My diabetic FIL ends up in the
Posted By: Nope! on 2007-05-12
In Reply to: Cellulitis in a diabetic ?? - ClinicMT
hospital all the time for cellulitis in his leg where a vein was harvested. He always needs IV drugs for that. One time my in-laws were on the road. They couldn't even make it home. They had to stop at midpoint in their 4-hour drive and have him admitted. He almost died. Thank goodness my MIL is a nurse and can recognize the signs early enough. He was getting septic.
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Need help with diabetic dog
This might be long so please bear with me. I know there are a lot of animal owners on this board and I really need help.
I am keeping my parents min. schnauzer while they are on a cruise. She is a diabetic and has to have insulin shots twice a day. Normally when my parents are gone for several days they have a house sitter who takes care of the dog, but the last time they were out of town "Abby" had 3 seizures and they ended up coming home early. the vet thinks the seizures were due to her not eating due to missing her mom. Also so the house sitter works full-time and is not there during the day to give her her snacks. She eats 30 mins. before her morning shot and then gets a couple of snacks throughout the day, a hard boiled egg, a couple of pieces of deli chicken, or a little celery and broccoli.
She eats a mixture of canned food as well as dry dog food. When I have kept her in the past she would love to eat my dog's food (all dry) but now she won't touch it. I can't get her to eat any of her regular dog food. In the past I could sometimes hand feed her and she would eat but now nothing. My mom really stressed that she needed to eat her dog food especially the dry food even if it is my dog's food. In the bag of snacks that she sent there was a small chicken breast which we gave her part of for a snack last night. This morning she wouldn't eat her normal food so I gave her the rest of the chicken breast. she gobbled that down and then within a minute threw it back up. We checked her blood sugar, the meter just said "high" and per my mom's instructions we are to still give her a shot and just cut back on her food a little. This was a little before 8:00 so I just now gave her a hard boiled egg which she ate and kept down.
I played phone tag with the vet yesterday and he is not in the office yet today.
I don't know what to do. As long as she is eating something that seems healthy for her do you think I am doing the right thing?
I was supposed to go skiing tonight with my family but am staying home with Abby just to be sure she is okay. There have been no seizures and we have had her since Sunday but parents won't be home until the 21 and I am beginnig to turn into a nervous wreck.
Any sugggestions are really appreciated. Thanks!
Cellulitis in a diabetic ??
Hey guys. My hubby is a stubborn, pain-in-the-butt diabetic who has a cellulitis infection in his left leg along the scar line from the vessel harvest for his CABG. I have BEGGED him to see a doctor but he insists his body can beat back this infection on its own. So, I'm not looking for medical advice because I KNOW he should get professional help, but are you guys familiar with such infections that have resolved on their own? Everything I am reading says he needs antibiotics to clear this but I'd love to be wrong in this case. It might keep me from having a nervous breakdown! 
Thanks bunches!
Diabetic cook book.. sm
I need some suggestions on a diabetic cook book that has relatively simple recipes. Any help would be great!
diabetic retinopathy also causes floaters and....nm
anything that ends in TION sm
Which is not good because I put commonly misspelled words into my Expander but do you realize how many words end in TION????
but I know what you mean by putting off the hotkey thing. I have several words that fit that description... all variations (btw I just typed variatinos) of anything that starts with chole... kind of a mental block or something...
Go in now before it ends up costing you more . ..
Talk to your hospital to see if they accept a payment plan. I didn't have to pay anything up front for my delivery, so I would think you should be able to wait and make payments. Better to go in now versus continue to be in pain.
Good luck.
Diabetic here. Low sugar = shaky, ill feeling and
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My daughter got to see too ends of the spectrum
One of her friends got very little since her parents are divorced and there isn't much money on either side. My friends across the street probably spent (between 3 kids) $5,000 (and their credit cards are all maxed out). They got a Wii(which I actually love and am thinking about saving up money for for the family), instruments for each child and quite a few other gifts. My daughter was the in between. She did get an MP3 player, but not super expensive (I got one too) and not too much else that would be considered expensive, some DVD's and CD's. She wanted a cell phone (her 7 year old cousin actually got a camera phone!), but we told her no because she just wanted it to talk to her friends and text. She does have a laptop, but that's because her cousin gave me one that she had and didn't need any more. All in all between our two daughters we probably spent about $200-$300 each.
making ends meet
I agree if you need money to support your family you should not be going to school right now...and if your full time job is not cutting it then get a couple part time jobs. i work 3 jobs now; 1 FT and 2 PT and have so much work now its unbelievable. I will never go back to working for just one service. You never know when things are going to be slow. If your husband is not getting enough on disability then he needs to look for something else too...there must be something he can do unless he is totally disabled.
Just about everything ends up on YouTube eventually.
The news is important. I recall I did not have a T.V. signal during 9/11 and it was 9:50 AM PST by the time I realized what had happened. I felt I had been sailing through the day when I should have been feeling dispair, and that was strange.
During a break, on 9/11, I opened up AOL and two a pic of the Twin Towers with smoke pouring out of their sides, just a small pic and I nearly did not read it.
As a prior vet tech and diabetic, I wouldnt touch this
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Yep, it starts in kindergarten and ends at MT Stars
"This is the song that never ends...."sm
and when you hear someone sing it you can't get it out of your mind for hours!
Old-fashioned ham with half the work and diabetic option~*~*yummmm*~*~
Pick out your ham
Pick your favorite mustard. (I like spicy swedish mustard)
place mustard in bowl about a cup or so (depending on how large your ham is)
add an equal amount of Brown sugar / Diabetics can use splenda
You want a paste that will cling to the ham. In order to achieve this consistency add pineapple juice to the regular mixture or diet sprite to the diabetic one and then smear this all over the ham. Place in pan, cover to keep in moisture and cook according your hams directions. 
I like to open it up and pour the juices over the ham. EVEN IF you dont like mustard you will like this. Try it it is VUNDERFUL muah lol
If you want more old time southern recipes shoot me an email I am happy to help
lucky stiff! Mine ends in 75 and due to be deposited by May 9
since 75 is the very last number in that group i'm expecting it to be deposited ON May 9 *sigh*
I'm one of those "gotta see it to believe it" people so it's nice to know someone actually did recieve thiers!!
One of Vergie's (Anna Nicole's mother) attorneys passed out. He said he is a diabetic. nm
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Ours attend local college PT and still live at home. Hard to make ends meet "out there" on
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