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Hurrah! What a relief!
Jul. 8th, 2008 06:05 pmWell, I thought it was going to be I Day today, because I had to go to my Diabetic follow-up and I knew my blood sugar had been bad recently. As it turned out it was my Hb1AC was 8.6, which is bad, but not as bad as I feared.
However, it turns out that since I had been ill with those medication side effects and had been unable to get any sort of exercise when that was going on, the diabetician was prepared to give me a little leeway and then we discovered that at my last appointment the diabetician (not the same one) had apparently recommended that I double up on my Glimepiride.
I have absolutely no recollection of this at all, and I don't seem to have had any of the paperwork to give to my doctor, which they normally give me, but there it is in black and white, so I've had a reprieve! Let's just hope it will work.
I have to confess that I need to clean up my act too, because I've been letting things slide recently, since I didn't seem to be able to control my BGs whatever I did, and started eating too much carbohydrate, probably too much fruit and have eaten the occasional bar of chocolate all in one go, which I used not to do.
We've also been eating a lot of rice dishes, which I should really only have occasionally, but Charles, does cook some delicious things and it's hard not to have any or not to eat more of it than I should, since I've always loved anything made with rice. And I've had mashed potato a few times recently, which is a real no-no for me. No more Vichyssoise! Sob!
So it's back to being strict with myself and taking the extra tablet and hoping to stave off the dreaded Insulin for a while longer. If the cardiac rehab helps me become fitter so that I can take more exercise, that should help with the blood sugar as well.
I felt so cheered up that I spent the glorious afternoon pottering around in the yard, which I'm glad about as the weather forecast doesn't give us much hope of any more decent weather any time soon although the sun is out again now. It's funny how the cats love having a human being outside in the yard and come out to sit with me while I'm out there. We have a lot of fun with Bramble, because the garden table has a hole on the centre for a sun umbrella, and you only have to wave a leaf or something over the hole and this big determined white paw thrusts out through the hole, trying to catch whatever it is. I suppose I must be easily pleased, because it never fails to amuse me.
I hope we do get some more sun, as I have to justify buying my new sun-glasses. I've been thinking for some time that I desperately need a pair of prescription sun-glasses, but just can't afford them, so I went on ebay on Sunday and found some carp-fishers' polarised over-glasses sun-glasses. They arrived the next day, and they're really good. I'm very pleased with them. It's years since I had Polaroid sun-glasses and I'd forgotten how they appear to make everything stand out more sharply than usual. They completely cover my ordinary glasses, so I don't look as much of a geek as I feared I would. The only disadvantage is that their maker's name is Eyelevel, and I can't get the ghastly signature tune to the Van der Valk TV series out of my head now.
I've also bought some lovely pale-blue suede sandals, although I haven't worn those yet and I had to buy a new fan for my bedroom as the existing one just suddenly gave up the ghost. I haven't really needed it yet, because it hasn't been very warm, but I know that if I don't have one, I shall be unable to sleep because of being too hot sometime soon. So if the summer suddenly ceases to be, it's All My Fault!
Tomorrow is cardiac rehab in the morning and an appointment at the surgery in the afternoon. I'm going to ask my LLD whether there's another medication I can take in place of or as well as the one I'm currently taking for my breathlessness, as this new one doesn't control it anywhere near as well as the one which gave me the horrid cough and rhinitis.
Writing about my new sunglasses suddenly reminded me about a wonderful pair of sun-glasses I once had. They had dark-pink lenses and they really were rose-tinted spectacles! The trouble was that wearing them made me feel insanely cheerful and upbeat, so much so that I found myself doing Daft Things and driving a little dangerously, so I put them away, thinking I would use them just occasionally, but somehow they vanished, the way really good things do and I've never seen any since.
Maybe I shall do an Internet search..........
However, it turns out that since I had been ill with those medication side effects and had been unable to get any sort of exercise when that was going on, the diabetician was prepared to give me a little leeway and then we discovered that at my last appointment the diabetician (not the same one) had apparently recommended that I double up on my Glimepiride.
I have absolutely no recollection of this at all, and I don't seem to have had any of the paperwork to give to my doctor, which they normally give me, but there it is in black and white, so I've had a reprieve! Let's just hope it will work.
I have to confess that I need to clean up my act too, because I've been letting things slide recently, since I didn't seem to be able to control my BGs whatever I did, and started eating too much carbohydrate, probably too much fruit and have eaten the occasional bar of chocolate all in one go, which I used not to do.
We've also been eating a lot of rice dishes, which I should really only have occasionally, but Charles, does cook some delicious things and it's hard not to have any or not to eat more of it than I should, since I've always loved anything made with rice. And I've had mashed potato a few times recently, which is a real no-no for me. No more Vichyssoise! Sob!
So it's back to being strict with myself and taking the extra tablet and hoping to stave off the dreaded Insulin for a while longer. If the cardiac rehab helps me become fitter so that I can take more exercise, that should help with the blood sugar as well.
I felt so cheered up that I spent the glorious afternoon pottering around in the yard, which I'm glad about as the weather forecast doesn't give us much hope of any more decent weather any time soon although the sun is out again now. It's funny how the cats love having a human being outside in the yard and come out to sit with me while I'm out there. We have a lot of fun with Bramble, because the garden table has a hole on the centre for a sun umbrella, and you only have to wave a leaf or something over the hole and this big determined white paw thrusts out through the hole, trying to catch whatever it is. I suppose I must be easily pleased, because it never fails to amuse me.
I hope we do get some more sun, as I have to justify buying my new sun-glasses. I've been thinking for some time that I desperately need a pair of prescription sun-glasses, but just can't afford them, so I went on ebay on Sunday and found some carp-fishers' polarised over-glasses sun-glasses. They arrived the next day, and they're really good. I'm very pleased with them. It's years since I had Polaroid sun-glasses and I'd forgotten how they appear to make everything stand out more sharply than usual. They completely cover my ordinary glasses, so I don't look as much of a geek as I feared I would. The only disadvantage is that their maker's name is Eyelevel, and I can't get the ghastly signature tune to the Van der Valk TV series out of my head now.
I've also bought some lovely pale-blue suede sandals, although I haven't worn those yet and I had to buy a new fan for my bedroom as the existing one just suddenly gave up the ghost. I haven't really needed it yet, because it hasn't been very warm, but I know that if I don't have one, I shall be unable to sleep because of being too hot sometime soon. So if the summer suddenly ceases to be, it's All My Fault!
Tomorrow is cardiac rehab in the morning and an appointment at the surgery in the afternoon. I'm going to ask my LLD whether there's another medication I can take in place of or as well as the one I'm currently taking for my breathlessness, as this new one doesn't control it anywhere near as well as the one which gave me the horrid cough and rhinitis.
Writing about my new sunglasses suddenly reminded me about a wonderful pair of sun-glasses I once had. They had dark-pink lenses and they really were rose-tinted spectacles! The trouble was that wearing them made me feel insanely cheerful and upbeat, so much so that I found myself doing Daft Things and driving a little dangerously, so I put them away, thinking I would use them just occasionally, but somehow they vanished, the way really good things do and I've never seen any since.
Maybe I shall do an Internet search..........
