Cheryl Harrell
04-16-2003, 06:23 AM
Yesterday we had to go to the diabetes drs. Guess what! Freddie'll come up in a bit I assure you! :)
They picked me to be in a Diabetes Study Clinical Trial diabetes study where I go to the hospital in Richmond every coupla weeks or so for 62 weeks as a guinea pig to test out some new diabetes medicine or treatment. I get paid for doing this & get
a new blood sugar testing meter & test strips for it free. The dr that is doing the trial (not any of my drs but one I'd never met until just then) said I'd get a new top of the line meter. Whoa, I get to road test one of those babies! I bet I have to test my sugars alot Arrgh. But the small price ya pay for getting a free meter & strips plus some $$$ & maybe helping find a cure. Should be interesting & I hope I help them find a cure for diabetes...Hubby didn't qualify for it being a type one but he can come & watch which is good as I don't drive anywhere without him as I don't like to drive in traffic alone not to mention the fact I would be afraid to leave him at home alone due to him
possibly getting into a low sugar attack.
It's gonna be rough having to make the hours trip every other week or coupla weeks for over a yr but I guess it will be worth it. The dr said it would take me anywhere from 5 mins to 5 hrs each time depending. The good thing is they can work it around our annual going for over a week to stay with my folks in May at a condo they have in Nags Head which they go to a few times
a yr & when they aren't staying in it, it gets rented out to tourists which helps pay for having bought it & also around our annual 2 weeks trip to visit hubbys sister in Ohio which will be this summer. So that's good. Won't disrupt my life too much LOL! I hope & pray they won't try to make me lose weight or anything. If they were to try to get me to lose weight I'd stay just as fat as I am to prove to them you can't lose weight no matter what
you do. I am living proof of that LOL! One good sign was the dr didn't say a word about my weight. That dr is supposed to call me May & let me know more. Evidently he must've asked my dr which of her patients would be good for the study.
Mike had tried out for the inhaled insulin trials once & got picked but never too them up on it cuz it would've meant a several hour trip to Charlottesville every week. Too bad that one wasn't held locally. :( I had recently saw on the news where some dr was doing trials on a new diabetes drug & some local man was on the trials & so it was really helping his diabetes. I hope this does for me!
Anyway enough on that as the exciting news is! :) There is a local easy listening fm station in the Richmond area.. Unfortunately they play some of that fuddy duddy 40's stuff but if you can suffer thru a fuddy duddy song every so often you can hear some good stuff. After the drs. we were on our way to go to the WALMART in Richmond & then go eat next & then after that go to a mall there before going home. I was flipping dials & happened to tune them in. They were saying on there that they play this thing 4 times a day that flashbacks on the past & played some clips from it. They said it was sponsored by a local 50's diner. Well lo & behold they started in the ad for the flashback thingy playing some of the CATM Theme song. When it was playing I think they had a sound bite/ sound clip of Freddie talking from CATM playing while the theme song was on. I was so excited I started screaming the CHICO & THE MAN theme song is on the radio. My hubby Mike is listening to his Walkman with earphones & asks me what I'm screaming about. I said the CHICO & THE MAN theme song is on the radio! I bet the other drivers are wondering why this woman is screaming while driving LOL! I have no idea what clip of Freddie from the show they played cuz I was so excited I couldn't even make out what he said! Well my right turn for Walmart came up & I was so excited I totally missed my turn LOL! Thank God WALMART has more than one entrance. I was so excited. I mean how often is the CATM Theme song & Freddie on the radio? Oh his sexy voice! Ah... But that was my excitement for the day! :) :) :) :)
They picked me to be in a Diabetes Study Clinical Trial diabetes study where I go to the hospital in Richmond every coupla weeks or so for 62 weeks as a guinea pig to test out some new diabetes medicine or treatment. I get paid for doing this & get
a new blood sugar testing meter & test strips for it free. The dr that is doing the trial (not any of my drs but one I'd never met until just then) said I'd get a new top of the line meter. Whoa, I get to road test one of those babies! I bet I have to test my sugars alot Arrgh. But the small price ya pay for getting a free meter & strips plus some $$$ & maybe helping find a cure. Should be interesting & I hope I help them find a cure for diabetes...Hubby didn't qualify for it being a type one but he can come & watch which is good as I don't drive anywhere without him as I don't like to drive in traffic alone not to mention the fact I would be afraid to leave him at home alone due to him
possibly getting into a low sugar attack.
It's gonna be rough having to make the hours trip every other week or coupla weeks for over a yr but I guess it will be worth it. The dr said it would take me anywhere from 5 mins to 5 hrs each time depending. The good thing is they can work it around our annual going for over a week to stay with my folks in May at a condo they have in Nags Head which they go to a few times
a yr & when they aren't staying in it, it gets rented out to tourists which helps pay for having bought it & also around our annual 2 weeks trip to visit hubbys sister in Ohio which will be this summer. So that's good. Won't disrupt my life too much LOL! I hope & pray they won't try to make me lose weight or anything. If they were to try to get me to lose weight I'd stay just as fat as I am to prove to them you can't lose weight no matter what
you do. I am living proof of that LOL! One good sign was the dr didn't say a word about my weight. That dr is supposed to call me May & let me know more. Evidently he must've asked my dr which of her patients would be good for the study.
Mike had tried out for the inhaled insulin trials once & got picked but never too them up on it cuz it would've meant a several hour trip to Charlottesville every week. Too bad that one wasn't held locally. :( I had recently saw on the news where some dr was doing trials on a new diabetes drug & some local man was on the trials & so it was really helping his diabetes. I hope this does for me!
Anyway enough on that as the exciting news is! :) There is a local easy listening fm station in the Richmond area.. Unfortunately they play some of that fuddy duddy 40's stuff but if you can suffer thru a fuddy duddy song every so often you can hear some good stuff. After the drs. we were on our way to go to the WALMART in Richmond & then go eat next & then after that go to a mall there before going home. I was flipping dials & happened to tune them in. They were saying on there that they play this thing 4 times a day that flashbacks on the past & played some clips from it. They said it was sponsored by a local 50's diner. Well lo & behold they started in the ad for the flashback thingy playing some of the CATM Theme song. When it was playing I think they had a sound bite/ sound clip of Freddie talking from CATM playing while the theme song was on. I was so excited I started screaming the CHICO & THE MAN theme song is on the radio. My hubby Mike is listening to his Walkman with earphones & asks me what I'm screaming about. I said the CHICO & THE MAN theme song is on the radio! I bet the other drivers are wondering why this woman is screaming while driving LOL! I have no idea what clip of Freddie from the show they played cuz I was so excited I couldn't even make out what he said! Well my right turn for Walmart came up & I was so excited I totally missed my turn LOL! Thank God WALMART has more than one entrance. I was so excited. I mean how often is the CATM Theme song & Freddie on the radio? Oh his sexy voice! Ah... But that was my excitement for the day! :) :) :) :)