In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I hope the weather is pleasant in your corner BRENDA!
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Out for my walk in a bit. Something to go back to the library.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Weather has been gorgeous in my corner of British Columbia. There was some haze in the sky yesterday from smoke being shoved down from the fires burning in the Interior but today all is clear.
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Back from my walk and movie returned to the library.
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Yeah... It's so weird.
Not only can I get away with eating carbs by mid afternoon, but I can get away with a lot of them (at least relatively speaking).
Got my first warning I was 90 and sinking around 2:30PM. By the time I ate I was already low 70s. I had 1/2 cup of peanuts and a half of a huge banana. Barely a blip on the meter up to 125 for a while and I'm right back down to 70 again within an hour. This time I had what was left of the french fries my friend brought with the food yesterday. It had to be 25 to 30 more carbs, but it only got me into the high 90's for a while and I'm sinking right back to the low 80's again.
What's more, is that I've been napping on and off since around 1:30PM, so I'm not even active.
I wish I could figure out why my body does this cycle so I could exploit it.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Well... Screw the hospital for posting my blood work results after 5:00PM on a Friday, but I don't need a Doctor to tell me that it's officially LADA, aka Type 1.5 Diabetes... which may as well just be Type I by a different name.
My GAD-65 test came in. A healthy person has a GAD reading of 0 to 5. Mine is over 500.
I have an auto-immune disease, and that's why I got Diabetes. So, Second, because I know you read everything I post... You can go get fucked. There's nothing I did that caused this. I'm no more responsible for my Diabetes diagnosis than my mom was for her MS diagnosis.
This might also explain a host of other issues I've had over the years. Things like becoming progressively "clumsier" and dropping tools when I'm working on something, and losing my balance sometimes while walking. It would explain why I couldn't find a gallon of milk I was sure I didn't finish a few months ago, only to find it the next day curdled in one of my kitchen cupboards.
So I guess that any success I have with oral medication right now will be short lived and it's injections for the rest of my life. There's no stopping this. I'm only postponing the inevitable now, and because I'm catching it so late that my C Peptide is already showing only .3 I'm surprised I'm getting any positive results from the oral medication at all anymore.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Oh that's too bad, SIX. I'm sure that's unwelcome news
But-"C-protein"? As in 'C reactive protein'? Usually a generalized marker for inflammation, kind of like sed rate (sedimentation rate).
It sounds tho like they've made a lot of progress in identifying the responsible antibodies, and they've made great progress in shutting off very specific parts of the immune system, so there's hope that in the near to intermediate term (ie. in your lifetime) they can figure out a cure. Yes, it would require perhaps stem cell treatment or cell/organ transplant, but this is such a common problem I'll bet there are a zillion researchers working on it.
Just FYI, autoimmune diseases tend to run in families. So if mom had MS, kid might get lupus. If dad had rheumatoid arthritis, kid might develop psoriasis.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Return another movie to the library. Suppose to be heading for a cool down next week. 18C right now and that 66F.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh that's too bad, SIX. I'm sure that's unwelcome news
But-"C-protein"? As in 'C reactive protein'? Usually a generalized marker for inflammation, kind of like sed rate (sedimentation rate).
I mentioned "C Peptide", if that's what you're asking. It's a way that they can measure how much insulin your pancreas creates even if you're taking insulin because for every unit of insulin made, your pancreas also releases an equal part "C-Peptide". So instead of measuring the amount of insulin in your body, that's what they measure.
A normal healthy person at any given time should have a result somewhere around 1.5. A Type II diabetic would usually have even higher than that because your pancreas would be trying to overcompensate for the insulin resistance. Mine was a .3. That's still considered on the very lowest end of the cusp for Type II, where .2 or below is considered Type I. This means a lot of my pancreas function has already been destroyed by the auto-immune response, and without immunotherapy that may or may not even work it will only get worse.
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It sounds tho like they've made a lot of progress in identifying the responsible antibodies, and they've made great progress in shutting off very specific parts of the immune system, so there's hope that in the near to intermediate term (ie. in your lifetime) they can figure out a cure. Yes, it would require perhaps stem cell treatment or cell/organ transplant, but this is such a common problem I'll bet there are a zillion researchers working on it.
There are procedures that they already do, but they come with a lot of risks. I'd never get a pancreas transplant, and I don't think they'd even consider giving me one anyhow. The more promising option would be islet cell transplantation, but even though I meet many if not most of the qualifications for it, my heart issue might prevent me from being considered depending on how bad it is, and the fact that I smoke might preclude me from it entirely. And unless the science went a lot further on that I don't think I'd even consider it right now anyhow. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 procedures to stick, I'd likely be on drugs to prevent my body from rejecting the transplant the rest of my life, and those drugs have been known to cause cancer. Furthermore, it seems like a temporary thing that has been shown to give anywhere from 6 months to 5 years without the need for insulin shots. I don't see any point of putting myself through that for only 6 months to 5 years without shots.
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Just FYI, autoimmune diseases tend to run in families. So if mom had MS, kid might get lupus. If dad had rheumatoid arthritis, kid might develop psoriasis.
Too bad we don't get to pick which one we get. My mom and I appear to have drawn the short straws.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Well, you know the advice they give on how to live a long healthy life?
Pick your parents!
Well, I got a rare cancer promoting gene from somebody, and apparentlyy mom's weird autoimmune cartilage/ pseudo gout, my dad's extensive allergies, and whacky high cholesterol from somebody. It is what it is!
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Got back from my walk around 1pm with dishes done and then a nice long sit down.
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Arthritis runs in my family. Badly on my dad's side. His mother but it missed all her children and is hitting the grandchildren. I had one cousin have all the joints in her fingers and toes replaced. Another cousin has it in a shoulder and my brother has it in his hands.
Diseases as shown by my own family can also skip generations.
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