tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28086850402558690492024-03-13T18:59:18.879-04:00KD(and its not kraft dinner!)kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-8559329755477915622014-03-03T12:03:00.002-05:002014-03-03T12:03:47.499-05:00new habits
morning. i crack my eyes open a bit and search around for the sound coming from somewhere under my pillow or perhaps under the blankets. it's my alarm clock (actually it's my old flip phone which has a wickedly loud alarm setting on it!). i've disable the snooze so i must get up when it goes off. no slapping the button and grabbing another 5/10/15 minutes.
the first thing i dokim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-65711744528734663092014-02-28T10:29:00.003-05:002014-02-28T10:29:48.196-05:00a cure for my breakdownsHave I mentioned that
Like seriously.
Woke up this morning with a BG of 30.4
Had a night filled with incredibly painful leg cramps. Lots of jumping out of bed trying to flatten my foot to the floor. The weird thing is that the cramp is in my calf, behind my knee or running down the front of my shin. Talk about irritating. And it's not just one leg. It seems to go from one&kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-64537599223696661932014-02-26T16:31:00.003-05:002014-02-26T16:31:57.802-05:00Things that have been going onHi there
Hope all is well with everyone.
February is just about over. It's been a month filled with appointments for me. 5 to be exact!
They actually began at the end of last month. January ended with an endo appointment.
Now I know that some D-peeps get really nervous when it comes to going to see their endo. I don't. I actually really like mine. He'skim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-44822819754881267132014-02-20T10:26:00.000-05:002014-02-20T10:26:06.973-05:00AND THE WINNER IS.........Good Morning All!!
Are you excited? Today is the day that I announce the winner of the Premiere Bundle Pack of bars and shakes that Ethan at Level Life so generously offered to one of my readers!!
I've never done a free giveaway before so i googled how to pick a winner.
RandomPicker seemed to be the simplest (and it was free!), so this morning I set up an account with them and kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-24093307482210456882014-02-15T10:34:00.001-05:002014-02-15T10:52:07.110-05:00New D-products and FREE GIVEAWAY!!!Hi Everyone!
Again, it's been a while since I've been on here. It seems that life is definitely in the way of blogging!
I've been working a lot, and with having a 3year old granddaughter here every day, I spend a lot of time playing outside (she's a snow loving girl!), and playing My Little Ponies indoors!
On top of that I'm a taxi service for my youngest daughter, driving her to kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-37406195695969772872014-01-13T12:09:00.002-05:002014-01-13T12:09:28.259-05:00dear readers; i need your advicetoday i have to order my pump supplies.
i use an Animas Ping pump (which i love!), and i have tried several different infusion sets.
i had been using the Rapid D for quite some time, but they don't quite fit the pump properly and i have to trim a little off the sides of the part that attaches to the cartridge. not a biggie, but still i began to wonder if that may cause a problem kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-3294608371171968052013-11-27T11:10:00.001-05:002013-11-27T11:10:56.818-05:00Wordless Wednesday NOT!!!!Hi everyone
I am feeling so out of the loop. I haven't been on here in quite a while. Used to be a daily event to come on and write my post and read all of yours.
I just haven't felt "into" it of late. I hate to say it but I'm sick of Diabetes. And by that I mean, I'm
tired of the day to day. I know it sounds strange, but up till now I've been kind of feelingkim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-89708875830712347562013-09-02T11:01:00.000-04:002013-09-02T16:39:22.370-04:00the most wonderful time of the year! hi everyone
it's been quite a while since i've written. summer has been very busy.
i look after my 2 grandchildren and they are non-stop!
i must say the summer has just flown by. it's hard to believe that it's September already!
school starts back here tomorrow, and i am looking forward to it! Cameron is going into grade 2, and he isn't looking forward to it.&kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-82770143470116620652013-08-01T10:00:00.000-04:002013-10-28T14:16:43.699-04:00why do i wait?
This is just a small sampling of the number of lancets I have at my disposal at any given time.
Every 3 months I receive another 3 boxes with my pump supplies. That's a total of 300 every
3 months.
I had so many that I dropped 6 boxes of 100ea to my local Canadian Diabetes Association office.
I hope they can disperse them to those that may need them. Seniors, newly kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-1084794459818438722013-07-31T22:35:00.003-04:002013-10-28T13:42:09.416-04:00Not Wordless Wednesday (i just cant seem to do it!)
this is my new tattoo, and
i love it!
it's taken me almost
2 years to get it.
i believe i actually stole
the saying from a post written
by Kelly over at Diabetesaliciousness.
She may have mentioned it in its
Latin form "Dum Spiro, Spero"
i decided english was the way to
go, for this anyways.
for one, i would have to explain
what it meant, in english, and
then i'd have to kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-16788445004135321262013-07-07T14:35:00.000-04:002013-07-07T14:35:42.851-04:00my daily grin =)holidays are over. i have endured my first week back to work.
i make that sound so awful. it actually wasn't.
monday was a holiday for us Canadians.
tuesday evening i worked 5-10 then had wednesday and thursday off.
how does that happen after having a total of 11 days off in a row??
beats me =)
friday, saturday and sunday i worked a total ofkim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-4762722795772282622013-06-26T08:30:00.000-04:002013-06-26T08:30:03.805-04:00Holiday happenings....Part 2I arrived home on Monday at about 11am. A little earlier than planned because I had to drive my youngest to work for 11:30, but I was OK with that. By Monday morning we are all ready to pack up and head out anyway.
I had packed enough for a 2 week stay, I swear! Anyone else do that? I mean, I know that for Diabetics there is alway "extra" stuff, but boy sometimes I think kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-41875730596379187232013-06-25T18:46:00.000-04:002013-06-25T18:46:02.783-04:00Holiday happenings....Part 1I am officially on holidays! And what a crazy start to my holiday week.
Let me first say that I don't often take holidays, and this year I have decided to take 2 weeks. Not at the same time, mind you, but 2 weeks just the same.
So to begin, I went to work last Thursday night, as per the norm. Before punching in I checked the schedule for the following week, knowingkim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-28671310843286296662013-06-11T22:09:00.000-04:002013-06-11T22:09:19.805-04:00Busy days are on the way! Things are beginning to get that "summery" feeling around here. Not because of the temperature (it's still early spring/early fall feeling), but rather because of the activities that are about to commence!
This weekend is Father's Day weekend. Every year I gather my parents, my sister and her family and all my children and their children to my home to celebrate "the Dad's". In kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-89149088816422167552013-05-31T12:45:00.002-04:002013-05-31T12:46:54.584-04:00only one more sleep!!where has the time gone? it's been over a month since my last post!!
i'm not sure why, but i have been overwhelmed lately. there never seems enough time to do the
stuff i want to do, nevermind the things i have to do.
two weeks ago today my car decided it had had enough. she died. now to give credit where credit is due, she did get me home from my morning errands before kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-51590498608926826232013-04-24T15:13:00.003-04:002013-04-24T15:13:45.060-04:00the "low-down" on LEVEL Life!!I've been meaning to get around to this topic for a while now.
A few weeks back, I received an email from Ethan Lewis, founder of Level Foods. I know that some of you already know Ethan, but for those that don't,
he is a Type 1 Diabetic who has developed a delicious, easy way to treat those nasty lows that we all encounter from time to time.
Ethan was diagnosed kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-14163867229187021262013-04-16T21:50:00.002-04:002013-04-16T21:50:26.457-04:00a work in progressso last week i wrote about my endeavor to eat low carb.
i purchased the book "Wheat Belly" and the "Wheat Belly Cookbook".
quite interesting.
i want to say that i have no medical need to try the wheat free diet. i am not allergic to wheat, nor am i
Celiac.
i am diabetic however. and i have been trying to keep my A1c below 7. i feel very good kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-89628806600241321992013-04-10T15:14:00.002-04:002013-04-10T15:17:54.844-04:00here's hoping!i'm excited!! i've decided to really, seriously, stick to it this time.
stick to what? you may be asking.
well low carb and mostly wheat free eating!
i started last night. dinner was a low carb shepard's pie. it was easy peasy and tasted great! even my husband commented that he really liked it and would definitely eat it again! (there was none left when i got home from kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-90401049036839729242013-04-05T12:40:00.001-04:002013-04-10T15:15:19.886-04:00fruit flies and pantyhoseMonday I noticed a few dots hanging about in my left eye. What appeared to be little fruit flies flying around in front of me. Problem was, when I swatted at them, they didn't go away. Then it got a little worse. It was like looking through a pair of pantyhose. Like a fine mesh over my eye. Kind of hard to see through.
sort of like this only finer
&kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-74278603561586525182013-03-26T22:35:00.000-04:002013-03-26T22:35:01.915-04:00VerioIQ recall notification for Canada and US
I just saw a headline on the rolling news station that my husband watches. It said something about a recall on a blood meter. I went online looking for more information. CTV news has issued a report on the recall.
It seems that the OneTouch Verio IQ meter has been recalled in Canada and the USA.
The company has announced that the meter will shut itself off if the kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-14814079216684853412013-03-11T09:04:00.002-04:002013-03-11T09:04:48.256-04:00March BreakWell it's March Break. And it's raining. :(
That does not make me happy. Hopefully the sun will come out later today.
Having a 3year old and a 6year old to entertain for 5 days will be interesting.
The 3year old is usually pretty good at amusing herself, but her brother is not!
I have to find some craft ideas and board games to keep them entertained. kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-4137455497497665142013-02-20T09:58:00.000-05:002013-02-20T16:54:25.682-05:00(almost) Wordless WednesdayI take an art class every wednesday evening. I am learning to paint using watercolour. I enjoy it very much. It is alot of fun. Myself and 3 good friends are taking this together. It is a relaxing evening in the middle of a usually jam-packed week.
I've taken up another hobby. Knitting. Yup knitting. Just scarves, but my
husband kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-486151350432989962013-02-13T08:56:00.000-05:002013-02-13T09:10:54.664-05:00The Flu Revisited
Today I will revisit a topic that I have talked about before. The Flu.
While my family and I have not had the "flu", we have been passing a wicked cold back and forth. Since before Christmas. Not so fun.
There have been quite a few people I know and some I work with that have had the flu. And from what I hear, it has not been pleasant.
Recently I kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-1989647619080208372013-02-02T20:32:00.000-05:002013-02-02T20:39:01.209-05:00a carb is a carb. or is it??Pasta. Who doesn't love pasta. If I ask my son in law what he would like
me to make him for dinner, he'll say "lasagna". Ask my oldest daughter and her answer will be "chicken parmesan with penne". Aubrey, my 3 year old granddaughter "loves spaghetti".
I love pasta. I enjoy a plate of spaghetti and meatballs with a lovely sauce. I also love lasagna with a kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808685040255869049.post-56219967154215479992013-01-29T14:31:00.001-05:002013-01-29T14:31:24.730-05:00night sweats, lesson learnedDo you every have days when you've had enough of Diabetes? When you just want to throw in the towel and say "I'm done. I've had enough of this stupid disease"?
Of course you have. We all have! Well this seems to be my week for this. And it's only Tuesday!!
Highs, lows, more highs. Mostly highs. All this started Saturday. It was time for a site change.kim at KDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786098783443054915noreply@blogger.com2