Monday, September 13, 2010
357 Days..
Today, Sept 13, 2010 my girlfriend and I broke up for real. After spending the last 357 days together we wont be seeing each other anymore. Sure we have talked about it many times but this time it is for real, we cannot be together for reasons beyond both of our control. I have many mixed feelings about this and that is why I am posting it on my blog; I hope someone else out there has had the same thing happen to them. I will never speak a bad word about this girl although like everyone else she had her flaws, we have been through more then I could ever imagine. Her parents got divorced the first week we started dating, she cheated on me after we got in a disagreement, this as well as many other things happened adding fuel to the fire which happens every time people get in a disagreement. When ever we argued all this and more would be brought up, making both of us feel the same way it did when it happened; like complete shit. I have tried to sit down and say we need to get past the past, a week ago she had gotten so drunk she tried to beat me, she tried to crash my car as i drove her home, then kicked her closet door in and then cried till I brought her back to my house to stay with me. Prior to all this she had been texting my friend behind my back and lying about who she was talking too and what it was about, regardless I overlooked everything and did what was right to make sure she was safe and got home. I know that I love her enough I can over look the past as long as we talk about it and move on and learn from our mistakes. She although cannot, which causes the issue I have; is it wrong that I can over look all these things? In my heart I have no doubt that I can look past everything but in my head I know I should have left a long time ago. I have no idea what to do right now, I feel like my life is spiralling downwards...
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Government Plans To Put An End To Diabetes
Being Diabetic, whenever I see an article about the topic it generally is very optimistic and gets my hopes up only to be crushed by harsh reality (the insulin puffer for example which was supposed to replace syringes) but this article seems to be very interesting and shows a dramatic increase of this “epidemic” of new cases being discovered of people across Canada..
It’s imperative for the Ontario government to develop an improved diabetes strategy to deal with Ontario’s growing epidemic, says the head of a national organization battling the disease.
The Canadian Diabetes Association released a report Wednesday which says the economic costs of diabetes in Ontario will reach $4.9 billion in direct and indirect financial costs in 2010 and if an improved diabetes strategy isn’t implemented by the province, it will jump to $7 billion by 2020 with one in four Ontarians living with diabetes or qualifying as pre-diabetic.
“The economic burden of diabetes in Ontario and the projected statistics are completely frightening,” said Michael Cloutier, president and CEO of the Canadian Diabetes Association. “We believe this will have a disastrous effect on the sustainability of our health care system.”
Hospitalizing diabetes patients accounted for 22% of the total cost of the $4.9 billion in 2010, while indirect mortality and disability costs accounted for the rest.
The report recommends the Ontario government adjust its current strategy to reflect three key areas.
They include a broad-based diabetes prevention strategy, a strategy to reach those at high-risk and as well a complications prevention strategy to cut down on patients showing up in hospital emergency rooms for problems that could have been avoided.
Health Minister Deb Matthews spokesman Ivan Langrish said the government has long recognized the dramatically increasing prevalence of diabetes in the province and growing health care costs associated with the disease.
Langrish says a number of initiatives were developed to improve diabetes education, early intervention and effective prevention of complications when the government launched its $741 million diabetes strategy in July, 2008.
Cloutier says the government’s existing strategy, needs an independent agency to manage the evolution of an improved diabetes strategy.
“We believe this independent agency will have the ability to focus on diabetes and pre-diabetes because the government has a wide host of initiatives and health care in general to manage, whereas the agency can concentrate on the programs which fall under the diabetes strategy,” Cloutier said.
The agency would be responsible for ensuring the strategy programs, educational initiatives and diabetes care are carried out consistently across the province, regardless if patients live in cities or rural areas.
There were 410,800 Ontarians living with diabetes in 1995.
The number rose to 546,000 Ontarians living with diabetes five years later and in 2005, the number jumped to 809,600. It’s estimated 1,169,000 Ontarians have diabetes right now and that number is expected to 1,903,000 by 2020.
First Blog Posting
So, this is my first blog posting. As I sit in my room and procrastinate looking for a new job or cleaning up I seem to find some thrill about sharing my perspective with the world. Its a very rainy day here in Ottawa, Canada. Summer seems to be gone, and Winter is quickly approaching with its cold weather its gloomy outlook it shares with everyone. My birthday is in 12 days though, that is something to look forward too. Im hoping for my birthday someone gets me a “blogging for dummys” book because I cannot seem to figure out how to post pictures because all that shows up is the link... This must be a lot simpler then it seems to be right now, maybe I’m just not relaxed enough and I have too much nervous energy; who knows.
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