DOCTOR VISIT

 

I got a text message from the Doctor's office on Saturday morning.  It was informing me that my Hba1c was HIGH, and to make an appointment to see my GP.

Well luckily for me, I had already booked an appointment, for this morning.

So, I shall go and find out just how bad it is.   I'm picking it's pretty bad.

I've not taken any diabetic medication for about a year.  Not since I went off Trulicity.  I was prescribed Metformin, but refuse to take it.

It gives me terrible diarrhoea, and I suffer for days after just taking ONE of them.  So, today I hope Leo gives me an alternative, one that doesn't upset my stomach so much.  Maybe I should go back on Trulicity, and just toughen up in relation to the injection?

I'll see what Leo thinks.

Edited out... sisters funeral is tomorrow.   So I might try going to craft group after lunch.

Then much later on today I have the plumber coming to instal an insinkerator.  We have really missed not having one here.

I think I'll need to get the electrician here at some point as well, to wire it in, and also put an outdoor power point where we want the water feature.  

10.30 am:   And just like that, I'm back on Trulicity!  Twice a week.

Leo said my Hba1c had DOUBLED since I last had a blood test, it's now at 96.  Whoops.  My lowest ever Hba1c reading was 49, when I was on Trulicity.

So, I have to just suck it up and do the injections.

I've got numbing cream again, and Leo told me to keep it on for FOUR HOURS before the injection, then I shouldn't feel a thing.  Righty ho then.  I will do the first one this evening.

Next... I've got a bloody sore shoulder.  Twisted it when moving shit back in May.  Now I have to get an ultra sound (with a steroid injection), fuck another injection!

Next... I have a bloody sore toe!  Yep, I went to the Doctor's with a LIST of things wrong!

So I now wait for an appointment to see a Podiatrist as well.  It might be a corn?  or an ulcer.  Time will tell.   Edit:  After reading up on CORNS on Toes, yep, that's what I've got for sure. 

NEXT:  Little bump on my face.  It's a mole, not looking nasty AT ALL.  So that's a load off my mind.

I am home now, and Lacy is visiting.  I will be going out again soon though, as I want to get a couple of things from the mall.

2.46 pm:  Home from craft group, where I spent about an hour or so helping make knitted teddy bears.  Something I might have a go at in the next few days.

I'm now going to blob out and scroll through You Tube etc.  The Plumber called off sick, he might come tomorrow.  😖😕

PETA:  NO.  Because I am over 65, most medications are free for me.  Trulicity WOULD come at a cost to me though, if I didn't have several 'high risk factors'.   Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Oedema, Blood Clotting Risk, Bleeding Issues etc etc.  So I am very lucky to get it for free.

10.17 pm, and I've been watching heaps of You Tube musical videos this evening.  Some really good singers out there that ya never hear about here in New Zealand.  Sad really.  

Anyway, it's been a pleasant evening.  Time to sign off for the day.

Catch ya tomorrow.