Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Diabetes Etiquette

Etiquette is all about being polite. It's also (for me) is a hard word to spell. I need to practice writing it some more.

Have you ever sat down to eat, you're about to put a bite of food into your mouth and a colleague says "I didn't know you were allowed to eat that"? I've one specific co-worker that's probably said that to me several times in the last two months. And boy does it make me mad.
I'm planning on sending her a copy of this nice diabetes etiquette card(PDF) that's been put together by the folks at the Behavioral Diabetes Institute. The card offers 10 suggestions expressed as DOs and DON'Ts. For example
  • DON’T look so horrified when I check my blood sugars or give myself an injection.
  • DO realize and appreciate that diabetes is hard work.
  • DON’T tell me horror stories about your grandmother or other people with diabetes you have heard about.
They're all good points and they may stop you from strangling that person who just won't stop giving 'helpful' advice.

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Monday, November 05, 2007

Grrr blogger

Why does Blogger sometimes choke when publishing a blog post? I've been trying to get a simple post up on my site now for over an hour.

Blogger is updating all of the darn label index files even when I only add a few labels to the post. What a waste of time and bandwidth.

If anyone has a suggestion about how to avoid or fix this problem I'd really welcome it. Maybe it's a sign that the time has come to change to a different piece of blogging software.

Heaven help me if the rest of November is going to be like this!

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