Last day notes for Gaelyne Gasson

May 27, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-05-27T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Tue, May 27: See: http://randomexperiments.blogspot.com/2008/05/misadventures-of-rod-and-gaelyne.html for details.

Apr 28, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-28T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Mon, Apr 28: Tonights tea had a lovely sauce that I created myself using sweet chilli sauce, Nandos lime marinade, and Nandos hot sauce, along with about 1/3c liquid from my crushed garlic container. It turned out excellent. And I do think the sauce (which was a limited amount) wasn't the cause for my high after tea reading, but rather that I had it with 3 min noodles. Will have to try the sauce recipe again in future and see how my body handles it.

Apr 26, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-26T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Sat, Apr 26: Driving Totals: Daytime: mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: mins of 600 req W: 91 Scratchy: No win. 5852 steps Breakfast: 1/2 slice banana bread w/ PB Lunch: 2 eggs, 2 crumpet toast, bacon Tea: steak, noodles. Notes: Rainy day. Found a $10 bill on my walk today. Picked up the new batteries for my new meter and the backlight now works likes a charm on it. I especially like that it can light up the area where the strip is. Pretty nifty. Painful walk home, but made a bit easier by taking my mind off of it... looking for possible other bills just lying waiting for me to find them. :-) Did a lot of video related stuff today and I suppose that also includes watcing a movie with Rod in the late afternoon/early evening. Steps: 7703 so far

Apr 25, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-25T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Fri, Apr 25: W: 88.5 Scratchy: None (public holiday) Breakfast: 1 low GI toast w/ PB and SF maple syrup Lunch: Snowy River sausage roll (smaller) and cottage cheese Tea: fish & chips Notes: Sugar free maple syrup with my toast this morning was a bit of an accident - I meant to grab the honey instead. Still, it was quite tasty. Today is a holiday and my plans are to have a house day instead of a computer day. After lunch I made homemade banana bread (with Splenda instead of sugar) in my bread machine. It mostly turned out OK. The bottom half was denser than the top though. Spent day doing odd bits like rearranging my closet and drawers, converting TV files to watch on my photo frame, and generally keeping low key as Rod's working on a project for school and we're both hoping he can have it finished before Sunday as I'd like to spend at least one day of his school holiday with him doing something other than school work. Although it was a quiet day, I've really quite enjoyed puttering around. :-) Steps: 6692 so far

Apr 24, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-24T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Thu, Apr 24: This is an abbreviated text. Full text is on my Random Experiments journal at http://randomexperiments.blogspot.com/2008/04/thur-24-april.html Scratchy: No win. 3678 steps Breakfast: low carb tortilla w/ PB (think I over guestimated amt of PB to use) Lunch: Egg sandwich on low GI toasted bread. 2 eggs Tea: KFC Notes: Day started out early as had RDNS clinic appt at 9:15am. Before we left for the RDNS appt, my new Freestyle Papillon Mini was delivered. I didn't even get to open the shipping box before leaving home though. Talk about having something to look forward to when I got home! I spent all afternoon checking out the Freestyle Mini. I happily spent the afternoon and part of this morning (Friday) working on scripting code so I'll be able to easily upload the data to my database. It's finished now, and I'm very pleased both for meeting the challenge and that it all works. Along with the driving minutes, I've also added a 'W' entry in my journals. These are for the daily weight measurements an RDNS nurse suggested I take. I have the list from the last week or so (as long as I've been doing these measurements) below. I'm really kind of blown away by the results. The tests are done in the morning before eating anything and with nothing on - not even glasses. 91.5 Thur 92.5 Fri 93.5 Sat 92.5 Sun 91.5 Mon 90.5 Tue 90.5 Wed 89.5 Thur 88.5 Fri (today) Steps: 4206

Apr 23, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-23T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Wed, Apr 23: Scratchy: 1 free ticket. 3476 steps Breakfast: 1 low GI toast, 1 egg Lunch: 2 low carb cheese tortillas and cottage cheese. Tea: Stroganoff w/ ground beef and lower carb egg noodles Notes: The day started off full of energy and promise, but I dozed off after lunch while watching a tv show with Rod and it's been sorta downhill ever since. I did manage to get invoices done and mailed out though. Did the invoices this morning and didn't end up mailing them out until this evening. Not very happy with myself as have lots to do and not a lot of time to get some of this stuff done. I really didn't 'need' a nap today, nor did I plan for one. Am so tired of doing anything remotely relaxing and dozing off. Bah! Link to the Flickr pics from last weekend (Sorry I forgot to add them to that day's blog). Steps: 4794

Apr 22, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-22T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Tue, Apr 22: Driving Totals: Daytime: 450 hrs of 2400 req // Nighttime: 115 hrs of 600 req Scratchy: No win. 5768 steps Breakfast: crumpet toast w/ PB & drop honey. Lunch: cuppa soup w/ 3min ramen noodles and cottage cheese Tea: Yiros meat (lamb) & chips Notes: RDNS appt went well. Still a bit of green ooze so will keep Thurs A.M. RDNS appt and will discuss swab/antibiotics with GP today when I get my flu shot. Stopped at chemist on Beach Rd for diabetes supplies. Stopped at Heathers store for USB faceplate, to move one 2.0 slot from in back to the front. Picked up mailing satchels for sending off bookcrossing list books. Picked up flu vaccination from chemist. Later, walked to GP office, had flu shot and Dr. Lim looked at hole in my side. He was the GP that originally sent me to the hospital last year when the abcess was found. He said it's never going to heal correctly or quit oozing unless they go back in and clean up what's behind it properly. (This is similar to what my regular GP has voiced several times). I explained that the Flinders Plastics Treatment team (they're the ones who did the abscess surgery, as well as the reconstructive surgery) have said repeatedly 'no surgery. let it repair in its own time', mainly because I'm diabetic and heal slowly. He asked who my breast surgeon was and I told him. He said I know him very well. I'll have a word with him. And wrote himself a note that he tucked in his shirt pocket. I did mention that my other GP had also talked with the same surgeon, but that he (the breast doctor) has to tow a line with the plastics people so as not to get any one upset. (Fsking politics, I'm telling you). Anyway, that was interesting - to have a second opinion on my ongoing saga. He didn't see a need for further antibiotics. Afterwards, I posted off a bookcrossing book I couldn't finish and am sending on to the next bookring participant ('The Almost Moon' by Alice Sebold. I just couldn't cope with the gruesomeness of the events. I dropped off some prescriptions and got my hair cut. Tonight I've been reading Email (catching up as I'm a bit behind) and will shortly be doing my stats and then trying some more things with printing my neighbours photos for her. Steps: 6967 so far

Apr 21, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-21T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Mon, Apr 21: Scratchy: No walk. Breakfast: Low GI toast w/ PB & drop honey Lunch: low carb tortillas with cheese Tea: 4 chicken kebabs/kabobs (chicken on a stick) Notes: Woke up with joints aching today and my right foot swollen a bit (I have slippers that are loose and require me to wear socks. Today they were tight on the right side). My hands were swollen too. Had to take my ring off. Normally I come good in an hour or so, but not today. By 11am I went for a lie down as I wasn't feeling very awake. Slept till Rod came home at two. Had lunch and watched TV with Rod. Then dozed again until 6 or so. After tea I went for another lie down and slept until 11pm or so. My brain just doesn't want to engage and I just hurt in almost every joint it seems. bah! Steps: 3445

Apr 20, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-20T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Sun, Apr 20: Scratchy: I owe myself one. Will get a $5 crossword scratchy tomorrow. Breakfast: Low GI toast w/ PB & drop honey Lunch: scrambled eggs, 2 crumpet toast Tea: 2 slices pizza (it's Sunday) Notes: Today was filled with discoveries. My neighbours asked me to print some photos for them and bought me a big 100ct package of kodak photo paper to play with. Turns out, I can use the pre-sized photo paper with my printer and it even does copies, albeit I'm not happy with the colour on the pics. I'm going to try scanning them and printing to see if I can get the pics better colour-wise. But now that I know, I'll be printing more pics of baby Ricky, for sure. Laundry has been getting higher on my to-do list every day this week, and so today I did 3 loads. (more on this on my blog) We went out for a drive this afternoon so I could have some practice time. I need 50 hours driving time in order to get my 'P' (Provisional) license, and 10 of those hours need to be at night. We didn't have any real plans on where to head to today, so I told Rod I still needed to get my walk in for the day, so where could we have a nice walk, hopefully on a beach somewhere. We ended up at Silver Sands. I took some nice piccy's and a couple movies that I've uploaded to Random Experiments. It was great to have a good walk on the beach, and to see the sunset and moon rise. I drove along a really long stretch of road along the coast which was also good as it let me really learn about the accelerator with this car, and pretty much learn how to keep it at speed. It's a really light touch, as are the breaks. Sheesh, not at all like my old Dodge Charger or any other car I've ever owned. The trip home was after the sun set, so the time driving counts as night time driving hours, which is cool. All in all, a very pleasant late afternoon. Tonight I have uploaded pics to Flickr, looked at new pics of my grandson, watched a couple videos of my son, DIL and grandson, made some voice recordings on my phone that I uploaded to my eldest son's directory for him to download. This is a great find as it means I can talk to him, for once, without him interrupting me. Teehee! I'd been using my mobile phone's voice recording features for notes and such lately but tonight I found out I can easily convert the files to something other people can listen to them with (mp3) and then I can just Email them or whatever. Great find though. Maybe if I get the nerve up, I'll record a lullaby for Ricky. I'd have to have the house to myself for that first though. And later I can read him stories. :-) Well it's getting on and I haven't done my stats yet so think I better do that and then get this uploaded. Steps: 8400

Apr 19, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-19T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Sat, Apr 19: Scratchy: $6 on $1 4049 Breakfast: Low GI toast w/ PB & drop honey Lunch: Hokien noodles w/ tuna and thai dressing Tea: marinara stirfry w/ thin noodles Notes: Todays walk was very painful. The osteoarthritis is slowly turning my right foot towards the right, and when I walk, the muscles on the outside calf just scream at me because they're being stretched in ways they aren't meant to be stretched in. Steps: 5468

Apr 18, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-18T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Fri, Apr 18: Scratchy: no win. 5506 steps Breakfast: Low GI toast w/ PB & drop honey Lunch: Wendy's hotdogg Tea: Fish & chips. Notes: Slept in a bit. Had RDNS appt at 1:15. Dressing had green ooze on it. Will decide on Tuesday if I need to get into the doctor's office of if it'sOK to have Rod change the dressing on Friday afternoon. Took walk today at Tafe and Colonnades after having my dressing changed. Had Rod drop me off at Jen's and went from her place to Marion (another Mall) and was with her when she picked up a gorgeous bed throw from one of the Mystic Moon type shops. OMG, it's silky cyan on one side and the other is a patchwork quilt of beautiful shimmering patterns, beads, sequins, etc. Stunning. She didn't mention her front seat might be wet from a plant she'd had in the car earlier and there I was walking the mall with her with a very wet butt. LOL. From there we went to the breastroke meeting and that was wonderful. While she was in the pool I learned how to use the voice recording feature on my phone as I've been meaning to get that figured out, and changed a few ring tones that needed adjusting, and basically tooled around with my mobile phone until she was finished. I sure will be happy when I can join the girls in the pool. Steps: 9327

Apr 17, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-17T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Thu, Apr 17: Scratchy: No win. 5665 steps Breakfast: toasted cheese & vegemite sandwich (2 slices) as experiment. Lunch: 2min noodles with chicken soup and worst cottage cheese ever. Bleh! Dairy Farmers brand. Tea: 3/4 Subway sandwich. Notes: Worked on honey site most of the day. Spending evening updating my own stuff as I'm very behind. Took last of the Cipro antibiotics tonight. Started putting my stats online. Hadn't done this since the 10th! Sheesh. Steps: 8660

Apr 16, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-16T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Wed, Apr 16: Scratchy: $2 on $1. 5674 steps Breakfast: 1 slice low GI toast w/ PB as experiment. Success! Lunch: Ham & cheese sandwich on low GI bread, cottage cheese. Tea: Fish Stick sandwich. Worst fish sticks EVER. Bleh! Notes: Wow, well the low GI bread works for breakfast. Neat. It'll be nice to have a bit of bread back in my life again. I had an appt with Workskil today, and of course I drove there. I must be doing OK as I had a police car keep a very very polite distance and he didn't stop me for anything. Tea was awful tonight. I made the fish sticks in the oven and they were all very very hard and crunchy beyond reason. Steps: 7832

Apr 15, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-15T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Tue, Apr 15: Scratchy: No win. 5877 steps Breakfast: the usual Lunch: sausage roll & cottage cheese Tea: Chicken soup with noodles. Very yummy. Notes: Bought a loaf of Low GI, High fibre bread from Baker's Delight. They had given me a free sample a few weeks ago that gave me good BGL results so thought I'd buy a loaf and experiment with toast for breakfast and such. Got way sidetracked looking into how to install the new DVB-T device without much luck Steps: 9248

Apr 14, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-14T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Mon, Apr 14: Scratchy: No win. 7819 steps Breakfast: the usual Lunch: 2 pieces of chicken Tea: Chili (store bought, microwave bowl kind) Notes: Rod had last 2 teeth on top pulled in the morning. I spent most of the morning doing housework. Had a quick lunch and then off to the RDNS clinic. On way home, the posty delivery truck was just pulling out of drive, so flashed lights and waved. She turned around and so we got our package without having to pick it up. It was my DVB-T USB stick so I can watch HDTV on my computer. Well, once I get it installed and get the drivers sorted out. Also in today's mail was an envelope from my daughter, 'Fira Flame' who sent me a business card, magnetic calendar with her business card on it (way cool), and a neat postcard with her art on the front and advertising her services on the back. It also had her new address on it, too. No letter, but that's OK. :-) Once we were home again, I spent rest of afternoon finishing my housework project I started earlier in the day, then went for my walk. As I owed myself a scratchy from Monday, I treated myself to a $5 scratchy to cover both yesterday and today. Spent evening trying to get my new TV card going without much luck. Steps: 9785

Apr 13, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-13T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Sun, Apr 13: Scratchy: No win. ?? steps Breakfast: the usual Lunch: scrambled eggs Tea: 1/2 Ham & Cheese on roll (snack), then pizza later. Notes: Too late to get a scratchy when out grocery shopping so bought a $5 crossword scratchy on Monday to cover for both today and Monday. Very late pizza. Lots of driving time. Did slow manuevers in Maslin Beach parking lot (the big lot by the sea, not the high lot where the weirdos hang out). Steps: 10889

Apr 12, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-12T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Sat, Apr 12: Scratchy: No win. 3697 steps Breakfast: the usual Lunch: 2 eggs, bacon, 1/2 bagel w/ lite cream cheese Tea: steak and salad Notes: Aside from walk, spent day in. Think I was trying to catch up on reading news feeds. Steps: 5987 (*) Not sure why the asterisk?

Apr 11, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-11T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Fri, Apr 11: Scratchy: No win. 4119 steps Breakfast: the usual Lunch: Tea: Fish & Chips Notes: Follow up appt with GP. Tests normal. Referred me to the sleep clinic. Steps: 8131

Apr 10, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-10T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Thu, Apr 10: Scratchy: No win. 4191 steps Breakfast: the usual Lunch: Wendy's hotdog Tea: KFC Notes: RDNS again today. Went well. She (a nurse that hasn't seen me before) commented that my back feels hard. I explained it was either the cavity that I still have, but it's not connected to the hole in my side, or it's lymphedema or a bit of both (most likely). Bought myself 2 pairs of traky daks (track pants) and a pair of long johns today. $8 each for the daks and $5 for the long johns. Not bad. Drove Rod to Tafe and he had only one complaint (I didn't indicate at one of the roundabouts). And, let the freebie diabetes glucose meters wars begin! I got a letter from Medic Alert (the bracelet people) today letting me know that from now on Members will receive a choice between 2 different glucose monitors made by Abbott. WAY cool, because one of them is one that I've wanted but its price always put me off. So I sent in the form telling them which one I want immediately. If you're reading this and an Australian that's diabetic, I can give you a thing so you can get the meter too, but you do have to become a Medic Alert member. But hey, that's 2 free meters in 2 weeks. I love it. I'll really be able to give these a good try and then decide which one I'm going to stick with. Since I get the strips for a very low price from being on the NDSS, the only other thing is the price of any cables and/or software for being able to easily get my data into the computer. I have to order the one for the MWD Pen Sensor as it turns out that micro USB cables are not all as common as I thought they were (and Rod discovered that too). The cable for the Freestyle Papillon Mini is like $69 (for SA Diabetes members - more for the general public), and it comes with software. However, as my regular everyday meter uses a serial cable too, I hopefully won't need to buy a cable, and I can download the software from the website. I hope that's the case as it's the one meter that I have always wanted to have but because of the cost for both the meter and the cable (over $100 for both), I've shied away from it. Two things it has going for it is that it's tiny, and it's backlit. Oh, and uses even less blood than my current meter. Well here I go nodding off again. Sigh. Time to go do something else so I can wake up a bit. Steps: 6776

Apr 09, 2008 - Diabetes Day Note

2008-04-09T00:00:00Z

Day Note for Wed, Apr 09: Scratchy: $2 on $1 4897 steps Breakfast: the usual. Lunch: salad with chicken and cottage cheese. Tea: stirfry veggies w/ thin noodles and 2 pcs honey soy chicken breast Notes: Had an appt with my GP for test results, which overall were pretty good. Looking back on the appt though, I pretty much think he called me a liar but phrased it as I have a 'perception problem'. I've always kept him apprised of my walking stats and such and yet because my weight has increased (honest, I swear I gained 10k in a weeks time, a few weeks ago. One day my pants were falling off me and the next nothing fit) he seems to think that I am making up numbers like my steps in a day. I'm not. I have a pedometer. I write what I eat in diary entries. Anyway, I'm not happy about that. I also showed him how my right ankle is turning my foot out to the right, and he told me to walk on uneven surfaces. He decided to run a TSH test on the blood still at the lab and called it in. This is due to maybe my weight change isn't me lying about my activity and food intake - it could be due to a thyroid problem. He said he doubted it though because it doesn't fit with my 'activity level'. Which is when I told him I fall asleep at the computer constantly. I love how my activity level is a lie and yet not a lie at the same time. I will get the results back on Friday when I'm to go in for my flu shot. The thing is, here you get a prescription filled at the pharmacy for your vaccine and take the vaccine to your GP appointment for the shot. Well, the pharmacy is out of vaccines and apparently a lot of the other ones are too. So if it's not in on Friday, no flu shot until the vaccine does come in. Both yesterday and today I have crashed in the late afternoon, totally exhausted and dropping instantly off to sleep. I think some of it is because I'm hardly sleeping at night. Apparently last night I yelped in my sleep in pain and not only did I wake myself up, but also woke up Rod (who can sleep through just about anything). So I'm probably crashing in the afternoons from lack of sleep rather than excessive caffiene use. Here are my test results: HBA1C: 6.8 (up from 6.7 in December) Cholesterol 3.4 Tri 2.1 HDL 1.3 LDL 1.1 Vitamin D: 80 (60-160 is normal). Steps: 7593