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Self-Medicating

Ran errands today with Jenn, and did our once-every-two-months-or-so Costco run. My blood had been running high at lunch, so I wasn’t very concerned about it. I walked up our three flights of stairs three times, and for the first time in months, the idea of slogging up them didn’t make me tired. I grabbed […]

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Food Wars

Interesting article on the “food wars” going on in the school system . If the changes were about health, I’d love to get behind them: put more juice choices in schools, more trail mix as opposed to Snickers bars in the vending machines, making lunches palatable so you’re not rummaging around for snacks all day

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The Shovel

Did another follow-up call with my doctor, Dr. S, this morning. I’ve had a couple of nights where I’ve been running under 70 on the blood sugar count (and had two low sugar reactions in the middle of the night), so he’s cutting my long-lasting morning insulin dose from 30 to 26 units, which makes

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Ode to My Feet

I was chatting with my buddy Julian yesterday about a number of things, and we touched on my feelings about my body’s new “broken” status. I’ve been rejecting the “sick” label or calling myself “sick” because I have certain ideas about what sickness is: sickness gets better. Sickness is temporary. And, most importantly, for me,

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The Writing Life

75 pages of God’s War to go, dammit. Opened up the file, looked at the three chapters of revision I needed to do before I moved on, and closed it again. ug ug ug It’ll get there. Just waiting on responses from my second round of readers for tDW, then revisions, then I’m booting it

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