steadily between 100 and 115 for

> more then six weeks now. only using five units twice a day of the novalog

> flex pen mix that I got left to use up. in maybe 2 weeks or less I will

> start the ten units of lantus once a day. still riding my no where bike

> between 90 and 120 minutes a day. one problem this time of the year is all

> the fresh fruit and veggies that I can lay my hands on at the farmer's

> market and folks with gardens. love to eat fresh veggies and fruit this

> time of the year. hate the heat though! one good thing about being retired

> is no more working in the heat. 33 years of sucking saw dust down my

> throat every day and sweating like a horse I do not miss at all! not even

> a small bit. do feel sorry for those fellows that still are there, but

> they can retire any time they get tired of it I guess. they say you get

> use to working in the heat and cold if you do it long enough. well that

> wasn't true for me. froze my butt off in the winter and burned up in the

> summer. here in OkC we are enjoying between 100 and 110 degrees for the

> past 3 weeks or so. last year we only had sixty days over 100. don't look

> like we will beat it this year and that isn't hurting my feelings any. Go

> see the doc this Friday for more thyroid test to see what it is or isn't

> doing. suppose then is when they will put me on some kind of medicine to

> make it act right. maybe losing the pounds will be a bit easier then. it

> really isn't one bit fair though for us who are diabetic with all the

> fresh fruit that is around this time of the season. fruit is suppose to be

> better for you then a candy bar, but it will send our sugar in to next

> week if we eat to much at one time. I use to eat a whole cantaloupe at one

> time and could tare a water melon up by my self and it wasn't one of those

> little melons either. love to go to the farmer's market this time of the

> year. hate the heat, but can't have good gardens with out the summer. well

> suppose I should back on out of here and go on to bed. always in bed by 8

> pm most nights, but just couldn't make my self get sleepy to night no

> matter how hard I tried. kind of funny how we humans can really work our

> selves up over a little thing. I think we are our own worse emmenes most

> of the time. I heard as we age we don't need as much sleep as we did when

> younger. could very well be true. how do you make your self sleep for a

> solid eight hours a night if you can't stay a sleep? not that I know of is

> there a drug that will keep you sleeping through the night. know of a few

> that will cause you to relax, but you will continue to wake up through the

> night. the harder you try to get to sleep, the harder it is to sleep.

> maybe I should try harder to stay awake and this will fool my mind and I

> will go right to sleep? 4 a.m will come sooner then you think, but with 4

> hours sleep or eight hours sleep I will jump out of bed running and never

> lay down during the day for a nap. I don't know about you guys, but naps

> always make me feel ten times worse when I wake up. I do much better if I

> fight the sleeping's and go to bed when I mostly do at the same time every

> night. ok, enough pig ramble for now. just wanted you all to know I hadn't

> kicked off and still remain with the living. still fighting the good fight

> and still traveling many miles on the no where bike. stuck in the 280's

> right now and have been for a month, but soon I will over come the

> mountain that is blocking me and move on in to the 270's. all do try to

> have a blessed day to morrow and I will be smelling you up the trail!

>

>

[Guest guest]

even when I worked in the heat doing heavy work, I still had trouble going

to sleep and staying a sleep. has been a problem of mine since I was young. I

use to have nightmares as a kid where I would walk and at times run and knock

things around in the house. I use to be kind of destructive in these nightmares.

funny thing though, I knew what I was doing, but didn't know why or could make

my self stop. I had to be slapped around and woke up that way. they sent me to

see some so called specialist who said they could help my problems, but they

really never helped nothing. seems like staying a sleep through the night is

more a problem then going to sleep. also seems like the more tired I am, the

harder it is to go to sleep. I'm only 55 right now. so think if I live another

15 years? well I may be able then to stay up for weeks at a time with no sleep!

may have to go hang out at the casino all night so I can have something

interesting to do.

just checking in.

> can't sleep. 5 years ago this very evening is when I had my first heart

> attack that about done me in. spent the whole month of August in the

> hospital that year. maybe it is simply on my mind, even though I don't

> feel it is? well wanted to let you guys know my weight is hanging around

> 285 the first day of August. can get down to 282 and then back to 288. now

> hanging in at 285. sugars are running steadily between 100 and 115 for

> more then six weeks now. only using five units twice a day of the novalog

> flex pen mix that I got left to use up. in maybe 2 weeks or less I will

> start the ten units of lantus once a day. still riding my no where bike

> between 90 and 120 minutes a day. one problem this time of the year is all

> the fresh fruit and veggies that I can lay my hands on at the farmer's

> market and folks with gardens. love to eat fresh veggies and fruit this

> time of the year. hate the heat though! one good thing about being retired

> is no more working in the heat. 33 years of sucking saw dust down my

> throat every day and sweating like a horse I do not miss at all! not even

> a small bit. do feel sorry for those fellows that still are there, but

> they can retire any time they get tired of it I guess. they say you get

> use to working in the heat and cold if you do it long enough. well that

> wasn't true for me. froze my butt off in the winter and burned up in the

> summer. here in OkC we are enjoying between 100 and 110 degrees for the

> past 3 weeks or so. last year we only had sixty days over 100. don't look

> like we will beat it this year and that isn't hurting my feelings any. Go

> see the doc this Friday for more thyroid test to see what it is or isn't

> doing. suppose then is when they will put me on some kind of medicine to

> make it act right. maybe losing the pounds will be a bit easier then. it

> really isn't one bit fair though for us who are diabetic with all the

> fresh fruit that is around this time of the season. fruit is suppose to be

> better for you then a candy bar, but it will send our sugar in to next

> week if we eat to much at one time. I use to eat a whole cantaloupe at one

> time and could tare a water melon up by my self and it wasn't one of those

> little melons either. love to go to the farmer's market this time of the

> year. hate the heat, but can't have good gardens with out the summer. well

> suppose I should back on out of here and go on to bed. always in bed by 8

> pm most nights, but just couldn't make my self get sleepy to night no

> matter how hard I tried. kind of funny how we humans can really work our

> selves up over a little thing. I think we are our own worse emmenes most

> of the time. I heard as we age we don't need as much sleep as we did when

> younger. could very well be true. how do you make your self sleep for a

> solid eight hours a night if you can't stay a sleep? not that I know of is

> there a drug that will keep you sleeping through the night. know of a few

> that will cause you to relax, but you will continue to wake up through the

> night. the harder you try to get to sleep, the harder it is to sleep.

> maybe I should try harder to stay awake and this will fool my mind and I

> will go right to sleep? 4 a.m will come sooner then you think, but with 4

> hours sleep or eight hours sleep I will jump out of bed running and never

> lay down during the day for a nap. I don't know about you guys, but naps

> always make me feel ten times worse when I wake up. I do much better if I

> fight the sleeping's and go to bed when I mostly do at the same time every

> night. ok, enough pig ramble for now. just wanted you all to know I hadn't

> kicked off and still remain with the living. still fighting the good fight

> and still traveling many miles on the no where bike. stuck in the 280's

> right now and have been for a month, but soon I will over come the

> mountain that is blocking me and move on in to the 270's. all do try to

> have a blessed day to morrow and I will be smelling you up the trail!

>

>

[Guest guest]

Mark have you ever tried sleeping in a lazy boy sitting up. you can have the

feet elevated and put the back back and sleep that way. i do this when i cant

sleep lying down. karen

just checking in.

> can't sleep. 5 years ago this very evening is when I had my first heart

> attack that about done me in. spent the whole month of August in the

> hospital that year. maybe it is simply on my mind, even though I don't

> feel it is? well wanted to let you guys know my weight is hanging around

> 285 the first day of August. can get down to 282 and then back to 288. now

> hanging in at 285. sugars are running steadily between 100 and 115 for

> more then six weeks now. only using five units twice a day of the novalog

> flex pen mix that I got left to use up. in maybe 2 weeks or less I will

> start the ten units of lantus once a day. still riding my no where bike

> between 90 and 120 minutes a day. one problem this time of the year is all

> the fresh fruit and veggies that I can lay my hands on at the farmer's

> market and folks with gardens. love to eat fresh veggies and fruit this

> time of the year. hate the heat though! one good thing about being retired

> is no more working in the heat. 33 years of sucking saw dust down my

> throat every day and sweating like a horse I do not miss at all! not even

> a small bit. do feel sorry for those fellows that still are there, but

> they can retire any time they get tired of it I guess. they say you get

> use to working in the heat and cold if you do it long enough. well that

> wasn't true for me. froze my butt off in the winter and burned up in the

> summer. here in OkC we are enjoying between 100 and 110 degrees for the

> past 3 weeks or so. last year we only had sixty days over 100. don't look

> like we will beat it this year and that isn't hurting my feelings any. Go

> see the doc this Friday for more thyroid test to see what it is or isn't

> doing. suppose then is when they will put me on some kind of medicine to

> make it act right. maybe losing the pounds will be a bit easier then. it

> really isn't one bit fair though for us who are diabetic with all the

> fresh fruit that is around this time of the season. fruit is suppose to be

> better for you then a candy bar, but it will send our sugar in to next

> week if we eat to much at one time. I use to eat a whole cantaloupe at one

> time and could tare a water melon up by my self and it wasn't one of those

> little melons either. love to go to the farmer's market this time of the

> year. hate the heat, but can't have good gardens with out the summer. well

> suppose I should back on out of here and go on to bed. always in bed by 8

> pm most nights, but just couldn't make my self get sleepy to night no

> matter how hard I tried. kind of funny how we humans can really work our

> selves up over a little thing. I think we are our own worse emmenes most

> of the time. I heard as we age we don't need as much sleep as we did when

> younger. could very well be true. how do you make your self sleep for a

> solid eight hours a night if you can't stay a sleep? not that I know of is

> there a drug that will keep you sleeping through the night. know of a few

> that will cause you to relax, but you will continue to wake up through the

> night. the harder you try to get to sleep, the harder it is to sleep.

> maybe I should try harder to stay awake and this will fool my mind and I

> will go right to sleep? 4 a.m will come sooner then you think, but with 4

> hours sleep or eight hours sleep I will jump out of bed running and never

> lay down during the day for a nap. I don't know about you guys, but naps

> always make me feel ten times worse when I wake up. I do much better if I

> fight the sleeping's and go to bed when I mostly do at the same time every

> night. ok, enough pig ramble for now. just wanted you all to know I hadn't

> kicked off and still remain with the living. still fighting the good fight

> and still traveling many miles on the no where bike. stuck in the 280's

> right now and have been for a month, but soon I will over come the

> mountain that is blocking me and move on in to the 270's. all do try to

> have a blessed day to morrow and I will be smelling you up the trail!

>

>

[Guest guest]

good one Becky. you can also make sure your exercise is several hours

before yourbed time, and when you lie down don't distract yourselves

with books and electronics and all of that cool stuff we all have.

These are things I have read. Don't blame me. haha.

Vicki Meizinger

>

> Hi Mark,

> You can listen to a boring book, LOL!

> Becky

> just checking in.

>

> > can't sleep. 5 years ago this very evening is when I had my first heart

> > attack that about done me in. spent the whole month of August in the

> > hospital that year. maybe it is simply on my mind, even though I don't

> > feel it is? well wanted to let you guys know my weight is hanging

> around

> > 285 the first day of August. can get down to 282 and then back to

> 288. now

> > hanging in at 285. sugars are running steadily between 100 and 115 for

> > more then six weeks now. only using five units twice a day of the

> novalog

> > flex pen mix that I got left to use up. in maybe 2 weeks or less I will

> > start the ten units of lantus once a day. still riding my no where bike

> > between 90 and 120 minutes a day. one problem this time of the year

> is all

> > the fresh fruit and veggies that I can lay my hands on at the farmer's

> > market and folks with gardens. love to eat fresh veggies and fruit this

> > time of the year. hate the heat though! one good thing about being

> retired

> > is no more working in the heat. 33 years of sucking saw dust down my

> > throat every day and sweating like a horse I do not miss at all! not

> even

> > a small bit. do feel sorry for those fellows that still are there, but

> > they can retire any time they get tired of it I guess. they say you get

> > use to working in the heat and cold if you do it long enough. well that

> > wasn't true for me. froze my butt off in the winter and burned up in

> the

> > summer. here in OkC we are enjoying between 100 and 110 degrees for the

> > past 3 weeks or so. last year we only had sixty days over 100. don't

> look

> > like we will beat it this year and that isn't hurting my feelings

> any. Go

> > see the doc this Friday for more thyroid test to see what it is or

> isn't

> > doing. suppose then is when they will put me on some kind of

> medicine to

> > make it act right. maybe losing the pounds will be a bit easier

> then. it

> > really isn't one bit fair though for us who are diabetic with all the

> > fresh fruit that is around this time of the season. fruit is suppose

> to be

> > better for you then a candy bar, but it will send our sugar in to next

> > week if we eat to much at one time. I use to eat a whole cantaloupe

> at one

> > time and could tare a water melon up by my self and it wasn't one of

> those

> > little melons either. love to go to the farmer's market this time of

> the

> > year. hate the heat, but can't have good gardens with out the

> summer. well

> > suppose I should back on out of here and go on to bed. always in bed

> by 8

> > pm most nights, but just couldn't make my self get sleepy to night no

> > matter how hard I tried. kind of funny how we humans can really work

> our

> > selves up over a little thing. I think we are our own worse emmenes

> most

> > of the time. I heard as we age we don't need as much sleep as we did

> when

> > younger. could very well be true. how do you make your self sleep for a

> > solid eight hours a night if you can't stay a sleep? not that I know

> of is

> > there a drug that will keep you sleeping through the night. know of

> a few

> > that will cause you to relax, but you will continue to wake up

> through the

> > night. the harder you try to get to sleep, the harder it is to sleep.

> > maybe I should try harder to stay awake and this will fool my mind

> and I

> > will go right to sleep? 4 a.m will come sooner then you think, but

> with 4

> > hours sleep or eight hours sleep I will jump out of bed running and

> never

> > lay down during the day for a nap. I don't know about you guys, but

> naps

> > always make me feel ten times worse when I wake up. I do much better

> if I

> > fight the sleeping's and go to bed when I mostly do at the same time

> every

> > night. ok, enough pig ramble for now. just wanted you all to know I

> hadn't

> > kicked off and still remain with the living. still fighting the good

> fight

> > and still traveling many miles on the no where bike. stuck in the 280's

> > right now and have been for a month, but soon I will over come the

> > mountain that is blocking me and move on in to the 270's. all do try to

> > have a blessed day to morrow and I will be smelling you up the trail!

> >

> >