Friday, February 18, 2011

Confession of the Medicine...

Wow, it has been a crazy couple weeks and I feel like my prayer list just keeps getting longer and longer!  Sometimes I get so wrapped up with everything else I kinda forget about myself.  Well, I have been working on exercising more...my favorite is still the water aerobics!  I think in my former life I may have been a whale, that is why I love the water and tend to feel like one when I look in the mirror.  But HEY!  I'm working on it!  My doc says he would rather see me lose wieght slowly and keep it off than to drop fast.  LOL,drop fast...like that will happen!  So slowly it is!  What tends to be a wake up call is often something that is usually tragic in some way.  This week, it is a friends husband, who is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  I was told he has diabetes and that doesn't help his situation.  So, I guess that scared me a little.  We take things for granted every day, not intentionally but we all do.  I see that taking my health for granted is something that I can no longer do.  I just want to feel healthy, not a toothpic, but healthy.  I am taking my liquid vitamin and I have been a huge skeptic about this, like for well over a year and now I wonder why I didn't start sooner.  However, I didn't want to believe, and sometimes things sound too good to be true and that is what I thought.  There are those that benefit from certain things and those that do not and as much as I hate to admit it...since I have been taking my Vibe, I have genuinely felt better than I have in a long time.  Now mind you, I'm not taking this for weight loss but for general health.  I was sick of being tired, sick of just not feeling real motivated and knew that I needed to make some changes.  So I sucked it up and tried it.  I have labs next week...OK, I was supposed to get in this week but procrastinated and got busy.  I thought my doc appt. was the end of the week, but according to my calendar it is Monday.  So, will go to the doc, get my lecture, and get my labs done.  I also kinda wanted to extend my lab work as  my one test is the A1C which is a test that averages the last three months, I figured I better get a couple good weeks in there.  So we will see what that looks like.  I'm also going to be brutally honest and tell you that I am not the best at taking my meds like I should.  I am supposed to give myself a shot 2 times a day...kinda ends up more like 1 time each day or so...I KNOW....and 1 of my pills I am supposed to take 2 times each day...I take it 1 time a day....I KNOW...but you want me to be honest right?  The way I see it, I am going to get this under control on my own, so when my doc tells me I can decrease my med...well, I'm so ahead of the game!  OK, I KNOW, not the smartest idea, but I do check my blood sugar and it hasn't been out of control and it is improving, so I am doing something right!  The way I see it, if I would be taking my meds as prescribed, I think it would be too low, so really I feel I got it all figured out.  NO LECTURES necessary!  Lab on Monday and see doc on Monday.  Are things improving?  Slowly but they are INDEED!

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