The Doctor is in!

So next Wednesday our work has some people coming out to give us the flu shot.  A friend of mine came by my desk today to let me know that a flyer had not been distributed and wanted to give me a copy of it.  I looked it over real quick and said to him that it had been distributed early in the week in an email.  He then told me to take another look at the updates to this flyer from the past flyer.

Not sure if you can tell but the doctor in the top flyer is my head pasted onto the flyer and the bottom picture is the real doctor.  Once I noticed this it cracked me up and had to put the flyer on my cube wall.  Sometimes people do the funniest things, and don't I look good as a fake doctor?

 



Survive!

 This months "Backpacker" magazine is all about surviving, OK except for the over the top amazing trips that would cost you and me a years salary to do but mostly it is about surviving.  Now being a diabetic that we all are, our lives are permanently in survival mode.  Look, we carry extra batteries, supplies, food, and all sorts of weird crap just to drive to the store much less take a short trip anywhere.  I must tell you that for me getting a 10 dollar subscription to "Backpacker" magazine was about 10 dollars thrown down the drain.  I just freakin want their annual gear issue and pretty much the rest is junk.  Face it if you live in the middle of America below the mason-Dixon line you are not going to be able to drive to much of any of the places they feature in this magazine.  Since I am the diabetic camper though I thought to spend 10 dollars wisely so I could let the rest of you know to not get this subscription.

 OK so less ranting and more good, the magazine is doing a good job by focusing on more "every day" issues that are covered in this issue.  My son was reading it the other day and found out you can use a feminine napkin to purify water.  How many of you knew that (OK, or would even try it in the first place)?  Hopefully this is a sign that the magazine needs to look more into the every day lifestyle of a backpacker and less of a "hey lets take a month and backpack Nepal" or something.  I want to see these pros in more every man's clothes and not wearing 120 dollar under wear or 500 dollar boots with 200 dollar virgin wool socks that were made for that exact trail they are hiking.  This issue did a great job on talking about what to do if you are out and trip on a rock and are not able to walk back to camp or when animals attack.  Now I do need to go back and read how my diabetes socks are going to save my life, that article sounds delish!

 I like the setup in the picture above, like any common sense human is going to fall of a cliff like that but it gets your attention and the article goes into neat ways to survive gravity issues.  That reminds me of the joke about something like someone is vertically challenged or something?

Here is the quote of a lifetime, "Gravity wants you dead" and how true that is.  Just look at how it ruins our bodies from birth with all the falling we do as children to things in the sky trying to come down on us.  I think if I had to put one piece of known but un-thought knowledge into this world is this quote.  The more you obey gravity the better in life you will be, and also keeping your diabetes sugars between the lines.

Post surgery and I meet a diabetic bear.

 Last Thursday was my nose job and frontal lobotomy surgery.  Since I am a diabetic the doc wanted me to do one of those EKG thingies and let me tell you this, if I ran a hospital (or at least the one I went to) it would make at least twice as much profit just from cutting extreme amounts of waste.  First, I had to wait an hour just to go to the EKG people and they give you a pager.  I was 20 feet from the counter and one of about 15 people waiting, like they couldn't just say in a loud voice: Dave Hennesey we are ready to see you.  No they had to spend thousands of dollars to give me a pager, waste, then I get to do the EKG and it takes less than 30 seconds.  Oh yea the bracelets above have to be worn for this 30 second EKG thing, more waste.

 Here I am post surgery like six hours or so.  They gave me some pain meds when I got out of surgery and a prescription for that hydrocodine stuff and nausea pills but I had little to no pain.  I haven't had a single pain med since the one at the hospital and not sure why I would need nausea pills.  The only thing that was bothering me was the crap they put in your eyes and my throat was tore up from the breathing tube.  Do you like the gauze pads up the nose?  This is where those feminine napkins would have  been great, I had to change out my plugs every 30 minutes because they were completely soaked with blood.  The nose bleed ended Thursday night and Friday I was feeling pretty diabetes rock star good just blood going down the back of my throat which wasn't that bad.  Friday I was feeling so good I was wishing I was at work because daytime TV stinks.

Saturday I was in a quandary about what to do.  I had three things that I could do just I needed to know how this surgery was going to be.  I first wanted to participate in an orienteering event but figured that was way too much for post surgery, then I could have joined Hustle-N-Heel and participate in the yoga/dog obedience/ circuit training but had my calendar all mixed up and at the same time was the JDRF walk to cure diabetes where I wanted to put out some flyer's for my next "Dawn Phenom" event on October 20th.  I thought the walk was at eight and could make it over to Hustle-N-Heel but silly sugar diabetic me did not realize they were both at 9am.  The JDRF walk was well attended even for the light rain and it was fun to peruse the vendor tents promoting my free diabetes event while learning about new technologies and getting freebies.  While at the walk I saw this diabetic bear and just had to get my picture taken with him.  Looking at this picture makes me realize how much of a dork I am.  Why do I wear loafers with shorts?