Hello All
Appreciate all the input I'm getting from you guys. My doctor checked back with me on the sugar levels and said they would slowly come down each day, and to try to excerzise more. I watched the carbo intake yesterday and had a couple of walks, and today my sugar was still up (153) but down from yesterday by a bunch (193ish). Maybe it's my imagination, but my morning arthritis stiffness isn't near as bothersome and my lower back pain I can notice sometimes, I don't notice and I'm thinking - wow, steroids can be fun!! I was awake from 5:30 in the a.m. and didn't go to bed until midnight so I could take that pill. My tail was draggin by then, so I guess my body finally said, drugs or no drugs, go to bed! My family was over again and we had a nice dinner. Auntie made the salad, we had roasted red potatoes and a Giada Di Laurentis (Everyday Italian Chef) on Food Network's Pork Roast, with fresh garlic, rosemary and lemon thyme rub wrapped in bacon (she uses the Italian bacon, Pancetta, but I just grabbed some bacon. Next time I'll use the real thing, even tho it tasted great this way!). Then my auntie and daughter-in-law and I watched a chick flick - Memoirs of a Geisha. Note to anyone seeing the movie - Please read the book if you like to read. It was a wonderful book - an average movie. It just amazed me that this book was written by a man, and he delved so deeply into a private woman's world of the Geisha. Outstanding. In the afternoon, when my aunt tape ducked me to the chair, we watched Chicken Little. Love the really good animated kids movies. Don't care if I'm 60. Back to the drug thing...I told my aunt - Well this is what it would have been like to live with a drug addict! I told her I sort of understood why the entertainers (Johnny Cash I thought of since we recently saw Walk The Line, for instance.) wanted to take something to keep them flying high. Man, yesterday I could have rocked out the Palace Theatre, if I'd had any talent...but then I probably wouldn't have cared if I could sing or not! Of course, there maybe some after effects today, since I want to go and take a little nature walk with my auntie before she goes home. And I thought maybe I would hop on here and write you nice people a note, but it's turning into Chapter One of the Sue Does Gamma Knife and Drugs and Recipe, Movie Review Manifesto.
I have also decided that somebody better come up with a smily face that has a little head frame on it.
Also, I know that my NA adventure is going a lot differently than a lot of people on this site because we had different roads to hopefully the same end. I appreciate everything that you all are going through and I think you all are so strong and I think it's wonderful that you reach out to all of us, each of us with the same thing, but each of us so different in how it effects us, or how it is treated, or the outcomes of the treatment. I've told my family and friends about getting on here and how it's helped to have somebody to talk to who as gone down this road. Thanks so much.
Sue
