Time for a Fozzolog update.

House

We’ve been working on the house pretty much every day. I was hoping we’d be able to move our beds over yesterday, but it was a bit too ambitious. Now we’re looking at Saturday or Monday to do that. We’ll see how things go.

I got blinds installed in the living room, master bedroom, and one of the kids’ bedrooms last night. We’ve got a bunch of kitchen stuff unpacked as well.

To Logan again

I’m heading to Logan this afternoon to complete the rewire project that we started last month. This phase of the project is in a basement with finished drywall. So, this will be a little different than working with a false ceiling like we had before.

Diabetes hope

There has been a lot of news lately about Diabetes, mostly because it has been reported that the United States and other western countries are facing increasing numbers of new Type-2 Diabetes cases. While I don’t care so much about Type-2 cases (because I’m Type-1), it’s still a concern. I encourage my kids to eat more healthy foods and drink diet drinks or water when possible. Probably the most important thing you can do for your kids to help prevent the onset of Type-2 Diabetes is encourage them to excercise and maintain a healthy weight.

Time magazine has a story running right now mostly about Type-2 diabetes.

I ran across this interesting tidbit about promising research into islet regeneration being done by the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Iacocca Foundation. This would be great news for me and could effectively cure by diabetic condition.

For a few years now, doctors have known how to introduce new islet cells into the body by growing the cells outside the body and injecting them into the liver, by transplantation, or by enabling regeneration of islet cells in the pancreas. Because Diabetes is an immune system disorder, the hurdle has been keeping the body’s immune system from killing the new cells the same way the original pancreatic islet cells were disabled in the first place. This announcement says researchers have had some success “using a naturally occurring protein (TNH-alpha antagonists) to kill the (faulty) immune cells in type 1 diabetic mice.”

So, if they perfect this technique, I could figuratively go into a treatment center where they would inject this protein into my system to kill off the bad immune system cells. It’s possible the pancreas would immediately start regenerating healthy islet cells (which is another finding the research suggests) or transplanted islet cells or implanted laboratory-grown islet cells could be infused.

So... maybe in the next ten years... Type-1 diabetics like myself could be cured!

Now, if science could find a way to give me back the 60 db of hearing I’ve lost, my life would be complete.