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…
Category: A1C
Lab Tests Ordered
2/14/17 I was surprised to get this order for blood tests since it had been nine months since my last A1C. I’m really more concerned about my chronic neck pain and heart palpitations! So I was equally surprised to see my A1C had gone down from 6.8% (last May 2016) to 6.4%. I wrote in…
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…
Over Halfway
It’s been several weeks since my last blog post here, mostly because I’ve been on vacation, plus consumed with getting ready for vacation and then recovering from vacation once we got home! Also because things have pretty much leveled out on a plateau. A plateau that I’m not satisfied with, but have to accept nonetheless….
A Short History
My Type 2 Diagnosis I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in September of 2000, just before going on a weekend campout with a group of women. I remember that when I told Dr. John Duge, our pastor, I bemoaned that I would never be able to have Almond Roca again, and he laughed, thinking…