bad news first, good news later
Monday, Jan. 26, 2004 - 8:18 p.m.
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The bad news is that in the last 24 hours Duluth got dumped with 23.5� of snow with another 1-3� expected to accumulate by midnight tonight. Worse news than that is the weatherdude telling me that when the snow is over we�re expected to head back to temperatures in the NEGATIVE 40s (that DOES include the wind chill factor, but still). Have I mentioned lately that I hate it here? I�m soooooo glad we�ll be leaving for Flordia soon - even if it�s not soon enough... The good new is that, according to my doctor and her doctor scale, I have lost FOURTEEN POUNDS!!! Can you believe that shit?!?!? I asked her how I could get a loss of 9.6 pounds when weighing myself completely naked and she gets a loss of 14 pounds weighing me fully clothed. She said that the bar slide-y scales are more accurate. I couldn't figure out why because when I tested my home/digital scale with a10lb bag of sugar it said 10.0. I found out via my mother that home scales are pretty accurate up to about 50lbs or so but after that the (gradually) becomes increasingly distored. Sooooooo, in case you missed it, My at-rest pulse was 72 (a far cry from the 97 it was back in November) and my first blood pressure reading today with the nurse was 148/82 (still high if you ask me but the nurse was very happy with it since my last reading back in November was 158/96). When the doctor checked it again she got 160/100 but she just laughed and said, "my readings are ALWAYS higher than what the nurses get and it's supposed to be the other way around as you've had time to sit in here and relax...I must just make people nervous." She also said that she was happy with the nurse's reading and left that as the "final number" for today's appointment. And let�s not forget that she made ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF ANY MEDICATION!!! WOO HOO!!! She looked through my food notebook (I�ve written down everything I�ve had to eat and drink since late November) and said, "This is for the WHOLE day?!? You aren't eating enough food!" I admitted that the first few weeks were rough but now I only feel hungry when it's just about time to eat anyway. Her primary concern is that I get more fruits/veggies (I saw that coming) and to get some protein (something I've never gotten enough of). I'm supposed to have 4-6oz. per day - that's A LOT!!! She said that for starters I should be taking a daily vitamin and consider getting one of those tasteless protein powders that you can add to foods - until I can figure out how to get it in my diet via regular food. She set me up with an appointment to see a nutritionist on February 4th because I can tell her what I do and don't like (I'm a VERY picky eater) and try to figure out something from there - the nutritionist is just gonna LOVE me when I say, "Are you kidding me? I'd NEVER eat that" to 95% of her list :-P The doctor also said she was glad to see eggs, cheese, and nuts in my diet and that I should increase that to get some protein until I've been to the nutritionist. I told her I'd cut back on my cheese intake because one slice has like 5g of fat. She told me not to be concerned with that and to "just eat the damn cheese!" - lol I had a blood draw to re-check my cholesterol (here�s hoping that'll be down too!) and the doctor also asked the lab to check for metabolic something or other. She says kidneys can be affected by high blood pressure or something blah blah etc. so she wants to see how the rest of my body is doing/handling. I'm not gonna think about any of that until I get my results in the mail and/or a note telling me I have to come back. Justin keeps telling me I'm crazy and in danger of turning into a granola-eating-and-water- drinking health nut. He says that doctors always exaggerate and that HE'LL tell me how it is so I should listen to him instead of the doctor - ha ha. He doesn't think I should see the nutritionist because he thinks it'll be a waste of time since I have such a limited palette. I'm going to the nutritionist anyway because at the very least it'll waste an hour of my day and at the very most she'll have more food options for me. I keep telling my husband that even though this all might seem a little crazy that I�m doing it because I'd hate to have a heart attack in my 30s because I've been walking around with way-too-high blood pressure and way-too-high cholesterol without doing something to try and change it. He still thinks I'm crazy :-P He says, "It's just like the dentist...you do whatever they tell you...do you think an electric toothbrush and some Listerine are gonna make a difference?" I said, "Maybe not but what does it hurt to use 'em?" He doesn�t know this, but I soooo won that discussion :-P What all of this means, as if you asked to hear it, is that my appointment this morning went WAY better than expected so yippee!! I rule... |