Discovery/Health

Through another blog, "Sister Skinny", I discovered SparkPeople.com a FREE website devoted to health and fitness. It is going to help me change my life.

I'm doing well (so far) on my new program. I just need to get some
supplements for some missing minerals and begin exercising. I bought a scale @ Walmart for 5.97 thinking it wouldn't matter a scale is a scale right. When I weighed-in a week ago I was @ 260 (which is not my highest BTW) and weighing daily since then (I know, I know) the darn thing did not move. So this morning I hopped on and the idiot scale hovered metronome-like between 240 & 250. At least it is showing a loss -- WOO HOO!! MOTIVATION!! We got home late last night (from the ER) and feeling the effects of my sugar being kinda low and I was craving a baked potato. But first I input my supper of 2 slices of pepperoni pizza into my nutrition tracker and found I did not have enough calories for a baked potato, so unbelievably, I nuked 1/2 a bag of frozen stir fry vegetables, added a slice of cheese, and resisted anymore snacking while we watched a DVD. WOO HOO! I know the first week is always the easiest as far as motivation and pounds lost. I just have to buckle down and do what I gotta do for a change, but the Spark website is a real help for accountability and really advocates taking baby steps in my journey. Maybe the folks at home won't recognize me next time they see me AND maybe I can take Mom and Pepper up on a walk!! I am seeing improvement with energy level and other issues like my knees, back, incontinence, and the scale doesn't feel like it will cave in when I step on it (I would add an lol here if it weren't true) and as soon as I get batteries I can see if there is an improvement with my blood pressure and blood sugar levels as well.

As I mentioned above Z was in the ER again last night. Everything is on the mend, but he was summoned to the dr. Thursday after his first blood work came back high, given a prescription for more oral Vitamin K, and orders for blood work 6/29, 6/30, and 7/1. I called the office a couple of times to get his levels and find out where in the heck he can test on Sunday (the great lady that drew his lab work was the one that told us the order was for all weekend) and the results weren't back yet as of 4:45, but I was assured if there was a problem the lab would page the dr.
Sure enough, Z gets a call @ 8:45 last night to go to the ER with levels higher than we have seen so far, but not the dramatic stuff from last weekend (peeing blood and hemorrhaging skin). We registered and waited and while waiting, Z asked me to snuggle close because he felt one of his seizures coming on. The nurse called him in for blood work and he seemed ok walking over so I stayed put in the waiting room. Then there was all sorts of activity I could only half see and couldn't see Z at all and the next thing I knew they were wheeling him down the hall. I quickly grabbed our stuff and asked registration if I could go with them and barely made it through the closing automatic door.

Apparently sitting down with the nurse was the last moment of
functionality before the seizure hit, so he couldn't respond to her
questions and she didn't know I was out in the waiting room. He was on the way to recovering though in the minute it took to get him to the room, but was he was still having problems moving and communicating and was still not fully recovered by the time the dr saw him. I gave his history to everyone and the dr. ordered a CT scan just to make sure there was no brain hemorrhage (no) and of course his blood work for the med levels. He had another episode in the x-ray room and of course I was not with him, but after all was said and done all is well and we got instructions for the
rest of the weekend -no meds until tomorrow and test first thing Monday. Like idiots we trusted the drs. knew what they were doing when they told him to go from 5mgs to 7.5 mgs. I'm going to have to sit down and think about the time line for all this stuff and log it somewhere for his history. Needless to say, we are kinda tired of being in the ER every weekend, but praise God! he has a new dr. who is on top of things and this dr. and hospital are much closer than where we were going. BTW the episodes are stress related if I hadn't told you that before. I told all the medical personnel he hadn't had one since his dad's funeral, but remembered later he did have a mini episode when we went to Golden Corral for my "can't decide what I want" dinner around my birthday. The seizure and after-effects were very, very mild that day though and this happened days before he finally consented to go to urgent care on 5/31 after a month of swollen, purple feet and swollen, numb right leg and sent to the ER where his blood clot was diagnosed. In fact, up until last night they had all been mild as opposed to when they started in 2000. Anyway as of now, I don't think we will be in the ER tomorrow.

Scale update - it is crap and I have to get a new one. Now it is hovering between 220 & 240. I know I have been doing well sticking to my calorie limit and making wiser/healthier food choices, but come on! If my scale is right I've lost 40 lbs. this week. Oo! Oo! Maybe I should write the company a testimonial and be their spokesperson/tv personality. WOO HOO! Income!

Well, off to bed now to meet my SparkGoal of 8 hours of sleep in which I will dream of being the next celebrity spokes model for Crummy Scale Co.

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WTF

My daughter does not allow anonymous comments posted on her blog!

My husband has another blood clot in his leg!

The shut-in lady at church was evicted anyway, after I overnighted half of what she owed in time (anonymously and it was all I had). Couldn't anyone else step up?!

The tickets on discount movie nights (Tuesday) are $1.75. Last week it was $1.00 and before that it was $1.50!

WTF!!


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