before the doctor's appointment

Some numbers before I leave for my doctor's appointment. 

Weight: 118 kg (no change from last report) 

Blood sugar: 83 (pretty steep drop) 

Blood pressure: 139/91 (still too high)

Pulse: 78 (could be lower)

I imagine I'll get different numbers for some of the above from the doc, especially with BP. I'm generally nervous in hospitals and doctor's offices, so my BP and pulse always go up. Blood-sugar numbers are great news (I was at 97 last night, which is also not bad), so the double whammy of diet plus meds may be working. Admittedly, I'm cheating a bit, though, as I've mostly fasted over the past 72-plus hours (thus depressing my blood sugar), and since it's been only a month since I had my blood tested, I doubt that my current blood sugar does much to change the average for my A1c.

We'll see what the doc says. Expect an update later today. I don't think I'll be getting a full blood test again today, because it's been only a month, so I don't think I'll have an A1c number to report later on. But maybe the doc will test me, anyway. If he does, I have to remind him that I'll be looking for more than just my A1c: I'll also want to know the results for cholesterol, triglycerides, and insulin level. As Dr. Ekberg points out in his videos, it's possible to have low blood sugar and high insulin at the same time, which isn't a good sign.

More later!

UPDATE: the doc didn't do much except to take my blood pressure, which was unsurprisingly much higher than the reading I got this morning. The doc asked whether I had taken my BP reading today, and I said yes. Of course, even the numbers I gave him were high, so BP remains an ongoing concern. I did say, though, that I'm back to doing stairs training, so over the next few months, my BP ought to go down. The doc also looked at the photo I took of my toe this morning, and he prescribed another ten days' worth of antibiotics for my foot (so I have to go back in ten days), plus another 30 days' worth of diabetes meds. The doc seems to think that my toe won't take much longer to heal, but as I mentioned earlier, Mother Nature provides her own sign of healing: toe-wound leakage. So, as always, lay off the carbs, keep doing what I'm doing (stairs training and all), and reincorporate distance walking into my life as soon as possible.