Things I've learned this week in regards diabetes and glucose levels --- not all brands/types of tortilla's have the same amount of carbs. I had tried some tortillas a few months ago and it gave me much better results than I have if I use bread. But the last few weeks I've noticed my Saturday night after tea readings have been abnormally high. Turns out the tortillas I've been using the last 3 weeks had about 3x the number of carbs as the other brand/type I was using. OH. That'll teach me to read labels!
Last week I had several medical appointments. Monday I saw the plastics team to check my wound, and it's still healing at the same rate (about a centimetre a month), and since there's nothing for them to do but wait, they made my next appointment in 3 months time. I still am to have RDNS change the dressing every other day (including weekends). Wednesday I had the endoscopy and colonoscopy. I don't remember much about it, except that the drugs they gave me lasted all day and I felt very mellow and lovely for the rest of the day. They found only one polyp and have sent that in for a pathology report. I won't know anything more until I see the Gastro specialist on Friday (3 August).
A week ago Friday I had the ultrasound to see if I had fluid in my bursa (hip). I did, so they did an ultrasound guided injection of a painkiller and cortisone (Celestone). I was a bit hyper for the rest of the day and the next, but fortunately it seems to have levelled off and I'm fine. It also seems to have worked as I've only had a couple incidences where my leg has just 'disappeared' out from under me.
I went to our local Breast Stroke meeting last Friday with Jen, and took along a pair of shorts and t-shirt. When it was time for the pool/spa, I sat on the edge of the spa and dangled my legs in the water. It was lovely. While I have this hole in my side, swimming is out of the question, but at least I can enjoy getting my feet and legs wet. Jen came for tea and that was nice - she always enthuses over Rod's chips and that of course makes him feel good. And they are nice chips too.
This week I saw the Diabetes Education Nurse and she said even though I've had a few highs here and there, the readings are excellent and much much better than what she anticipated they'd be with my having had a cortisone injection last week. She's pretty sure my next HBA1C readings should be around 6.3 or so, which is interesting because that's what my BGL section on my website says too, and I didn't get a chance to print out anything from my website. We discussed the possibility that it's been the green tea that I drink that have kept my levels from spiking up after the cortisone injection, and she thinks it's quite possible. Whatever it is she said, keep doing what you're doing because it's working.
On the way out of Noarlunga Hospital (where my appt with the diabetes nurse was), I noticed a used book sale being held - 10c to 20c a book, so I grabbed a few for Bookcrossing and added my coins to the box. Yesterday I had an appt with Centrelink and on the way home I had Rod stop at the hospital and I dropped off a bag of books for the sale that I've had in our boot for quite awhile. It felt good to 'give something back' since I haven't done a lot of Bookcrossing lately and that's another bag of books that are now out in the world and not in my way.
Wednesday this past week I went in to see my GP, prepared to have a blood test for my diabetes, cholesterol and anemia. I'd even fasted from Midnight the night before. He decided not to test me though, because I still have an infection and I'm not well enough to have the test as it'd give wonky results. A few weeks ago, I was given a 7 day prescription for antibiotics. This was followed with another 7 day supply of another type. When I returned after finishing though, he changed me to another type of antibiotic, this time for 2 weeks. These ended last week, and since then all the things that have been infected for the last two months or longer returned. This time it's a sinus, ear and chest infection. So now I have a 30 day supply of antibiotics. Hope it does the job!! My left ear is totally blocked (and very very painful) and the right one is partially blocked. So now I'm taking decongestants too. I'm really sick of this. The last time I had a whole winter of sinus infections was right before I was diagnosed with BC, but I'll bet that had to do with diabetes too.
After not having the blood test yesterday, as I'd been fasting from the night before, I was quite hungry so went to the shopping centre and bought a large mug of tea, and a spinach and cheese roll. I then wandered around the shopping centre while waiting for my prescriptions to be filled. I ended up buying myself a new wallet, and ... I didn't buy it, but I looked at baby clothes. I found the cutest little plain linen dress (?) that looked like the clothes I know I had when I was a baby as I inherited them for use on my dolls. I got just a little bit teary-eyed. Yes, that's right Granny Gaelyne is hoping for a girl, I guess. I think it's going to be very hard to be a long distance granny too. If my window shopping emotions are anything to go on.
Last, I have updated our Webcam page so it only updates the images on the page as well as the time and temperature every 15 seconds rather than refreshing the whole page. It works great, and it's something I sorted out how to do on my own. I found one example that worked with one image and did some changes and tweaks so I could use it for all 3 of our current cams. Rod also changed the Doorcam camera recently so that it uses the better colour night time camera. We still a USB cam I haven't tried since updating to Ubuntu, and also have an outside camera with a slight flaw (it seems to show a Martian landscape) that we haven't put into use yet.
Well I think I'm done catching up for the moment. I'm off to take a nap now... as I've been typing I've been getting more and more drowsy, in a good way. Cheers! ZZZzzzzzz
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