I feel like I owe everyone on my friends list an apology for ceasing to comment, but I also feel that that's what I hate about social networking, this strong compulsion I have to get obligated. On the other hand, isn't some level of obligation necessary to maintain relationships?

Well, whatever, but the point is: I am totally cheering every one of ( Read more... )

It's 40 now. lol!

With the help of Benedryl I managed to sleep from 11 to 8, which is a major victory. Still kinda groggy. However the real point of this post is:

It's just started snowing. Light fluffy snowflakes sifting down, three and four at a time.

SNOWPOCALYPSE NOW

I'm feeling down about medication. Like, rationally I understand that the double handful of pills I take daily help me through life. Intuitively I cannot help but feel that I'm doing something very, very wrong, and I should stop ( Read more... )

RANDOM STUFF LEAH IS THINKING ABOUT ( Read more... )

Okay a slight diversion from whining about my health ( Read more... )

Doctor visit accomplished! There is good news. She is thrilled with my glucose numbers (I made a chart) and says I don't need to up my metformin dose. She also says my cholesterol is so low I don't need to be on a statin, which is apparently the wisdom nowadays. So cutting sugar 98% out of my diet and trading in most of my bread for baked loaves of ( Read more... )

It's been a long, hard October. The metformin side effects are finally subsiding enough so that I can boost the dosage--that will probably happen this week--but I caught an ugly cold, and I've been suffering under that wet mucus blanket for the past two weeks ( Read more... )

I don't want to write nothing but posts about how sick I am/crappy I feel. I do, however, wish to share that I want sugar so fucking bad. In particular, the creme pumpkin candies that are around this time of year. amfg.

Thanks everybody for your supportive comments. I really, really, really appreciate them. Unfortunately the metformin made me so sick the last week that I have been doing nothing at all. I didn't go to gym, I didn't work, I wound up dropping my class because I'd missed like 7 classes already and the new burden of diabetes seemed like a bad sign for ( Read more... )