Monday, September 30, 2013

30 September 2013

Breakfast: I fashioned a breakfast in order to use one of my cast iron fry pans and I had:
  • fried bacon
  • fried potatoe slices
  • two fried eggs
  • coffee
Lunch: I had the left over roast beef, potatoes and baked onion and a bottle of Diet Pepsi.
 
Snack:  a couple of chunks of dark chocolate
 
Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf and iced water
Snack: little Oreo cookies

Sunday, September 29, 2013

29 September 2013

_____Breakfast: We went to IHOP I had:

  • sirloin tips,
  • two eggs over medium,
  • hash browns,
  • two buttermilk pancakes
  • coffee
  • iced water

________Lunch: two hot dogs and a bottle of Diet Pepsi
 
_______Dinner: 

Pre-Bed Snack:


28 September 2013

_____Breakfast:  cheerios and coffee

________Lunch: a ham and turkey sandwich and coffee

_______Dinner: I had roman with chopped up summer sausage and then some left over tuna noodle casserol and a bottle of LandShark.

Pre-Bed Snack:  gin-n-tonic

About an hour after going to bed, I had a repeat of last night. I ended up in the bathroom barfing. This time, I was only in there one time.I will have Healthy Choice Sunday. I hope I don't have a repeat of the barfing on our Anniversary Dinner (34th Annidersaary!




Friday, September 27, 2013

27 September 2013

_____Breakfast:  Cheerios and coffee

________Lunch: Home cooked roast beef, with potatoes, onions and carrots, in a cast iron Dutch Oven and water

_______Dinner: at Casey's Cowtown for:

  • salad with French Dressing
  • Chicken Fried Chicken with white gravy
  • mashed potatoes with white gravy
  • roll and butter
  • bottle of Blue Moon and
  • bottle of Corina


Twenty years ago, I would have had desert and a third beer. Tonight, I had tghe first beer with the salad and it bothered my stomach. I could not possibly have had a third beer and dessert...
Pre-Bed Snack: mn gin-n-tonic

About an hour after going to bed, I was coughing up crap and had to go vomit. After taking a couple of tums, I went back to  bed., This didn't last long and i ended up going back to the bathroom to cough up some more crap.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

25 September 2013

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee
 
Lunch: At the DCCC, a beef stew with onions on rice and a piece of chocolate cake and glass of "Diet Pepsi".
 
Dinner: A "Jimmy Johns" pork lovers sandwich, chips and a bottled water.
 
 
A lovely quote to think on:

"Time was when, on a battleship, thoughts tender might intrude
 Of sweethearts, even wives, who wept ashore,"
History of Communications-Electronics in the United States Navy, Captain Linwood S. Howeth, USN (Retired), 1963, page v:
micturition ergo sum

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

24 September 2013

Breakfast:  oatmeal and a very small chunk of dark chocolate and coffee
Lunch: Can of cjhicken noodle soup, Cheeze-Its and a can of Pepsi One
Dinner:  Healthy Choice Meatloaf Dinner and iced water; after testing my blood, I had a gin-n-tonic.
AM  132 (must have been the ice creamme)  PM  122

23 September 2013

Breakfast: McDonald's for "Big Breakfast" of "scrambled eggs", sausage patty and some of a potatoe thingee and coffee
 
Lunch: (at home) tuna sandwich and iced water
 
Dinner: We went to Applebys,
  • 9 oz steak
  • baked potatoe
  • veggies that were mostly broccoli florets and some carrots (they actually cooked the veggies enuf and that was a unique event!)
  • split an over sized cupcake, filled with hot fudge and a scoop of vanilla ice creamme
Had a gin-n-tonic at home...
 

Nice bread recipe

Crusty Bread (simplysogood)

3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon Instant or Rapid-rise yeast
1 1/2 cups water

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt and yeast. Add water and mix until a shaggy mixture forms. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside for 12 - 18 hours. Overnight works great. Heat oven to 450 degrees. When the oven has reached 450 degrees place a cast iron pot with a lid in the oven and heat the pot for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, pour dough onto a heavily floured surface and shape into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let set while the pot is heating. Remove hot pot from the oven and drop in the dough. Cover and return to oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid and bake an additional 15 minutes. Remove bread from oven and place on a cooling rack to cool.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

22 September 2013

Breakfast: at the Overland Park Hilton
  • bacon and ham and shredded cheese omlette
  • SOS on hash browns
  • chocolate cupcake
  • coffee
  • iced water
Lunch: at a McDonalds for
  • ¼ pound hamberger
  • fries
  • chocolate milk shake
Dinner: (at home! ): roast chicken, brocolli and a bottle of LandShark!

Saturday, September 21, 2013

21 September 2013

Breakfast: at the same place as the past two days for omlettge, SOS on potatoes, coffee

Lunch: at the convention center for potatoe chips, mystgery meqt qnd topping on it and coffee






Dinner: at the convention Center:





Dinner: salad with roll, mystery meat on a bun with a tomatoe topping and coffee






Friday, September 20, 2013

20 September 2013

Breakfast: at the same place as the past two days for omlettge, SOS on potatoes, coffee

Lunch: at the convention Center: for a half wrap, weird salad, desert and coffee

Panaramic view of the lunch room.





The thrilling lunch:




Thursday, September 19, 2013

19 September 2013

Breakfast: at the Overland Park Hilton Garden Inn:
  • omlette with ham and bacon
  • SOS on potatoes
  • oatmeal and
  • coffee
Lunch:  we at at the Convention Center and I had:

  • big hot dog
  • chips
  • can of Diet Pepsi



Dinner: at Convention Centrer and the main course was meat pie, baked tomatoe with cheese, and a potatoe dish; must not forget the iced water and the lack of decaf coffee...





 at the Overland Park Cheescake factory for:
  • most of the meatloaf
  • about half the mashed potatoes
  • about a third of the corn
  • half of the chocolate cake and all the ice creamme
  • a large Sam Adams Summer Lager

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

18 September 2013

_____Breakfast: at the Overland Park Hilton Garden Inn for

  • 2 eggs over easy
  • SOS on potatoe
  • oatmeal
  • coffee

________Lunch: at a Subway Subs for a 6" meatball sub, chips, "Diet Coke"
 
_______Dinner: We went out to a nice place in Overland Park and I had:

  • fish and chips
  • 2 Corornas (beers)
  • cup of chicken rice soup

Pre-Bed Snack: a gin-n-tonic at the hotel bar

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

17 September 2013

_____Breakfast:  scrambled eggs with sauteed onion flakes, sauteed summer sausage, a small baked potatoe (left overs) and coffee

________Lunch: at Olive Garden in Wichita

  • salad
  • spetheii with meat sauce and meatballs and
  • two glasses of "Diet Coke"

_______Dinner: in Overland Park Kansas at the Old Spaghetti Factory for:

  • spaghetti and meatballs
  • two lemonades (I was the designated driver)
  • split a chocolate chip cookie with vanilla ice creamme

Pre-Bed Snack: back at the Hilton Garden Inn for

  • a Bolevard Pale Ale and
  • a bottle of Bud
I did a blood test anyway, two hours after starting dinner, and got 131! There were times when I had much higher after having an evening Healthy Choice. Of course, this was at work and the stress level was much higher!

I also blew chunks after going to bed...


Monday, September 16, 2013

Fwd: [New post] Diabetes Etiquette for PARENTS of teens


You're probably tired of getting these notes from me but I thought this will be germane in a short while (at our ages, a decade just doesn't seem that long anymore...)  I wish y'all well and Rylyn would probably become Miss America and an MD if she really wanted them.
 
Mike
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Subject: [New post] Diabetes Etiquette for PARENTS of teens
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 20:53:20 +0000
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To: mikebell@netins.net


Dr. S. Harris posted: " Stop trying to scare me with diabetes statistics.You've told me a million times that many years of high blood sugars can hurt me. I understand you are scared and want the best for me, but bugging me about complications just makes me want to tune you out"

New post on BPAN

Diabetes Etiquette for PARENTS of teens

by Dr. S. Harris
  • Stop trying to scare me with diabetes statistics.You've told me a million times that many years of high blood sugars can hurt me. I understand you are scared and want the best for me, but bugging me about complications just makes me want to tune you out. If I need motivation, it has to be something important to me right now, not way down the road.
  • When my blood sugars are high, don't assume l've done something stupid (although I may have). It may be hard to believe, but sometimes it really isn't my fault. Blood sugars can get wacky even when you do everything right. Instead of grilling me about why they are high (which may have no answer), or what I might've done wrong, let's figure out what to do now.
  • Please acknowledge when l'm doing something right not just when l've messed up. You may not notice it, but taking care of diabetes is a lot of hard work And it is not fun! I may not be perfect, but there are a lot of things I am doing right every day just to stay alive. A pat on the back for a job well done would be.
  • Don't always be in my face about diabetes, but don't leave me completely alone with it either. I know this is a tough balance. I don't want to be constantly hassled about what I should be doing I need to handle diabetes more on my own. Still, though ! hate to admit it, I am glad to know you've "got my back". Let's figure out where you can trust me to do things on my own and where I could still use your involvement.
  • Make the effort to understand diabetes from my point of view. If you don't have diabetes, you can't possibly know what I am going through. The reality is that diabetes is unfair, inconvenient, a lot of work, and it sucks. No need to cheer me up, or to tell me that it could all be worse. You don't have to fix it; instead, just listen when I need to vent or complain.
  • Don't tell everyone about my diabetes, especially not during the first minute you meet them. Do you have any idea how embarrassing this is?  I know you mean well, but my goal is to fit in, not stick out. Everybody does not have to know. Give me a chance to let me tell people about diabetes when I am ready to do so.
  • Recognize that I am never going to be perfect with my diabetes cam, no matter how much you want this. I know it can make you nervous when you see a high blood sugar reading or notice that I haven't made the best food choice, but let`s get real. No one can manage diabetes perfectly. I`II do my best (and yes, maybe I need to do even better), but I also need to have a life.
  • Don't limit my activities based on diabetes. If you do, people may see me as fragile, sick, or think something is wrong with me. I can do anything those without diabetes can do, though it may require some creative problem solving. Sports, sleepovers, traveling, and parties are all things that can be done safely. Support me in figuring out a way to make it all possible
  • Don't be the food police. Yes, I make choices that you don't like (and sometimes aren`t so smart). But trying to control what I eat isn't going to help; instead I`II just do my best to avoid you when I eat. Remember that good diabetes control is doable even if you don't eat healthy stuff all the time.

Being a parent to a teen with diabetes can be a tough, frustrating job. You must walk a difficult path between taking good care of your teen while also encouraging independence. You need to care, but not care too much.

We hope this card will give you and your teen some new ideas about how to survive diabetes together. No need to follow all of these etiquette points, and give yourself a pat on the back if you are doing any of them!

Let this be the start of a conversation, a new beginning for you and your teen.

 

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16 September 2013

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee
 
Snack: piece of dark chocolate
 
Lunch: piece of left over baked boneless, skinned chicken and small baked potatoe and Pepsi Zero.

15 September 2013

Breakfast: cherios and coffee
 
Lunch: chips and cheese dip at the movie theater
 
Dinner: piece of baked boneless, skinned chicken and baked potato and a bottle of LandShark

Sunday, September 15, 2013

14 September 2013

Breakfast: omelet with bacon and coffee
 
Lunch: a real mess...
1) a small chunk of summer sausage
2) in mid afternoon, Chicken flavoured Ramon with some summer sausage added
 
Dinner: scrambled eggs, toast with grape jelly and cold water
 
Post dinner: a gin-n-tonic

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Friday 13th September 2013

Breakfast: omelet with bacon and coffee
 
Lunch: small piece of summer sausage and a bit later, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich
 
Dinner: salmon, baked potatoe, asparagus and cold water. Desert was a chunk of dark chocolate and a gin-n-tonic

Friday, September 13, 2013

12 September 2013

Breakfast: Burger King SOS and coffee
 
Lunch: We went to the Kansas State Faire in Hutchinson and I had:
  • 8 oz "steak on a stick" (I was really hungry)
  • later, a homemade ice creamme on a stick (hunger is the best appetizer and I didn't miss the part that fell off the stick!)
  • bottle of Diet Pepsi
Dinner: Hungry Man chicken dinner and cold water
 
After seeing my evening blood sugar score, I got scared of morning hypoglycemia and had a slice of home made bread with grape jelly....
 
AM  111   PM   86

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

10 September 2013

Breakfast:  milk toast and coffee
 
Lunch: tuna fish sandwich, coffee, cold water and watermelon
 
Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate and part of a donut
 
Dinner: Hungry Man Boneless Fried chicken (2 chicken filets, mashed potatoes, corn); one should never go shopping hungry...
 
 
AM 93  PM  159

Crusty Bread


Crusty Bread (simplysogood)

3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon Instant or Rapid-rise yeast
1 1/2 cups water

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt and yeast. Add water and mix until a shaggy mixture forms. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside for 12 - 18 hours. Overnight works great. Heat oven to 450 degrees. When the oven has reached 450 degrees place a cast iron pot with a lid in the oven and heat the pot for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, pour dough onto a heavily floured surface and shape into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let set while the pot is heating. Remove hot pot from the oven and drop in the dough. Cover and return to oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid and bake an additional 15 minutes. Remove bread from oven and place on a cooling rack to cool.

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I In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt and yeast. Add water and mix until a shaggy mixture forms. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside for 12 - 18 

hours. Overnight works great. Heat oven to 450 degrees. When the oven has reached 450 degrees place a cast iron pot with a lid in the oven and heat the pot for 30 

minutes. Meanwhile, pour dough onto a heavily floured surface and shape into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let set while the pot is heating. Remove hot pot 

from the oven and drop in the dough. Cover and return to oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid and bake an additional 15 minutes. Remove bread 

from oven and place on a cooling rack to cool. 

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3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon Instant or Rapid-rise yeast
1 1/2 cups water

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt and yeast. Add water and mix until a shaggy mixture forms. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside for 12 - 18 

hours. Overnight works great. Heat oven to 450 degrees. When the oven has reached 450 degrees place a cast iron pot with a lid in the oven and heat the pot for 30 

minutes. Meanwhile, pour dough onto a heavily floured surface and shape into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let set while the pot is heating. Remove hot pot 

from the oven and drop in the dough. Cover and return to oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid and bake an additional 15 minutes. Remove bread 

from oven and place on a cooling rack to cool. 

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hours. Overnight works great. Heat oven to 450 degrees. When the oven has reached 450 degrees place a cast iron pot with a lid in the oven and heat the pot for 30 

minutes. Meanwhile, pour dough onto a heavily floured surface and shape into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let set while the pot is heating. Remove hot pot 

from the oven and drop in the dough. Cover and return to oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid and bake an additional 15 minutes. Remove bread 

from oven and place on a cooling rack to cool. 

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Monday, September 09, 2013

9 September 2013

Breakfast: the left over spaghetti sauce and some of the noodles, with coffee and cold water
 
Lunch: roast beef sandwich and cold water
 
Snack: a few bites of summer sausage
 
Dinner: Halthy Choice Meatloaf Dinner and then some little Oreos and iced water
 

Sunday, September 08, 2013

8 September 2013

Breakfast: two poached eggs with grits and butter mixed in the egg and water mixture plus coffee and cold water
 
Lunch: two hot dogs, coffee and cold water
 
Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate
 
Dinner:  Healthy Choice Meatloaf dinner, iced water and some Oreo cookies

7 September 2013


 Breakfast: We went to IHOP and I had the "Breakfast Sampler". This was:
  • two fried eggs (over medium),
  • two small slices of ham,
  • two link sausages,
  • two slices of bacon (end of one was burnt)
  • two buttermilk pancakes and
  • hash browns!
We upset the greeter by turning down the first table and asking for a table with a view. Kathie said "now I pissed her off and we'll get bad service". While this has been true too many times in the past, I timed how long it took from when we sat down to when our waitress showed up:  six seconds!
Our waitress was very professional, brought the coffee and iced water very quickly, came back and refilled the water and asked if we wanted more coffee. I went to use the Maple syrup and our waitress swapped this partially filled container for a full Maple syrup container.
She was the best waitress (or waiter) we've had in years! This truly was the best service we've had in years!
I told her that to her apparent shock and we gave her a very nice tip.
Lunch: We had ham sandwiches and watermelon. I also had Ramon. This was a perfectly adequate lunch..
Dinner:  Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers "Ravioli & Chicken Marinara (Chicken Tenderloins with Whole Grain Ravioli Filled with Cheeses & Spinach in a Marinara Sauce, Topped with Parmesan Cheese), a chunk of dark chocolate and iced water.









Saturday, September 07, 2013

7 September 2013

Breakfast: We went to IHOP and I had the "Breakfast Sampler". This was:
  • two fried eggs (over medium),
  • two small slices of ham,
  • two link sausages,
  • two slices of bacon (end of one was burnt)
  • two buttermilk pancakes and
  • hash browns!
 
We upset the greeter by turning down the first table and asking for a table with a view. Kathie said "now I pissed her off and we'll get bad service". While this has been true too many times in the past, I timed how long it took from when we sat down to when our waitress showed up:  six seconds!
 
Our waitress was very professional, brought the coffee and iced water very quickly, came back and refilled the water and asked if we wanted more coffee. I went to use the Maple syrup and our waitress swapped this partially filled container for a full Maple syrup container.
 
She was the best waitress (or waiter) we've had in years! This truly was the best service we've had in years!
 
I told her that to her apparent shock and we gave her a very nice tip.
 
 
Lunch: We had ham sandwiches and watermelon. I also had Ramon. This was a perfectly adequate lunch...
 
Dinner:  Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers "Ravioli & Chicken Marinara (Chicken Tenderloins with Whole Grain Ravioli Filled with Cheeses & Spinach in a Marinara Sauce, Topped with Parmesan Cheese), a chunk of dark chocolate and iced water.

Thursday, September 05, 2013

5 September 2013

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee (I got the sneezes from the amount of milk I had to use...)
Lunch: two thick slices of balona on sour dough, chips and a can of "Pepsi One" (definitely, it was an acquired taste! )
Dinner:
AM:  77 PM 136
Maybe my family doctor was right and I should cut the 5 mg glypozide table in two and see if that reduces the morning lows?

4 September 2013

Breakfast: left over steak and left over baked potatoe and coffee
 
Lunch; 2 enchaletas, rice, apple scruddle and "Diet Pepsi"
 
Dinner: (something other than Healthy Choice)
  • 1 hot dog in a bun
  • 1 hot dog with Chicken flavoured Ramon
  • small gin-n-tonic