Morning grumpy -> Afternoon better!
Mar. 29th, 2004 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserISP is working at home. YAY! Nothing like net access to make me feel like I'm not trapped alone on an island.
Follow up at the doctor's. Some good and some bad:
Good: Blood pressure went way down (she said "Very good!"), I have plenty of iron in my blood (which could have been an issue, since I'm not a meat-eater).
Bad: One of the two glucose tests was pretty bad (luckily it was the less important of the two). She's giving me two months to work on changing it with diet and exercise, then I get more bloodwork and we'll see if I need to go on meds or not. As I very much don't want to be on meds (which would probably be injections! Eek!), I'm going to see if I can get 95% of the sugar out of my life. (Luckily she listed "candy, cake, cookies, donuts, pastries" as things to avoid, but didn't tell me I need to stop with white bread and potatoes and such.) Would you believe that just two days ago I made the long drive to get marzipan and bought four large bars of it? *sniff* Going to take it to work tomorrow and give it away. I have a chocolate bunny I need to find a home for, too. *sniff* (On the other hand, removing most of the sugar should help speed along weight loss.)
She looked at my throat, and said there's a virus going wild in our area right now and that's probably what I have. (She named it, but I can't recall what exactly it was. Crusacks Virus, or something like that.) All I can do is "ride it out" and wait for my body to beat it. This actually makes me happy, as antibiotics make me sick as a dog.
Work is going into a mega-sucky period, and I have another medical appointment on Friday (treadmill test! Fun! ...not.), but what're you going to do? Once we get through this week, next week should be semi-better.
Follow up at the doctor's. Some good and some bad:
Good: Blood pressure went way down (she said "Very good!"), I have plenty of iron in my blood (which could have been an issue, since I'm not a meat-eater).
Bad: One of the two glucose tests was pretty bad (luckily it was the less important of the two). She's giving me two months to work on changing it with diet and exercise, then I get more bloodwork and we'll see if I need to go on meds or not. As I very much don't want to be on meds (which would probably be injections! Eek!), I'm going to see if I can get 95% of the sugar out of my life. (Luckily she listed "candy, cake, cookies, donuts, pastries" as things to avoid, but didn't tell me I need to stop with white bread and potatoes and such.) Would you believe that just two days ago I made the long drive to get marzipan and bought four large bars of it? *sniff* Going to take it to work tomorrow and give it away. I have a chocolate bunny I need to find a home for, too. *sniff* (On the other hand, removing most of the sugar should help speed along weight loss.)
She looked at my throat, and said there's a virus going wild in our area right now and that's probably what I have. (She named it, but I can't recall what exactly it was. Crusacks Virus, or something like that.) All I can do is "ride it out" and wait for my body to beat it. This actually makes me happy, as antibiotics make me sick as a dog.
Work is going into a mega-sucky period, and I have another medical appointment on Friday (treadmill test! Fun! ...not.), but what're you going to do? Once we get through this week, next week should be semi-better.
