Those sound like recipes you ought to share! Mike
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com> wrote: > Thanks Tony and the rest. I missed the FFF show in W. Yellowstone > because of this development. I’m dealing with it OK for now, but I haven’t > had to travel yet. My goals are to get in better shape, lose the excess > weight, and get off the 3 per day ‘orange pen’ injections. > > Sad part is I just got finished making 3 gallons of spicy mango chutney > for my British/Indian curry recipe, and now I can’t eat it. One more goal > to achieve. Made a half gallon of mixed mango and blueberry chutney for > pancakes, too, and that will have to wait. > > DonO > > *From:* Anthony Spezio <bambot...@yahoo.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:19 PM > *To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [VFB] Something bad but good, but weird- what else from > Dr. D? > > Good to hear that you are doing better. I know what it is to be down > and not be able to do anything. > I did get to tie last weekend at the local FFF Fly Fair for a few hours > each day. > Tony > > > On Thursday, October 10, 2013 1:09 PM, Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com> wrote: > I'm not normally one to post every medical situation here, but this one is > sorta' tying related. > > About 5 weeks ago I started feeling pretty down- not sick, but just really > dragging, like the energy button was set on 2 out of 10. Went on a 3-week > trip and developed the tell-tale symptoms of sugar diabetes. Was not a > good > trip, as all I did was drink everything in sight and then pee it out. I > lost > close to 30 pounds of water-weight and I'm told muscle weight also. And > Cheryl had to do the bigger share of driving, as my eyes had gotten > blurry. > Any of you with diabetes know the score, and those who support/know them > know it 2nd hand. I was in acidosis big time. > > So I get back, order a blood test, and set up an appointment with my doc. > He > moved my appointment to the next day when he got the results, and then > threw > my butt in the hospital. My blood sugar on the test was over 400, and when > they checked me in, it was over 700. I felt 'OK', and was cutting up with > everyone in the ER check-in, being such a sweet guy and all. Got a room on > the heart floor because of my a-fib (for monitoring), and they re-hydrated > me and started me on insulin to bring the sugars down. I responded > immediately and the sugars came down into the high 100's in two days and > they kicked me out. My sugars now hover around 100, and have been like > that > for 2 weeks now- very stable. I had adverse reactions to Metforin (sp?), > so > the doc took me off of that. Had an ultra-sound done of my heart and all > A-OK there. > > Now for the part about fly tying. The doc said it could take months for my > eye blurriness to clear up, and then my vision might not equal what I had. > Ha.! I pulled a fast one on them. My vision cleared up while I was still > in > the hospital, and I noticed I was having trouble seeing with my glasses. > After I got home my eyes totally corrected and I mean actually reversed > themselves. For the 1st time since I was 12 I don't need and can see fine > without glasses. With my glasses it's like opening my eyes underwater. So > now, without glasses, I can see a size 22 dry fly float by. Who-hooo! It's > not 20-20, but I've never had that- even with glasses. Bought me some cool > shades for the 1st time, too. > > Wait...that's not fly tying. This is fly tying related. I used to amaze > everyone that I could tie a #32 Mustad royal coachman with the naked eye. > Well, no more. Closer than 16", any fly gets blurry, so I need reading > glasses for the 1st time in my life. I don't like the shape-shifting as I > look around for stuff, so I may go to a magnifier. With reading glasses, I > can still see just enough to tie a #32, but nothing like the macro-vision > I > had before. > > For fishing outlook, I put much of the water-weight back on, but have lost > 20 pounds now based on diet and exercise. I'm walking on the treadmill > every > day and have actually started jogging on it, which I haven't been able to > do > for years due to back problems, perif. neurop., and TGN. Now with the > back > and TGN fixed, and fibromyalgia in recession, it's possible, but not > comfortable, to jog for a few minutes at a time to really get my heart > rate > up during a 20 min. work-out. So I'm looking to wading with more > confidence > with better lateral stability. > > So, now that everything's working good, we're having early snow storms > that > are making national news for damage, and I'm right there with tons of tree > damage and consequences. So, no fishing until spring, probably. > > Dreams of Tight Lines, > DonO > > > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Mike Bliss Aloha from Hawaii -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. 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