Sept 26, 2017
A quick update: HAH!
My blood work is back, and it is RIGHTEOUS. I am doing a Victorious Warrior Dance and I invite you to join me; we are dancing a thumping, aggressive circle around the fallen bodies of my poor health; we shake bottles of water fiercely and menace the corpses with foam rollers!
Look:
In March, my fasting blood sugar was 126. That’s high; it’s supposed to be between 65 and 99.
Today it is 94. NORMAL.
My A1C (which looks at blood sugar over the last few months) is 5.7. This allows the grumpy nurse to look at me in triumph. “Normal is 4.8 to 5.6. YOU ARE PRE-DIABETIC.”
My reply? “Nerts to you, Betty Lou. Don’t get so excited. Watch me.”
What else? Ah – cholesterol. It was 255 in March. (Normal is 100 to 199, now that they have drugs that can lower cholesterol artificially; before those drugs existed, the safety line was 240, but let us not diverge into a bitch session about who owns or influences the FDA.)
Today it’s 189.
GrumpyNurse is at pains to point out that my good cholesterol still isn’t high enough and my bad cholesterol isn’t low enough, but I put up the shame-deflecting Hand of Chip. “Don’t even,” I said. “Let’s take a moment to admire that 189, shall we?”
Everything else is improved and in the “normal” range except my calcium (which is one-tenth of one percent below normal; clearly my body adjusting to the dramatic decline in ice cream!) and vitamin D, which while low is still twice what it was in March. I’m going to take vitamin D supplements for eight weeks. They’re the prettiest clear cobalt blue pills you ever saw; like swallowing fine jewelry.
That’s my report. Join me in a war whoop?
Excellent news! You are a hero!
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Isn’t it lovely?!? Hard work isn’t always rewarded, but it was today! Thanks for sharing my glee!
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Congratulations Pru! I have been putting my fasting bloodwork off for several months now because I’ve been afraid that my sugar will be high. It never has been before, but I have turned into the cookie monster over the past year and I’m a little worried. Inflammation is another biggie that I worry about because, well, because I am inflamed! But you know what? After following your blog and especially after reading this entry, I’m just going to do it!
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That’s wonderful, Kate! And the number you get this time is just the next point on the path – you don’t have to settle for it if it isn’t what you hoped. We’ll get better and stronger together!
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That is great news Pru! I need to model after you too. I eat horribly!
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Thanks, Kathleen! Don’t hold me as a paragon, though – otherwise you’ll spot me buying ice cream in the grocery store and I’ll have to hide my head in shame!
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