I got good news today! I got to see the results of my bloodwork and my a1c is 6.4!!! My diabetes is under control! I wonder what the number has to be for it to go into remission. Should have asked that. Anyhow, that is the lowest my a1c has been since I became diabetic in 2008. I’m not sure how I did it, though! Maybe because I don’t really snack on junk food anymore and have been snacking on tons of grapes instead? I go through bags of grapes really fast lol. I also lost nine fricken pounds!!!! How, I don’t know. When doc weighed me, I said I didn’t want to know because it would just stress me out. When she told me my weight had actually gone down, I asked what it was and it is 213lb. I was totally shocked because I was convinced I had gained a lot. I don’t know, I just feel fatter! I can’t really tell when I lose weight. I don’t understand that at all. If I can get under 200 I’ll be ecstatic. I was thinking of trying intermittent fasting.
Mom had an actual list of things to talk to her about 😆 I asked about the horrible restless leg that never lets up and I got something for that. For my sore tongue, I got folic acid supplements. I also got some vitamin b12. There was plenty more but I’m drawing a blank 😅
After that very productive visit, I went to my dermatologist to check on my scalp for any signs of infection. I asked about something to control the eczema on my scalp and he told me to use that t-sal shampoo. I hate those, so I’m gonna exfoliate once every week. Ever since I exfoliated for the first few times, months ago, it has not been nearly as bad and it’s been quite a while since I last did it. I figured once a week was enough. Exfoliating basically cured it. If I don’t do it for a loooong time, it comes back just a little bit. If I do it regularly I no longer have that problem, which is a weight off my shoulders because I was obsessed with it, always touching my scalp to see how bad it was (and it was bad) and cringing mightily over it. It upset me so much! It had been that way since I first noticed it in 2006. Never got a break from it until this year. Thank God.
As for the breathing issue, it’s been pretty tame today. My doctor sent a request for a chest x-ray. The hospital takes walk ins for that stuff, so I went and did that. Doc will have the results soon. I really hope they don’t find anything bad. Kinda nervous about that.
All in all, this was a VERY productive day. I am pleased with what we got done. Tomorrow I have that darn inspection for which I have to be up by 8:30am. They usually are really fast because there aren’t tons of section 8 apartments in my complex. They don’t have to do that much. After that, my ass is going to bed. I have to wake up again to go see my therapist. I think there’s something else but it’s slipped my mind 🥴 THIS is why mom keeps the huge calendar for everybody’s appointments! We’d be lost without that thing.
I went and got Japanese takeout which was pretty good. They left the tails on my jumbo shrimp though. I didn’t get a steak combo because it was so nasty last time I decided to give it a try. Jumbo shrimp and a side of jumbo shrimp with 2 extra cups of shrimp sauce cost 16$ WTF. I personally think that’s way too much. But what are you gonna do 🤷♀️
My eyebrows have been fading a lot since they got lasered. It looks weird. I have my next appointment coming up soon and I don’t have the $200. Not sure what I’m gonna do about that. I have multiple things I have to save for but I am not good at saving money. At all.
One last thing. I am so tired of people using neurodivergence as an excuse to be an assbag. They’ll say something rude and when called out on it, they say they’re neurodivergent like that makes it okay and they don’t have apologise for being a jerk. That really gets under my skin. 🙄 This specific incident was on YouTube (because of course it was) and this person was bitching at the YouTuber in a very rude fashion for putting breaks in their videos to allow an “uninterruptive” place for ads, per new YouTube policy for monetisation of videos. She said it “interrupts her thought process” and “induces rage”. Girl, what the fuck do you do when an actual advert comes on? Do you go crazy or what? YouTube has once again made a stupid new policy that makes it more difficult for monetised creators. The YouTuber has explained it a billion times both in her videos and in the comments section. Do some people just not pay attention or what? This person just acted like a total jerk and used neurodivergence as an excuse, and when someone told her she was being a jerk, she called THEM a jerk! 😂 oh lort….some people…