Dear Janis Message Board

Monday Nov 30 - My Participation In The Joslin Medalist Study

richard157 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:37:49 GMT

Anita and I will drive to Boston on Sunday, Nov 29, weather permitting. It is only a four hour trip for us. We hope to meet-up with some other diabetics who live in the boston area that evening and again Monday afternoon or evening. Four members have been in touch with me. It will be nice to meet them.

I am supposed to double my carb intake on Sat and Sun, but only for supper. Then we will be at Joslin at 7:15 AM Mon morning, after fasting over night. I will be given the glass of glucose drink at that point. This is called a "Mixed Meal Tolerance Test", somewhat different from the standard glucose tolerance test. There will be a thorough exam of my eyes, kidneys, heart and nervous system. My C-peptide will be part of the blood testing that will be done that day. I have filled out about 20 pages of forms and my doctor has prepared a list of my A1c's 1980-2009. You may have seen my recent thread showing that list.

All of this is being done at one of the premier diabetes centers in the world and it is all free. The JDRF is funding the study and all my testing, and the Lily company that makes so much of our insulin is paying my travel and lodging expenses.

The ultimate goal of this study is to try and determine why some Type 1 diabetics have lived so long and have no serious complications. All the participants have had Type 1 for 50 years or more. There have been almost 500 participants so far. The study will conclude in 2011 after 750 participants have been examined. Dr King, the head of the project, is hoping to find the cause of our doing so well for so long. If the cause can be found then a treatment may be developed that will enable younger Type 1's to follow the right path and avoid serious complications.

The results of my testing will be mailed to me about a week after we return home.

POST THIS WEEK'S PRE-HOLIDAY JSP - IMPORTANT!! 11.22.09

Janis — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:08:15 GMT

Hi All,
Time to post your PRE-HOLIDAY Jump Start Pledges. Don't skip this one!!!! The holiday season is coming up and you will be hit with lots of temptations. You will need your JSP to keep you on track.

Remember a JSP is a small health behavior that you promise to do for one week. At the end of the week, you can renew your pledge, change it to fit you better, or add another to your list.

Post your JSP and come back to this thread each day to post an update. We all have support one another this season. Ho..Ho..Ho...cookies and candies! YIKES!!! My JSP: Exercise 30 minutes each day. I can break it up into 10 minute segments if I get too busy. Also, wear my pedometer each day (I sometimes forget..UGH!)
POST YOUR JSP NOW!!!
Janis

Good news for once

Cloudedbrains — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:18:00 GMT

I reapplied for one of my benefits here in the UK in July
Well I just heard back from them (letter was posted Friday 13th)

I now get HIGH RATE MOBILITY on my DLA so I can now apply for a car under the Motability scheme

More info here: http://www.motability.co.uk/main.cfm

Happy Thanksgiving Cartoon

richard157 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:30:43 GMT

Is the pump right for me?

kimliz59 — Thur, 19 Nov 2009 20:51:45 GMT

Hi, Gang!

Well, I had my appointment with the nurse practitioner that now alternates appointments with my endo. She thinks I would be a good candidate for the pump, but I'm always afraid of anything new or different, so I'm approaching this cautiously. I know that almost everyone on here that's a pumper loves it, and I'm sure that if I go that route, I will, too, but I'm wondering if anyone has any caveats or bad experiences, or anything at all to comment on, just so I've considered all sides to this.

I also have to check to see what my insurance would cover, as I can't financially handle any regimen that's more expensive than what I do now. Also, my endo has finally decided that I was a type 1.5, and am now a type 1, as I suspected all along.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any and all comments--I really appreciate it!

Kim

Sixth Graders------Part 2

richard157 — Thur, 19 Nov 2009 14:17:18 GMT

Below, are examples of sixth grade research projects. Enjoy...

9. Queen Elizabeth was the Virgin Queen. As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted hurrah.

10. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.

11. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet is an example of a heroic couple. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.

12. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

13. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, A horse divided against itself cannot stand. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

14. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

15. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large.

16. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

17. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.

Medicare Aproved

terrylee — Thur, 19 Nov 2009 01:50:04 GMT

HEY EVERYONE! MEDTRONIC CALLED AND SAID MEDICARE SAID OK FOR PUMP!!

HAPPY DANCE! HAPPY DANCE! HAPPY DANCE!!!

I can not get it till February or March though. That is when my warrantee run out on my currant pump. But that is ok. I am happy. My Deltec Cozmo is still working just fine. It will still be good for a backup.

The real exciting thing is now Medicare will pay for all my pump supplies and my insulin plus my new pump! That will be a great help with my medical expenses.

HAPPY DANCE! HAPPY DANCE! HAPPY DANCE!

To All Terry Lee

Happy B-Day Sharon!

Red — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:36:47 GMT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SHARON....HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU....AND MANY MORE!

Thanks for all your support and kind words when need to be said. I hope your b-day is as sweet as you are.

LUM-CLINK!-Paula

P.S.

Janis, how come Sharon's name, or mine or others maybe, aren't coming up on the bottom?

Sixth Grade History Lesson

richard157 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:24:31 GMT

Below, are examples of sixth grade research projects. Enjoy...

1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. the climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

2. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

3. Solomon had three hundred wives and seven porcupines.

4. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

5. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

6. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the java.

7. Julius Caesar extinquished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out Tee hee, Brutus.

8. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw.

Witticisms

richard157 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:12:54 GMT

1. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't.

2. I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

3. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.

4. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.

5. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.

6. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me

7. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

8. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

9. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing.

10. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

11. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine.

12. God must love stupid people; He made so many.

13. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

14. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.

There I fixed it

mancalleduncle — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:07:49 GMT

Cave man cooks

Post this week's Jump Start Pledge - 11.15.09

Janis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:22:27 GMT

Hi Gang,
I was traveling all last week. I spoke in Phoenix (sorry, Sharon, I was only there for a few hours) then hopped over to Sacramento. I AM SOOOOO EXHAUSTED!

So I really need to focus on MY JSP and I hope you will too.

Remember a JSP is a small health behavior that you promise to do for one week. At the end of the week, you can renew your pledge, change it to fit you better, or add another to your list.

I must focus on my bedtime again. Under the covers by 11:00pm. I know that I sound like a broken record, but I have to get this under control and must use the Jump Start Pledge to do it. What are you all working on this week?

Post YOUR JSP now!!!!
Janis

cpeptide

terrylee — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:20:17 GMT

Hi everyone!

My cpeptide test LOW 0.90! I think in 2007 it was 2.1. Normal is 1.1-4.4. I sure hope this is low enough for Medicare standards for my pump! Pray that I will be approved by medicare. Thank you all for all your support.

To All

Terry Lee

Could You Ever Do This???

richard157 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:24:44 GMT

The Doctor Is In

richard157 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:02:11 GMT

The Doctor Is In...

Two doctors, a psychiatrist and a proctologist, opened an office in a small town and put up a sign reading: "Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones: Hysterias and Posteriors." The town council was not happy with the sign, so the doctors changed it to read, "Schizoids and Hemorrhoids."

This was not acceptable either, so in an effort to satisfy the council, they changed the sign to "Catatonics and High Colonics." No go.

Next, they tried "Manic Depressives and Anal Retentives." Thumbs down again.

Then came "Minds and Behinds." Still no good.

Another attempt resulted in "Lost Souls and Butt Holes." Unacceptable again!

So they tried "Analysis and Anal Cysts." Not a chance. "Nuts and Butts?" No way. "Freaks and Cheeks?" Still no go. "Loons and Moons?" Forget it.

Almost at their wit's end, the doctors finally came up with: "Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones, Odds and Ends."

Everyone loved it.