Jo's Cafe

I have been using Novolog since my doctor’s appointment on the 31st of May to get my glucose in control.  Let me tell you it has been one hellva ride! Initially I was using it to cure the spikes and not as a preventative.  How did that work for me? Not too good.  Not only [...]

This is a repost. It was originally posted to the blog on 09/03/2006. What does a diabetic look like? Blank for an answer?  Me too. While getting through the paperwork to purchase this, I mentioned to the salesmen that the OnStar (free for one year) would be a great thing to have, seeing I’m a diabetic and [...]

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 [...]