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I was challenged by/got an award from Carina to name 7 things you might not know about me. Thank you Carina! And if you’re wondering who this person could be just follow the link above or find her name in my blogroll. She is a childhood friend of mine who’s now married and has her own house and [...]

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*The best yoghurt in Finland – Kalinka top, by Ingman. Totally artificial. When other yoghurt brag about containing real berries, this one only contains some kind of froth. But it tastes great!

*After living without mascara for two weeks due to a stubborn eye infection I now have great lashes
*Other things that make you [...]

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My morning

Facts about diabetes #1:
My mood swings are to 80% dependant on my sugar levels. If I wake up in the morning with values over 8, as I did today, I feel like total shit. The day is crap and I just want to go back to sleep. If, however, I would wake up with normal levels, [...]

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Nightly exercise

Since I started exercising more regularly I’ve been having some troubles with my sugar levels. I tend to take too much insulin in the evening with the result that I wake up in the middle of the night with levels around 3. Tonight was no exception, and I had the urge to say:
- Honey, isn’t [...]

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Healthy as a horse

I have been proved healthy. First my dentist didn’t find any holes in my teeth (this even though another dentist had confirmed that I had a hole in one of my wisdom teeth… public health care, need I say more) and then my doctor told me that I was fit as a fiddle. The only thing [...]

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Crazy food-party

A couple of weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with low blood sugar. I can never sleep when my blood sugar goes below 4 and since it takes a while for the ”cure”, in this case fruit juice, to kick in I always have some time to lie awake and think before [...]

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Peeing in a jar

A couple of posts ago I tried to explain the size of a horse liver by comparing it to two human heads, and as you can see from the picture below, a human bladder should be as big as one head.
This is a jar that I got from my local health-care center. (I’m having my annual [...]

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