In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Phone call a while ago and I may have a pick up game of mah jong tomorrow afternoon. Lady that called me isn't sure so I will head over to the senior's centre around 1pm and see what is what.
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Out for my walk and possible afternoon mah jong in a bit.
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Best of luck at mahjong, BRENDA! I know the tiles don't always go your way, but I hope they do this week.
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Best of luck at mahjong, BRENDA! I know the tiles don't always go your way, but I hope they do this week.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I was cancelled for mah jong today as another lady decided to play and with only one table of four. No need for me. So I am home early and now I should really do something about my book.
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Mammogram appointment at 8:15 in the morning, then mah jong after that. So I will be out earlier than usual.
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Quote:Good luck on that too.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Mammogram appointment at 8:15 in the morning, then mah jong after that. So I will be out earlier than usual.
Early AM apt for me to (finally) have my infusion port removed. It's an under-the-skin port that feeds to a large vein that goes directly to the heart.
The large volume of blood dilutes the chemo agents and keeps them from corroding the veins, as would happen if they used a typical catheter in the arm
Anyway, that's gonna be gone.
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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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You're getting parts removed and I'm getting parts added eventually, Sigs. I guess we can't be cyborgs together! 
I FINALLY got some real info from the Nutritionist today. She's so freakin' cool.
I was completely honest with her that I dicked around bad last night, and didn't take my rapid acting insulin while eating poorly, so I woke up this morning with my higest reading in a long time at 549mg/dL.
Since I'm on my new long-active stuff at 20 units without any pills, I decided to skip breakfast and do a reading around 1:00PM and I was still 360. So according to the "dummy" sliding scale, I just took 10 units of the rapid acting before eating a small bowl of cheerios with skim milk, a small banana and a handful of peanuts for lunch. 2 hours later i was 210mg/dL.
So she told me how the new system works. My TARGET is 120mg/dL. For every 40 above 120 that I am, I'm to use 1 unit of insulin before my meal. And for every 8 grams of carbs that aren't fiber in the meal I'm eating, I'm to use another unit of insulin. I am not to round up on this for the danger of going too low on my sugar.
So I'm going to eat a late dinner with only 1 cup of brown rice (which would be roughly 40 grams of carbs after you remove the fiber carbs). She told me not to add any insulin for the vegetables and burger patties (and chicken breasts later if I'm still hungry).
The goal tonight is to be under 200 and I'll work my way down. Those math figures are just a rule of thumb and since we don't know if my pancreas is producing any insulin or not right now, I may have to adjust up or down on the units of insulin going forward. Don't want to take too much until I know.
ETA: I think I did pretty good. I tested at 92mg/dL before I ate, so I used 4 units of insulin. (5 for the 40 grams of rice minus 1 for being 28mg/dL lower than my target 120).
90 minutes after eating I'm 160mg/dL.
Not sure what goes on overnight and if it will get too low. Still going to have a few chicken breasts before I go to bed, I think. Didn't eat as much today as I usually do and I need the calories.
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Hey SIX, sounds like you got effective help.
Just keep in touch, m'kay?
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Hey SIX, sounds like you got effective help.
Just keep in touch, m'kay?
Yeah. She's great. Her whole office staff of 3 is great. Too bad I can't say that for everybody outside of her office.
I will.
My results this morning were... disappointing.
I thought with my 160 reading around 90 minutes after I had my shot and ate that I would be worried about possibly dipping too low overnight. Those worries were gone the second I tested.
301mg/dL when I woke up this morning!!!!!! GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
I did have those two chicken breasts before I went to bed that I said I was going to have, but they shouldn't have done that!
On the plus side though...
I slept until the 9:00AM on my alarm. I NEVER sleep until that alarm goes off, even on nights when I'm having a really hard time getting to sleep, because I'll have to get up to pee between 6:30 and 8:30 and then I just stay up when it's that late. At first I thought I didn't get up last night, but I do have a vague recollection of getting up once to pee. But even though I did pee when I got up, that's not what woke me up a second time like usual. I don't recall when I actually went to sleep, so not sure how many hours I got. Dammit.
Weight is 151.2. I'm not surprised that it was lower than the last 3-4 days because I ate less yesterday. My last morning weigh in below 150 was April 28th at 149.2, which was the only day since April 23rd that I weighed in lower than 150. Weight is keeping pretty steady.
Also, although that 301 reading is high and way above my target, it IS the lowest morning reading I've ever had by 12, and certainly better than the 549 I had yesterday morning.
I'm going to shoot the Nutritionist an email today and tell her what happened and see what she has to say about it.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Good luck on that too.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Mammogram appointment at 8:15 in the morning, then mah jong after that. So I will be out earlier than usual.
Early AM apt for me to (finally) have my infusion port removed. It's an under-the-skin port that feeds to a large vein that goes directly to the heart.
The large volume of blood dilutes the chemo agents and keeps them from corroding the veins, as would happen if they used a typical catheter in the arm
Anyway, that's gonna be gone.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Mammogram went fine and in 2 weeks I will have the results.
Good luck on getting that thing out of you SIG. I bet it will be a huge relief.
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