My Fall From Grace

Oh how cute check this out

http://thediabetesdude.com/

http://www.tudiabetes.org/video/the-diabetes-dude-blue?xg_source=facebook

Noah is doing his own thing to bring about diabetes awareness.  So sweet and yes I want a blue flamingo!!!!

The Importance of Walking

Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I’m doing.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven’t lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

Every time I hear the dirty word ‘exercise’, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they’ll say, ‘Well, she looks good doesn’t she.’

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

I know I got a lot of exercise the last few years,…… just getting over the hill.

We all get heavier as we get older, because there’s a lot more information in our heads. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Got this in an e-mail this week thought you would all enjoy it.  Have a great Week-end

Have you ever been in the check out line and read the magazines titles?  I am a sucker for these things.  The ones that read ‘ LOSE WEIGHT WHILE YOU SLEEP”  HuH?  or Weight loss no Diet.  AWESOME!!   Ah, it’s hypnosis, OK moving on.  LAUGH AWAY CALORIES, hey if that is possible I should be like a broom stick, really.  “The wrong way to lose weight”,  Ok now lets get something straight short of cutting an arm off, I would say GET IT OFF anyway you can.  Oh and here is one about Adult weight camps, HUMMMMMMMMMM!!!   Good grief how can something be so simple yet so complicated.   Or just plain impossible.   I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen these and thought just how stupid do they think we are?  Of course sometimes  it’s not stupid as much as desperate.      How about writing about living with what you have and making it work?   Life  can be puzzling.

Just food for thought.  ;>)

Well it is Friday already and I had every intention of posting this week but where does the time go?   I went to the doctor this week, we had the” got to get this BG under control,” Yea Yea!  Lose Weight!  Yea Yea!  Doctor why do my knees hurt so much?  Your walking is causing it.  Oh so no exercising?  No you have got to exercise.   Ok!  You have Got to lose weight!!  Yes I heard you!  Good Lord I could have phoned this appt. in.  Been here before!   I AM EXERCISING AND WATCHING WHAT I AM EATING!   Well your BG should be coming down.  Hey you would think huh!!    So here I set no more the wiser as to what to do but Ah well tomorrow is another day and I am still trying.

Now I understand the cartoon where Garfield slaps himself in the head and says “GOOD GRIEF”!!!   Hope your week-end is a great one.

WOW! Just got the rest of my bills from the gallbladder surgery.  Holy cow who knew that a pain remedy could cost so much.  Looks like about 12,071.00 dollars DOLLARS not monopoly money DOLLARS all of which $ 3933.93 we will be paying out of pocket.  Will guess it could have been worst.  But still that is one costly Rolaid.  Thank God I had what insurance I did.   I’m still glad I had it done.  Although my BG are still out of whack, have been since the surgery.  I am not sure if it is because of the surgery or other problems .  I even got a new meter thinking mine was on the fritz.   I am working on it,  however it  seems to a little better than last week and hopefully it will continue to get better.

It has been a long and very HOT summer and a busy one at that but the kids go back to school next week so we are having one last blast at the lake this week-end.   So I am off to ride the tube or some other such activity that I am sure I will regret come Monday.     ;>)

Well I had a wonderful chat with my friend/ diabetes edu.  I am very fortunate to have her for a friend.   She feels that my problems with anger and not being able to lose weight are caused by the sugar being out of whack and maybe some hormones and  the pain I am experiencing in  my knees.  I have had problems knees for several years now but have been putting off starting the shots and what ever else I need to do for them.   She thinks this with added stresses  of my everyday living, throw in my surgery earlier this year and will guess where the higher A1C is coming from.  She also explained that diabetes is a progressive disease, so there is a chance that I will someday have to go on meds to control it.

I would like to try to do this without meds for a few more years.  So I am going to the doctor and work on getting my knees better.  If that happens I can start working out like I was doing before my body parts started mutiny. You know a little more walking and a lot more Zumba (I just love that Zumba!).

My feelings about diabetes  is and has  always been that  the chance that it will take me someday is a good probability.  But my  plan is to go ‘KICKING AND SCREAMING ALL THE WAY”   So stay tuned,  life is worth giving it all you got and I plan to do just that.  And you are all welcome to come on the journey with me.  Besides think how boring life would be without some resistant. ;>)

Well I am headed today to talk to my friend-diabetes educator to see if she has any insight as to why I can’t seem to find any control over this crappy blood sugar.  I have some theories but  just need some outside input.   Something has to break soon because I am getting tired of feeling this way.   I am just afraid that it is going to take a series of things to get back what I once had.   But I must do what I must do.   I am so glad I have you guys to dump this stuff on so to speak, you understand where most of my friends don’t really have a clue.   So wish me luck that she can shed some light on what is going on in my body.  God knows I don’t have a clue either.  Thanks for the ear!

I have been wondering of late, I have been having problems with my temper, I mean things that usually don’t bother me seem to really piss me off of late.  No it is not PMS I have been done with that for sometime and it is not like PMS.  I just seem to be mad some days.  I was wondering if this has anything to do with the diabetes not being under control?  Or maybe it is just rage because I can’t get it under control.  UGGGGGhhhh!  I did read the other day that one of the side effects of Singular (meds I take for allergy)  is rage issues, jiggers etc.  But I have been on Singular now for several years wouldn’t it have caused side effects long before now?   I use to be a nice person, but now it seem like I am mad at the world.  I don’t want to be like that.  I want to be a nice person again.   Not sugary nice, you know like one of those HAPPY PEOPLE, always smiling never have a down day, they sing in the rain (great now I have made the singing in the rain people mad Geezs).   Do I need someone to shrink my head like a  headshrinker someone to delve into my psyche (maybe someone to help with my spelling would be nice too)?  I am not sure I could explain it to them(the psyche not the lousy spelling).   The frustrations of being diabetic on a daily bases can be so mind boggling.  Wow I am on a roll now!   No I’ve got nothing.   Ok people out there, friends, fellow diabetics  let me have it, am I just losing it???    I want to be the nice happy me again.  Or at the very least a better speller?

They say it is a Dog’s life.

I THINK I SHOULD HAVE BEEN A DOG!