Thursday, May 28, 2009

Medical office visit proves a good choice for peace of mind

This morning we went to the Health Department and the nurse practitioner saw me in the office there. And she did a short-cut test to determine whether or not I would need a more elaborate test for diabetes. My finger was pricked with the pin and the blood extracted was placed in the testing machine (just like in the hospital), and I had a non-fasting result of 99, which is still in the normal range. But due to my family history and it being still slightly high it was suggested that I pick up one of those testing meters just to keep track of any higher deviations. The actual meter was fairly reasonable at $14.95, at the generic price, but the additional testing strips were $30.00, a bit high we thought but cheaper than a glucose tolerance test. This is a non invasive way to keep track of an insidious lethal disease possibility. So there you have it.

After the appointment we went to my discount hair cutters with my coupon to take care of my eyes disappearing from a diagnosis of too much hair on the far head, we (the hair stylist and I) conferred and then concluded that my hair color fix-up could wait until next month. So from there we went for a quickie lunch of soup and sandwich for me and my hubby had a sandwich with all the fixings, next stop was onto the grocery where our pharmacy is too, and picked up the meter and my prescription as well as our dinner selection, London Broil on sale $2.27 a pound, dinner was $3.04!

Exhausting for me since it was my first outing in over a week, and so the rest of the afternoon I chilled. And have been feeling icky now.

Now the news is saying that people with fixed rate mortgages are losing their homes, due to job losses and no ability to sell, and so they are living off their savings and credit cards! How awful!

GM will be trying to get out of bankruptcy sooner rather than later.
The stock market was up over 100 points!
Ripple effects are saving over 100K jobs!

Everyday we have some good and some bad to deal with, and so we must to go on.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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