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!

Random Entertainment for the week 4/30

It's been a while, so here's a two for one special.

Cheryl Wheeler, Gandhi/Buddha and the counter to it.

btw. she has a new album out. you can order it from Goldenrod Music if ye be so inclined.

This one's for Moe.



and I'd like to think Moe would never counter with this version, but yeah, she puts up with a lot from me. :)

Two weeks and a second opinion later

Dr. Endo at UIC has decided I don't need radioactive iodine. yay. I'm all content with that cause it was something I really didn't want to do.

I had my quarterly followup in Chicago with the islet transplant team. My A1c was 5.9, a little higher then in January but nothing to be concerned about. I had two metabolic tests done one was an oral glucose tolerance test and the other a glucagon stimulation test. Many of you are familiar with the oral gtt. It involves drinking yummy (bleh) orange syrup and then waiting around for a couple of hours while they draw blood. Glucagon stimulation testing is pretty much the same only glucagon is given rather then the tastey orange gunk.

Anyway, my ogtt results were normal. At the last blood draw my blood sugar was 108. I don't have the results from the glucagon stimulation test yet. I could get it but it can wait until my next appointment in July.

I have to apologize, I've gotten boring in my current state of euglycemia and good health.

Have I mentioned lately that I love my islets?

I do.

Yayislets!

btw, if you haven't already, check out the CellmatesOnTheRun site and think about supporting a runner. Good Karma dude!