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6ixStringJack: I've been saying in the movie threads and elsewhere what a letdown it is watching movies you loved when you were younger, but Shawshank ain't one of them. I'm thrilled we watched that one the other day over The Working Man (which was dad's choice). The last two movies we watched I let him choose since I wanted to see them myself, but I wanted to take a Jason Stathem break. We'll watch A Working Man next time.

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6ixStringJack: Yeah... just gotta do what we gotta do with our sugar issues. All we can do, right? Glad you seem to be really on top of it yourself. I know how scary the lows can be when you're living on your own, so gotta do whatever we can not to get em. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.01 08:31

6ixStringJack: Never saw Steel Magnolias, but that one was huge so I remember when it was big. Shawshank was great. Haven't seen it in 20 years but probably saw it half a dozen times back in the day. I think having half a life experience under my belt since the last watch made me appreciate it more than I ever could have back when I was a kid for sure. My old man had never seen it, so that was a great watch for both of us. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.01 08:30

6ixStringJack: You should watch Twisters for sure. Got Bill Paxton and Carey Elwes in it too. Real fun movie from the early to mid 90's.

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Brenda: I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep a close watch on this sugar of mine. Because of my health I walk the line.

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Brenda: Exactly and after 20years or so, it gets tiring. But I don't want people picking me up off the ground and wondering what is going on. I've seen Shawshank Redemption but don't remember the dialogue. Remember the scene from "Steel Magnolias" where Julia Roberts character's sugar crashes. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.01 05:46

Brenda: Nope, diabetes is better known than my condition even today. Even after all these years of living with it when I tell people I have to eat something, they just look at me. Nothing I can do about it. There's no going back for me either. I just walk the line and hope like heck that I don't develop diabetes. That is also the flip side of mine. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.01 05:41

Brenda: Never saw Helen Hunt in Twister but now I place Laura Dern in the movie. Been a long time since I saw the first Jurassic Park movie for sure. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.01 05:38

6ixStringJack: You just deal or you don't. Totally binary choice at this point. I just watched Shawshank Redemption with the old man the other day and remembered how much I loved that line... "Get busy living, or get busy dying".

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6ixStringJack: I feel for you. I don't think I really could have until I got the diabetes. Even if you're a very empathetic person, I don't believe either of our conditions is something you could really understand unless you were walking the walk. For me, I think the worst part is knowing that there's no going back. That hourglass is glued to the table. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.01 05:15

6ixStringJack: Laura Dern.

She was the lead in the first JP. Julianne Moore was the lead in the 2nd movie (the redhead). She's a great actress, but I was just let down because I thought Helen Hunt was perfect for that role after her casting in Twister just a few years before. And they did something weird in the movie like take 2 kids that were in the book and just moshed both of their personalities into one kid, so a lot of that movie was totally different because of it. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.01 05:13

Brenda: I can understand that. Someone once asked me if I check my sugar levels and I said no. I just depend on my diet. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 23:42

Brenda: Yeah, I know that a diabetic can go into hypoglycemic shock. Which is a death sentence. For you and me. Walking a line is no fun for sure. I am constantly like you watching how much sure I take in. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 23:41

Brenda: Okay about not remembering the actress. That's why I asked. I know I've seen Helen Hunt in stuff. Yeah, the main actor one of them was Sam Neil. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 23:39

6ixStringJack: Not if I'm not online though.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 10:52

6ixStringJack: Not if I'm not online though.

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6ixStringJack: It's so easy to accidentally take too much and put yourself in dangerously low glucose levels.

It's one of the reasons I've taken my monitoring software completely offline. I don't even connect it to do updates. I'm a hackable animal now. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 10:52

6ixStringJack: Diabetes can be either though, really. My body isn't making what needs to be made to prevent the high sugar, but there isn't anything my body is doing to create the high sugar either. But human error is a bitch of a thing, and when you and your mind have to make your body do things that normally happen automatically like breathing, there's tons of room for error if you don't devote every second of your life to monitoring it. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 10:50

6ixStringJack: No. I can't remember the name of the main actress on the first JP, but she was also brought back along with the main guy in the last JP a few years ago. It wasn't Helen Hunt though. Maybe I'd just recently seen Twister before reading that and that's why, but she's who I envisioned the whole time and that was my first letdown when she wasn't cast in the lead role in the movie. It went to that redhead actress... can't remember her name either, but she's good and has been in a ton of stuff. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 10:48

Brenda: Nope and he even tried with one of the glucose bars as well but still nothing. Diabetes and Hypoglycemia are related just other ends of the scale. Your condition is high blood sugar and mine is low blood sugar. Mine walks hand in hand with my thyroid problem. I know but I need to eat when I start going low. Not enough to those things for my body to work off of. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 09:33

Brenda: Like I said I've never read his books either and maybe I should. Wasn't Helen Hunt in the first Jurassic Park movie? I know that Sam Neil was and I love him. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 09:30

6ixStringJack: My roller coaster problem is because of how fast the glucose tabs work (to get you out of trouble) and how slowly the insulin works by comparison. If you take too much sugar and turn all your insulin off while you're in the dangerzone, you're likely to see that spike up to 200 again and then you're taking too much insulin because it's not working fast enough to bring it back down. And then you have to balance in things like "did I have a real physical day or not" because that can have huge implications on how your body handles glucose/insulin balances too. So many factors at play and going on 3 years into it I still haven't mastered that yet. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 02:44

6ixStringJack: Strange that the glucose drink didn't help you. Diabetes and Hypoglycemic must only be loosely related to each other. With what I know about diabetes now, it just surprises me that if your sugar was low that a huge shot of it in one dose wouldn't get you back where you needed to be quicker than eating actual food. Interesting. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 02:42

6ixStringJack: I never read the first JP, but I bet it was really good. I'd never read Chriton up to that point, but in Jr. Year of high school (Grade 11), I was offered the choice of 3 books to read by my teacher and JP2 was one of them. I loved it and imagined the main character was Helen Hunt from Twister as I was reading it. That movie was such a disappointment compared to the real thing.

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Brenda: That is low blood sugar for sure. I'm glad you have the monitor and all that set up for you. Certainly easier now then when my Blair was alive.

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Brenda: My brother can go into anaphylatic shock because of his food allergies. So I know about eppy pens. He's suppose to carry one at all times too. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 00:26

Brenda: My Blair was diabetic and he used to take that glucose drink sometimes. He gave me one once when he was worried and it did nothing for me. My body needs something real like food to keep it going. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 00:24

Brenda: I can understand you those skin monitors can be useful. As a hypoglycemic, I know immediately if my sugar has gone too low. My hands and I mean both can get shaky. I can start walking odd. Or I can't think straight then I have to have whatever is handiest. Hence I always carry granola bars on me when I am out. I eat that until I get some thing "proper". - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 00:22

Brenda: I've always been a reader but I do have a lot of books I haven't read yet. That's stemming from looking after my mum and moving around so much. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 00:19

Brenda: It was. My aunts were sorely disappointed as I said. But just because his last name is spelt like my grandfather's, these were my dad's sisters. Didn't mean anything. Maybe I should try reading one of his books. Jurassic Park would be right up my alley. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.31 00:17

6ixStringJack: The other night I hit 47. The monitor only goes down to 40, which I know because I've been there before too... but not in a long while. That night was scary. I actually started losing my vision. Not blacking out, like passing out, but my actual vision. It was like two growing multicolor blobs that started in the center of my vision like pinpricks and seemed to get to be the size of an apple from about 10 feet away by the time the sugar kicked in and I started recovering. Never experienced anything like it and I don't intend to ever do it again. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 11:10

6ixStringJack: I've got two eppy pen type devices for emergencies. One I keep on a magnet on my fridge with the instructions printed out, and the other always comes with me wherever I go in my tool bag. (man purse

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6ixStringJack: If I go low though, I have to have sugar for sure. Glucose tabs are usually always on hand since I don't really eat sweets and I don't drink pop. Feels like crap when I let that happen, so I know for sure what you go through on that end. Just had me a little roller coaster the other night and the lowest low I had found me breaking out in a sweat even though it's still been cold enough at night around here to wear a hoodie. Really draining when it happens, so I try to do my best to avoid it for sure. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 11:04

6ixStringJack: With the phone app, I can get the 5-minute glucose update I was getting when just using the monitor alone, but with the pod in synch, I can also instruct the phone to shoot the insulin I need before a meal based off the carbs I'm eating (the Bolus shots), but instead of having to take one 24/hr shot (Basal shot), it will give me a steady trickle, and actually uses AI over time to try to perfect what my own body needs and it makes fine tuned adjustments (that AI bit might have been BS... honestly... I haven't noticed any improvement since I started using it, but it's not bad). - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 11:02

6ixStringJack: "Airframe remains one of Crichton's few novels not adapted to film. Crichton stated this was due to the great expense needed to make such a film. The novel's dense technical details for the accident investigation may also have hindered cinematic adaptations." They aren't kidding. The amount of technical knowledge he put into this book was written about. But he's such a great storyteller it don't even feel like learning when you're actually learning something. I've forgotten mostly what it's about almost 30 years later, but it does stand out in my mind as a great read. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 10:59

6ixStringJack: Oh bummer. That would have been cool if you were related to him. I used to be a pretty heavy reader years back and enjoyed a few of his books. The movie Jurassic Park 2 was such a disappointment because the book was amazing. Read his book Airframe when it was new and was blown away by it. And that's over a topic I never thought I would enjoy so much. [go to link]) - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 10:56

Brenda: Huh. I didn't know that. In fact I don't think I have read any of his books. My family has tried to claim Michael Crichton as one of ours. Then one of my aunts got terribly disappointed when she found out he wasn't related to us.

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Brenda: Hard to say with Orwell. You have to do some reading on his life to see who he hung out with. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 09:58

Brenda: That is true. I am sure that there were things in my grandparents lives that came into being that they would never have thought of and would see. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 09:57

Brenda: I've seen the ads for those monitors and for the apps on the cell phones. What gets me, is doesn't a diabetic now when their blood sugar is going low? As a hypoglycemic I sure as shooting now. I feel terrible. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 09:54

6ixStringJack: Michael Chriton was great at that in his books. He knew a lot about a lot, and he had all the right connections too. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 06:54

6ixStringJack: Yeah. I wonder if Orwell was just that smart and inventive, or if he hung around with really smart tech people of his time and got some ideas from them about what they thought was possible in the next 30 or 40 years, just to keep it grounded. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 06:53

6ixStringJack: Crazy how the longer you live the more stuff you saw in old sci-fi movies or read in old sci-fi books how many of those things happened. Some of them so long ago that we don't even realize how much we've integrated into our lives and how almost naked most of us would feel if they were taken away from us now. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 06:52

6ixStringJack: Yeah. Unfortunatley, I had to buy a used phone just to use my insulin pods with my monitor, so even though there's no plan and no internet on it, I've still got to carry one around. It woke me up nice and early this morning to remind me that I had to change my pod in 8 hours. Thanks. You can tell the team of "geniuses" who designed this thing didn't have a single person with diabetes on it, and nobody tested out just how freakin' miserable it is because in order to use it you need to give it full control over permissions on the notifications it gives and the volume. It does max volume and screams as loud as it can whenever it feels like it. Great news for a guy who's been dealing with insomnia since he was 5 years old.

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Brenda: Orwell was a writer and not a scientist or inventor. So all he had to work with was his imagination about what could be possible, if he were to have technology. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 04:26

Brenda: Well, as I remind the lady that I work for, science fiction even in our time is becoming science reality. And that will keep happening. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 04:24

Brenda: I don't even want go there about government mandated tech. I get enough grief from the tech I bought on my own. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 04:23

Brenda: That is true enough. I'm sure even some grandparents now can tell their grandchildren stories about how phones used to be. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 04:22

Brenda: I know what you mean about having to be hooked up constantly. My feeling is mankind did alright with out being in contact 24/7. We can still choose to that now. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 05.30 04:20