Chicago and Back Again

I just returned from Chicago after my quarterly bit of fun. This visit involved two glucose tolerance tests, a CIMT (ultrasound of the carotid arteries), an abdominal ultrasound and an ekg. I did not however see Dr. Transplant. He is after all a transplant surgeon and can't always plan when organs are going to be available, so he was in surgery.

Going by the accuchecks that were done during the glucose tolerance testing I can pretty much guess that all is well in isletland. The ultrasound on the other hand is one of those things that just can't be judged by the testing itself, cause I know about my situs inversus (backwards innards) and polysplenia syndrome (too many spleens) and the other odd things associated with them (you can look those up yourself if you are so inclined) but the radiology tech didn't so ultrasound took a long time and there was much discussion about said goofiness. That being said I never really can tell if they're discussing new findings or just interesting (only to medical dorks, erm, professionals) findings,

My CIMT was good. This I know, because Paul over at Radiant Research said I have nice open arteries and that's a good thing boys and girls. CIMT is an ultrasound of the carotid arteries. The health of your carotid arteries reflects the health of your coronary arteries so clean carotids = clean coronaries.

When I get other labs back like A1c and such I shall post more. Promise ;)

Last but not least on my agenda tonight before I hit the hay, Amber, one of the awesome nurses over at UIC clinical research center is going to be running in the Chicago marathon with CellmatesOnTheRun. Her goal is to raise $1500 and she's almost there, so pretty please help her out and help diabetes research too!

Amber's fundraising site can be found here.

Thanks!

yayamber!

Happy 4th!

Or in my tiny little Podunk world, happy 3rd cause that's when Podunkville celebrates it. Don't ask me why.

In the spirit of the holiday here's some important guidelines to help you get through the weekend.

enjoy

It's been awhile

so you know I have to ask.

Have you registered as an organ donor yet?

All the cool kids are doing it.

Find your state's registry info here.

thanks!

yayyou!

Sponsor a Cellmate!

If you haven't already checked out the above link for Cellmates On The Run, a fundraiser for the Chicago Diabetes Project, please do!.

If you already have and are thinking about donating or sponsoring a runner you can do that that here.

Thanks, from the bottom of my liver.

Squirrel Nut Zippers and well, Squirrel Nut Zippers

One of the joys of being euglycemic is I can now peruse the bulk bins of nasty stale candy that no one really wants to eat at local farm market. At said local farm market one must walk past the candy to get to the things that farm markets might call checklanes and pay for one's goods. Today I found a bin of these:










so I bought some, cause even kind of stale and crunchy on the edges Squirrel Nut Zippers are yummy and delightful. mmmmm

The candies got me to thinking about another bunch of yummy and delightful Squirrel Nut Zippers. Yep, these:










so I thought I'd treat you to this:



have a nice day.

Random Entertainment 5/22

Hypothyroid + intolerance to cold = a good thing?

I spent the winter freezing my everything off because 1, my apartment has no insulation and 2 my thyroid levels were off. No thyroid + not enough synthroid = big fat brr!!!

so now my thyroid meds are at the appropriate level (yay), and it's spring time and warmer and such and hell if I can't sleep because it's too freeking warm in here.

*sigh* where's the intolerance to any temp under 80 when you need it?

btw, the islets are still going strong.

yaybetacellfunction!