Sarah

Wanted:

Countryside and Small Stock Journal, Volume 62/05 (1978/May)

Countryside and Small Stock Journal, Volume 58/10 (1974/Nov-Dec)

Will buy-and-return as it will be digitized. (Not allowed to publicly post 'LOC guild rates', but better than cover price, by quite a bit.)(LOC: Library of Congress).

Will buy your digitized as long as 300dpi overall, pages may be 4bit greyscale, but cover must be 4bit color at same 300dpi rate.

Will barter already digitized for buy-and-return. Will barter digitized for digitized. Will barter hard for hard, if we have spares desired.

Might be interested in 1969-1973 if reasonable. This would allow a complete block back to when the two magazines combined.

Know somebody who has these? Please ask them to get in contact at librum.us's guestbook.

Sarah

(with crossed fingers)

(I will post when the project is completed)

(Project will run to only 2005, I-ILL standards. Sorry.)

(We may not sell I-ILL to end users, only another brick/mortar library, so please do not ask...)

(But, I will be happy to give the contact information in private if you want to have your library order, or you want to 'gift').

To get a good handle on Blood sugar levels, fasting when you wake up , just after going to bathroom first thing, before you have anything to drink or eat.

 

Pre breakfast. 2 hours after breakfast ( generally suggestions are Blood sugar should be under 200 2hrs after a meal) .

 

Pre lunch. Then 2 hrs afterwards

 

Pre dinner. Then 2hrs afterwards.

 

Pre sleep time. ( You may actually find you need a snack by then. )

 

 

Because blood sugars fluctuate and it helps determine exactly which foods do what to your blood sugar, or if you go low or high feeling, in addition to these times, take your blood sugar. More information on your particular blood sugar levels will help you figure out what is working, and what is not.

I am thinking you have mixed the standard type 1 and 2 treatments here. This is a type 1 'bracket' system.

The other type 1 'bracket' is called 'by the threes': 0600: test and shoot aspart to lower to 100 by standard scale, and 'x' number of Lantis. 0900: test and shoot aspart to lower to 100. 1200: ditto the 0900. 1500: ditto the 0900. 1800: ditto the 0900. 2100: ditto the 0600. Normally the 2100 lantis is half the 0600. If awake at 2400, ditto the 0900. If awake at 0300, ditto the 0900.

Type 2 do not do anywhere near that much testing. Again, I am type 1 centric, but I understand that type 2 only do one test a day.

Sarah

This area here is mostly 'welfare'and among them are some extremely obese people. But they also eat lots of junk food.

 

When you raise your own you know what you have, if you can your own produce you know exactly.

The Amish for instance used to raise all their own food but here they are in the business of selling discontinued,overstock, outdated, can goods,low end produce, outdated dairy products..and it is a vicious cycle. They can buy cheaper then raise and they think it is affecting their health.

No arguement from me on that. But I think it is more 'added ingredients'. I will not go into that MSG thing ('other natural flavors'). FYI: here, in our community store, asulfame potassium, aspertame, alcohol sugars, etc are BANNED. FYI, if OOM produced, you get real COMPLETE ingredients lists, and the OOA follow suit to a large degree.

Sarah

There is as of yet, no cure, although they have started doing more pancreas transplants but from the FB group I belong to, it seems the transplants only last about 10 years. There is work being done on a 'cure' for Type 1.

My mentor, again, was a early transplant, and a 'skinny as a rail'. I was unaware of the ten year thing. He died due to other causes, and did not see ten. That does surprise me that I had not heard of that. But then again, as another posted, economics plays a big factor, and most of the medical HMO (is that correct term?) or insurance plans do not support it. Pure out-of-pocket.

Yes, work is and has been done. I remember the 'glucowatch' for type 1s. And then the combination of that technology with an automatic injector. These were discarded, I think, for two reasons. The constant needle in the blood vessel, and complications thereto. And they had, I guess corrosion might be a good word, issues with the 'pig' R insulins. Today, they have the rDNA ones, but I have not seen any revisit to that type of unit.

Oh, and yes, type 2 can take insulin, but normally the long types, not asparts. That is why I capitalized ASPART in my previous post.

Sarah

Wow, I had no idea Type 1 & Type 2 were really different critters. I assumed that one progresses from Type 1 to Type 2. So...you all are saying that's incorrect?

Umm... Yes and no. The way it was explained to me is using an engine analogy. If you have a rough running engine (type 2), and you let it run that way long enough, damage can occur (type 1). But you could get a bad engine to start with (type 1).

Another engine analogy. Do you remember the old 'catalyst' engines, ones that had a second smaller tank of 'catalyst', Think of the old 'corn oil' diesel engines. If the catalyst tank was empty, and you could not refill it (they corroded), that is type 1. If that catalyst tank was not metering correctly, very common, then type 2.

Sarah

Thanks Sarah. The Dr. did say IF I ever have to go on meds it would be pill form first, although she didn't mention any drug names. Good to know but hope I don't get to that stage.

Look for the generic term 'glucophage'. Glucophase is a tm. I should have stuck that in. Sorry.

Thank you! The 'Christmas want' list has just been updated. That triple dipper, each cup 16 oz? $21? May not make it to Christmas.

But I will not complain about the size of this one. He brought it home.

Sarah

Jeepers, there are drugs that block the nutritional value of the food eaten. These 'diet pills' are often used for type 2 as an early test if diet can be controlled. 'Glucophase' comes to mind. The 'staple' may just be a continuation of that thought process.

Sarah

Also Type 1 diabetes is much different than Type 2. Type 1 can not be cured or prevented...only controlled with insulin. Type 2 can be prevented and controlled through lifestyle changes.

Thank you. Much better said than I did.

Sarah

Eggland's Best...the scrambled eggs. What's so funny?

 

Not familiar with that brand. I would be taking a hard look at the ingredients list to see what if any additives.

Amused, not 'funny'. As in 'small world'. And speaking in a general tone, keep supporting that store.

Sarah

Folks,

I see some 'cross up' between type I and type 2. Please lets be more careful here. The treatments, in my experience, are often contra-indicated. And sometimes cross me up too. The stomach staple thing is for type 2.

The rule used to be, and I think still is: if the patient required ASPART insulin injection to live, type I. Otherwise type 2.

Aspart 'run's up to an hour. Some asparts are Humalog, Novolog, 'R; (pig) and Apidra.

Detmir is a generic synonym (another spelling?) of the long types. Brand-names of the long are Levemir, Lantus, and 'N' (pig).

Inhalent insulins are for type 2.

Another way to say it. A type 1 is insulin dependent, and has no production of natural insulin. A type 2 is 'impared' production and utilization.

Sarah.

I'd like to hear about anyone who had .....and I'm not sure this is the right word..."cured" diabetes by having the stomach 'staple' surgery. It's, I believe, just that the surgery mostly results in drastic weight loss. But some of the claims seem overly optimistic. One of our kin tried it and didn't get the results she was hoping for.

No. But I do know of one who underwent the islet transplant surgery. My late mentor again. While he is dead now, he did NOT die from diabetes. He had a careful diet thereafter, ratios wise, but no restrictions on quantity or type. Normally this would not have been done or allowed. In case you are wondering, he lost his goodwife, (hitting the idiom book again) 'broken heart'.

Sarah

What's the difference in testing materials? I use the 'OneTouch Mini', I test before and after meals when I suspect my sugar is what is making me feel ill.

 

I can help here!

The 'new' electric meters such as the OneTouch, work based on the different electro isotopes of iron oxide. They react differently with magnesium, potassium, and (argh! Can not remember the third!). ferro/ferric/ferrus oxide. If the patient has retention issues of these three minerals, the meters can be greatly skewed.

The older 'color change dot' units, where you blotted a strip, and then slid the strip into a color scanner also suffered from the above, but also contamination issues. The chemicals in the dot would become contaminated from open air.

The oldest test, the 'tritration' test, where they take a 'large-b' vial of blood is a true lab test, but the most accurate, if you have access to such.

The 'new' A1c meters are also electrolytic/electric, so they also suffer from the same issues.

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NOTE: If you have had a 'crash', below forty on the standardized range, or 'high', above 400, then any 'new' a1c meter usually WILL will give a false reading for that period, aka 90 days. A dKa too.

The daily meters also skew due to this. This shows the fallacy of a medical clinic using a standard test to monitor a gentle let down from dKa. Most EMTs do not know this. I have sat through several a dKa let down, visiting, and bit my toungue when the patient was told 'when you get down to 150...'

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The even older urine dip strips are still available but the average human eye can not really use the color grid to tell. Certainly not accurate enough to be able to determine needed amount of aspart.

Sarah

Mt_Rider beat me to it. I was going to suggest 'alternate' eggs, such as duck. And then in the same post she mentioned waterglass.

Georgene, 'checked' means they are not lilly white like the large stores want them. This can mean 'reject'ed by the stores, or self pulled, check the dates. It's the old 'brown egg' thing again.

I was also amused at WE2's comment. This is another trick, unless she is buying a brand name, such as 'egg-beaters'. Have a care there with the brand names. If you have such a 'store', you might also get just the whites and just the yolks, or whole with yolks unbroken, in mason jars. Such is not commonly offered to 'English' though. Ours also carries 'glazed' whole eggs by the six pack, see Mt_Riders post again. And there is a container deposit, just like was done with glass soda bottles.

I have not seen any price fluxuations. But then our supply chains are different. Just a minute. Let me check that last baby flat of 12. $2.40. Hum. About the same? Our goods are normally more expensive.

Sarah

Uh oh... I will pass this on to the Millian elder we have visiting. Thank you.

Yes, the electric slow cookers like you describe. I have a base, and three crocs to put in, about a quart. I did not grow up with electric as you now know. And thank you for the slight gentle correction for 'bisque', I updated that in the idiom book.

I tried one this morning. A lot larger than an croc boat would have been. My man attacked.

Sarah

Dogmom4, thank you for that link. I suspect I will be doing a lot of reading there.

'Croc Boat' is the english phrase the 'idiom' book gives. I do not know a better one. So let me describe one. It is a small bowl of china, holding about a half cup, with large drooping lips, and a tab on the end with a hole for hanging. The lips trap air so the crock will float on water. The inside is glazed, the outside not. Often embossed on the bottom is a symbol, or a very smooth panel for marking with a china marker. The embossments can be a goat, cow, chicken, rabbit, sheep, fish, etc. Also the embossment can be a wedge (for cheese), a circle (for egg), a buttercup flower (for butter), garlic clove, etc. Red is the common ones, grey is the higher quality. Meat and markable crocs often have isenglass covers.

I was a 'lesser' daughter. The third. So my rearing was different, not as lady as my two older sisters. A 'Cinderella'. One of my chores, each morning, was to be the first up and make sure the fire was good in the stove. The night before, before she went to bed, Mother would put four (Father, my two sisters, and me) in a pot of water on the stove. In them, usually, were two eggs, some sort of small meat chunks (to include organ or 'head cheese'), 'farmers cheese', and spices/seasoning. It was a warm bite for us to eat before breakfast was ready.

My favorite was lamb cubes, about a quarter inch, 'american process' cheese, two eggs (too small to be sale-able), and springs of mint. Oh that mint!

Today, with the exception of glis (idiom book says 'clarified butter') making, these are now forbidden by Ordnung ('the way', the rules we live by) in almost all OOM and OOA (A for Amish) groups, due to the fact that the oils/greases/etc could soak into the biske portion of the boat, and turn rancid. The water simmers, not boils, and so you have no germ kill. We often boiled them, another of my chores.

I make garlic glis for him. Take butter, unsalted, put in boat, keep skimming off. Once 'clarified', about a quarter cup, use a clove press to squeeze crush two cloves, and put all in the glis. Let simmer for a few more hours, and reskim. You get very stong garlic butter. But do not try to use store bought butter, even if unsalted, as it will be too salty. I do not know what stabilizers are in the unsalted, but you get the same effect. 'Land O' Lakes' comes to mind. What is skimmed off when clarifying is used as a bread spread.

He loves fish. And his mother did a lot of 'trash' fish this way. So I am looking at this 'crock pot' to see if it can do the same.

Sarah

I admit it, I have never owned a crock pot. I do now. My husband found one with zebra stripes that he snatched up, and repainted. And with it came three 'bowls'. I had him paint it, as I am not having that striped thing in my kitchen!

Apparently, crock pots are relatively new. I found little in our online icsarchive.org old cookbooks archive.

I have tried pinto beans with fatback which came out well. I know better than to try mutton.

Bread raising?

Is this an alternative to 'crock boat' cooking? Or is boat cooking too ethnic to be understood here? I am thinking that the lower temperature would help with cooking 'trash fish'. My man loves fish. And would that work for rabbit and game?

Is there a book out there? Recommendations?

Sarah

Wormguy, thank you for this one. We have the low voltage (DC) Sylvania tubes. I will alert our maint folks. Sarah

Bats are sensitive to some pesticides. Any spraying in your area lately? There also seems to be a parrallel with lightning bugs and bees. Also, if someone has recently put up or refurbished bat boxes, some paints can poison them. We jellously guard our bat population.

I drank 'strong bow' (non alcho version)(better than the water!) in the UK before the alcho version 'came over the pond'. I had a real laugh with the Sir Patrick commercial I saw. Come on people, this is cider! You have to have good glass bottles. According to my guide to flavoring extracts, free copy here at the Librum site, one NEVER uses cider, but carbonated water. You can not fully 'kill' the fermintation. It breaks glass. Can you say 'boom'?

Sarah

Sarah, there are several different sects of Amish. Some a lot more 'conservative' than others. One group doesn't even allow window screens much less indoor plumbing.

Ummm... Jeepers, reintroduction.

I am OOM. Old Order Mennonite. Knostic sept (Knosis means 'knowledge', one who, in order to perform ones function, requires education beyond the 8th grade level). I was a simple 'home mother' until I lost my husband. Having to support, I switched to Gnostic, My much loved and dearly missed Patriarch (think Bishop in Amish speech, but much more senior) helped me and found me honest honorable work.

Then #2 asked me, remarriage is rare for us, and does not mind me 'working out'. I deal with the different types of OOA (Old Order Amish), OOM, NOA (New Order), NOM (New Order), and other 'brethren' every day. I access via the Librum, which is a OOM community center, (translation: place where the scales are kept), where I work as librarian, researcher, liason, 'gal friday', and the 'vot' ('Information') desk.

...now where is that icon for friendly wave... (drats!)

Sarah

...got it...

Snowmom,

Congrats!

I am keeping my head down. Oh, I did well, this year, but my husband took a 'Best of Catagory'. A cake. Beating out my two. My head is down, trying to avoid my kinder teasing...

Sarah

This put me on memory lane. Does anyone know if the Corning plant in Pa (Greencastle?) still have the store? Does it still exist? It would be worth a trip. I still have some that mother bought when I was little. It had both flowers and ducks, a double/missprint.

Boro is the 'brand' I know, as opposed to Pyrex. Much bigger/heaver. Sand cast. Have not seen any of that for a while either.

Sarah

Many many Amish still use those hand pumps as their only water supply!

 

Edited to add that most of their schoolhouses still use a pump like that too. And outhouses. One for the girls and one for the boys.

Maybe for Amish, but not mennonite. Shared. But with coppered 'tin' cup. It is believed that the copper plating fights germs. And with a charcoal filter. I wish I had a camera, I would take a picture of a couple around here.