Welcome to Qatar

Qatar is the "Other." Welcome to the Souq--the old marketplace where it's easy to get lost, smell waterpipes and watch people enjoying them, and wonder what the women in their black abeyas with faces often covered, what they are thinking and who they are.

Falling Off the Wagon Part II: Winetasting

Falling Off the Wagon Part I: The Banana Split

Begging for Byetta

Getting A Glucometer

Can You Self Manage?

Seeing the doctor
Not really seeing the doctor, seeing the med student, but getting more time that way
No drugs

The Vision

Please Don't Tell Me What To Do, I Can Tie My Own Shoe

First stabs at a diet

Making the Phlebomist Happy

Ultrasounds, MRI's, Mammograms, Good News and Bad

The Good Doctor Bernadette

Friends Are Nice to Have

Mother

Reading a Book is a Good Response to Everything--Or Is It?

Ouch from Dr. Weinlander

What Happened?

After years of avoiding having a physical, I saw a new doctor and the numbers started coming back