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Hey y'all, I don't post here much, but I saw this... SuperShuttle now operates in Raleigh, at a cost of $16 each way downtown, or a van load (of up to 10) for $65 each way. I'm local, and if there's interest, I will do airport transfers for donations (a check made out to TBAF for at least $10). PM me with your schedule and we can exchange cell phone numbers, etc.

Couch Tomato - it's gastroparesis, and a big fear of mine...there's so much to look forward to with diabetes, isn't there? There's a newsgroup called misc.health.diabetes which was very helpful to me a number of years ago. Smart folks there, including a practicing endocrinologist (Dr. Biggs) and a few flakes. J. C. Hartmann's good too, IMHO. I didn't care for the local diabetes support groups because in the group I went to, most seemed to be there to whine, rather than learn, and the speakers were not up on new stuff at all. I should have looked around for a better group, but between the internet and a good doctor, I've learned a ton... eta: Hee! Yeah, I'm no librarian, but I learned critical thinking skills a while ago. I stick to the well known sites like ndic and medline, and participating in discussions with other diabetics helps drown out the crap.

Long term type 2 diabetic here too (20 years). I take a lot of pills (Byetta too), but they do their job, I know what each one does, and have copies of my lab work to back it up. There's a risk with taking meds, but without them, I'd probably be dead already, or be blind and in constant pain, which to me is worse. With them, so far, no complications at all. If there was any way to clone my doc, I'd want every diabetic in the world to see her. What choices do doctors have? Education, medication, and for some things, surgery. Education has to come first - what lifestyle changes can help? are you willing to do them? what are your medication choices? side effects? We're dealing with the human body here; it's complicated, and not everyone reacts the same way. And the doctor may have 10-15 minutes to decide, for you or with you, what's the best balance. So many patients are passive about their own care (and probably many doctors don't want questioning patients either). The news deals with soundbites, and while 43% rise in heart attacks sounds like a lot, it was a tiny percentage of people who had heart attacks. I think a lot of people will be switched to Actos, though. Same family of drugs, just no evidence of increased heart attacks (yet). Any of the drugs in this family can cause an increase in water retention, so people can gain weight (and can't this cause breathing problems?) If the patient was formerly "out of control" and spilling sugar in the urine, the new control will cause that sugar to be stored instead of lost, so that can cause weight gain as well. Byetta's wonderful (to me) because it really killed my formerly constant hunger. It's only been on the market a couple of years, so I'm waiting for its long term side effects to pop up...

Can I post here? LOL Different kind of place, different pace, but I seem to recognize a few names. Okay, more than a few. I'm crap at chatting...but I don't want to lurk here forever! Ticket stress? How 'bout fishing for 3 tickets in Cary, and it's the only show for 2 of those folks. And you get absolutely nothing but lawn offered in both the presale and the regular sale. I even got my husband up early both times to try (yeah, early for us, shuddup). Three? is a bad number for tickets. If my friends don't find a nice pair somewhere (hatesss brokers myself), we'll all sit in the lawn. I'm not stressing for myself, 'cause I've got 4th! row! center! in Knoxville two nights later - in air conditioned comfort, I might add. Playbiller - I have access to the entire CV vault, and can copy stuff to the CH vault. I just have to know what to look for. And believe me, once you've pushed around a terabyte or two of clack, you're just not that excited about seeking out more... I did look in their ET folder and they have clips from 4/2 (Disco night) on forward. The CH clips don't start until the anomaly. We have a bit more breathing room in the vault now, so I've moved a dozen folders over (check dates for new stuff). I ain't doing no stinkin' clack alert though! Y'all don't seem to mind OT stuff so I have a question. My husband and I need to be in San Diego over Labor Day weekend (concert and meeting his sister). Would it be silly for us to fly into SFO 3-4 days early and wind our way down? We're not exactly self-starters, so if it's not too far, it might be better if we're forced to move around, rather than ending up hanging around in the hotel until it's too late in the day to actually do anything. Yeah, that's us. <sigh>