I stopped taking my diabetes medications: Metformin, Januvia and Actos . I stopped the Metformin a week prior to the procedure since it contributes to increased bleeding. When I left the hospital the doctor said to take only the Actos if my blood sugar went above 150. A couple of times, at first, the meter read 148-149. I took an Actos. Shortly after that, my blood glucose came down to 108 and has now regulated to around 120-128. My blood sugar became consistently normal shortly after I got home from the hospital. I can wipe Diabetes Type II off my list of life-threatening diseases. I can't wait to see my A1C level.
The next fatal disease I look forward to wiping away is sleep apnea. I figure about 20-30lbs more weight loss and I can put the CPAP machine away. I'm going to find out where I can donate these machines and the extra supplies I have laying around in a drawer somewhere. Someone else can finally have a good night's safe sleep who can't afford to get a CPAP machine.
I'm going to hang on to my glucometer for a little while longer. I want to keep seeing my blood sugar actually normalize to somewhere below 120 after rising.
I took the dogs for a long walk beside the beach at Pacifica. It was nice, even though it was shrouded in fog. The smell and sound of the ocean can really get my juices flowing and calm my soul. I look forward to doing that again as soon as the rain decides to go away.
Today is my first day of soft food. My breakfast didn't turn out so well. I have been looking forward to this day since about the middle of last week. It is so boring to have one protein shake after another. I would look forward to my chewable multivitamins twice a day, so I had something to chew! That adversity did lead to some inventions of my own in a limited capacity. I would jazz the shakes up with things like: cayenne pepper in the chocolate or coarse salt and orange extract in the chocolate protein pudding. I used left-over de-caf coffee to make mocha's.
This morning my hubby was making scrambled eggs and hash browns and he fixed me up with a 1/4 cup of soft scrambled eggs. They were delicious! Now, I'm supposed to take 15 minutes to eat a meal and I think I polished off those eggs in about 7 minutes. I'm watching TV, when all of the sudden I feel like I'm going to vomit. I sat up and concentrated on NOT vomiting for a couple of minutes until the feeling passed.
I figure from here on out, it's going to be a series of lessons on what I can and cannot eat, how slow or how fast I can eat or drink something. There is certainly a good built-in reminder when you step over the line!
Eating slowly is going to be strange for me since I come from a family of fast eaters. People used to say: "When you eat with the Cook's, you eat alone". Once, the mother of my friend had a race to see who could eat dinner the fastest....I won...
My previous profession as a Surgical Tech would occasionally require slamming a cheeseburger and soda while running down the operating room corridor and setting up the instruments and equipment for a motorcycle accident, gunshot wound or other kinds of trauma.
I think lunch will be simply a 1/4 cup of cottage cheese with some green beans (a recipe from my pal, Heather) eaten s-l-o-w-l-y over 15 minutes.
S-L-O-W-L-Y
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