Jim Craddock - Blog

I'm not feeling well and I believe that the things I'm feeling now are good signals that I'm reaching the end of this road. I've had a...

Blogging about a terminal illness is not an easy thing to do, but it is a harder thing to read. I have blogged and made a record of it...

I want to say that I have had good weeks and horrible weeks and this last one has been a good one. I'm grateful for the good ones, but...

In 2018, when I was going through a transition with the typical polyuria, I looked up what controls such things. Turns out it is the...

Well, yesterday was OK. I started experiencing a slight pain in my left groin. That helped me realize I had never documented something...

I had a post about the pictures in the original article I read in 1995, but evidently I thought it necessary to delete it. I think that...

In the original article about the condition I have, there was a part where it talked about how the afflicted/patients would reach a point...

As an update, I have an appointment at the Cleveland Clinic in 4 weeks. I made plane reservations today. It is a foot in the door. The...

So, in February, when my bowels briefly stopped. They resumed after I felt a tearing sensation. This was a small tear just enough to let...

The article discussed how lab values would begin to look off only near the very end. The problem is two-fold. First, the pituitary is...

I know all of this is hard to believe. I know it looks ridiculous. I know I don't get it all right, I have to guess at a lot of it and...

So, I've been trying to understand why my specific gravity readings taken at home are so much higher than lab values. The key is sugar. ...

A new AI was released into the wild this last week. ChatGPT is an implementation by OpenAI. You can ask it questions or pose scenarios,...

We had a great Thanksgiving at my house. I'm so lucky to have this family. Things progress. Muscle strength in my chest is fading.

I'm not writing anything medical today, although I did I have an epiphany. I'll share that tomorrow, perhaps. Today, I'm thankful to be...

Our Christmas Tree is up, and I'm making chocolate bourbon pecan pie in a little while for tomorrow's meal. I have not been hurting. I...

Friday, November 18th. Who wants to be feeling like crap during the Holidays? Output is insufficient to account for input. I think at...

Nov 18 I paid for a CMP and insulin test. The draw was yesterday afternoon. Everything was normal except blood sugar was 144 and...