A comment by Kassie on my previous entry pointed out my obvious oversight. I should have included some diabetes-related statistics.

Number of blood glucose readings:
1934

Average blood glucose reading:
121

Average number of readings per day:
8.91

Maximum blood glucose reading:
366(August 30, 10:10 PM)

Minimum blood glucose reading:
37(May 22, 1:19 PM)

HbA1c before The Dream Tour(early March 2006)
5.8%

HbA1c(May 3, 2006)
6.3%

HbA1c(July 8, […]

By riding to Susanville this afternoon, I’ve ridden 187 miles in the past two days. Normally, I try to ride about sixty miles a day, so that’s three days worth of riding in two days. I don’t need to be doing extra mileage, but there was nothing but national forest between Canby and Susanville, so we had to do the entire 88 mile leg in one day.

We woke up around 7 AM today to exactly what the weatherman said we would wake up to — a steady rain and temperatures around 40 degrees. We decided to have a leisurely breakfast in hopes that the rain would stop or at least the temperatures would come up a bit.
And the rain […]

A while ago, I posted a survey on terminology. Essentially, do people prefer “diabetic” or “a person with diabetes”. At that time, I promised to post the survey results. Here are those (overdue) survey results:

I havediabetes
I don’thavediabetes
I prefer‘diabetic’
I prefer‘person withdiabetes’
Comments:

 
X
 
X
 

 
X
 
X
 

 
X
 
X
People first and foremost!

X
 
 
X
 

 
 
 
 
None of the above. I have diabetes. […]

This part of Montana is extremely remote and isolated. It’s difficult to describe, but I’m going to try. As always, I’ve got a few pictures that don’t really do it justice. But, a couple things happened today that might help you appreciate the isolation, remoteness, and sparseness of this area.
Just […]