In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Quote:A reading above 300 mg/dL can be dangerous, according to the University of Michigan, which recommends immediately informing your doctor if you have two or more readings of 300 mg/dL in a row.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
April 20th: (308mg/dL reading in the evening)
April 21st: (390mg/dL reading first thing in the morning)
https://www.everydayhealth.com/type-2-diabetes/high-and-low-blood-suga
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9 Signs Your Blood Sugar Is Out of Control
https://www.everydayhealth.com/hs/type-2-diabetes-management/blood-sug
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A reading above 300 mg/dL can be dangerous, according to the University of Michigan, which recommends immediately informing your doctor if you have two or more readings of 300 mg/dL in a row.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
April 20th: (308mg/dL reading in the evening)
April 21st: (390mg/dL reading first thing in the morning)
https://www.everydayhealth.com/type-2-diabetes/high-and-low-blood-suga
r/
9 Signs Your Blood Sugar Is Out of Control
https://www.everydayhealth.com/hs/type-2-diabetes-management/blood-sug
ar-uncontrolled-pictures/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Yeah. Thanks. This has been pointed out to me by 3 people before you mentioned it.
None of them were my doctors, who both were aware that they sent me out of their offices with 400mg/dL +
The first doctor from the hospital immediate care sent me home with a referral to the endocrinologist, the scrip for 500mg Metformin twice per day and zero information about dieting or any other guidance.
He wanted me to see the endocrinologist 1 or 2 days after the visit, but it was a full week before I got to see him.
Then the endocrinologist put me on 1000mg Metformin twice per day, 5mg of Glipizide, 15 "units" of insulin, and a directive to up the insulin 3 "units" every 3 days if I still am not testing under 200mg/dL. A follow up visit was scheduled for 2 weeks, with no directive to call him if numbers were over 300 or close to 400 still.
So yeah... This is still pretty bad as far as the meter is reading even though my weight seems to have stabilized, my "splotchy" complexion on my face appears to have cleared up, the gauntness of my cheeks seems to have filled in nicely, my energy levels are up quite a bit since before the meds started and my level of thirst went through the floor compared to the 2.5 or more gallons of liquid I was drinking every day.
But the doctors don't seem to worry too much about it. I'm not sure why since everything online says that I should be calling a doctor with the levels I've still got.
I probably shouldn't assume that they know what they're doing. I dunno. Maybe I'll just follow the plan through the weekend and contact somebody on Monday to give a status update and see what they say.
Incidentally, I'm looking forward to seeing my brother again. I hadn't seen him in months and after I was with them on Easter he told my dad he was glad I finally decided I was going to get checked out because I looked like I had AIDS. I appreciate his candor, because now I know I can get an honest answer from him about how I look when I see him next time.
It's easy to lie to yourself about how good/bad you actually look.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Er... I missed your question about working out.
Workouts are good, but keep them less than 15 minutes. For reasons that are hard to explain*, working out strenuously for more than 15-20 minutes INCREASES blood glucose. Hubby would play tennis like a demon for 5 hours, or do heavy-duty wood planing by hand for 5 hours and find, to his dismay, that his blood sugar would go UP 30 points after working or exercising so hard for so long!
* here's the explanation, if you're interested: Strenuous physical effort for extended periods of time is perceived by your body as STRESS. Under stress, you produce cortisol. And cortisol prompts your liver to dump sugar into your bloodstream. A lot of articles point to cortisol as an "aging" factor that increases belly fat. So, like my g'ma used to say: "Do, but don't overdo".
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Out for my walk in the rain then I have to get the kitchen garbage out. Nothing serious I've just been putting it off for a bit.
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Finding every so often I almost forget to put my denture in in the morning.
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Now that I'm feeling better I'm back to making progress in all directions. I FINALLY got a crew to do the front yard cleanup! They're working on it right now. When that's done I'm going to finish moving some dirt around, and then I can put carboard and mulch down to keep the weeds at bay.
Waiting for my surveyor's stakes to come in to go with my mason's string and line level.
Also been listening to online workshops on a variety of low-water landscaping projects (while doing dishes)-
rainwater havesting and how to grade your yard and various ways to move and infiltrate water,
plants suitable for a swale,
lansdcaping for bees, butterfiles and birds;
landscape design
... and so forth and I FINALLY have a plan gelling!
Gonna need to get some cobble from my sis's yard, tho!
Got in touch with our auto insurance to reduce the yearly mileage on our vehicles which will save us some $$.
Saw my cardio yesterday and my echo is good; so far the cancer treatment hasn't had the expected cardiotoxic side effect, and the farther I get from treatment the less likely it is. Now she wants to tackle my (hereditary) high cholesterol with a different med since I'm so intolerant of statins and I've done all of the "modifications" that I can do at this point. Also I noticed some calcifications in various tests (xray for foot fracture, ultrasound for kidney, and catscan/PETscan for cancer) that don't belong, radiologist recommended a follow up with my PCP. I can think of a few conditions that can cause that: excess vitamin D springs to mind, but I'm gonna let my Dr handle that! There are a few other findings that need followup but that's for another day.
Gonna FINALLY review the contractor proposals and get back to them with any questions I might have. I've been keeping in touch with them leting them know they're still on our list, the delay is on our end, but now's the time to do my due diligence and evaluate them (like I used to evaluate proposals at work!)
So, chipping away at stuff here and there.
Onward thru the fog!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Damn. You're getting a lot done.
I'm not getting much done at all around here. Just taking it easy hoping that I can stabilize things a bit. Taking a day off of working out too. Got a cold weekend ahead of us. The lawn can wait until next week.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Back from my walk and of course it is now dry and the sun is out. What terrible spring it is up here.
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Quote:Looking back on what most helped him return to life after the stroke, Walt Whitman echoes Seneca’s wisdom on calibrating our expectations for contentment and writes:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Just taking it easy hoping that I can stabilize things a bit.
The trick is, I find, to tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies. […] After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/walt-whitman-on-what-makes-life-wor
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Oh, well, that's an accumulation of a week's worth of activity.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Damn. You're getting a lot done.
I'm not getting much done at all around here. Just taking it easy hoping that I can stabilize things a bit. Taking a day off of working out too. Got a cold weekend ahead of us. The lawn can wait until next week.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Hey, you're dealing with an unexpected and serious kink in your health. And health comes first!
But just in case your mind becomes a hamster on a hamster wheel of worry... just give yourself a project or two to think about. Nothing too consequential or worrisome, just to give your mind a break from your current crisis.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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