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  • I finally finished a book I've been reading bits and pieces of for weeks, called Unmailable: Congress and the Post Office. Probably only politics buffs and current high school and junior high students remember that the c…

  • Sick Day with Diabetes and Mild Gastroparesis

    I woke up this morning at 4:50, and felt like my normal self, with a little bit of a stomache ache. I have a stomache a lot of the time because I have a mild case of gastroparesis, which you can look up. It's a diabetes…

  • VOLUME

    The government runs a website with a listing of clinical trials (for medications, mostly). When Pfizer decided to develop Exubera, it advertised there. When Pfizer introduced Exubera, shortly before I was diagnosed with …

  • Grumpy Grumpings

    When people ask me questions, and I'm having difficulty speaking, and then they don't bother listening to the answer, but instead say, what? what? what? Oh, never mind. it very much annoys me. Don' be asking me questions…

  • I went with the family for a family portrait at Sears today. It was something of an ordeal. One of my brothers, who is usually pretty cool, was acting very badly. He kept talking about how upset he was about my appearanc…

  • I went to GRASP today. When I went to catch the bus the first time around, my bus card didn't have enough money (oops) so I went back home and got more bus cards and some cash just in case, and started walking along the …

  • What a Week!

    Tuesday I went to work, and left my key and my calendar. Since one of my coworkers is on vacation, I'm being offered more hours to work, I think. That will be fun, I hope, but I'm having trouble getting up in the morning…

  • Research

    I've been playing with the idea of writing a children's book featuring various mammals (and maybe birds) with diabetes. Interviewing diabetics and owners of diabetics, getting a good camera, and putting it together as a …

  • My Brother is Sixteen

    His birthday was yesterday, and I wasn't thinking about it until the day before, when my parents were calling his classmates to see if anybody wanted to come to our house for the party. That meant I hadn't bought him any…

  • I'm feeling down today, which is appropriate for a fast day, I guess. My blood sugar is holding up, I think; I've tested it thrice today, and it came in 95, 96 and 100. My father tested his and came in 104. Since I want …

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