Well, it's coming up on 2 o'clock in the morning.  I've got a fresh cup of coffee and a cigarrette going.  I've had a better day since my last entry.  Picked up a prescription of cream for my eczema and a prescription for my sleeping pills, so I'm set up.  I've been negelcting my eczema since I was diagnosed with type 2.  And I'm paying for it.  It's been popping up everywhere.  It's really bad when it attacks my hands.  The sores get on my fingers and it makes it difficult to type or hold things or even eat.  This time, it's decided to attack my stomach and since I have such a large one, there's a lot of area to cover.  It's on my back, too.  And since I'm fat, it pops up in places I can't reach.  Well, I found a solution a while back.  A back scratcher!  Yeah, a back scratcher!  You don't see them around much anymore, but when I was growing up every family had one or two.  Most of them were wood and kinda fancy.  They seemed to have a hand at the end of a wooden handle.  I guess to give you the idea that you were using your hand.  I searched for a long time and had just about given up, when a friend at work found one.  Now the scratcher serves two purposes.  First, of course, is to scratch your back which you're not supposed to do with eczema, but it feels sooooo good.  But the most important use is to put the cream on my back in the places I can't reach.  For those of you who have a similar problem, here's how to do it.  Get some surgical gauze pads and surgical tape.  Wrap the gauze around the hand part below the fingers and tape it to the scratcher at the edges of the pads, leaving an area of gauze in the middle.  Put some of the cream on the gauze and reach around and put it on your back.  The gauze will soak up some of the cream at first, but after the first application, most of the cream will stay on top of the gauze.  Change out the gauze ever so often unless you're a germ freak.  Freaks can change it after every application.  I'm not a freak.  Maybe I'm at the far end because I use it 5 or 6 times before I change it.  This passed weekend proved to me I need the sleeping pills.  Had trouble staying awake at work.  Isn't it amazing how diabetes can take over your life?  I think about it all the time.  Here's something to think about.  Our doctors have warned us about sores on our feet and how they can lead to infections.  Well, there's a new bug in town, MRSA, methicillin-resistent staphylococcus aureus.  They call it the superbug. It's actually been around for a while, but the medical community has finally recognized it. Most of the time you got in hospitals.  Now, it's everywhere.  I've had firsthand experience with this superbug and it's no fun.  I had 3 bouts with it about a year or so ago.  It put me in the hospital for a total of 4 weeks in an 8 week period.  I got because some stiches I got in an emergency room to close a gash on my leg didn't hold and nobody noticed. Friends, it hurts!  I had it in both legs.  They swelled up to twice their size.  I couldn't wear long pants.  They hurt so bad, I couldn't stand up long enough to shave.  But now, this superbug has gotten out of the hospital.  It's in supposedly healthy people waiting to strike.  I'm a carrier.  It's probably in my nose right now.  It likes to hide there, waiting.  You got a itch?  Scratch it after you've fooled with your nose.  Your fingers take it to the opening and it's in.  And it's deadly!  I was lucky.  It can attack your liver, heart, and lungs.  The only way to get rid of it is a stay in the hospital with antibiotic I.V.'s twice a day.  And, according to an article I read, it's killing more people than AIDS.  I don't normally get this serious in my journals, but it's been one of my causes ever since I delt with it.  I just wanted to let yall know about this superbug.  It's dangerous and with us getting sores on our feet, without proper diagnosis it can be deadly.