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Yearly Archives: 2007

On Joy and Sorrow

by Kahlil Gibran
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the [...]

Thank you

for your kind thoughts and prayers.The funeral is tomorrow at 10:00am.

grief

My twenty-one year old niece died today.Please keep my family in your thoughts and prayers.

new template

I’m trying out a new template. I am able to view it with Firefox and have viewed it in IE (although it loaded v-e-r-y slowly). If you have trouble viewing it, please let me know.
Thanks!

finally… no ketones!

Last night at 9:00pm was the first time DD11 has not had ketones in her urine since Tuesday at noon. Through the night and this morning, she remains ketone free. YIPPEE!!!
Now maybe we can get some rest. We’re both exhausted from getting up all night long to check blood sugars & [...]

Introducing Just call me… Pissy Polly!

I called the diabetes educator on call at 4:45pm. The new educator called back at 5:15. In my opinion, 30 minutes is way too long for a return call from a pager dedicated only to diabetes emergencies. Every other educator (I’ve spoken to quite a few this week) has called back in [...]

Diabetes documentary to air on 18 of November

I just read a wonderful post about diabetes by Kerri at sixuntilme.com.
I found an article at CNNMoney.com about the hour-long documentary, narrated by Glenn Close, that Kerri references in her blog post. It’s airing on the Discovery Health channel at 9:00am on November 18, 2007, and at 8:00am on December 2 [...]

We’ve been home again today. DD11’s blood sugar came down through the night last night. She was just under 300 this morning with low ketones. I was actually up and ready to go to work when she ran to the bathroom and began dry heaving. Mom had said that she’d stay home with her, but [...]

We’ve been home again today. DD11’s blood sugar came down through the night last night. She was just under 300 this morning with low ketones. I was actually up and ready to go to work when she ran to the bathroom and began dry heaving. Mom had said that she’d stay home with her, but [...]

Sweeney’s coming…

This is the cover of the November 9, 2007 issue. Great cover photo, huh?
Here’s an interview by Steve Daly with Johnny Depp about his role as Sweeney Todd and many other things. I really like the photo of Johnny as Sweeney on page one of the interview. It’s a really good [...]