A good day all around; the recount from May:
– Weight is down 63 pounds (from 250 to 187)
– Triglycerides are down from 527 (!!) to 153
– Hemoglobin A1C down from 10% to 5.6%
– Average glucose count down from 384 (!!) to 121
The blood work today should be back from the lab by the beginning of next week. When it is, if the above numbers have improved (the Doctor is certain they will, as am I), I’ll likely be leaving off the Tricor and halving the Metformin. This is great success. And if I keep going at this rate (which I intend to), I should be able to control things with diet and exercise alone by the end of April, 2011.
Do I have to tell you that I feel better overall than I have in a very, very long time? Or that I am both lightly smacking myself about as well as patting myself on the back (imagine that mental image/effort) for having lost sight of what really matters for a contented, happy life?
In looking around at my life ‘in general’, I feel as if I haven’t really lost a thing except time. And frankly, I haven’t lost that as I’ve gained a fairly impressive amount of experience and wisdom for the trials and tribulations endured in the last twenty years.
It’s true, you know, life is about learning and becoming. Makes me wonder sometimes about that resolute question mark there, on what seems (in this moment) to be the vanishing point of the horizon. But not too much (or nearly as long or fretfully as once I did).
Life is also about now; living now, being happy now, remembering all the things that make “now” a very, very beautiful thing.
Rocks upon the road
Only bruise my tender sole
When I step on them