The Dream Tour

Moving to a new web site

Peter Hoogenboom — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:39:32 +0000

I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since my last entry on this web site. A lot has happened since then.

If you recall, I mentioned in my previous entry that I was going to keep The Dream Tour web site online so people could browse through it, but I would also “freeze” it. That is, no longer post additional entries.

I also mentioned that I was working on a new web site. Well, that site is now ready to go. Here is its address:

http://www.livingwellwithdiabetes.com/

I’ll be posting information there about what I’ve been up to in the past couple weeks and also the latest happenings in my personal journey of living well with diabetes.

If you’re on The Dream Tour’s mailing list, this will probably be the very last email you’ll receive from The Dream Tour.

Some of you will probably want to continue to receive emails notifying you of updates on my new web site. If you do, please visit this page to have yourself added to my new mailing list:

Living Well With Diabetes Mailing List Subscription

As as alternative, you could subscribe to my RSS feed. If you don’t understand what an RSS feed is, don’t worry — just subscribe to my mailing list because it accomplishes basically the same thing.

What to do with this web site?

Peter Hoogenboom — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:10:25 +0000

I’ve had a number of people say they’re going to miss my daily postings about the adventures of The Dream Tour. I’m going to miss creating them. But, as a good friend of mine once said about the completion of The Dream Tour: “It’s not the end. It’s the end of the beginning.” I just need to figure out what it is that is now beginning.

This past week, I was sitting around the living room, totally befuddled from the hydrocodone I’m taking for the pain associated with my broken rib and various contusions and abrasions. That stuff makes me so unfocused that on Tuesday, I failed to notice that when I got dressed in the morning I put on two completely unmatched socks. They were both mostly white, but one had black trim and the other gray trim.

Anyway, it was in that state of mind that I decided what I’m going to do with The Dream Tour web site: nothing. I knew I was in an altered state of mind, so I decided I would “sleep on it”, so to speak. Now, several days later, it still seems like the right thing to do, so I thought I would post an entry, making it official.

What I mean by “nothing” is I will leave it and all its content online, at least for the immediate future. If you’re feeling like you need a Dream Tour fix, feel free to browse it.

I’d like to continue to write regularly about cycling and living well with diabetes, so I’m going to set up a new web site for that. I’ll let you know when that new site is ready to go. In the meantime, I’ll continue to post very occasional entries here on www.thedreamtour.org.

If you want to continue to receive emails notifying you of updates and new entries on www.thedreamtour.org, then there’s nothing you need to do. If you’ve heard enough from me for now, you can be removed from my mailing list by filling out the form here:

Mailing List (Un)Subscription Request

I’ll then send you one final email message as a confirmation that you’ve been removed from my mailing list.

Final Dream Tour statistics, revisited

Peter Hoogenboom — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:39:57 +0000

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, 2006)	6.8% This was the day I discovered my insulin supply was going bad due to incorrect storage temperatures in our cooler.
HbA1c (October 11, 2006)	5.6%
lancets used:	Do people really bother to keep track of this? I’m a chronic lancet reuser. I don’t really know how many lancets I used, but it probably was a couple dozen or so.
Infusion site changes:	I always change my infusion site at least every third day. That would be 72 infusion site changes during the course of the tour. But, with the troubles I was having with my infusion sites in the summer months due to the heat and humidity of the midwest, it was definitely more frequent than that, but I’m afraid I don’t have exact data.