Living with Diabetes
Well, I’m feeling a bit better now. Got some meds and following a strict diet no salt, no sugar diet. Some small successes. Loosing a lot of water and my regiment of keeping my feet elevated has reduced the swelling in my legs and feet enormously. I feel skinny now, if only i saw the same results in my mid-section. lol. But the swelling is only ok as long as put my feet up every hour or so for 15-30 mins. MY sis bought me a nice big pillow to put under my feet when I sleep, and I have another to put on top of a foot stool while I sit and watch TV. Haven’t really got a working solution for sitting at my computer yet. Will need to find something there as it really limits my working ability and recreation time!
Spent the day in Montreal a couple days ago. Mot of the time in Chapters looking at diabetes and fantasy books. Bought myself Diabetes for Dummies. lol. Also a nice cookbook specifically made for Canadians who have type II diabetes .. still haven’t found out what makes it Canadian. lol. Anyway, lots of good healthy recipes there for me to try, including some all-bake and crock pot ones that i’m particularly interested in. Went to the store yesterday and tried to do some shopping. Man it’s impossible to find anything that does not have significant amounts of slat! Even the low sodium product have shit loads of salt. Might be half as much as the regular product, but it’s still a lot. Going to have to ask the doc for a daily intake value for me to shoot for because there’s some stuff just can’t easily live without. I mean, spagetti sauce, tuna, cereal, pasta - everything has 3-12% of recommended salt for a normal person. I’m guessing that what i’m supposed to have is much less. Family is trying their best to be supportive. First meal they cooked as a total disaster. Sisters BF made some homemade spagetti sauce. Knowing that salt wasa no-no, he put in boullion to flavour the sauce. LOL. boullion is WORSE than salt since it’s first ingredient is salt, second is MSG. I’m still not convinced that he didn’t do it on purpose to be a jerk or try to kill me - never can tell with these Arabs (yes, i’m aware that sounds incredibly racist, but it’s true due to the fact that they are foreigners, don’t understand english well, and also are the most pig-headed, stubborn liars I’ve ever known)
I’m also starting a new fantasy book series, Dragonlance by Heiss and Weisman. Had to do some research to find out which books in the series followed which. Bought the first one, so if it’s good, I’ll have another 12 books or so to read. They are mindless books for sure, but something to do since I can’t waste as much time on the computer. I told my buddy Devon which series I started reading and he made some better recommendations for me. I’ll have to check those out as well.
Well that’s all. Wanted to post something after the last entry which was kinda freaky. I’m still worried/scared as shit, but glad i’m doing something to help matters.
