DIABETES-B

DIABETES-B 130901 1924

ABOUT MY EXPERIENCES WITH DIABETES, etc. About a year ago I was told I have diabetes B (the normal sort)(I was born in 1936). I seem to be doing well with it. But as a warning, I mention that in the meantime my doctors did not remind me to go to the skin doctor and when I eventually went I might have been too late --- so. when you go to a doctor for one thing, he might forget the other. Be alert. (I had got a slip to go to skin doctor due to something suspicious on my back, but my doctor treatedc my like a responsible adult instead of an irresponsible patient (as i assume doctors are supposed to do) and did not plague me with have i been there yet) (Lemme tell ya, the skin doctor really scared me, with how long has this been , more than 2 years?! --- that was a bad couple of weeks ´til the test results came back, lemme tell ya) in the meantime, I pass over to yáll the advice from the skin doctor: do not let 2 years go by... 071001 0040 Enzymes? I point out that I know nothing, and am only a fellow patient. so i wonder about stuff like enzymes, on the basis that medicine in a few decades will be better than now as it always is, thankfully!! And i try to learn from e g BBC Prime tv. anyway, there is here a group of diabetes types who put out a magazine they call “Diabetes” --- but as an american, brought up on Madison Avenue attitudes, i cannot abide receiving in the snail-mail regularly a big sign reminding me that i am SICK --- no way. They need a much better title, like BLOODY HEALTH. søndag 21. oktober 2001 22:43 I may (unless I am inaccurate in this) have a way to explain to other laymen how diabetes works: Imagine sugar from a refinery, loaded onto trucks, on a highway, where off-loading platforms are located at various key intervals, for use by e g muscles, brain. Now imagine a strike among many who do the off-loading --- the docks are closed, or “working to rule” (minimally). So the highway gets clogged by traffic, and some trucks crash, and sugar ends up all over the highway, causing more trouble, and the sugar needed at the proper destinations does not get there. So we send in strike-breakers, called injections or pills of medical purpose, to do what the strikers in the insulin union are not doing. After all, we have to, as it is a national emergency --- the sugar must get thru!!!!! onsdag 24. oktober 2001 21:32 I also take Zokor (Zocor?) vs cholesterol. I take half at night and half in morning, so as to more easily remember. I have to remember to get a third colon exam --- the second a few years ago found nothing, but the first, several years before took out a couple or few bad things. I recently checked my ears, nose and throat (not hearing) and dr said all is well. So i celebrated by buying some little cigars (I never inhale). (I´ve been smoking since sixteen --- they used to mock me for not inhaling) 21:48 favorite foods now. peanuts, potato chips, tomatoes, lettuce with olive oil and apple vinegar, tuna with mayonaise, bread, water, chopped meat, Pepsi Max, and a few other things I am not supposed to eat. But i try to keep down the quantity. I make a point of having baked beans and bananas to help lower bowel. some alcohol for the heart (controversy. book contradicts doctor --- book (from diabetes folks) says use regular beer instead of light. I use pills: garlic, ginger, calcium, zinc and other minerals, vitamins E & C etc, omega3 oil (because i do not eat much mackerel). I use albyl instead of aspirin to thin the blood. I drink coffee (mostly espresso)(which I know is worse than other, because of cholesterol and aluminum)(but hold down quantity), and avoid milk, but occasionally have like yoghurt (I sometimes take pills for the good part of yoghurt). 22:23 I hate exercise, but use my own bed-yoga --- with my own wooden pillow made up of two wooden stools nesting (under is upside-down); an attache-case at right foot of mattrass (sp?), on which is perched unstably an upside-down stool; another upside-down stool on left side foot; also i use the adjacent bookcase and cartons --- all this allows stretching and raising of neck and legs and feet. Watch out: I am not a doctor, and all this is experimental. Particularly I have to be careful about neck. Anyway, the effect of lying on side with leg supported opens circulation of abdomen and breathing. 22:30 When I go about among the public, like visiting via streets and busses, I am carrying about six kilos of shoulder-bags. Also, neither I nor my visitees have elevators (lifts) and it is a matter of between two and four flights of stairs. I abjure sox. Sox inhibit circulation. You would be in error to assume that Oslo is a cold place --- only a few days a years need I sox. onsdag 14. november 2001 03:22 Enzymes: it seems that there is an enzyme involved in the fact that maggots are so good at cleaning puss etc. I wonder what it is. 03:23 About SIDS: I find it easiest to breathe when I am in that classic new position on my side etc (NOT on back). I describe some of that in another section (“Helpful Hints”) . I emphasize that one breathes not with one´s chest primarily, but by one´s abdomen. So we should make sure that babies have free expansion of abdoment when sleeping. And make sure they can stretch out their legs and feet. And not constrained by foot of bed blankets. Of course the sheet should not get in the way of breathing. But I suppose the recommendation to have the baby on its back is correct --- but it´s not as simple as that, i guess. Of course, the air in the room must be monitored vs dryness etc. Sometimes a baby is in a close corner where little air circulation occurs. All factors can it seems to be combine for good or bad. Including laughter --- i bet laughter is a help, but not to exhaustion before sleep (I think that helped kill my mother). But laughter strengthens the muscles of breathing and the neurology too. Also, good string relationships promote general health --- infants are primarily social (i guess most fools (e g old fashioned doctors) don´t perceive that. Very important. A good deep breath. From the tummy. Actually i have a three part breath: from the bottom up, and the chest is truly tyhe rib “cage”, it holds rather than fills. Of course when the neck is tipped back we open our breath passages most --- so babies should NOT have their necks bent forward with chin tucked in. Ah --- i should mention that SIDS stands for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. I wonder how statistics and frequency vary from culture to culture, country to country etc. One wonders what food is easiest to digest just before sleep (besides breast-milk) if any. Of course, research would show a definite direct cause, but a general strong resistance may be the best policy. Or as Clausewitz said (wrote), “The best policy is always to be very strong”. And cleaning the nose (nostrils) is good.

søndag 18. november 2001 04:08 Have I mentioned my yoga of circulation?