{"id":996,"date":"2008-11-18T22:52:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2008-11-18T22:59:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:59:47","slug":"the-devil-is-in-the-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Is In The Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was my eye examination. It went okay. They didn&#8217;t say a whole lot. The results will be sent to the regular hospital (eye examination was in a different hospital) in 3-4 weeks. They gave me a normal sight test as well. And because of the blurred vision I only have 20-25% sight left. That&#8217;s not a lot. &#8220;Nope it isn&#8217;t&#8221; the nurse said. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if it qualifies me as being legally blind. <\/p>\n<p>It left me feeling rather sad and depressed yesterday. The little devil inside tapped me on the shoulder and whispered in my ear &#8220;why would you want to live in a blurry world like that? They took away your sugar and now they&#8217;re going to take away your TV and computer, you won&#8217;t be able to see any of it. Why go through that when I can offer you eternal darkness and not a worry in the world?&#8221;. Damn you, devil. Damn you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling a bit better today, though. I had my appointment at the regular hospital. It went fine. I mentioned the blurry eyesight and the doctor didn&#8217;t seem too alarmed. It can happen. Hopefully it&#8217;ll get better. Hopefully. I hope. Also I&#8217;m going off the insulin injections. We&#8217;re going to try out pills instead. Starting tomorrow morning. So we&#8217;ll see how my blood sugar feels about that. I have my next appointment at the hospital next Wednesday. And they&#8217;re going to call me and ask how I&#8217;m doing on Friday. To see if I need to up the dosage of the pills or if I&#8217;m doing okay with just the one that I start off with.<\/p>\n<p>They also had the results back from some of the tests they ran when I was admitted. And they all came back clean. I forget what it was all for, but that doesn&#8217;t matte ranymore. I &#8220;only&#8221; have diabetes. Oh and a little low on vitamin D. Apparently that&#8217;s a common thing in Denmark. We don&#8217;t get enough sun here. But the doc recommended some vitamins for me. <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s all swell and good. After the hospital I stopped at the playground. And finally got to see the goats again. So good.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5319\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/081118_vaniljemagnethe_th.jpg\" ALT=\"vaniljemagnethe\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at those sweet girls. How I miissed them. But wait! Do you see that tuft of white in the right hand corner? What? Who? How? When? Allow me to introduce&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5318\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/081118_buck2_th.jpg\" ALT=\"buck\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new buck! I can&#8217;t properly introduce you since he doesn&#8217;t have a name yet. I thought about suggesting Rudolph, but I&#8217;m not sure his nose is red enough. He seemed very sweet and calm.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5320\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/081118_buck1_th.jpg\" ALT=\"buck\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And sure liked to be scratched. All over. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll be best of friends. And maybe Magnethe will be playing nice too, now. <\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5315\"><img WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=400 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/081118_magnethe_th.jpg\" ALT=\"magnethe\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peekaboo! Why the long face, Magnethe?<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5317\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/081118_vaniljebuck_th.jpg\" ALT=\"vaniljebuck\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vanilje wants to lick the side of the blog.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5316\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/081118_magnethevaniljebuck_th.jpg\" ALT=\"magnethevaniljebuck\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I managed to get all three goats in the same picture. That ain&#8217;t easy, let me tell you. A little bread helped, though. It was raining so we staid inside. Goats wouldn&#8217;t make very good mailmen that&#8217;s for sure. Once it started raining no mail would get delivered at all. And snow? No way, no how.<\/p>\n<p>That was just what the doctor ordered. A little goat-time for the soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was my eye examination. It went okay. They didn&#8217;t say a whole lot. The results will be sent to the regular hospital (eye examination was in a different hospital) in 3-4 weeks. They gave me a normal sight test as well. And because of the blurred vision I only have 20-25% sight left. 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