what a weekend

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Fri afternoon after eating a really 'safe' meal, 2 hrs afterwards my BS# was

197! YIKE. I called the nurse educator and together we figured out what I

should eat over the weekend. You can bet I took more glucometer tests than ever

before. They bounced all around but were 'safe'.

Then Monday, when everything looked ok, I took the last reading of the night and

it didn't even say a number. It just said " HI " . Talk about freaking. Hubby

went to read the booklet. I didn't have time: just called the 800# for the

glucometer co. and spoke to a rep. She told me what to do and I did. It was

better, much better. 123 or something like that. Big difference from " HI " which

she said denoted over 500 as in EEEEEEK.

A month ago, I was having trouble understand how to work the glucometer and

called a rep who sent me another one waiting for me to send the original one

back. I procrastinated as usual, which this time is a good thing. I switched

to the new one and lo and behold, my BS#s have been nearly normal! (thank the

lord)

I am sending the old one back tomorrow in the a.m. and keeping the new one.

Told the nurse educator and the nutritionist at my endo's office what happened

and they wholeheartedly agreed to send the old one back, BUT, heck, what I went

through this weekend - yuck.

I was spending all my time figuring out what to eat, when to eat, how to eat. I

never in my life spent so much time devoted to food! Hope I never really have

to again. I kept my carbs down to like 6 for breakfast and maybe 10 for lunch

and dinner. What a pain.

Today, I had more. :-) a few more calories, too, but boy did I need some stress

relief after realizing it was the glucometer. Now I have to figure out

what/when to eat the next few days.

And, another good thing happened. I found a therapist who works with food

disorders and she will see me next Fri! I told her I thought I only needed some

short term intervention because I am realizing how angry I am at having to deal

with food all the time and just needed to talk it out with someone who would

understand what I was saying to get on track so everything didn't blow up in my

face.

I've lost 25 lbs :-). The fasting lipid panel passed my cardiologist today

although one number was wrong. She said if I keep loosing weight it will just

come into place and she wasn't going to give me any meds for it! I should see

her in 6 months unless I stop loosing weight and staying on the 'diabetic

program'.

I am trying to commit to exercising/swimming 3x/wk and doing a sit down aerobics

tape 3x/wk. Sounds good, doesn't it LOL :-)

JUDITH

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