Like the smile, but notice the panza (stomach, belly, etc.) while holding sons Dylan and Alejandro back in Nagua.
So Charlotte and I decamped from the Mountain Park campground where we were spending a weekend with friends and flew out to help stabilize his blood sugar.
Ahhh...the things you can learn about glucose. Like how many grams you should be consuming (45 per day for men...or less)? How much sugar is there in those small little Activa yogurt cups (17 grams)? What is the glycemic index for almonds (0....refined sugar is 100...most foods are inbetween)?
And being back on the east coast, well, a lot more heavy people live around here in PG county than in Colorado. So what gives?
Seems government policy of subsidizing corn (hey all those good Republican votes in the mid-west), the manufacture of high fructose corn syrup, and...well, you gotta get people to eat more if you are a food corporation and your primary responsibility is to your stock holders...
Anyway Jose is getting stabilized via insulin shots and diet and exercise...appears to be no permanent damage.
Point is...lots of different reasons for being on the road. And one of them is to help each other stay alive.
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