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What's outside of your picture window today?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Nov 9 8:02am | Replies (2396)Comment receiving replies
@joyces What a tale to tell! I hadn't heard of slow-acting insulin. how does that get figured out for a patient? Do you have a calendar book to refer to, and mark down every couple of months a reminder to log in and not let your password expire? In my situation, I keep a paper calendar book for general and medical, another one for just medical, and a third purse size that carries the same infor as the general/medical/ Never have been comfortable with electronic calendars.
Bet you are seeing the summer increase of tourists in your coastal home, now, right? I was speaking to a gentleman last week at my cancer center in Eugene, who had driven over from Florence. He was lamenting the fact of increased traffic and delays, let alone the draw bridge going up which all add to his drive time.
We have cloudy then rainy then sun then wind today. BLM has advised us of nearby scrap wood coming available this week so we are putting the sides on utility trailer and will head out for a cord or two with the neighbors before it gets too hot. Soon there will be the chainsaw restrictions in place, so we need to hustle!
Ginger
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in reply to Ginger (@gingerw):
Diabetics who cannot tolerate fast-acting insulin learned (back in the days of animal insulin) that they couldn't use any R (fast) insulin like most people were forced to, but use only NPH, the slower insulin. Prior to today's fast artificial insulin, most diabetics mixed their morning shot, part R, part NPH, which was a real bother. Many of the designer insulins are basically different amounts of fast and less fast insulins; some are supposed to last all day, i.e., be fast in the morning and then long-lasting and slow for the remainder of the day. I've not met anyone who can just take one shot a day of one of these fancy/dancy insulins!
My small calendar (that I carry with me often) is filled with various swell volunteer "opportunities"! I collect data for our state fisheries agency (30th year on the same wild little river). I drive two hours each way to load bread donated to Backpacks for Kids and distribute it to other charities as well as packing monthly food boxes for "our" kids, plus serving as treasurer. I prepare monthly newsletters for our fly fishing club (generally three or four activities each month) and for the Oregon Coast Learning Institute, where I'm also the Curriculum Director (i.e., I schedule 24 lectures per term, two terms per year). More recently, I was recruited to help cook breakfast or dinner for the community center nearest the area where 300 homes burned two years ago. Never should have gotten a food handler's license!
Throw in doc appts. for both of us and our dog and cat, and occasional social events, and my calendar is pretty full. I plan to declare the first of every even-numbered month the one when I need to log in to my USDA account. No harder than remembering all the dates that the Backpack treasurer has to meet!