Score!!!

[susandennis]

I just got an email from the online thing my doctor's office uses.  1.  There's now a phone app!!  2.  The results of this morning's test are in!!  Everything shows within normal range.  My glucose is 3 points above normal (but I was able to see last year's and year before last's and the number I got today is the same number I got in early 2012.  It looks like I might have a urinary tract infection but I don't - I'm guessing it's just cause I didn't give them enough pee.

Soooo  kewel!  I love this online shit.  At least now 80% of any nasty surprises have been totally eliminated from my appointment on Monday! Oh, sure, he might find something but I doubt it. I feel fine and we agree I'm too fat.  I'll betcha it will be in - how ya doin' - fine, you? - and then see ya next year!!

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Ants.  Again. Ugh.  Last time it was just before it got cold so the ant attack didn't last long.  This time I tossed the throw rug that was there out on the terrace. It's at its end of life anyway.  Then, I washed the entire kitchen floor with hot soapy water and sprinkled cinnamon around the sides where I saw the most ants.  Thank you, spiritgirl.  I think I've stopped the current invasion.

Thankfully, Zoey has her dry food up high and her wet food on the counter and I just pop the dish into the dishwasher when she's done.  Betty's food (wet) is served in the fish which 1. has a very light 'floor' so easy to spot crawlies but 2. has a cloth floor that, hopefully, will discourage the little buggers.  Her fish house wasn't where the ants were spotted.

I really and truly do not want to spend the summer fighting ants...

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I've lived in the same place now almost 10 years and have never spotted even 1 ant, though I do get the occasional earwig - and those get smooshed up good when I do spot them, mostly in the bathroom when I get up to shower in the morning early (weekdays for work).

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Hm. If your fasting glucose is slightly elevated, and you have a family history of diabetes, it can be a good idea to get a glucose meter, and do some light testing... like, have the most carb-o-licious meal you might normally have, and test your blood sugar in two hours. If it's safely below 120, nothing to worry about. If it's much higher than that, then you can decide what to do next. By the time fasting sugar reaches 125, a lot of people have very bad sugar control, and have to fight an uphill battle to get back in control.

Of course, you might end up just wasting the price of a glucose meter :-). But this is what I wish I'd known to consider doing back when I was first told I had slightly elevated blood sugar. So, I'm passing it along.

[susandennis]

Thanks, but since it's been the same for several years, I think I'll leave well enough alone. And it's never been over 102 anyway.