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 [...]
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Pfannkuchen
Posted in health on Nov 3rd, 2007
This morning for frühstück we had Pfannkuchen, or German style pancakes. The recipe was a little thinner than Sibylle remember from her childhood, but the flavor was right, and we both enjoyed them.
6 eggs
1 Cup flour
1 Cup milk
1/2 Cup sugar (although next time we’ll try 1/4 Cup sugar)
butter
(I actually only used 5 eggs, as [...]
Fifty-Five
Posted in health on Aug 19th, 2007
This morning when I got on the scale my weight was 195.2. I’ve now lost fifty-five pounds. 55. Fünfundfünfzig.
That’s eleven 5-pound sacks of potatoes. It’s five 10-pound sacks with a 5-pounder thrown in for good measure. It’s a seven year-old child.
What is truly amazing about that number is that I carried it around [...]
Shedding Weight
Posted in health on Aug 8th, 2007
Since the beginning of August my weight has consistently been under 200 pounds. Moreover, for the past six days now it has been under 198; with a new low of 197.2 this morning.
Recently I started actively tracking my eating habits again, to see how much I was consuming in a day, and to show [...]
A Weighty Matter
Posted in health on Jun 14th, 2007
Just over a year ago, on June 12th, I bought a bathroom scale and started tracking my weight. I weighted 250 pounds on any given day, and I wanted to weigh less. A lot less.
I had seen a blog entry about something loosely referred to as the “hacker’s diet.” Not really a [...]
After a brief flirtation with returning to karate this past winter, a new martial art has risen to the top of our list. Returning to karate was unsatisfactory on several levels, not the least of which was the potential to aggravate my degenerative disk disease, or arthritic back. Also I wanted to find [...]
In keeping with my doctor’s orders to exercise at least 30 minutes five times a week, I took another walk this evening.
Nearly eleven months after I set out to lose weight I have not only lost 50 pounds but managed to keep it off. As a result many of my work clothes no longer fit. I can still wear them, but I am swimming inside of them now. At my peak weight I [...]
Laser Eyes, One Year Later
Posted in health on May 3rd, 2007
It has been a year since my original laser eye surgery, actually more like 13 months. A requirement of the lifetime enhancement package that I got is to have annual eye exams. Yesterday afternoon I had the first of these and the results are not entirely good.
The eyes themselves are healthy and in [...]
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