Hat In The Drink
I went for a walk a couple of days ago. Saw some kids hanging from a rope and thought what a great picture. One of the kids, while showing off, nearly fell from the rope and into the water.
That caused me to forget my new $2.00 hat was on the verge of blowing away. It is a cool hat, I call it a Crocodile Dundee hat. As soon as I forgot, I 
moved my hat in the wrong direction and instead of the child in the drink, my hat was.
Did not even make it home with it before it was lying there in the water and sinking fast.
One of the kids swinging from the rope was soon chasing my hat. He spent too much time looking at it though and not getting it. It nearly sank. I don’t know why I didn’t think of taking a picture of my hat which is now listing at about 30 degrees. But I missed the opportunity.
Any way, the Filipino child grabbed my hat just in time and handed it to Jessie. It was now dripping wet and I was thinking of the famous gloves. If the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit. I haven’t tried it back on yet to see how much it shrank. I will know soon as I’m about to put it on and go for my walk.
My blood sugar has already improved, it was almost normal while fasting today. I feel okay right now but it got up a little bit after breakfast. I did take an Actos this morning but yesterday I didn’t need one. Not sure how good an idea it is to take it off and on like that but, I did it. I don’t have enough of them for an entire month and not really in a position to buy more right now.
Well its time to go for my walk for diabetes prevention. My diabetes reduction action of the day. I seem to have a new found determinatiion to walk. Needles and the side effects of insulin are great motivators.
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Well, I over did it. I’m sitting her shaking a bit. Had to stop my walk and take a tricycle back less than half way through. Got in .84 miles.
We stopped at a local native store, cool stuff in there and low price too. I’ll talk about that some more. It was hot in hot in there and that might have been what finished me off.
I sent jessie to get some candy and kept saying I need to sit down, I wasn’t thinking clear enough to get a tricycle and ride back home. Good thing she suggested it, I was feeling very weak by the time I got home even though I was sucking on some sugar.
Took my blood sugar and it was in the normal range for but just barely for a normal person at 71 but a nurse confirmed that I could feel hypoglycemic at much higher ranges than normal when my sugar had been high for so long. At one point I started feeling a little sick at 100 but I wasn’t even trying to get my sugar to behave then I was just doing what I wanted and that was when I finally started to get it down into normal ranges again.
Walking is the key. More walking, less meds. I hope this makes sense, I’m still trembling a bit.
Hi Rusty – Same thing happened to me yesterday, except I am not sure how low my sugar went, because I don’t have any strips for my meter right now. My sugar has been high, so almost any dip could leave me feeling weak.
Yeah, it could be. Actos is what caused mine. No doubt in my mind. Actos is great but walking is better. I’m going to stop taking it again. Dude you need those strips. I’m a fine one to be talking. I didn’t take my Blood Sugar for years. Doctor told me I was gonna die and I gave up. Said screw it. Been doing everything they told me too and then another one tells me the meds are killing me. ;)
Took me a while to get my head back on straight.
Bob, in case you don’t know. I learned that milk is the best thing to get my blood sugar back up. Even this powdered stuff usually does it better than anything.
Hi Rusty – I am going shopping for a new meter today. The strips for my old meter used to be available in GenSan, but my sister-in-law went looking for them yesterday, and all of the stores there have discontinued that brand now. Time to buy a new meter that I can get strips for!
That stinks Bob. I’m having trouble getting two of my medications, both are pretty important to me. I found them from a site on India but of course they freaked when my billing address is in the US and my shipping address is in the Philippines. :) Gotta send them more stuff to prove I am who I say I am.
HI Russ, I want to buy a glucometer for my diabetic uncle. Did you buy yours from the PI? Would it be better to buy a glucometer in PI and any idea how much? My only concerns in buying it from Oz is that we read the glucose as mmol/L whereas US and PI read their glucose as mg/dl. This would probably confuse my elderly aunt because she’s used to the mg/dl readings. Besides, I’m just wondering if she can buy the strips there for example if I buy Accucheck glucometer here, would the strips be available in PI? At the moment, my uncle only gets his blood sugar tested every 6 months. He’s a NIDDM though.
Took me a bit to see what NIDDM is. I got it though.
You’re going to have to find out from someone in the area. Do the drug reps there give you samples? If so, that’s the way to go and send them to him.
As you can see from Bob’s post, many places in the Philippines make it hard too get strips.
I bought my last one from drugstore.com. I actually got it free. It is a One Touch series. They are kind of hard to use until you figure out how then they are easy. The way you must get the blood on the strip is a little different.
Those are available in Cebu but other than that, I don’t know what is. They are inexpensive and I got mine free from drugstore.com with an instant rebate! Haven’t seen that before. Some One Touch meters are very expensive bu they have some cheap ones too.
I’ve been told from others that they go out and buy a meter then the meter is no longer available and they have to buy another meter just to get the strips they need. No matter what i recommend, that could happen. Be prepared to buy strips from the US and ship them to Ph.
Thanks for the reply. I think I might be better off buying auntie a glucometer from here, even if I have to buy the strips periodically. I’ll just have to teach her the conversion values from mmol/L to mg/dl. Hope she’s an easy learner!
Hmmmm you know she wont use it if she doesn’t understand it. :) You know how older folks are, well I doubt they are all that different here than the USA. I can see my grand mother mumble something about it and never use it again. :)
I sent you an email.
I think I will buy one for her here, especially if getting gluco-strips from PI is a bit dicey. The machine itself is not that dear, but the strips are. They are really easy to use these days, and you only have to wait seconds for the result. Over here you will be called an IDDM (Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Let me know how you go with the desonate. Can you get Xanax substitutes, I mean it’s just benzodiazepine – it’s an anxiolytic. Other names it’s known as are; Kalma, Novo-alprazol, Apo-alpraz, Ralozam. Surely you can get them in PI? or I’m wrong?
I don’t know if we will be able to get a generic on the xanax or not. Maybe I’ll get jessie to check for all those names.
I have found a way to get the older desonate. It is only about $10 here. The gel is some kind of new delivery method and that’s why it is so much more. Must be extra good, I did challenge the docs on it but they insisted on the gel. I wont get the gel now though, no choice. :)
I sent you an e-mail that might interest you, a study on the use of Thalidomide on Lupus sufferers. I’ve only sent you the abstract because the full article is full of goobledigooks. The abstract tells you whether it’s been effective (and this study says it is). It looked like they’ve been trialling Thalidomide on Lupus sufferers since the ’90s maybe longer? and it looked promising. However, the costs can be prohibitive. I don’t know why? for a drug that no one wants to use anymore! So you are able to get generic Desonates in Phil? I don’t know why the docs would insist on gels. Lotions will stick to the skin just the same, just wait till it dries off a bit, though I wonder how much of it would stay on the skin in Cebu’s high humidity? the previous names of Xanax I gave you were the older names. Therefore there’s a good chance you can get it in Cebu. The more newer names are; Zamhexal, kalma, GenRx alprazolam, and Alprax. I’m sure you should be able to get them there. I think what happens in PI is, you present the pharmacy girl with a prescription stating “Xanax”, and if what they stock is “Kalma”, she would say they don’t have it, when in fact it’s one and the same drug.
Alprazolam is the generic name I know but those other names might be here. We found xanax here, have to go to a hospital pharmacy to get it. Stocking xanax in a pharmacy that is not open 24 hours a day probably greatly increases the chance of a break in and if it was open then maybe of robbery and violence. Doubt it would be more of a threat here than in the US but I guess there is better security there.
I got that email, I will read it soon. My lupus is mostly in remission. I don’t have problems like I use too. It may even be totally so, well one doctor thought so till he reduced my Prednisone does. Then he said, I don’t know what you have, I don’t think its lupus but you have some kind of horrible immune system monster. Other doctors had no doubt that I had lupus. I feel pretty sure I do, I’ve seen and felt the mask of the wolf on my face.