Keep on keeping on

Fasting blood sugar 126

Got up and took my synthroid.

Walked down the driveway and back up this morning.  Drank some water, and then took a chair out on the deck and did a beginning chair yoga video from a YouTube video.

At coffee time with my family I drank a cup of apple cinnamon herb tea. It’s satisfying without the half and half that I cannot seem to give up when drinking coffee.  Took other meds and another glass of water (that will equal 3 8oz cups so far). I take 1000 mg of metformin twice a day, Lipitor (for cholesterol), telesmarten (for blood pressure) Busporine (twice a day for anxiety), and one Prilosec a day (Gerd and hiatal hernia)

Last couple of days, not feeling well.  Taking inventory this morning: Sense of smell out of whack.  Instead of smelling nothing my nervous system seems to be creating a “smoky” smell that is there all the time.  I am seeing if it helps if I put a drop of peppermint oil in the palm of my hand and breathe in. I’m going to do this several times a day.

Yesterday, the dinner Deziree made for our Father’s Day celebration was good, and even something that fits within my food plan. However, I ate too much of it.  A couple of hours after, my blood sugar was only 117, but calories count with weight.  I am going to do some intermittent fasting and just allow myself to feel hungry (it gives me an anxious feeling so I need to figure out what to do with myself and learn to just sit with the anxious feeling and not try to “feed” it.).

Today I am also going to set my alarm to get up and walk around a bit every hour, and go down to the basement and up the stairs again at least twice today.

Hopefully this fog in my head will start to clear, too.

I just had a heart cath, and my blood work was a bit off. My calcium was a bit high…barely, but still high, my white blood count was on the high side of normal, my rbc was a bit high……something is going on…….This has been going on for 6 years now, with me being hospitalized every two years with a diagnosis of sepsis of unknown origin.