Recommended: less testing (Duh).

I was going to send this to my friend, a 3rd/4th grade teacher here in Jacksonville. But with the new phone, I don't appear to have her email handy. 

45 of 180 days. That is 1/4. Insane. 

The itch is returning

Just when everything is becoming so settled. 

Foot hole closed early January. Wearing custom shoes & orthotics to protect/maintain gains. (Hole in bottom of foot appeared in June, 2013)

Weight loss continuing. Hernia repairs healing nicely. Lost about 57 lbs so far. Doc had asked me to lose 70. 

Diabetes under tightest control since 1996-97 diagnosis. A1c was 7.7. Usually runs 12.7-13.5. Best control in last 2 years (maybe 10'years?) was 10.4 last Jan. And I was pumping so much insulin into me. 

Co-pay on Remicade may be $10. After tricking me into paying $2K, when I showed for appt they collected another $10. 

But the itch might be returning…

And I won't fight it this time. Best to go out when I'm in the best condition of the last 15 years rather than the worst. 

Sons of Liberty in 3 parts- squash the little guy?

I just started watching the mini drama Sons of Liberty. Right off, we are introduced to Samuel Adams, a tax collector who doesn't effectively collect taxes & John Hancock, a merchant who is beating the duty (tax) system by paying off the governor. Always the way it has been? Let the 'job creators' slide while placing the burden on the backs of the working man. 

I know a lot about history, but not specific ideas like this in great detail. But this was the reason for the uprising in the colonies, Sam Adams as narrator would have us believe? That the fact that he failed to collect taxes on the working man led to revolution? And why would John Hancock be a willing collaborator? Beating the system not enough, why not be free from it all together? 

I'm looking at our local political situation: you have a democrat, Black mayor, running on the idea of no new taxes while our city's pension obligations are not being met and the inner core of the city is crumbling? And against him is running a 'job creator,' labeling himself as a political outsider, the recent past chairman of the Republican Party of Florida? From a Jan2014 letter to the Miami NBC affiliate over party 'name calling:'

Everyone wants services. But everyone wants to not pay for them. It is a crazy situation. 

There is just so much corruption. But maybe that's the way it has always been. Create a system, and the first thing the powerful will do is try to cheat it. Maybe the first thing anyone will do is try to cheat it. But those without means will pay immediately, whereas the powerful will have the means to combat it. 

I've fallen, but still getting up…

I went to doc today after falling 2x Monday due to what I described as marshmallow feet. 

1.  I've gained 17 lbs in 9 days. 

2. I've been taking the insulin wrong for an entire year. The 2014 ins plan primary put me on Novolog and had me taking 2x a day; the endocrinologist I saw on Sept & Oct continued this. All this time, taking a bolus like it was basal. 

3. He didn't think much of the falls. "Be careful," he said. 

17 lbs gained in 9 days. My avg intake has bee about 1,250 KCal. Doc explained it as diff in scales. Um, no. 

These shorts are 38" waist and are forcing belly up. Looks fatter, anyway. Did drink that can of Pepsi b/c of the 31 B/S reading…