Weekend Update (Happy Mother’s Day!!)
This week has been busy.
I started my last term at school monday. Turbines!!!! That only means that I have five weeks to prepare for and take three exit exams that range from 60 to 100 questions about the last eighteen months of my life. I have to study and learn turbines that I also have a test for at the end of these five weeks. I’m just a little stressed about that.
I had a doctor’s appointment on Thursday. I had a liver panel done a week before. The first major run of tests I have had in more than a year. When I was diagnosed Type II diabetic I had an A1C of 7.6 and a blood glucose of 296. Normal is an A1C of 4.6 to 5.9 and a blood glucose of 85 to 105.
My tests came back great! A1C of 5.9 on the dot! (Most doc’s just want an A1C below 7) And have a blood glucose of 89!!!!!! I have been officially dubbed healthy enough to hike the AT!!!!!!!!!! Whoo hoo!!
Mother’s day weekend went very well!!! Everyone got what they asked for and plenty of attention! Mom’s deserve that way more than they get. We spent five hours at the Ren Fest on Sunday! It has been a family tradition for me and my wife for about five years now. A couple of years after we started, my mother in law found out and loved the idea. She’s been going with us ever since. So the whole family now dresses up and watches the shows!!! Its great fun!
On the horizon is a weekend hike with mom. Just mom. We’re going to do nineteen or so miles from Hog’s Pen Gap to Woody Gap. We’re both no where near in enough shape. But what the heck! I’m looking forward to the break from my family and from everything really. I’ll get two nights just me and my mom. She’s not the normal talker like my gaggle of girls can be. So there will be some quiet!!!!!!! With the chatter down maybe I will here something meaningful… I’m not being mean. My mom is just not a girly girl. She’s what I grew up with. Besides, I’ve never gotten along with some one quite the way I do with her. I love who I have as family I just miss the old days sometimes…
Congrats on your A1c. That’s good in any body’s book!
redredrose
May 14, 2007 at 3:59 am
Corngrats!
Having just this past year gone through what you did I have the utmost respect for your accomplishments. I lost the weight, got much more fit, and dealt with the blood sugar in much the same way – hiking. Guess we should pass that advice on to the docs, eh?
banyan
May 22, 2007 at 10:59 am
You would think with it’s success. The idea would catch on. Walking is just not that hard! Until you do mile number 20!!!
Passionphish
May 22, 2007 at 1:29 pm