Hey, Everybody!

How's everyone doin'? Things are pretty copacetic around here, although I've been in a cast for the last week. No, nothing new, just this same leg... ok, HALF-leg, still not healing in one little spot, and a new spot has opened up that the young doctor said was from bending my knee. The bending was causing the bandage to rub on that spot, hence causing skin sloughage(wonderful word, sloughage, innit?). So he thought he'd just show me, and put the leg in a cast up to mid-thigh.

Know what? Unless specifically made to be weight-bearing, casts don't hold up too well, or at least my casts don't. The end was crushed in, the upper rim was going soft, and the crush aspect from the end was moving up toward my knee. Hey! Gotta go to work, right? Gotta get in and out of my car somehow, right? At least I couldn't bend my knee! Doesn't matter how awkward it was for me to move around, or to transfer into the car. Gotta keep that knee straight, at all costs!

Well, today when the older Dr. saw me, he asked me if I knew how to wrap my leg with just an Ace Bandage. I told him "Give me one, and I'll show you!" I wrapped that sucker up in a heartbeat! He said, " Well, I guess you do. Come see me in two weeks." Now I'm back to this two week appointment crap. Guess I'm just gonna have to build that wheelchair after all.


Walrilla

A Good Report

Well, I had a good visit with my Internal Medicine doctor today. He said that my HBA1c level was down from 12 to 7.5. That means my three-month average for my blood sugar went from well over 300 to around 180. For me, that's hella-good news! I know it's not where it should be, but at least it's on the decline! YAY!!!!

He also said that the triglycerides were down(good), but the LDL is up(bad). He put me back on LesChol, which has worked well before, so that's good. And my blood pressure was 134/76! That's without any BP medicine at all, since he took me off it after I nearly passed out at PT one day last month. When they measured it that day, it was around 60/30. That's right, sixty over thirty. That is definitely not a fun feeling, folks. That's getting way too close to NO pressure!

All in all, a pretty good visit! Guess I'm gonna be around for a little while longer!

Walrilla