Hello everybody!

Looks like I'll be getting an insulin pump implanted soon. Guess after 21 years, my pancreas has gone TITSUP(*).

--Sean

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Hello everybody!

Looks like I'll be getting an insulin pump implanted soon. Guess after 21 years, my pancreas has gone TITSUP(*).

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Not sure if I should read this as good news or bad news. I hope it all
goes, and works, well.

Mike

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Shawn Highfield wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Why do I have a bad feeling you will get the only insulin pump ever
built that will crash and cause you to spend 14 months in the
hosptal?

LOL, it's not that bad, I promise. The real reason is that I am now being forced to inject huge amounts of insulin at once and it causes my blood sugar to start going in a "wave" effect. The pump will ensure I have a much
smaller dose constatently.

Good luck, and I hope I'm wrong, you just have really bad GD luck
when you have a "new" health problem.

It keeps things interesting, doesn't it?

-- Sean

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Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

Not sure if I should read this as good news or bad news. I hope it all goes, and works, well.

It's both but it leans towards good news, actually. I'll know more in two weeks.

-- Sean


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Re: Re: Mews
By: digimaus to Shawn Highfield on Wed Aug 14 2024 01:27 pm

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Shawn Highfield wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Why do I have a bad feeling you will get the only insulin pump ever built that will crash and cause you to spend 14 months in the
hosptal?

LOL, it's not that bad, I promise. The real reason is that I am now being forced to inject huge amounts of insulin at once and it causes my blood sugar to start going in a "wave" effect. The pump will ensure I have a much
smaller dose constatently.

Good luck, and I hope I'm wrong, you just have really bad GD luck
when you have a "new" health problem.

It keeps things interesting, doesn't it?

-- Sean

okay that's odd, i'm missing this posting.

anyways, good luck, lucky.
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Re: Mews
By: Sean Dennis to All on Tue Aug 13 2024 09:20 pm

Hello everybody!

Looks like I'll be getting an insulin pump implanted soon. Guess after 21 years, my pancreas has gone TITSUP(*).

--Sean

Ok, that sorta sucks.

I am going to be the cheerful guy and congratulate you for not needing a morphine pump instead.


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Hello Arelor!

14 Aug 24 17:54, you wrote to me:

I am going to be the cheerful guy and congratulate you for not needing
a morphine pump instead.

Morphine and I do not get along. They gave it to me during my first heart attack and it hurt like hell.

Now Dilaudid on the other hand, that stuff really screws with me. Last January when I was hospitalized with that huge MRSA ulcer on my foot that had to be surgically removed, there were no empty rooms at the VA hospital and I had to stay in the ER for three days, I was also very sick with the flu and had a nasty cough. I tried to sleep without having my CPAP machine and I was miserable. Thankfully, the nurse knew me (I'm a frequent flier at the ER) and he got permission to give me a shot of Dilaudid.

Holy crap, did that stuff work. It hit me instantly and I joked with the nurse, "My eyes...I can't control them." He said, "Get some asleep."

I slept like a rock and the ER staff was nice enough to hook me up with some food in the morning.

But Dilaudid definitely worked on me. I was tripping out on it. LOL

As for the insulin pump, it is a good thing and is not permanent since I have Type 2 and not Type 1 diabetes.

-- Sean

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Shawn Highfield wrote to Digimaus <=-

I looked up medical miricle and they had a picture of you.
Glad you're still here and hopfully feeling better.

I'm too cantankerous to die. LOL

-- Sean

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