Jo's Cafe

You know even though I’m still fighting spikes, having this fast acting insulin has truly been a blessing.  I haven’t felt this good in a long time. Well a few months.  When your glucose levels are “normal”, you feel so  much better.  Diabetes can be a slow disease for some folks, and I allowed my [...]

After I went to the doctor and he gave me the Novolog to help get the highs under control, I started noticing a pattern that is worrisome. When I get up for the work day, I test my out of bed sugar and then go about the morning routine.  The sugars are normal thankfully.  By [...]

… coming to a meeting of the minds. It has been a long, long time since I’ve even blogged about my diabetes, even though this is why I started blogging.  But like other events in people’s lives, as things get better, we tend to forget about them or they are just a niggle in the [...]

I grew up with Jack LaLanne – in a way.  Thinking back to that farm house in southern Minnesota where we lived with our grandparents, I recall Grandma getting in her “work out” clothing (baggy shirt and shorts) and turning on the black and white television in the large living room to Jack LaLanne’s show.  [...]

Those of us who are fortunate enough to have the ability to already purchase our own health insurance coverage, either through stand alone policies from various companies that offer such, or through our workplace are being targeted by the Obama Administration in his health care bill.  Obama said those of us with our own insurance [...]