So, I went in to see the podiatrist yesterday to have this callous on my toe checked out. I first noticed it last year just before I went into the hospital, and since then, I’ve been frantically looking up horrific pictures of diabetic foot ulcers, worrying that this was going to turn into something gangrenous […]
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That it is OK to ask for help. But, still hard.
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What I love most about this interactive medieval map of the rise, spread and fall of empires during the period is the fact that the soundtrack is from the movie Conan.
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This morning’s number: 92 This is supposed to be a *normal* morning number for me. It shouldn’t take effort to get there, just routine. Not having a routine is probably what’s ruining it for me. After yesterday’s appalling numbers (178 196 152), I broke out my aggressive testing/dosing strategy that I used to curb my
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“The majority of people aren’t sad because there is something wrong with their brain. They are sad because their lives suck.”
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Hannah had a post up a while back discussing Megan Lindholm’s short story “Cut,” which is about a girl speaking to her grandmother about her decision to be circumcised because, bascially, “all the kids are doing it these days.” This one stirred up a lot of complex feelings for me (I read it when it
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Having a rough night tonight, basically because I’ve got some medical stuff I want to take care of (like the callous on the bottom of my toe that’s going to get me my foot chopped off if I don’t get it scraped someday this century, and I’m down to my last bottle of Lantus and
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