Friday, June 12, 2009

Did you all convert comfortably today...

Today was the big day for all you analoguers (another made up word by me) to convert to digital!
A landmark in technology; bah, humbug.
I am still wondering about the better picture thing, since we have had this new equipment, one of the firsties (another made up by me word) in February!
As for freeing up the airways for emergency agencies, we will see, but so far if the no signal thing that I am getting when we are already on it is an example of how that works…I’m not sure what that glitch is about, but I thought the emergency radios, phones and the like were using what we freed up? But I’m not that smart.

The current United States population, as of last year, early 2008, was 303,500,000, and supposedly now there is only 1 million of you that are getting snow today on that glass fronted box in your living-room, den, or kitchen or wherever it is now not doing too much entertaining. Where have you been, under a rock? They gave out coupons, dropped the price to half, and you still didn’t listen? And you without cable or satellite shame on you.

Sadly, they forgot about the people really in dire straights having to make that horrible decision whether to buy prescription drugs or food, pay the bills or loose the roof over their head and such. There has to be someway to help the fall through the cracks people, I’ve been there, I can relate, sort of, I am there in a small way…with health coverage that is.

This morning we went to my medical appointment, and I brought with me the information I was told to collect: my daily morning fasting glucose numbers, and the average for the ten days taken was 114.1. Apparently, it was enough to warrant a further non invasive test that is new to me but apparently not my neighbor from Canada, she had mentioned that she had to watch hers when she was given her number of 6.7, but she brought that down to below 6, it confused me, and so unlike me I did not ask for an explanation.

You see, I was only familiar with the glucose tolerance tests of days of yore. This one is meteorologically eons away from that in quickness and some form of true accuracy it’s called the A1C Test, a stick in the finger blood test, and believe it or not it measures your average blood glucose levels over the past 2-3 months! Wow! An A1C level below 6.5 or lower is good, but mine was 7.1.

Now, wow, this doesn’t mean that I am a diabetic with type1, you see it also encompassed that little weekend splurge I took back in April at the hospital while under the influence of Solu- Medrol IV 1000MG for three whole days causing a diabetic reaction and me needing low level injections of insulin. Well, now I am back to square one, and I will be taking my glucose levels for the next three months, but only twice a week, once fasting, the first thing in the morning, and once two hours after my biggest meal of the day. But it does mean that I am more than likely pre-type 2 diabetic or even more than a possibility on that road to type 2 if I don’t follow what I was told with low carbs etc., apples are carbs? Who would of thunk it? Whew, I really wasn’t liking those stickings that much, and I hope this proves it won’t have to become a natural occurrence in my jazzy lifestyle; it would sure put a glitch into that!

On that more than you want to know ending to my info I will bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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