Sugar Sugar

And more!!

I wrote this last night and deleted it soon after because I got overly self-conscious about it, but apparently my LJ feed picked it up anyway, so everybody getting my feed via LJ read it anway. Jackie thinks it’s one of my better posts, so shit, since LJ’s already seen it, I’ll put it back

“Now scientists at Northwestern University have discovered why brain insulin signaling — crucial for memory formation — would stop working in Alzheimer’s disease. They have shown that a toxic protein found in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s removes insulin receptors from nerve cells, rendering those neurons insulin resistant.” I wouldn’t be surprised.

Interesting discussion…… On the one hand, I’m dependent on something grown in a lab in order to survive, but if insulin grew on trees and you could eat it like food (cause we’re all dependent on food), would I be considered able-bodied? I don’t know, cause it takes blood sugar testing too – it takes

“An astonishing 94 percent of rats who were allowed to choose mutually-exclusively between sugar water and cocaine, chose sugar.” Mmmmm… sugar sugar.

Went to the pharmacy to pick up testing strips for my new meter and a couple of glucagon kits. I was nervous when I went to pick these up because they said they only had the testing strips in cases of 200. Generally, testing strips cost a little less than a dollar a strip. One

FIRST. FIRST, YES: MY A1c is 5.9!!!!!!!!!! My A1c is 5.9!!!!!!!!!!!! Let me write that again: 5.9! 5.9! 5.9! I AM A SUGAR NINJA. I fucking knew it. Those of you who know me or read this blog know that I work my ass off for these numbers (anything between 4.5 and 6 is what

I see my new endocrinologist today, so I was going through and updating my numbers spreadsheet. For shits and giggles, I created a chart of my sugar numbers. I don’t know how useful it is, but it does look pretty. This chart tracks my numbers from June 2nd to yesterday.

My last day in the hospital last year, I spoke with a nutritionist about my new “diabetic diet.” For those of you unfamiliar with how diabetes works, a short general explanation: I have an autoimmune disease which was triggered by “who knows what” but likely some kind of virus that told my immune system that