A Book You Need

Last night I finished “The Born Again Diabetic” and I had to tell you about it.

Well, what I want to tell you is that you need to read it. Well, if you have diabetes you do. It is not like any other diabetes book I have read. It is funny, to the point, pulls no punches and covers everything!

I should tell you that I am not a reader. It takes me forever to finish any book. I plowed through this book and honestly, want to read it again. It was filled with so much and some things I never knew. I learned a ton and had a great time doing it. Perfect balance right?

This book was written by William “Lee” Dubois, whose blog Life After DX was one of the first blogs I started reading over 3 years ago when I started blogging. He is a great writer and a cool guy.

I know this blog is the B.A.D. blog but as of late I feel like I could be born again, AGAIN. I needed a kick start. A refocusing on my diabetes. This book did that for me and shed a whole new light on why we do what we do and how we should be doing it.

I really cannot think of more to say except, BUY IT AND READ IT! And let me know if you do.

Oh and one last thing, Thanks Lee for writing such a great book! Can’t wait for the next one!!

Here is a link to the Amazon store. GO GO GO!!!

You Tube Tuesday #111

Last week George (my son) and his friends were in a talent show at their High School. Here is a poor video taken from a cell phone it seems but its enough to get an idea. George is in the middle and is singing. His buddy Jordan is singing back up vocals.

The cool part is that they are singing a song my brother in law wrote.

Enjoy.

My Busy Weekend

This was a busy weekend.

It all started Friday afternoon with a visit to the doctors to get my toe checked out. After waiting a lifetime in the waiting room I was walked into a room with stirrups staring back at me. I froze and the nurse said, “Oops, guess this is not the room for you!”

Yeah, ya think?

So she moved to the room next door with all the gnarly posters on the wall about smoking and ear infection. Yum. The doc came in and checked out the “piggy that stayed home.” He said it was just a blood blister and that I should keep an eye on it. He said as long as it did not open that I should not worry about infection. Good news indeed.

Friday night was a visit from my mom for my little sisters Baby Shower on Saturday morning. It was fun hanging out with her and our friend Lisa came over to hang out too. It was a regular slumber party.

Saturday morning after helping(being the good brother that I am) setting up for the shower I attended the first rehearsal for Godspell. Did I tell you all I auditioned for the play at our church? I am so excited! And if you are interested, I would suggest keeping June 4th – 8th open for performances. Rehearsal went well. It’s fun singing songs like this since I am so used to singing more contemporary songs. I love to use my “choir” voice as opposed to my lead singer voice. Very different but equally as fun!

Saturday night was more hanging out with Mom. I love it when she is around. She is funny and fun and well, New Mexico is not close enough for all the visits I would love to have. Still we make any time together fun.

Sunday was church then rehearsal. After that I took mom to the Airport to send her home and then headed home to meet up with my buddies for a movie.

On the way home Georgie was sitting in the front seat listening to the Godspell CD I will have on a loop until the performance I think. He said, “You know what dad. I think I want to be in the musical too.” He was planning on being in the orchestra but was having second thoughts.

“Well dude, you should call Pastor and talk to him. I am not going to pressure you at all but ask him and see what he thinks. We do need another guy.”

He called that night and is going to audition on Saturday. I asked to hear him sing along with a few of the songs we were listening too and once again, he shocked me. The boy has a good voice! Very cool.

I ended Sunday night with a low. The Watchmen was a strange, long, boring, and “blue” movie. The full frontal male nudity was annoying especially because it was blue and glowing! Please, someone get this dude some Underoos.

As you can see, my weekends are busy busy busy! I am not able to read, post, or rarely Tweet during the weekend but I try my best.

And now, to begin my busy week.

Whew!

Ninjabetic Vlog - Living in Fear

Diabetes causes us to act any time our bodies tell us something is wrong. Is that a good thing? Is it being in tune or living in fear of diabetes destroying our bodies?

Please comment after you watch. I really love your feedback.

Piggy Problem

Every night when I go to bed I check out the bottoms of my feet. They are typically tingling and hurt in spots but I it always seems like they are okay.

For the past two nights Jasmine has spotted me checking out my feet and has offered on both occasions to massage them a little before bed to which I declined. I hate to have her do that stuff unless I am feeling really bad.

I also have a routine each morning where I as soon as my feet touch the floor, I look down at my toes and remind myself why I do not smoke anymore. I honestly do that every day.

So this morning as I was drying off after my shower, I notice a dark spot on the end of my second toe. This spot is not visable when you look straight down on my foot and I am not all Stretch Armstrong so I when I look at the bottoms of my feet I cannot see the very tips of my toes. That, of course, is the place where this spot is. The spot that upon further investigation is a lot worse.

The tip of my tow is purple. I mean, bruised, cut and purple. I am trying my best to not freak out about it which is why I am telling you all. It looks like my toe has been rubbed off or cut or was stuck in a blender. It is awful looking but of course does not hurt one bit.

I put some Antibacterial cream on it and wrapped it up. I am going to check it throughout the day here at work and not freak out unless something changes. I will just keep an eye on it now but it reminded me of how easily and painlessly diabetes can hurt us.

The damage to my kidneys, eyes, nerves, they go undetected until its too late.

I hope my toe gets better. I am not sure I have convinced myself how to not freak out.

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?