One of the challenges of being a Belgian and Ale drinker who also has diabetes is that most of the great tasting brews have a lot of carbohydrates and some have a lot of alcohol. Alcohol presents an interesting problem. The carbohydrates raise blood sugars ( within minutes ) but the alcohol lowers blood sugar hours later. For someone on insulin this present a challenge of how much insulin to take to control the blood sugars. I have tried a few low carbohydrates brews but ... they leave much to be desired. Anyone have any suggestions?
Month: December 2008
Vertigo
I sometimes suffer from bouts of vertigo. Not sure what brings it on, but it usually doesn't last more than a week. Except for a few years ago, just before I was diagnosed with LADA. Come to think of it, that was the first time I ever had vertigo. My regular physician thinks it's fluid in the ears from upper respiratory infections and colds. But I've had those in the past, before my Type 1 diabetes, and I never got vertigo. Perhaps it's age. My mother also gets bouts of vertigo, sometimes for weeks. I have a theory of my own. I notice that vertigo worsens when I drink a large amount of coffee. When I got vertigo this week, I quit drinking anything with caffeine, and the symptoms are slowly fading. Meanwhile, my hot beverage in the morning has been White tea.
"My Little Girl" by Tim McGraw
I've never done a book review but I thought I would give it a try. So I signed up to be a Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger. They send me a book, I read it and post my review on a consumer site and on my blog. I get to keep the book. Fair enough.
The book I received is a wonderfully illustrated book called, "My Little Girl" by Tim McGraw and Tom Douglas. When this book arrived in the mail and my 8 year daughter saw the cover she insisted I had to read it to her. We sat down right after dinner and I read to her in my best interpretations of the characters voices. She listened intently to the sweet story of a father and his daughter enjoying time doing "nothing in particular". They find time to dance and talk about imaginary cloud formations. I think my daughter loved the drawings but not the text/dialogue of the story.
The words did not seem like the kind you expect to hear from a young princess talking to her father. "Daddy, swing me all the way over the sun!" does not sound like anything I have ever heard from my daughter.
