This week has pretty much tanked. I was sick last weekend with a cold. I saw my family doctor last Friday hoping to get some clearer answers about my blood sugar readings. I specifically asked for the tests that can help determine if it is diabetes (as the readings indicate) or prediabetes, and she said it wasn't necessary. She wouldn't even give me a straight answer on whether or not it is daibetes or prediabetes. I'm pretty sure it's diabetes because prediabetics don't have post meal readings over 200, and I've had quite a few of those. I just don't know what type, but I'm thinking it's Type 1.5.
I'm getting super frustrated with this whole thing. I got a call from my Dr.'s office at school saying that I have to reschedule my December appointment. I need to do the bloodwork before that and brought up the possibility of the tests. They said it shouldn't be a problem, so maybe she can give me some answers and refer me to an endocrinologist.
Anyway, so last weekend I had the nasty cold virus going around my fourth grade class. This past week I was supposed to be in a 3 day training for a program called Wilson Reading. Halfway through the second day I was so dizzy I couldn't sit up straight, and so exhausted I couldn't keep my eyes open. The other grad students told me to go home and they would take notes for me. Thursday and Friday I couldn't get out of bed. Since I was supposed to be in the classroom on Friday I called and asked the secretary to tell my mentor teacher I was sick. She did not, which I found out from an email by one of professors. I'm hoping the email was in a "I hope your okay" mindset and not a "how could you do this to your mentor teacher" mindset. I'm nervous for tomorrow.
Anyway, quit taking the medicine my doctor gave me, and I feel much better. I think that is what it was. I mentioned my stomach problems to the doctor so I'm also supposed to be eliminating all milk products, but that hasn't helped. And now I have a wicked sore throat. I have no idea if I never kicked the cold or if I have something different. Basically, this week sucked!
On a positive note, I've been losing the weight slowly but surely. I am in a lose/gain pattern. I lose one week, gain some back the next, the next week lose what I gained and then some, etc. So in the long run I am losing, which is what is important.
I'm thinking last week must have been one of those inexplicable blips on the scale. So things are looking a lot better.
I think things will be easier once I am back on a normal schedule.
