This weekend was the first truly mild weather we’ve had this year, and Sibylle was determined to get the plants back outside for the season. Saturday morning we started by moving the hibiscus, the geranium, and the fig tree back outside. We then spent some time preparing the flower beds along the south side of [...]
Category Archive for 'family'
Twice in recent months, Sibylle and I have discovered that prescriptions aren’t forever. Our oldest cat, Nekko, has diabetes and consequently gets insulin twice daily. The original prescription was labeled “99 refills,” which at roughly three months per fill, would last for more than 24 years.
Imagine my surprise to have a refill denied because it [...]
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Posted in diversions, family on Mar 13th, 2008
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.
I look at the world and [...]
Yesterday Nekko had a visit to the vet to get one of her annual vaccinations and to have a blood glucose curve test completed to measure the effectiveness of her current insulin treatments.
Her blood glucose curve was very good. I gave her a shot of insulin at 8 am, just before we took her [...]
Engaged
Posted in family, life, relationships on Jan 12th, 2008
While we were in Germany last fall, I proposed to Sibylle on her birthday. She joyfully said yes.
Since then we have looked at rings on several occassions but hadn’t found a matching set we liked. Shortly before Christmas, while doing some shopping at Legends, we saw a pair of rings we both liked. [...]
In the last fourteen months I have administered roughly 770 insulin shots. Our cat, Nekko, is diabetic and as such requires twice daily shots to survive.
At first I wasn’t very good at giving her the shots. The terribly brief instruction I was given, before brining her home from the hospital, did nothing to [...]
While a lot of memories of my mother bring some tears with them, some are good. Occasionally they bring a smile or laughter. Yesterday was one of those good memory days.
Some background
When the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album was released it caused quite a stir in the press. Enough [...]
Many things go into the concept of home. Some are tangible, others are not. Sibylle and I have started, slowly, to make a home, together. Tonight we added something tangible to the list of home in the form of a new front-loading clothes washer.
Her townhouse in Manhattan, and the apartment I had, [...]
When she was first diagnosed with diabetes last September, Nekko started getting two units of insulin twice a day (every twelve hours). Attempts to get her blood glucose level checked failed twice so it wasn’t until late February that we finally got a measurement of her blood sugar (glucose) level.
At 335 it was high, but [...]
Twice A Day
Posted in family on Nov 12th, 2006
Just over a week ago, Nekko had her follow up visit at the animal hospital. At the time I expressed my frustration at having to inject her twice a day with insulin to the doctor. He firmly, but politely, explained to me that there was really no option. The longer lasting insulin wasn’t nearly as [...]
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