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Keeping Dry
Posted Jun 14, 2001
Tried out my drysuit in the pool last night. I now know what is meant by squeeze (the pressure of the water causing the suit to compress and pinch the body) ouch. It did keep me mostly dry, I think some came in down my neck when I tried to have a good look round 
Learning to control buoancy with the suit was interesting but with practice I will get the hang of that. Trying to swim round with my body in variuos attitudes - head up, feet up, upside down, on my side - showed just how easily the air migrates round the suit and working out how to get it back to where you want it to be means some interesting contortions.
All in all a fun, interesting evening. Now when can I get back for more practice...
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Finally it happened
Posted Jun 7, 2001
Ah I've done it. I've handed in my resignation. Does it make me feel better? I don't know. I'm actually feeling quite shaky and think I'd like a 
right now.
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Tempus Fugit
Posted May 17, 2001
Well 1 month on exactly since I was in hospital with a drip and pump in one arm.
So what has happened since then?
Life has happened. I've gone back to work, I've been trying to get another job (please can you come back for another interview next week? This will bonly be the fourth one ) I'll have tested my blood glucose over 100 tims ( at least 4 tims daily). I've done about 60 sub-cutaneous injections (twice daily). I've gone through one pair of glasses because I sat on them when I couldn't see - with or without glasses. I've had to miss a dive course even though I've paid for it and bought some kit for myself.
The real what the hell and why, I don't know the answers to. Nor does anybody else. I've got to live with it. Sometimes it's ok, sometimes it's not. At least I've access to good healthcare and education abut this condition.
I want to write about how I feel, how p**sed off this thing makes you feel about yourself, about life and in turn about life in general but I don't know what to put. It might well be a day for celebrating the fact I've survived another year but in order to survive many many more I've got to change my outlook on life. It's hard. It's very hard. Perhaps I'm just being melacholy as I've had a few drinks. Maybe, maybe not.
Still I think I'm just rambling on now with no direction or purpose in this journal entry.
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I guess it had to be done...
Posted May 14, 2001
And lo there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth...
I didn't know the man and he probably wouldn't have wanted to know me. He didn't believe in an afterlife, poked fun at mans percieved superiority and liked a good cup of tea. He also wrote some books and plays made lots of money from them and started up this site. He probably lived quite a good and full life.
Many other people will have died over this last weekend who won't have been lucky enough to live to 49 or in the so called first world with access to good healthcare or the education opportunites DNA and I have had.
Condolances to his wife and daughter who have lost a husband and father.
The dolphins are still here though.
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Slightly less frustrated
Posted May 5, 2001
Well I've now managed a whole day wearing glasses AND being able to see. This is a good thing. I'm told it means my blood sugars have dropped down to more normal levels and have stayed there for a day or so. From my measurements this does seem to be the case. All I've now got to do is keep them normal for the rest of my life. A very very scary prospect considering that it's very much guess work for each individual when it comes to working out dosages of insulin. Oh well at least I can see again and that's a very good thing.
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