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  • I survived my first week as a student teacher! My biggest frustration at this moment is dealing with changes in rosters. Kids here, kids there, kids are moving everywhere.On Tuesday I met the person from the university w…

  • 3 years on Exogenous Insulin

    I had finished writing a post and was just trying to illustrate when the browser crashed. I need to upgrade or download another browser altogether. I kind of like this one though. It's IE 7, I think. Anyways.I saw the e…

  • I had a rough sort of a day. Woke up with a blood sugar of 48, out of touch with reality. Ate 40 carbs, tried to go back to sleep, got a phone call just as I was getting back to sleep, and had to get up. Went high, didn'…

  • Small Happenings

    I finally called the school at which I'll be student teaching. I wanted to find out when I'd be starting, who I'd be teaching under, what classes I'd be teaching, and which textbooks I'd be using. I found one answer: the…

  • More Medical

    I saw the endocrinologist today. I was very curious about my weight. They have one of those scales that are manual- on the bottom groove you can set the weight into the 50, 100, 150, 200, etc grooves, and on top you can …

  • A Very Medical Day

    We're getting rid of chametz for passover and therefore eating some odd foods in my household. We had popcorn for breakfast, and this reminded me that I had some nutritional yeast hidden that I hadn't eaten in a while be…

  • Purim is in just one week. I've spent about ten months looking forward to it and now I don't feel ready. :-/ That's just how life goes sometimes, I guess. I was thinking about reading Megillah and celebrating with Mitziu…

  • Hodgepodge of Thoughts

    Greyhound ticket prices since July have dropped 5%-40% for the routes I pay attention to. I woke up with a very high blood sugar this morning, which was my fault for eating right before going to bed and then not staying …

  • The Ethics of Kidney Receptions

    Yesterday I read a book called Fragile Innocence, an autobiographical account by a man whose daughter developed normally for her first year and a half of life, then developed fevers, seizures, and personality changes tha…

  • I've woken up hypo three mornings in a row, steadily decreasing my insulin dosages. The first morning, my mother came down to wake me up, I was sleeping in my rocking chair, I knew as soon as I woke up that I was hypo fr…

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