In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Quote:Well, naturally!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and of course it is now dry and the sun is out. What terrible spring it is up here.
BTW it was 90F (32C) today. We blasted straight into summer, at least for a couple of days. So I'm doing "indoor work" for the next couple of days, and Monday hubby has a Dr appt that I will accompany, so outdoor work will have to wait until Tuesday I guess.
Sigh. Everything takes longer than I think it should!
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Originally posted by second: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.
I like that.
I think we all need to go outside and touch the grass more often.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM: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.
I'm already going to ask my Dad to come over this week to force me to clean the house.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Well, naturally!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and of course it is now dry and the sun is out. What terrible spring it is up here.
BTW it was 90F (32C) today. We blasted straight into summer, at least for a couple of days. So I'm doing "indoor work" for the next couple of days, and Monday hubby has a Dr appt that I will accompany, so outdoor work will have to wait until Tuesday I guess.
Sigh. Everything takes longer than I think it should!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I know, right.
Man, my area isn't suppose to dry out until Monday and then we might hit the 20s by Wednesday which is 70F. That's if we are lucky.
I have a dental appointment on Tuesday and it should be dry then. I hope so. One more back area on the left that needs dealing with. Lower jaw. Not sure if it is root tip or just pieces of a broken tooth. Anyways it will be a relief.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Well, naturally!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and of course it is now dry and the sun is out. What terrible spring it is up here.
BTW it was 90F (32C) today. We blasted straight into summer, at least for a couple of days. So I'm doing "indoor work" for the next couple of days, and Monday hubby has a Dr appt that I will accompany, so outdoor work will have to wait until Tuesday I guess.
Sigh. Everything takes longer than I think it should!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I know, right.
Man, my area isn't suppose to dry out until Monday and then we might hit the 20s by Wednesday which is 70F. That's if we are lucky.
I have a dental appointment on Tuesday and it should be dry then. I hope so. One more back area on the left that needs dealing with. Lower jaw. Not sure if it is root tip or just pieces of a broken tooth. Anyways it will be a relief.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Well, naturally!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and of course it is now dry and the sun is out. What terrible spring it is up here.
BTW it was 90F (32C) today. We blasted straight into summer, at least for a couple of days. So I'm doing "indoor work" for the next couple of days, and Monday hubby has a Dr appt that I will accompany, so outdoor work will have to wait until Tuesday I guess.
Sigh. Everything takes longer than I think it should!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I know, right.
Man, my area isn't suppose to dry out until Monday and then we might hit the 20s by Wednesday which is 70F. That's if we are lucky.
I have a dental appointment on Tuesday and it should be dry then. I hope so. One more back area on the left that needs dealing with. Lower jaw. Not sure if it is root tip or just pieces of a broken tooth. Anyways it will be a relief.
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Hey, we're back up. 
Good luck at the Dentist on Tuesday, Brenda. 
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I was going to post late last night that I got on the scale a few hours after dinner and I was 151.6! The last time I even hit 150 was when I ate everything I could shovel in my mouth on Easter with over 1/2 gallon of water and the next morning I was right back down to 145.
Just did my morning weight and I'm 149.0. 
That's still a lot of water I shed at night. I know I'm not supposed to be drinking liquids several hours before I sleep, but I don't know if I'm ever going to do that one right. 2.6lbs is about 1/3rd of a gallon of water, which is roughly 2 to 2.5 times more than I should be (Although, not all of that loss was liquid). But this is still very much in line with what I've been doing for years before this diagnosis, and should probably be considered (mostly) a separate issue. And apparently they have a name for it... Nocturia Ployuria.
I drink a lot of coffee, and I know I drink liquids later in the night than I should. Some of this might still be diabetes related, but I don't think so, just because I'm not waking up thirsty and drinking more water. In fact, I have no memory at all last night of drinking any water after I went to sleep.
I got up once again, but it was technically twice and I just didn't bother going back to sleep again after around 6.5-7.0 hours sleep. If I could cut back just enough liquid at night where I could get a full 8 hours with only one bathroom interruption I think I can live with that quite nicely.
April 01st: 146.0 (When I decided I had to eat a lot more than I was eating)
April 03rd: 149.0
April 08th: 143.8 (The day I declared that I was dying, still losing weight even though I was eating way more than 2k calories per day.)
April 10th: 145.0 (Day before initial diagnosis and 500mg Metformin 2x per day, but also day after Easter where I ate what had to be 5000 calories and I weighed over 150 the night before I went to bed)
April 12th: 146.4 (Day after diagnosis/Metformin 500mg 2x)
April 13th: 148.0
April 14th: 146.8
April 17th: 145.6 (Day before Endo/1000mg Metformin 2x, 15units insulin 1x, 5mg Glipizide 1x)
April 19th: 147.2 (Day after Endo/1000mg Metformin 2x, 15units insulin 1x, 5mg Glipizide 1x / This is the day that I stopped intentionally overeating)
April 20th: 148.4 (308mg/dL reading in the evening / Only 1 workout in morning*)
April 21st: 148.0 (390mg/dL reading first thing in the morning / First day upping insulin to 18 units 1x / Also, first day in 2 weeks without any workout*)
April 22nd: 149.0
*From April 9th onward, at least 2 workout routines were completed every day unless otherwise noted.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey, we're back up.
Good luck at the Dentist on Tuesday, Brenda.
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So, I see.
That's why the triple post from me. It went funky just as I was posting that to SIG.
It should be okay at the dentist. Have to see. Not sure what they are pulling because to me it feels like a broken tooth. They will tell me before they get going on me.
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