[Diabetes-talk] Any suggestions???

[Mike Freeman]

Hey! If needed, I can go for days without eating. I suppose I do get hungry
but I'm enough of an absent-minded professor that if something interesting
is going on or I'm reading an interesting book, someone often has to remind
me to eat or drink. Yes, it's true: food tastes great but reading a book is
more interesting.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Sandi Ryan
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:36 PM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Any suggestions???

Oh dear!  That might be kicking a person when she's down!

The protocol I did for my first two tests wasn't so bad.  But between the
second and third, they discovered that it ruined people's kidneys, so I had
to drink the gallon of stuff this last time!  Ah, it's wonderful having all
kinds of diseases in your family history!

Bern, they should explain carefully to you what you need to do not only at
your doctor's office, but also at the pharmacy.  I'm sure they've provided
this lovely stuff to people with diabetes before, so either the doc or the
pharmacist should be able to help you decide what to do.  If they'd told me
I couldn't have anything, I'd just have curled up and died right there!

Sandi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Any suggestions???


> Hey! Skip the coke; just drink the vodka!
>
> They told me not to eat anything -- even broth or jello. And there are
> different regimens, depending upon what stuff one is taking. I was done
> gulping the stuff down by four of the morning I went in. I must have drunk

> a
> gallon of that stuff.
>
> HeyBern! Have Bill take some cellphone pictures of you in the process! 
> Just
> think of how much money we could raise for DAN by bidding on those 
> pictures!
> Or perhaps we could scalp you by having you bid to *not* give away the
> pictures!
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Sandi Ryan
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:39 PM
> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Any suggestions???
>
> With the cleaner stuff I used, they gave you a flavor packet that you 
> added
> to this dry powder and then added water and shook it till it all mixed up
> nicely.  The flavor was sort of a gaggy cherry, but it wasn't anything I'd
> want to drink any other time, and for me that was good.  I kept it very
> cold, taking it out of the fridge just about ten minutes before drinking
> each glass, and I had to drink 16, 8 at night and 8 in the morning.  It's
> really awful!  But once you've survived that, the test is lots easier than
> the prep.
>
> The day before you can have clear liquids, so broth, Jello, even juices 
> (but
>
> not with pulp.  My A1C is normal, so I may not be your best advisor, but I
> needed something in my stomach before I did the stuff.  I ate two or three
> times that day and each time I had some broth, some Jello and 8 ounces of
> juice (mine was Peach-Mango).  Once you start drinking the stuff your
> stomach feels quite full.
>
> I wouldn't have thought Coke would be acceptable, but when I went in for 
> my
> last colonoscopy, the nurse told me I could have drunk the stuff with 
> vodka!
>
> Good luck.
>
> Sandi
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 7:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Any suggestions???
>
>
>> Some folks hurl anyway! I did not.
>>
>> Mike Freeman
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
>> Of
>> Diane
>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:32 PM
>> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Any suggestions???
>>
>> Coke was just my personal choice, but I guess you could use pepsi.
>> That stuff tastes so horrible, the coke neutralizes the taste.  I'm 
>> afraid
>> orange juice would make you hurl.
>> Diane
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "d m gina" <dmgina at samobile.net>
>> To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Any suggestions???
>>
>>
>>> Interesting that coke was mentioned, that is better than Pepsi?
>>> If you are after sugars to make sure you don't get to low, can you do
>>> juice orange?
>>> Anything like that?
>>>
>>> Original message:
>>>> Yo Bern!
>>>> I hate to drink that stuff that empties you out.  My dr. said to chase
>>>> it
>>>> with a coke, as you are not eating anything!
>>>> That will give you some carbs and sugar.
>>>> She was not concerned about a couple highs with the coke, and the added
>>>> stress of the colonoscopy.
>>>> I had the pump when I did mine, but it was several years ago and all I
>>>> can
>>>> say is I had to adjust, so whatever you do to adjust, I guess that's
>>>> what
>>>> you do!
>>>> Miss U!
>>>> Di
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "William and Bernadette Jacobs" <bandbjacobs at verizon.net>
>>>> To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:33 PM
>>>> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Any suggestions???
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Hey Gang:
>>>
>>>>> Bern here!
>>>
>>>>> I'm having my first colonoscopy this Monday morning at 9:00 am after 
>>>>> we
>>>>> get the kids on their bus in the morning.  Bill's taking me down.
>>>>> However, I've got, perhaps, a combined question here.  Firstly, the 
>>>>> day
>>>>> before the test, Sunday, I'm not allowed to eat any solid food at all
>>>>> that
>>>>> day.  Instead, I must drink some awful unforgetable stuff to make me
>>>>> "empty" out, so to speak without too much other graphics.  I can also
>>>>> drink water, I believe.  I also understand the stuff isn't sugar free
>>>>> either.  So, anybody have any suggestions as to how to maintain
>>>>> reasonable
>>>>> numbers?  Or, for that matter, whether or not to skip the 
>>>>> rapid-acting,
>>>>> (humolog)? and just maintain my night-time Lantus?  Anyone done this
>>>>> before, I would think?
>>>
>>>>> Bern
>>>>> Bernadette M. Jacobs
>>>>> 1st Vice-President of Diabetes Action Network
>>>
>>>>> Please consider making a donation to the Diabetes Action Network
>>>>> because
>>>>> Diabetes is the leading cause of Blindness
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