a somewhat unexpected update on my health plight. well, perhaps sooner than expected, look you see, if being pedantic about semantics is your thing. there is every chance, barring another "incident" (and i have learned to rule nothing out), that this could well be the final one.
just for a while mind. for those that had hopes there would be no further updates on my health due to me no longer being a going concern, well, disappointment is yours. i appear to be doing quite well. likely better than that, but i am inclined to err on caution.
for those of you just becoming aware of my being medically busted, well, i would suggest some other reading before continuing. right here you can read the somewhat exciting first episode. after than there's the quite boring follow up which is to be found here. then there was the most recent, before this one, other follow up session here.
i shall indeed give some explanation to the above picture (yes, VHS mode), but some context first. after the last appointment (see links above) i was told that the next one would be a telephone only check in. so i was somewhat surprised, and had fears for the worst, when an actual in person appointment was raised for me. these fears were fed by the request for more and more of my urine in them smart sample test tube jar things.
my fears did not exactly abate when, on opening my various test results, the attending physician said, with some surprise, "oh my god". as it turns out this was a good use of this phrase. within the space of about four (or just south of five) months i had managed to get my blood sugar level down from a "why are you not dead or in a coma" level of 107 (!) to a close to normal (or at the least acceptable) 50. hence the coin representation of 107 and 50 above.
there was an unexpected sensation of elevated joy at this. perhaps such was stimulated by fearing more bad news was coming, but also i had no realistic expectation things would "move so well" and so relatively quickly. especially not with memories of the sensation of that "incident" remaining relatively fresh in mind, along with the fear of that ever happening again.
yes, i would suggest that mostly (or for the most part) this rather miraculous (going on the reaction of a medical professional) change in medical fortune has be propped up by pills. lots and lots of pill. but, dare i say, some of the reason is down to the changes they guided me on, with particular emphasis on amending my diet. i would suggest, for instance, that in the last four (or so) months i have consumed more carrots than in the collective months before then. since i don't have all that many images here i though it best to add a pic of one particularly large carrot i recently washed, peeled and grated to go in with some mince, with a packet of cigarettes (sorry) for scale.
under no circumstances at all would i claim to be an "expert" or have expertise in this, but i am mindful there's a chance someone is reading this as they have searched for help. even if any help i could be, like with all in my life, is kind of abstract. all i really did was follow the advice. for a start i have not had a takeaway since all this happened. other than that the guidance was to cut down sugar intake as much as possible and generally eat more better, to use a phrase.
with regards to eating more better, well that's been an accidental if not incidental taking in the often spoken of "five a day". must confess i am getting somewhat bored of stir fry now, but also it (with chicken, mostly) is a quick and easy meal to make and the ingredients tick the boxes. further i have taken quite a shine to mince, with peppers, carrots and onions mixed in. beyond takeaways "snacks", in particular chocolate, are now pretty much gone from my life. well, i have a couple of packs of sugar free sweets.
pills are, i suspect, going to remain a constant. at the least for now. my physician raised the idea that if i were to keep up this "recovery rate" it might be possible i get to a stage where medication is no longer required, that the diabetes is being "managed naturally". this is not something i am either working towards or (nor) counting on. i would suggest i am "indifferent" to the medication side, really. yes, some do get upset at the idea of daily pill taking, which i understand. my view is it is "just one of them things" what i need to gone done do. really, i suppose the fear of any repeat of that initial episode would see me gladly take as many tablets as they care to suggest.
no, of course it is not all "good" news. there was the small matter, so to speak, of the need to do further tests on my urine. apparently my kidneys are, and this is my interpretation, in an "oh" state. they are not working quite like they should, yet also they are not busted (or f****d). a theory exists that this new tablet i am on, what does something to whatever it is kidneys do, will "fix" what issues are on the go with them. mostly that will be the one pill i am now on which is one of the types them yuppie tw@t bellends are using for weight loss, but no not the most famous (ozempic?) one.
since on that subject, weight loss has become a thing. i was reasonably surprised that i had not specifically been told to lose weight when all of this commence. this appears to be happening anyway. between my two most recent appointments no more nor less time than two weeks had passed, with me losing between 4kgs - 5kgs in that time. which i believe is really good going. there is a danger, then, of me rather fading away than burning out.
breakfast pictured above, just to showcase taking in some of them five (or more) a day. yes there probably are even more food images i could add here, but that's not really my sort of thing.
for future medical appointments and, well, none planned any time soon. as things stand i need to go do more blood tests and check on the results around february 18 next year, which i should be all right remembering. then it will be that eye and feet test thing again around may 26, which once again is a date i should remember. unless they collapse, or spaz out (or whatever it is they do) i shall need to do some more urine tests for the kidneys around august 9, which once more is a date i have every confidence that i will remember.
quite unexpected for a medical professional to tell me to "keep doing what i am doing", but here we are. oh yes, on that note, exercise. i was asked what i am doing, and the answer to that it walking. this is just about the only exercise i am prepared to do, since it is just about the only one which allows, perhaps even encourages, smoking as you do it (sorry). i try and get a couple of miles of strolls in a day, hence the recent ipod resurrection. yes, i have been advised to (at least) cut down on smoking. maybe.
right, that's that. when i first wrote of all of this happening, or kicking off, i would not have thought that i would be doing a "i got better post" at all, never mind so relatively soon. let me leave it to you to determine if that's good or bad.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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