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Apr. 14th, 2012 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichIt feels as though I had a busy week but I didn't really. And I spent one day (or rather, one whole afternoon) in my bathrobe sitting in my favorite chair reading a romance novel. Bossman came home from work and caught me there and immediately started searching the room for bon-bons.
Dentist visit was done and new filling put in - thems as said, "Gleevec will weaken your teeth" were not kidding - I had three cavities at my last checkup, which are more than I have ever developed in my whole adult life. It was a shock to me.
Watching my glucose level has been a rollercoaster. Late one evening, after not eating much and certainly not much in the way of carbs, I tested myself and it read "253" (!) - and I just broke down. I'd been doing so well, and it was what? What else could I do? My little brain started twirling as I sat in the kitchen and cried. I calmed myself (Ohhhmmmm) and once I'd become more myself, the thought occurred to me that I had not washed my hands before I did the finger stick. So I remedied that and tried it again. 134. What a relief! And how I laughed at myself! It does spike after a meal, but my normal spike has been no higher than 190, usually lower than that. I'm not getting below 100, though, even after a night of long sleep. I have to up my exercise level.
I've lost 10 pounds since I started watching my food intake, and that seems to be continuing. I've learned that I should not shop for food when I'm hungry - not for the 'normal' reason but because then I spot, and focus on, foods that I can no longer eat, which leads to an immediate leap over the Cliffs of Despondency. It is difficult to shop for food, especially with one's husband, if one is trying to hide tears at the same time. Silly me! Again, a lesson learned.
Medical stuff continues apace. Kidney function is down (another Gleevec side-effect) sufficiently severe enough that I will be discussing the discontinuation of the Gleevec wih my oncologist when I see him next. The side effects are hammering me hard and I have to admit, the kidney one ("moderate kidney disease") is wigging me right out. Luckily for my sanity, a woman who also takes Gleevec reported that when she was done with her therapy and was able to discontinue it, her liver & kidney functions settled back out to normal - she'd not be affected long enough to do permanent damage. I don't know if I'll be that lucky (as I now have high blood pressure and diabetes), but I am going to have to do something, or surely while the cancer won't kill me, the cure will.
In happier news, I caved to my Inner Child while we were at Barnes & Noble yesterday and bought some little figures. They come in opaque packages so you can't tell in advance which ones you are buying. So I have some duplicates. But I have a Minotaur! And a Genie! And a very cute clockwork robot with a churchkey in his back. Not to mention Roman Soldiers and HIghland warriors.
And I now have a new scale for my kitchen (although it will work for mail, too) which is big enough that I don't have to dice stuff in order to weigh it. It's great! SO much easier to use than my old one - I am actually excited about the ease it will give me in watching my foods. Now, if only I can figure out the difference between "8oz" and "8oz" when "a serving" doesn't specify "by volumm" or "by weight"!
Dentist visit was done and new filling put in - thems as said, "Gleevec will weaken your teeth" were not kidding - I had three cavities at my last checkup, which are more than I have ever developed in my whole adult life. It was a shock to me.
Watching my glucose level has been a rollercoaster. Late one evening, after not eating much and certainly not much in the way of carbs, I tested myself and it read "253" (!) - and I just broke down. I'd been doing so well, and it was what? What else could I do? My little brain started twirling as I sat in the kitchen and cried. I calmed myself (Ohhhmmmm) and once I'd become more myself, the thought occurred to me that I had not washed my hands before I did the finger stick. So I remedied that and tried it again. 134. What a relief! And how I laughed at myself! It does spike after a meal, but my normal spike has been no higher than 190, usually lower than that. I'm not getting below 100, though, even after a night of long sleep. I have to up my exercise level.
I've lost 10 pounds since I started watching my food intake, and that seems to be continuing. I've learned that I should not shop for food when I'm hungry - not for the 'normal' reason but because then I spot, and focus on, foods that I can no longer eat, which leads to an immediate leap over the Cliffs of Despondency. It is difficult to shop for food, especially with one's husband, if one is trying to hide tears at the same time. Silly me! Again, a lesson learned.
Medical stuff continues apace. Kidney function is down (another Gleevec side-effect) sufficiently severe enough that I will be discussing the discontinuation of the Gleevec wih my oncologist when I see him next. The side effects are hammering me hard and I have to admit, the kidney one ("moderate kidney disease") is wigging me right out. Luckily for my sanity, a woman who also takes Gleevec reported that when she was done with her therapy and was able to discontinue it, her liver & kidney functions settled back out to normal - she'd not be affected long enough to do permanent damage. I don't know if I'll be that lucky (as I now have high blood pressure and diabetes), but I am going to have to do something, or surely while the cancer won't kill me, the cure will.
In happier news, I caved to my Inner Child while we were at Barnes & Noble yesterday and bought some little figures. They come in opaque packages so you can't tell in advance which ones you are buying. So I have some duplicates. But I have a Minotaur! And a Genie! And a very cute clockwork robot with a churchkey in his back. Not to mention Roman Soldiers and HIghland warriors.
And I now have a new scale for my kitchen (although it will work for mail, too) which is big enough that I don't have to dice stuff in order to weigh it. It's great! SO much easier to use than my old one - I am actually excited about the ease it will give me in watching my foods. Now, if only I can figure out the difference between "8oz" and "8oz" when "a serving" doesn't specify "by volumm" or "by weight"!
