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Originally Posted by Bountyman

A few weeks ago I received a promo from Becton, Dickinson and Company, the company I get my pen needles from. The promo was for a free Bayer Contour USB Next glucometer. For the last 2 years I've been using the current Bayer Contour USB meter so I was very curious as to how it would perform. My main concern was consistency.

This meter now tests the blood sample 7 times before it reports the results. The first thing I did was read the strip bottle to see if the strips contained the

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Originally Posted by Bountyman

...and by the dark side I mean Hostess, folks. Not exactly the diabetic's friend when it comes to carbohydrates and sugars. After an 82 year run...Hostess has been forced to go out of business during failed labor negotiations. There's been a run on the stores like some precognition of a nuclear holocaust. When I heard the news yesterday I jumped in the Bountymobile and headed for Raley's Supermarket. The Hostess section...wiped clean. I'm 70, and I grew up with Hostess. Hostess was my go to snack

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Originally Posted by Bountyman

5 weeks off statins and it seems my presumed dementia wasn't really being caused by the statins. Maybe it's just the natural process of age. Point in case...

My great grand kids were over today. I forget how old they are but they're all about 3 feet high, whatever age that is. Good thing I don't have their energy...I'd break something straight away. After they'd burned off breakfast they were ready for some sit-down entertainment. I turned on the TV, brought up the On Demand feature

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Originally Posted by Bountyman

There are "types" of Diabetes Mellitus that we all know of, but really, being on this forum for the last 3 years I've seen that "type" really doesn't "dial in" how much this disease affects us on a daily, monthly, yearly basis. Our realities are based on a complex time-continuum. There's really no past nor future in time/reality, in my opinion. There is just the ever present. Let me be a little less vague...

In my opinion, your particular "type/scale"

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Originally Posted by Bountyman

This morning I woke up with a heavy Subway jones. The Cold Cut Combo; Italian bread, provolone cheese, everything on it (no cucumbers, no olives, double the jalapeños). Before diabetes I ate the foot long. Since diabetes I eat the six inch. No side stuff, no sweet drink. But that's okay because I only do this once in awhile. I fire up my motorcycle and head for town.

I've got an Accu-Chek Compact Plus that stays in my leather jacket. Should there be a time that I want to check my

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