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Eleonora
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We're going to have it translated here in Italy maybe in 20 years time!! So sad.. I can read the books you all usually mention here when you've already forgotten their exitance! Stupid un-english country!
I'm reading a stupid italian classic at the moment.. my grumpy mood don't like it.
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Nice photos Dex!
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Went to the library this morning: I took a couple of books for my next few nights in hospital. Edna Ferber's So Big and Wonder when you'll miss me by Amanda Davis are already in my bag wrapped in my shocking pink pijama.. yeah.
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Have you ever heard about the Zone diet, created by Doctor Barry Sears? I read something about it during my search of an "antidote" to my Hyperinsulinemia. Th diet seems to have some good points, but I'm not too sure. I was wandering if anyone have ever tried it or heard about it.
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I just got back from seeing Roger Waters play 'The Wall' at Wembley. It was hugely impressive.
It was a legend!! I saw Waters In Padua last July and it was amazing. I saw him in Milan in 2007 too, that was The Dark Side of the Moon gig. It's like facing the history of music in person. Brilliant!!
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Cars
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Wow, sounds so cool!! Are you sure is a car, Athena? It seems like the Enterprise to me. Only joking.. that is a car, mine is just the illusion of a vehicle. The only optioan mine has are the wheels.
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Well done Pontalba!! Athena, go for it!
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I'm not too sure she did all for money, as a lot of people say. I think it's just difficult to turn out the lights on a world in which you've lived for nearly twenty years. Tolkien spent his whole life in the Middle Earth, maybe she's just feeling orphan. What is more she makes teens read and it's enough for me.I don't know if I'll see this movie: I've read the book and I thought it was funny with all the hand-notes written, but it will depends on the movie production.
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Wow, you're all going to a lot of stuff: new jobs, new holidays, the last year at school, some silly behaviours..
I haven't anything to add, this month is quiet uneventful.. but i'm enjoying your experiences.. weel, not every of youe experience, Chalie.
And Chrissy, bentornata!
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Thank you dears, you're all so sweet!!
We all have our cross to bear, haven't we?Chalie, I think milk is suppesed to help because it's mainly based on protein and lactose: proteins should contrast sugar according to my doctor, so milk should be a "neutral" food.. I don't know..
Let's wait for next week and see.
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Yes, Pontalba, it's more or less what happens to me at night but the cause is different from the most common ones described in the article. My illness is this one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinsulinemia
And I can't take any sugar when I have a Hypoglicemic shock because I can't eat sugar in any form, especially if it's not followed by proteins. That's why is so difficult to stop those crisis. Some people are fine after a glass of milk but it's not working. I have to go back to hospital next week and we'll see what to do: they will check me during the night and we'll try different solutions. I feel a little like a laboratory animal.. I just hope it will work. I've been trying anything for the last 7 years, but the disease is changing faster then the medical knowledge. It's a fighter, but it does not know I'm tougher!
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Milk isn't working as it shuold be. I'm still trying to find a way to put an end to the shocks at night. As Homer Simpson says. "D'oh"!!
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I still have so much to read according to your lists..
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Thanks Chrissy,
We're trying something different for tonight: a glass of milk on my bedside table, I will drink it when I'll feel the shock is coming and we'll see if it works. If this won't work we'll trying other solution. Don't worry too much for me, though.. I'm a fighter!! Or at least, that's what I'm trying to be
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Thank you, you always give me strength with your kind words, Pontalba.
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Well done, everybody!! You're doing a great job!
I've lost other 2 kg last week (4,4 lbs) but not becase I wanted to: my disease is .. I don't know how to say it .. changing (?) and it's not a great news. I feel a little better during the day, but now I spend every night shaken by hypoglycemic shocks: I can't move, I can't speak, drenched in cold sweat and tachycardia. I can solve a crisis like this during the day, but it's really hard during the night because no one can help me. I'm seeing the doctor in a few days, but when I phoned her she said it's a new phase of hyperinsulinemia and I just have to understand how to handle it. I don't know why I'm losing weight this fast, though.
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I think Mad World is a very sad song.. but only Gary Jules version, the original Tears for Fears has not the same atmosphere.
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Congratulation Carelia!!
And .. yuhu ChrisD.
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Great job, Karsa.. it took me so long when I had to read it at school. Maybe I was to young or maybe it's because it was an homework, but I didn't like it. I would like to re read it now though, as an adult.
I finished JR Moehringer's The Tender Bar.. loved it. Also finished the essay on the war in Bosnia.. it was really tough.
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I can read only if there's a lot of noise, I know it's strange but it's been like this since my childhood: when I was 7 or so we moved in a very noisy flat with a lot of wonderful very noisy neighbours. Our home was a sort of open space where everyone could come and go whenever they wanted. I loved that!! I loved the chats, the laughs, the fact that my kitchen was a meeting point for so many different people with many different stories to tell. But I had to study and do my homeworks in any case. So I learnt how to concentrate in the noise. And I still do it. When I'm in my room I have my mp3 player in my ears if I can't have any other kind of voice or loud sound in the background. But I love reading in the market square on saturday morning when hundreds of people walk by with their shopping and their businnes.
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Welcome Jean!! Hope you'll like it here..
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Medicine has gone so far.. it's great they can do stuff like that nowadays. But it's terrible you had to pass through it, Muggle!!!
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Hugs Muggle.
And thank you Pontalba..
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Library opened today!!
Well, at least one, for the other I have to wait until the first week of september. Anyway, I took for books for the moment: a non-fiction book on the war in Sarajevo; an italian classic I've never read before; Twisted Wing by Ruth Newman and The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer. I think I'll start reading immediately, 2 hours until dinner and I have already cooked it. Oh yes!!
Your Book Activity - September 2013
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I'm reading Il fu Mattia Pascal, written by Luigi Pirandello (can it be The Late Mattia Pascal in english? I think I saw that title once) It's the story of a man who lives a life he doesn't want. When everybody believes him to be dead because of an accident, he flew away and starts a new life. It's not a bad book, but it's.. predictable, that's all. Every italian classic is made up of the same rules: you can say what is going to happen just reading the first few pages. That's why I love english and american literature: there are some bad books too, but most of the times you don't have a hint of what's going to happen until it really happens. Anyway, maybe I'm just a little tired and grumpy because of all the troubles I'm passing through.. I need to relax a little, stop thinking for a little while. I'm happy to be back again. You knowm Pontalba.. I missed you and all the others soo much!!! I know things will be better now I found you once again. Tomorrow I'm going to the library and see If I can find something good.. I copied most of the books you talked about.. I hope to find a couple of them.