Retrograding upgrades

[sailorzeo]

I found my old blog yesterday, and went ahead and transferred almost all those posts to here. It's funny, back in January of 2004, I'd made the comment:
The fact is, I have a boyfriend who's becoming more than just a boyfriend, and I'm hoping by this time next year to have a _real_ band on my left hand.
And sure enough, by the end of September of 2004, we were married.

On the health front, my blood sugars are all over the place. I hit 150 at my two-hour post-meal test last night, and this morning, my fasting sugar was 68. I got out the control solution, and ran a control test. It was fine, so it's not the meter. I just have some wacky blood sugar action.

Matt faxed in his insurance paperwork Thursday night, so it should be active by the 3rd, which is when I see my endo again. Another reason I'm sort of hoping to get the production supervisor position at work is that it's a full-time position, so Matt will be able to change his insurance coverage to just him, and I can get coverage for just me. The same level of coverage he's paying $260 a paycheck to cover both of us, is only $80 a paycheck for individuals. If I can get a full-time position, we can save $200 a month on insurance by just getting individual coverage. I haven't heard anything either way about it, though. So I'm not counting on it.

We're going to Sweet Tomatoes and a movie with John and Aaron today. Not sure which movie, either Chicken Little or Good Night and Good Luck. Depends on what we feel like, comedy or not-funny. They're both at the cheap theater. I wanted to see King Kong, but John's already seen it. (shrug) Ah well, at least I know one of my meals today will be a good one. :)

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Me too

[sapphirerose924.livejournal.com]

My blood sugars have been all over the map too. Yesterday morning my fasting was 127 and I hadn't eaten anything since lunch the day before. My mom, who is a real diabetic, says that it is because I have this intestinal bug (which is the same reason I didn't eat any dinner). She says that when you are sick you're sugar goes up. Although she says that hers gets above 200 when she's sick. I'm not really a diabetic yet (or at least I refuse to believe that I am) so maybe it doesn't get as high??? Biochemically and microbiologically, I understand the mechanism. Your body releases more stored sugar when you are sick to put osmotic pressure on the little buggers and to feed the cells fighting the infection. Your body can stand up better to high osmotic pressure from sugar than from salt, which would be baaaad! In fact, I was thinking yesterday about halophiles (salt-loving microorganisms; don't ask why) and I remembered that they balance having more salt about with stored sugars (in the form of trehalose, etc). Maybe we do the same thing?????