another month
I truly cannot believe how fast time goes any more. I keep busy with my family here. Hubby calls 2 - 3 times every day. His dad seems to be doing well. I am enjoying the peace and quiet. Gaining strength every day. Have finally started a little bit of exercise which I know that I need.With all the changes in health care plans, I decided to go from high option to standard option. It means my deductibles and co-pays will be higher, but the monthly premiums will be lower. I simply do not have the income to pay for the "best" insurance any more. And I carry hubby on my insu...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - December 12, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Traveling
I was invited to travel to teach an art class not too far from hubby, so I came to see him. His dad went into the hospital 2 nights ago for emergency surgery. The pain meds caused delusions. Last night, he saw a dog sitting on his lap. Sort of funny.
Asked hubby how he was doing health wise. He said he was fine. But I couldn't help notice the odd shaped depends in his bathroom. I'm sure they are made for men to catch urine at night.
Also saw that he has not dusted since I cleaned when I was here in January. Dust so thick you can write in it. Bathroom mirror covered wi...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - November 12, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Untimely death
A good friend of mine, age 49, passed away unexpectedly 2 weeks ago. Her husband died of a heart attack 2 years ago. Her son asked me to help with her estate. She had owned her own business. I'm not sure I can describe the house I walked into. She did not have a will. She had not sorted, organized, catalogued, labeled....anything! It took 5 people working 10-12 hours per day for 5 days to even make a dent in her home.
It got me to thinking. I downsized last year from 3700 SF to 1100 SF, but I sure need to downsize again! Why is it we like so much stuff? Why is it hard ...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - October 22, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
New labs
A1c is 9.1
Triglycerides are 1441
Kidney function is 36.1
Most of the other labs are all bad.
Protien in urine is off the charts at 525
He says he is not having any chest pains.
They started him on a new med this week for his sciatica. It's a drug designed to control seizures, but they think it will help pain. I have a son who has had seizures all his life. All of those meds dull the senses, increase reaction times, cause memory loss. This one also increases depression and suicidal thoughts. This is not what he needs!
But you can also tell just by watching him walk he has to be in s...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - September 27, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
I'm in hell and don't know which way out!
Yes, it really is that bad. I flew to meet him last Saturday and on the drive from the airport to the hotel, he started in arguing with me. Manipulating me. He wanted me to sit in the hotel room and babysit the dogs while he, his dad and brother went to a football game. I had already told him I was not going to do that. But he managed to get his dad and brother in on the act and I stayed. I was so pissed off. Still am. But it has been like that almost non-stop since Saturday about one thing or another.
He has played the "I forgot" card, the "that's not what I heard" card, th...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - September 20, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Upcoming visits
I used to own and antique business in another state and when I moved here, I moved a gorgeous antique glass showcase. It's about 6' tall and 3 1/2' square with all glass sides and glass shelves. Then we moved it to my mother-in-laws so she could store her dolls in it.
Now, my sisters and I have signed up for a space in an antique mall and I need it back here! So I'm flying out in a week to help hubby load it into the truck and bring it home. I need to be there to make sure it gets packed well so it doesn't break....and to help him make the drive home.
He'll be here about 10 days. He said the...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - September 4, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Time flies.....worse than ever!!!
My monthly update. We had a flood here and it washed out all my lovely flower gardens! Needless to say, I have been busy recreating them!!! Life is still great. Hubby is coming home for a week the end of next month. Nothing has changed - I can tell. I asked if he had made appointments with his doctors. He has not see a doctor, nor had any lab work done since June 2012. You know it's going to be bad news. And no, he hasn't made any appointments. We are with a huge HMO and he absolutely has to make the appointments this week, or he won't get in. Is it my probl...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - August 19, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Another month gone by
I will try to post once a month just so I can remember what's going on. Hubby is still living at his dads. He has now been gone 10 months. I'm adapting nicely to being "single". He still calls 2-3 times every day, but says he is not coming back here. Week before last, he had to put our 13 yr old chihuahua to sleep. That was very sad. But it is so much better than having the pup suffer in pain.
I bought a new dining table and chairs. I have always hated the one we had. He bought it when he was still married to his ex. I have not told him. I put the old one in the ...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - July 20, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Living a full life
at the moment.....
:o)
Who knew that I would love gardening? It has come as a complete surprise to me! Up and outside most morning by 6 am and working until 10 or when it gets hot. I've built a 4x12 deck, framed in a porch over it in front of a shed that I'm converting to a play house....for me! LOL!!!
Put in a timed sprinkler system. Put in a terraced stone wall flower garden, 3 layers deep. Learning that I can do just about anything I want to do. Took an old youth bed, cut the sideboards and turned it into a bench for the new deck. Dug up a pond, moved it, making flower ...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - June 18, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
