Really, it's the truth. I mean nothing is really new, if I talk to you on a regular basis, however for those of you not lucky enough to be online enough to recieve my texty goodness, or hear my sultry voice via phone or in person. Here's the low down. I have DIABEETUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now normally this would detrimental to me, well it is, but thats beside the point. Right now Im coping and on a cocktail of meds that would make any 65 year old blush. Fun is to be had by all, as I deal with trying to save my sanity, my limbs, and most of my internal organs. No seriously, I can win fun prizes like extremity amputation, organ failure, and my favorite coma, with a dash of death. Talk about a winning combo! It really has explained a lot though and probably helped save my marriage.
I was irrationally angry at times. Yeah low blood sugar! WOOHOO!
I spent a lot of time tired and groggy. High Blood Sugar for the exhaustion, call me in the morning.
I would be nauseous and just generally oogie. The highs have it!
I encountered periods of extreme dizziness and would pass out sometimes. HIGHS, YOU ARE SO HIGH!
Shaky hands and a feeling of being high? Yeah that would be the low blood sugar.
So these wonderous beautiful symptoms and craziness I dealt with for a good year before I finally bit the bullet and saw a doctor at Indian Health Services. Thank goodness for IHS, for they pay for my prescriptions and my monitoring equipment, as that would be a pretty big expense since I don't have medical insurance. Sadly it is underfunded public healthcare, so what could normally be diagnosed and worked on in a day normally takes a series of weeks and constant calls and messages left for my physician. But, as they say, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, just do your best to make sure it's not gonna crap on the carpet. So they have a test called an A1C this is a blood test that measures average blood glucose over the past 2 to 3 months and is the best way to measure overall glucose control. It should be measured 2 to 4 times a year and the goal is less than 7 percent. So when I was diagnosed I was an 11.5 which in the blood sugar measurements I use with my monitor would be about 310-345 mg/dL. So to better put into perspective what this means I will post what normal ranges of Blood Sugar Levels should be:
Preprandial plasma glucose (before a meal)
70–130 mg/dl (5.0–7.2 mmol/l)
Postprandial plasma glucose (after a meal)
<180 mg/dl (<10.0 mmol/l)
Which would be less than an A1C of 7, but as you can see I was a tad over and possibly on my way to an early grave. However I got my A1C done again a couple weeks ago and Im at a 7.9, hells yeah! This is also during a period in which my exercise time dropped due to my f'in foot and I was almost a month without my meds. I think I am doing good overall. So congratulate me, love me, and send me cookies! Next, my beautiful bunny, Bunz died. We don't know how or why we woke up and she had passed. I will miss her as she was really a beautiful animal.
Im a sucker for rodents, so I talked my family into adopting a new bunny, her name is Bianca and we got her through the local bunny rescue. However, I think I am expecting too much from her as I had my loving bunny from before. Sadly Bianca Rex, as I've taken to call her, since my wife believes she has some New Zealand like Bunz and some Rex. Well Bianca Rex seems to be tempermental, no worries really one would think as she is I think the agency about 6-8 months old? She was an "Easter Bunny" and once the owner realized what an undertaking this was she surrwendered the kiddo to the agency here. All well and good but let's explore Bianca's movements:
Bought and moved to new home
Given up and moved to foster home
Once everything was done at foster home moved to local pet store
Shortly before adoption moved to second branch of pet store
Adopted by us
This is a lot for one bunny yo deal with, so I've done my best to be patient and try not to expect her to be like my Bunz. All I can really say is wow! If anybody can say bunnies have distinct personalities it would be me. She is letting me know she isn't Bunz in almost all ways, it's great as I have to adjust with my new bunny. Umm that actually might be it, who knows, all I really know is that the world moves ona dn I will maybe update again in the future?...
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