9-15-09 Tuesday

I guess no one wanted to get into the renter situation. Well neither did I so I sent Brian over to fix her damn branch and still have done nothing on the plumbing bill. If I don' think about it, will it go away???????

On to the real meat of this blog. After only one day on insulin my blood sugar is back in normal ranges. My high yesterday was 365 when I started on the insulin. I had to take a very large dose at first to get everything started. I took the evening shot with 15 units and went to bed hoping that it would be fine in the morning. At 7am it was 133. That's lower than it has been in at least three months. I had two eggs and two pieces of bacon and one piece of toast plus a 20oz class of water for breakfast. At lunch my sugar was as low as it has been in three months, 111. For lunch I had a salad and some Chicken-ala-king from Nutra-System. I'm supposed to have snacks at mid morning and mid afternoon, but I was not hungry at all so I had nothing. This evening I was again in the low hundreds and had a N.S. dinner of potatoes and roast beef and another salad. I also have had a cookie for my snack. If I'm around 120 tomorrow, that should show that the doses that she has prescribed have done their job. I betting on the fact that she is correct.

I felt so good today that I started back on a full workout on the Nautilus machines. I was clear up to 155 lbs on most of the arm exercises, so I started at the 70lbs level just to see how it felt. The things I like about their machines is that they show you in pictures which parts of your body are getting the workout. I was amazed how many other muscles you have in your arms that they work on. I could actually do the same weights that I used to be able to do. I seem to be as strong on the bottom side of my bicep as I ever was. Not so much on the front side. I can still see a little flex in what is left of by bicep. It doesn't hurt any where near what it did at first. I've been working every day with a weight that Sharon got me to keep my elbow and shoulder limber. I've noticed that after I get the radiation I can now actually get my arm out of the cast myself. The nurse was very surprised today when I did it. She actually made me put it back in because she was not finished. I said I just wanted to show you I could do it on my own. She had not bin in the room since the first day when I farted when I got up. I wanted to show her I could do it with farting from now on. She wasn't all the impressed, I could tell.

The other thing that happened today was a CT Scan. They were taking pictures of my chest to see if this cancer has spread to my lungs. That's the big question and concern. If it goes to the lungs it is very serious and that can spell lots of trouble getting it out. If it is in the lungs, you don't have lung cancer, you have a soft tissue, high grade, sarcoma, on your lung. It can be operated on, but he said I would not want that to happen. That's why I still need the prayers. I will find out on the 22nd when I see rushing in Indy.

Another nice thing happened to me today. Two friends sent me messages and wished me well. Peter Cutler, he was right out of college in 1986 and I had a territory open in Century City that was rated as one of the tough places to sell our product. It was filled with mainly large law firms and big eight accounting firms. I was told that a young man just out of college would be killed in that territory. I was told that if I did that I would be placing my job on the line. I had already had a "Professional Older Salesman" in the territory and he just would not work the territory. He kept telling me how hard it was to get appointments. I finally had to let him go. I figured this kid who had all this sales experience, He used to sell stereos out of the trunk of his car in Boston, How could he loose. The long and the short of the story is, he won Rookie of the year, and made Presidential Board his first couple years in the territory. He ended up in New York, the home office of the company, and has recently married and moved back to his humble beginnings of LA. I'm hoping to see him next week after the board meeting in Carlsbad.

I also got a nice note from Arie, a man that we meet in Cabo in 2007. He and his friends looked after Cate and her tribe of 11 each night as they covered the bars of Cabo. I'm hoping to see him in Indy this spring at the 500's. He knows his way around that place, and has some fast times there.

I keep you up to date as best I can, take care
Tom