Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Today started with the alarm going off at 9. That wasn't so bad, but I hadn't gone to sleep until almost 2, so it was bad enough. But, then, with Ron home, I can't get myself up - oh, no, he's gotta holler at me every few minutes to say "are you up?" - you'd think the man doesn't know that I know I have a doctor appointment. Men!
We got on the road at 10, as planned, and got to the doctor's office, where things went pretty well, thank you very much. Ron's blood pressure was 132/79. As you know, 120/80 is normal, so that was a very good number. We were so relieved with that news!
My HbA1c number was not so good, though. The last time I was there, it was 6.3 and Doc let me quit taking one of my meds, and I was hoping that this time, I could lower the other from four times a day down to three times a day. Nope, not gonna happen right now. The A1c number is an average over the last few months - in this case, three - and this time, the holidays happened within those three months, and my number was 7.5. While that's above the 7 that they like, Doc said that that was an okay number, seeing what it has been at over the past, and seeing that the holidays were in there. He said that we'll see what it is in three months and make a decision from there.
He was pretty happy with both my and Ron's weight and told us to keep up what we are doing, and urging us to get more exercise (that evil E word! I told him) now that it will be getting warmer. We assured him that we certainly planning on it, and that we are.
I also had Doc check my ears, and he said they were full of wax, and he got out his handy-dandy HUGE syringe thingy to squirt warm water into my ears (one at a time, of course) and get the wax out. Between the forceful warm water squirted in and his forceps/tweezers, he got some ugly nasty hunks of wax out of my ears - and here I thought I did a decent job yesterday with my little bulb syringe. Man. I hate, Hate, HATE when that needs done! Doc just laughs at me as I squirm, make faces, and squiggle my legs around as he squirts that water into my ear. He's a fun doctor!
Being Ash Wednesday, according to Church rules, we are to fast today, but are permitted one meal with no meat, which is okay because we like fish. Illnesses exempt us from total strictness on this, but we follow the 'rules' as much as we can. So, after leaving Doc's, we went to Crackhead Barrel for our lunch. Ron got a Rainbow Trout meal, with a sweet potato and broccoli for his lunch, and I got their "Fish Fry" with cod, steak fries, and a side salad for my lunch. And - are you all sitting down? - I didn't even walk around the store, not at all, when we were done eating! Nope, we just left. Oh, it was hard, but I did it.
We came home, and just chilled until time to go to church for tonight's services. After that, we went to Arby's for their fish sandwiches (2/$5!) for our huge - one sandwich each - supper. So, we may not have totally fasted, but we did a good job today.
Not surprisingly, when I put my food into MFP, I was 350 some calories short for the day, and MFP hollered at me. Ah, well.
Our bodies (and minds) were well taken care of with the doctor visit, and our souls were well taken care of with the religious aspect of the day.
We are good, all the way through. Until tomorrow, anyway.
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