Monday, November 25, 2019, 11:00 a.m. I woke up at 9:30 a.m. and got out of bed then. I checked my blood then decided to take a shower and get clean clothes on, just so I would feel better. It was a sunny morning but very windy. I hit EVERY single red light at every…
Category: cholesterol
Routine Lab Work
August 31, 2018 It was a lazy morning at home, with no particular rush to get to the Kaiser Laboratory, except that I couldn’t eat anything or drink coffee because I had to have a fasting blood draw for the lipid panel. As I waited, I absentmindedly watched the digital screen that displayed various Kaiser…
Deal Breaker Appointment
This was my annual “free” physical checkup that Medicare is required to offer. I had already checked my lab test results and so I knew that my A1C was 5.9%—right in the middle of the “pre-diabetes” range! I was so elated with this news that it didn’t really bother me that Dr. Chan was on…
A Look Back at the Year
Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and we’ve just come back from an early party at the senior citizens’ group. I was lucky that there were big bowls of green salad on the buffet table, so I filled my plate. Then I topped the salad with 1/4 c. of potato salad, just to see what would…
A Look Back at the Year
Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and we’ve just come back from an early party at the senior citizens’ group. I was lucky that there were big bowls of green salad on the buffet table, so I filled my plate. Then I topped the salad with 1/4 c. of potato salad, just to see what would…
January Health Status
I am an obese Type 2 diabetic. I am hearing-challenged and sight-challenged. I’m also a chronic migraineur. Like many diabetics, I have also been diagnosed with and am on prescription medication for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high triglycerides. I have nasal allergies. I also have frozen shoulder (right side) due to an injury I sustained in a fall…