On the road with diabetes
well, we are now in our 4th day of this adventure and I must say...what a trip!!First night in our tiny travel trailer it was 9 degrees outside! Second night we joined up with my sis and her hubby was so much help! But we boondocked for the next 2 nights. Charged the batteries during the day with a generator in order to run his c-pap machine at night.I have not slept in the same room with him in years and here we are inside a 17 ’ x 8’ trailer!!! Who is going to kill who first??? LOL!!Tonight we are at an RV resort in Yuma AZ. Gorgeous property. We have the tiniest trailer nestled bet...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - January 26, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Pharmacies....hahaha!
Hubby normally has his prescriptions mailed to him, but we are taking a little trip and wanted to make sure he got them, so had them filled at the HMO pharmacy....45 miles away. They called and said they were in so we made the trip today.His Humulin R U-500 was not in. He has gotten the vial and syringes for years. Today, they told him he had to switch to the Qwik-set pen. I was in the car and he called me. I went in, and when I asked why he couldn't get the vial, the gal said, "we can no longer get it."I asked, "why not?" And she said, "they are no longer manufacturing it."I had already check...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - January 19, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Starting this year with a bang!!!
I never make resolutions because I can't keep them. BUT.....I've decided that we are going to make a few changes around here! I think that I forget that I AM NOT THE ONE WHO HAS DIABETES! (OK, would you please come stamp that across my forehead so that every time I look in the mirror I get reminded???) LOL!!! This is HIS disease, not mine. And I/we do have a life!We have been saving our pennies and it came down to the big decision. Do we remodel the kitchen or do we buy a small used travel trailer and join one of my sisters and her hubby on some of their adventures?Hmmmm.... he wante...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - January 16, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Happy 2018!!!
We survived 2017. Amazing! If I had the energy I'd jump on the bed like the gal did in "The Holiday" Speaking of which, we've had a very nice, quiet holiday. I can't believe how fast 2017 flew by! I can't believe that I've been keeping this blog since 2006.....12 years!We've had a few issues the past month. Something happened to the hardware in his back from the spinal fusion surgery and he had about 3 days of not moving at all. It resolved itself - thank goodness!He is still vomiting about every other night. So he gets a good night's sleep and then is awake the next night. Is i...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - January 2, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 12 years of blogging 2018 back pain New year's day non-compliant diabetic vomiting Source Type: blogs
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Calvinnme wrote:Well, I'm a diabetic, not with nearly the problems your husband has - yet. Although I don't delude myself and say I'm normal as long as I take meds, I know the disease will progress, just hopefully more slowly. About his hunger, let me just say that many of us diabetics live in a "prison of hunger". It doesn't matter what he eats, his insulin by definition does not get used by his body effectively. So there he is, his blood awash in unusable insulin and sugar that will not go into the cells, so he might as well be eating cardboard. That is why he is so hungry. The thing is, and I'm sure you know this and he...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - November 29, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
What's next?
I often wonder "what's next" as I have never lived with a diabetic and most people who are at this stage in the progression of the disease simply don't write about it! So today's post is going to be about the daily trials of living with this disease.....when you are the healthy one!Yesterday, he fixed SIX eggs for breakfast!!! Then he went to Burger King for lunch. THEN....he order Chinese takeout for dinner! I was gone most of the day and asked him what he'd eaten when I got home last night. In my mind, a normal person doesn't eat that much food in a day! He said he was hungry.So what causes ...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - November 16, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Life goes on, doesn't it?
Seven weeks since my son passed away. My life stopped for a moment. But there's been time to heal. Time to move on. I had been so worried about my other son and he finally came around. We spent a few days together creating a small memorial garden for the son who had died. We painted a bench, put up some decorative fencing, added huge stones, some gravel and a lot of plants. I had previously made fairy gardens in a little red wagon and in a child's sized wheelbarrow and we moved them into the memorial garden. We planted a dozen "forget-me-nots" and then painted a rock that said, "forg...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - October 29, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
My youngest son
age 33. A lifetime of grand mal seizures that could not be controlled by medications. He had a major seizure, crashed on concrete, split his skull wide open. He was probably dead at the scene, but they kept him alive, put him on life support and he succumbed last night.I am still simply numb. Can't think. Can't process it. Can't function. Completely unexpected. But it wasn't. I have known since the day he was diagnosed with this disorder that he would most likely die from a seizure caused accident. Still - you are never prepared.I have another son who is 38 and when I told ...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - September 9, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Horrible morning
I went to Walmart Friday and when I went to open the back seat door to put my groceries in the car, the entire door handle fell off! Yes....the ENTIRE handle! I just gasped! It was so unexpected and happened so easily. The Ford dealership was on the way home so I pulled in and the kid told me to bring it in this morning which I did.Apparently, in the last recall, they replaced the rear door handles due to a recall and they didn't get the clip in right so the handle fell out. I think that recall was several months back. Anyway, they got it finished and called and hubby ran me over to get my car...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - August 28, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Diabetes - a death sentence
The last time I posted, we had just been to the nephrologist. I wrote this:Gave him 3-5 years before he will need dialysis. That's interesting because only 2 years ago he was told that he needed dialysis then. I think this just confirms to me that labs really can't forecast what you do and don't need as they can quickly change for the good or the bad.Could I have been in any more denial? I think it finally hit both of us that that's exactly what we did - we made up excuses to "prove" the doctor was wrong.So what if he only has 3 - 5 more years before dialysis? And what if he still doesn't want dial...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - August 19, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
The Nephrologist
Yesterday we drove 3 hours to visit a nephrologist. Kidney specialist. I liked the doctor. He spent 2 hours with us. I don't know that the hubby will do anything he was told to do, but he will now get labs done every quarter. That's great.The doc changed some of the meds, added some new ones. Gave him some anti-nausea meds. Said that he probably has gastroparesis (which I thought might be the case) and that's what's causing him to vomit so much.His GFR has improved from zero in 2011 to 44 which is incredible. Is is the marijuana? I've read that it helps treat kidney disease and ...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - July 25, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
