Author: phoneboy

One of the rules of diabetes club is: blood sugar readings don’t always make sense. Like today, both of my blood sugar readings were under 100 mg/dL. I’m certainly not eating no carbs but I’m not pigging out on them either. The treadmill my wife found from someone who lives a couple streets away was…

Many of us 49ers fans have high expectations for the team. It comes with the rich legacy the team has had, not to mention the last few years where the 49ers were in the NFC Championship game and a Super Bowl. No, the Lombardi trophy was not brought back to the Bay Area in 2012…

I’ve had this little cough for the last month or so. Seems like my throat is occasionally dry. Sometimes it turns into a coughing fit, which is quite unpleasant. My wife pointed this out to me today and told me it was a common side effect of Lisinopril, the drug I’m taking to lower my…

It seems every few years or so I get tired of whatever blogging or content management system I’ve been using and I try something else. And, of course, every time I do it, I swear this is the last time I’m doing this. And yet I do it. Again and again and again. I’ve actually…

I’m looking to move some of my blogs over to the 10 Centuries platform and, for kicks, I decided to look through the hit counts on some of my blog posts on my personal blog, currently hosted at Posthaven. A number of posts had a high hit count from when they existed at Posterous, which…

My doctor had originally prescribed me the Accu-Chek Aviva Plus Glucometer to check my blood sugar. It’s a good enough device, but with it, it didn’t take me long to learn the dark secret of diabetes monitoring. Namely, that these devices are sold under the Gillette model. Except rather than give away the razors and…

Earlier this week, I went to the doctor to follow-up on the high blood pressure I had. Thanks to medication and the other changes I’ve made, it is now very close to the normal range. This is good news. The other change I’ve noticed is my weight. Since I started tracking a month or so…

As I’ve been finding others on the Internet that also have Diabetes, I’ve got a few different observations. They’re probably simplistic and obvious, but here goes: A lot of people have diabetes, including people I know. I keep finding out about more of them every day. There is no shortage of information about Diabetes on…

You’d think when you wake up in the morning, wouldn’t have above normal blood sugar readings when, the night before, they were normal. Unfortunately, it can and does happen, especially in people with Diabetes. It’s happened to me–the fasting numbers were higher than I went to bed with. You’d think I was sleepwalking down stairs,…

Today, I went to go see the Diabetes Dietitian to learn what I need to eat. Seems kind of silly since I think I’ve figured out what I need to eat–and avoid–but I am satisfying my doctor’s treatment plan. This visit included also had to share what I had been eating over the last week…