Guess I haven't had much to gripe or comment about, lately.
Actually, I suppose I should have done something, early last month, after my physical.
You see, Laurie and I have been working to get licensed for foster parenting and/or adoption. Should we end up adopting, we would go through this agency, The Villages, and would have to do foster parenting, first, for the child. Probably not a bad idea, anyhow...try before you buy, if you will.
Anyhow, to bring my train of thought back onto the right track, as part of the licensing/training process, we had to have physicals.
Now, I should mention that in my family, diabetes runs on my mother's side of the family (and apparently on my father's, now, too, but that's another story), and heart disease runs on my father's.
So, since I have all sorts of risk factors running in my family, the doctor and I decided I should have some blood work done, to see where I stood. The blood sugar came back at 262...keeping in mind that the normal range is something like 90-140. The doctor wanted me to come back in for a hemoglobin A-1-C test (this test gives you a three month average of the percentage of the surface of your hemoglobin molecules that are covered with sugars).
Well, I put it off for quite a while...like over a month. Finally, my brother, who was diagnosed as a type II diabetic about 11 years ago, and my wife kept after me until I went in on Tuesday for the test. On Wednesday, the doctor's office told me that my A-1-C came back at 9.4 (normal range being 4.8-6.4). Congratulations, I'm a Type II diabetic!
So, I go in on Thursday, get a prescription for Metformin (generic name for Glucophage), and a testing meter and strips. Yahoo!!! Daily blood letting!!!
Woohoo!!!
Laurie and I have been working to get licensed for foster parenting and/or adoption. Should we end up adopting, we would go through this agency, The Villages, and would have to do foster parenting, first, for the child. Probably not a bad idea, anyhow...try before you buy, if you will.
Anyhow, to bring my train of thought back onto the right track, as part of the licensing/training process, we had to have physicals.
Now, I should mention that in my family, diabetes runs on my mother's side (and apparently on my father's, now), and heart disease runs on my father's
I inherited baldness from my maternal grandfather.
I inherited diabetes from my mother.
Now, all I have to do is develop heart disease from my father, and I hit the hereditary trifecta.
Oy!