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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / May 2008Lack of insulin?
Just to add a bit that could be useful to someone. I have four acres to mow. After I rose I could only add a couple units of insulin and still went out to mow. After 1/2 acre my arm were so weak I had to quit. By then some of the food had digested and brought the blood sugar up so I could add insulin. The in a short time I could go back to work. I am one of those with an extreme hypo problem. I cannot lead with insulin. I found the story on MHD and some smart techies. I did finish the mowing. Yard looks nice. No golfers please. ----== Posted via Pronews.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.pronews.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- convicted friend Guy (g...@consolidated.net) wrote: > Just to add a bit that could be useful to someone. > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I did finish the mowing. Yard looks nice. No golfers > please. http://HeartMDPhD.com/Convicts/PrayForGuy <>< http://HeartMDPhD.com/HolySpirit/Love >Just to add a bit that could be useful to someone. > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >I did finish the mowing. Yard looks nice. No golfers >please. You can come over here and do mine if you like. Last week I cut it for the first time since December and already it's grown to the extent it needs cutting again. I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and refill (already done the other two). My technique is to load with slow carbs both before and during, originally to avoid liver dump highs, now to avoid lows, nothing like yours though. My pancreas can still produce plenty of insulin but needs time to do so, thanks to the folks here I have learned how to balance food and exertion against my own insulin quite nicely thank you. One man went to mow Went to mow a meadow One man and his dog . . . >I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between >speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and >refill (already done the other two). How does that work? Does pushing generate electricity? Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia. d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter. -- http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com Latest:What to Eat Until You Get Your Meter. and Cambodia http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/2008/03/cambodia.html >>I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between >>speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg >Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter. Alan, in the old,old days we pushed a mower with a reel type rotating cutter that did a beautiful of even cutting. Then some smart person added a motor to drive the rotary cutter.. But then we found a sharp rotating bar blade was simpler ad did a satisfactory job. I cannot walk, so for me it is a riding unit. It does use gasoline and the expense of cutting is higher. Thinking of getting a goat. Around the start of WW2 one way to make a few cents was to cut neighbors yards. A quarter was real money then. I do know as a diabetic it is important to stay active. I did manage to cut another tree a few days ago. The effects on the body and the mental condition is great. See,I am not helpless. For a while I can quit feeling sorry for myself. My neighbors and myself have pride in our humble places. Keeping them nice seems to be contagious and positive in many ways. Mona and I do our part. ----== Posted via Pronews.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.pronews.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- >>>I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between >>>speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > >Mona and I do our part. I agree, both on the exercise and having pride in where you live. This place has a total of 7 yards of various sizes; took me two days with the rotary mower, petrol engine but push by hand, when I got home. The difference in cultures in some countries is quite dramatic. For example, in India most of the villages were as neat and clean as the villagers could keep them, despite one of the main activities being production of dung platters. Yet in the cities, like Agra, an absence of civic pride led to a squalid, filthy city despite the city people having much more income than the village dwellers. Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia. d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter. -- http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com Latest:What to Eat Until You Get Your Meter. and Cambodia http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/2008/03/cambodia.html >>>>I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between >>>>speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and >>>>refill (already done the other two). >>> >>>How does that work? Does pushing generate electricity? Foo' Buoy! The blades are electric but the mower has no propulsion. It has been damn good value, my old man bought it probably about 30 years ago for £19.99 or something and it still goes though one of the bearings is dying and it makes an unholy grinding noise every so often. I also inherited and even older one which is pushed and the roller spins the blades, that must be fifty years old and would still go if I replaced some of the wooden rollers which have corroded. It was built locally by a firm that no longer exists but the damn thing isn't very collectable, I was quoted around £25 - £30 which was about what it was worth when it was new so I'll probably get around to repairing it and putting it to use. >>Alan, in the old,old days we pushed a mower >>with a reel type rotating cutter that did a beautiful >>of even cutting. Then some smart person added >>a motor to drive the rotary cutter.. Yup that's the type. >>But then we found a sharp rotating bar blade was simpler >>ad did a satisfactory job. I cannot walk, so for >> me it is a riding unit. It does use >>gasoline and the expense of cutting >>is higher. Thinking of getting a goat. You going to ride that too? >>Around the start of WW2 one way to make a few cents was >>to cut neighbors yards. A quarter was real money then. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >>effects on the body and the mental condition is great. >>See,I am not helpless. Yes, I spent most of today stripped down to my shorts pulling weeds. I got VERY active briefly when the neighbour's hose misfired and sprayed water over the fence, I thought a bird had crapped all over me. We have a pair of partridges clicking and whirring and following one another around like a pair of clockwork toys connected by an invisible string, I call them Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The other day they nearly marched into the lounge, yesterday they actually did go into the sunroom (which is where I keep the birdseed and also have a load of baby plants waiting to go out) so they didn't get to stay there very long! I thtought when I heard the whoosh and felt the splat they were getting their own back. Then bish bosh bash flump! a bloody pigeon flew into the dining room window. From the inside. Feathers everywhere, since I';d just done a major vacuuming I was NOT best pleased. But every excuse like that to do stuff is good IME. >>For a while I can quit feeling sorry for myself. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >>Mona and I do our part. Yes same here, I've gradually been adding stuff to my front yard and now I feel I can compete with the neighbours! We like to wander round looking in other folks' gardens and chatting, now they can come past and look in ours. >I agree, both on the exercise and having pride in where you >live. This place has a total of 7 yards of various sizes; [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >to a squalid, filthy city despite the city people having >much more income than the village dwellers. Much the same extremes here from area to area, some places people will not do anything they think might benefit others. >>>>>I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between >>>>>speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and >>>>>refill (already done the other two). >>>> >>>>How does that work? Does pushing generate electricity? > Foo' Buoy! > The blades are electric but the mower has no propulsion. > It has been damn good value, my old man bought it probably about 30 > years ago for ?19.99 or something and it still goes though one of the > bearings is dying and it makes an unholy grinding noise every so > often. > I also inherited and even older one which is pushed and the roller > spins the blades, that must be fifty years old and would still go if I > replaced some of the wooden rollers which have corroded. I have one of those. I removed the metal axle fittings from the decayed roller and fitted them into a new bit of wooden pole. Pushing it round the two lawns is good exercise. When I started mowing these lawns with it I had to take a break half way through the big lawn, and another break before moving on to the smaller one. After which I'd be tired, need another break, and have sore arms the next day. Concerned friends and relatives advised me to get a power mower. "You're getting old," they said, "you need to take things easier now." But then I would have got even weaker. Instead I persevered with the push mower. As a result I got stronger. So now I do the whole two lawns in one go and don't even need a break at the end.  SignatureChris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] > >>>>>I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between > >>>>>speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > So now I do the whole two lawns in one go and don't even need a break > at the end. We do become stronger as we lose the VAT (black fat). Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be euglycemic: http://TheWellnessFoundation.com/BeHealthier Prayerfully in the infinite power and might of the Holy Spirit, Andrew <>< -- Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD Lawful steward of http://EmoryCardiology.com A latter-day disciple of the KING of kings and LORD of lords. http://HeartMDPhD.com/HolySpirit/DiscipleNow >>>>>>I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between >>>>>>speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >would have got even weaker. Instead I persevered with the push >mower. As a result I got stronger. Yes that's it. Mine's a Ransomes Sims & Jeffries. A friend's firm can turn out such rollers, all I need to do is strip this one down and send him one of the rotted originals (and buy him some beers) I just haven't gotten around to it yet. The semi-motorised one is pretty good, it has currently got a buildup of dried grass around its roller which I haven't dug out yet as it is providing a nice increase in resistance when I push it. >So now I do the whole two lawns in one go and don't even need a break >at the end. I tend to stop halfway for a coffee and oatcake with peanut/almond butter, keeps the BG nicely in line. Yesterday I had to stop several times to wipe the sweat off. Today I did some strimming (including disentangling the line from some vicious Yucca-type thing whose leaves have a tensile strength greater than steel) and turned the third compost bin out and back in again. Somehow doing this kind of stuff is so much more fulfilling than going and doing "exercise" for its own sake, no? >Foo' Buoy! > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >bearings is dying and it makes an unholy grinding noise every so >often. Aha! Thanks for the explanation. Back in the dark ages (the '50s), when I was sub-ten-years old one of my chores was pushing our electric rotary (fixed blade) with the 8" cut around our acre of yard. Took a loooong time and I had to be careful not to cut the series of several extension leads from the mains. I did once; no-one died but I thought I might when Dad got home:-) Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia. d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter. -- http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com Latest:What to Eat Until You Get Your Meter. and Cambodia http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/2008/03/cambodia.html >>Foo' Buoy! >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >series of several extension leads from the mains. I did >once; no-one died but I thought I might when Dad got home:-) Yes I've never been fond of electric stuff for that very reason (also I tend to tread on the cable/get it wrapped round my leg every so often) but the lawn's not big enough to justify a petrol mower. I used to have a petrol hedgetrimmer which provided quite a good workout but again we don;t have enough hedge to justify it here so I donated it to the folks who bought our old house and got a rechargable battery one which is a long-reach type and also provides quite a good workout. The strimmer is petrol because it needs the power but all my other gardening kit is hand powered. Only one hand at present because I've rubbed up a blister. >>I use a push mower with electric blades, a nice compromise between >>speed and exercise. Then I have the third compost bin to turn out and >>refill (already done the other two). > >How does that work? Does pushing generate electricity? I took it as being an electric mower that was not self-propelled. Signatureroses are #FF0000 violets are #0000FF all my base are belong to you |
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