In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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I haven't eaten yet today, although I will be shortly since I am getting hungry. I've done my morning workout and I've been cleaning up the house since my old man called me last night and asked if I would like him to come over to visit today on short notice.
Ever since I got home last night, and all through the night up until right now my sugar level has been almost a straight line. I've been between 110 and 130 for going on about 15 hours straight. The 4 or so additional fasting hours as well as my 15 minute medium intensity workout have not made the sugar spike or fall.
I took my 20 units of Long-Active stuff at the usual time around 9AM, but no other insulin or food since then.
Hopefully I don't spike when I eat lunch. I'm loving what I'm seeing so far.
I was worried about needing to come in to do blood work after fasting 8 to 12 hours beforehand, but now that I've had this morning behind me, I don't think that's going to be a problem anymore.
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Well, after going round and round with a half-dozen contractors on our bathroom remodels, WE (heh!) finally decided what we want and where we want to start. The problem was mostly at our end. We thought we'd start with our master bathroom, then we switched partway thru to thinking about doing two at once, and then changed our minds again to focus on the central bathroom. So some of the bids were for bathroom #1, some for both, some for bathroom #2, some excluded finish materials (tile, vanity, fixtures) some included ... so it turns out almost none of the proposals were relevant and I couldn't do an "apples to apples" comparison.
Now that we have an idea what we want I developed a "universal checklist" for bathroom #2 (a complete gut job, SIX) and I hope to get updated quotes from at least four contractors so we can decide.
The bathrooms aren't tiny, but they aren't very big either- typical midcentury ranch house. The current tile trend seems to be for very large tiles .. 24x48... stone or marble-look but... seriously? This is a CA suburban ranch home, not a Roman villa. The size of the tile is way too large for the shower (36x36) and pretentious as all getout. Im looking for a relatively flat (not beveled edge or anything) subway tile in the realm of 3x6 to 5x10. Frameless glass surround. Furniture-style vanity with a "vessel" style sink with more drawers and fewer cabinets. Larger tiles for the floor make sense. I like darker floors, hubby not, I think we'll have to compromise on the color.
New bathtub. New window. The only things were keeping are the toilet, the very large mirror, and the ceiling light fixture.
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Oh, but I discovered a LOVELY irredescent glass tile in the blue/delphinium/rose family. Far too expensive and finicky to install for an entire shower wall, but when it comes to doing dear daughter's bathroom I'm going to suggest a plainer tile but a 1-ft "band" of glass tile at about eye level for a splash of color. I think that'll look awesome!
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Originally posted by SIGNY I get fuckin' twitchy about test results.
SIX: I get twitchy about EVERYTHING healthcare related.
I might have mentioned I finally got that tetanus booster I was worried about not having a few years back when I took a nail to my palm, but I know I forgot to mention that I also got a pneumonia vaccine yesterday too. A BIIIIIIIIG part of me wanted to tell them to stick a pin in that one until I was able to do some research on it, but I'm not in 20-year-old-and-super-healthy-who-gives-a-fuck mode anymore and this is some serious shit. Also, it's been my experience that trying to do any medical research online is a shitshow anyhow, and it would just leave me with more questions than anybody in the medical community would have any answers for anyhow.
I've had pneumonia before. Bad. It's not fun. My grandfather almost died from it when I was a kid. I've got diabetes now and I didn't even know it when I got the shot but I also had heart problems in the past as well. At least they didn't try pushing the Covid vax on me because that would have been a hard no.
Quote:Anterior?
SIGNY: Some things (like kidney failure) just kind of silently creep up, and by the time it's symptomatic you're practically dead. So when nurses ask me "How are you doing today?" in that chipper tone of voice, I give them a humorous but qualified answer: I don't know, I'll have to ask my doctor.
SIX:
SUGNY: But I suspect you won't need any corrective surgery for your heart, at least not for a "historic" event. They probably detected an area of heart muscle damage, which - unlike other areas of the body- doesn't repair itself. But what's done is done. The heart compensates and if you're active and you don't feel overly tired or have chest pain or breathless on exertion you shouldn't stress about that. (You should see all the dents, calcifications and broken toe bones I've collected over the years that they found adventitiously!)
SIX: It said something along the lines of "Probable ____________ infarct, old". I don't remember the word in the blank above, but when I googled what it meant it said "on the front side".
Quote:Strep can do bad shit; it can ruin your kidneys or your heart valves. I don't know about heart attacks, but I does sound like you have some scar tissue in your heart, and- yes- that can cause arrhythmias and fast heartbeats. But there's medicine for that (beta blockers)
SIX: Looks like, at least from what I've seen online, this means that I had a silent heart attack at some time in my past. I wonder if that has anything to do with those weird "adrenaline spike like" events in my chest area that make me bolt out of bed all the time when I almost fall asleep or the area of numbness on my middle-upper left side of the back that happens when I'm really stressed and/or doing heavy work? Both of those sensations started happening in my late 20's, which would have been right around the time I got strep throat and let it get so bad my throat looked like it had two grody looking and smelling golf balls on the sides and it felt like razor blades going down even just drinking water (once my fever hit 103.5 I had my brother take me to immediate care to get it fixed).
Quote:I think every one of us, if we're honest, can deeply regret things we've done in the past.
SIX: I'm such an asshole. It sucks getting old and finding all of these things you've done to yourself after there's not much you can do to fix them anymore.
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SIGNYM::What you need to be doing in looking for ONGOING problems - yanno, cholesterol, calcium deposits in the arteries around your heart etc - and just correct it moving forward.
SIX: Yeah. I have some blood work that I still need to go back for. I got all the stuff for Doc Endo yesterday because it didn'NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Got back after 5pm today and did a bad thing. I went to a local 7-11 and got a hot dog for supper. Lame excuse tired and didn't feel like cooking. Will do better tomorrow.
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Anterior?
anterolateral
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I think every one of us, if we're honest, can deeply regret things we've done in the past.
Yeah. I'm sure we do.
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They probably want to check your cholesterol, which also needs to be measured fasting.
Yeah. It's a lipid test. My dad says he doesn't even have to fast for that anymore when they test him, but I told him that maybe because of my diabetes I do. I don't know what the number is they're looking for, but Doc said in healthy people it's 100, but in diabetic people it's 70. Perhaps they want the fasting because it eliminates some +/- variances that are more important when we're look for a -30 difference?
I went on a glucose rollercoaster last night... *sigh*.
I was on my way to a pretty perfect day there. 2/3rds of it was within range without any rapid acting.
While my dad was here, both while we were talking and while we were watching a movie, I had to eat food (peanuts and bananas) four times because I was dropping to 70 and below. My friend called me up around that time and said he got me some food from Hard Rock and was going to stop by. I told him to drop by even though my dad was there. It was the first time they've seen each other since I was in middle school.
So... I did what any lunatic would do and I ate too much. Supposedly hot wings only have 3grams of carbs, and though I don't remember what fries have off the top of my head, I didn't eat a ton of them. BUT, I DID just eat a banana before he called to tell me he was coming over.
After my dad left, I had been rising and peaked at 250, which is worse than I'd been in days. But by the time I got to 250, I had already injected myself 3 times with insulin to try and keep it going over 200. 2 units, 3 units and then 5 units.
Once it started going down, it went down just as fast as it was rising. I knew what was going to happen while trying to save myself from crashing after using insulin AFTER eating and that I was going to eat too much again and go back up too fast and too high. Especially since I took 4 glucose tablets when I dropped to the 50s. I even got down to 49, which is my lowest so far. At this time it was 10:45PM and I didn't want to call anybody and wake them up, but I was worried about crashing.
Fortunately, it leveled out and went back up. I went to sleep after that and stopped looking at the meter. If I was going to sleep in the mid 250s, so be it. I'll fix it tomorrow gradually, the right way, without doing stupid panic moves.
I didn't go back up to the 200's this time though. It looks like I spiked up around 170 for a while after I went to sleep and I woke up to 127. (First time actually going DOWN by morning rather than spiking up).
Took my daily shot and I'm going to skip breakfast after all of that extra food last night and I'll just try to keep it even.
Lesson learned. No more eating out. Online numbers for carryout food are just too incorrect since every place is going to make things differently. If I'm going to control this thing, I need to be in control of what I'm putting in my body and not leaving it up to chance.
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Sounds like a difficult balancing act, SIX Sigh.
Hubby is maxed out on two oral meds and his blood sugar is getting harder and harder to control. he's on a strictly controlled lower carb diet, which is why- aside from cost - we almost never eat out. But it sure means a lot of cooking and dishwashing.
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Sounds like a difficult balancing act, SIX Sigh.
I can manage it well once I find my new relatively small amount of foods that I have on hand at my house. I don't need a lot of variety. I never did. I just need to find what my new normal foods are going to be.
I can eat out on occasion with certain foods, but I think french fries are off the list forever. I'm sure that there were more than 3 grams of carbs in those hot wings, but it had to be the fries that got me that high. These weren't your standard McDonald's fries which were probably the online benchmark. They were delicious. Probably way more carbs in them because of whatever coating they had on them.
I was also crashing and trying to correct that with the banana when it happened, and while I was eating the food my friend brought by it was still dropping lower and got to 53 so I even threw in a glucose tab on top of it. I think under normal circumstances I wouldn't have been rushing to eat to avoid the crash.
I'll probably have a few more episodes like this in the coming weeks as I learn more each time. Obviously, it's extremely easy to over-correct and I need to learn to avoid doing that in the moment.
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Hubby is maxed out on two oral meds and his blood sugar is getting harder and harder to control. he's on a strictly controlled lower carb diet, which is why- aside from cost - we almost never eat out. But it sure means a lot of cooking and dishwashing.
I feel for him. Nobody could possibly understand what that is like unless they're going through it themselves and armed with the knowledge that this is their new life and it will never be back to the way it was before.
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Laundry day for me then a walk in the sunshine. Need to get some grocery shopping done.
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