Dental x-rays, brain cancer and Yu.

For the latest on Marcy’s Adventures in Diabetesland, I am now an official insulin junkie. This afternoon Dr. M prescribed Lantus, a once-a-day insulin pen injection at a dose I’ll increase in increments until we get my blood sugar under control. I’m okay with this, mostly because I have no choice and also because we’ve already tried every other non-insulin medication on the market. To celebrate, as soon as I got home I ordered a pile of diabetes supplies from Amazon.com — nobody’s cheaper than Amazon! — including a box of 100 8mm pen needles, 100 FreeStyle Lite test strips and a new FreeStyle Lite glucose meter because my old one is getting crappy.

Show of hands. Did anybody besides me notice the news story yesterday about bitewing dental x-rays causing BRAIN CANCER? Apparently a study from Yale University indicates that individuals over the age of 57 may develop meningioma from x-rays taken when they were children, at a time more than 40 years ago when x-ray film was slow and radiation was delivered at a dose equivalent to Chernobyl. Holy crap. All my life dentists have been draping me with that stupid lead apron … and now I find out they should have thrown it over my head. I probably glow in the dark and don’t even know it.

Here’s some breaking news from Dallas. Anybody ever heard of Yu Darvish? He’s the Texas Rangers’ new wonder child, a skinny little Japanese pitcher who looks like a GIRL. The locals are making waaay too much out of this weird little dude, sports columnists refuse to write about anything else, and I, for one, am already sick of reading about him her whatever. Seriously, does he look strange, or what?

I am thrilled to report that fame whore Khloe Kardashian — repulsive middle sister of the infamous Kardashian klan — will soon be moving out of Dallas because her husband, former basketball star Lamar Odom, has “parted ways” with the Dallas Mavericks. (This is a polite way to announce that he got his ass fired for being pathetic.) Khloe and Lamar will return to Los Angeles later this month to continue their fading career in reality TV and pose for additional pointless pictures.

I think my China City delivery guy just showed up. Thank you for reading this.