My weight remains about the same, but that's partly because I haven't been walking. My blood pressure remains low, and that's entirely thanks to the meds. Many of my meds are devoted to BP; the docs really piled them on to get those numbers down, and the numbers are definitely down—ruthlessly so. Blood sugar is coming down, albeit slowly.
I have my first follow-up appointment at the hospital this coming Friday. Seems like old times.* My next appointment, after this week's session, is in late May. I assume the appointments after this will be spread out more on the calendar.
blood sugar: 165 (not tragic if you're diabetic, but ideally under 99 for normies)
BP: 127/89
weight: 116 kg
pulse: 74
April 24, 2024 numbers
blood sugar: 140 (creeping down)
BP: 116/75
weight: 115.5 kg (not budging for the moment)
pulse: 61
BP and pulse are always elevated when I go to the hospital—a fact I have to explain and reexplain to the diabetes doc whenever I go there. Clinics and hospitals stress me out on an unconscious level, I guess, and it doesn't matter whether I use breathing/concentration techniques. I've tried so many. No dice.
Side note: I'm looking into buying a home-use A1c meter. A1c is a three-month average of your blood sugar, and thus a much better indication of trend lines than a daily blood-sugar read: your daily number will vary hour by hour; all those fluctuations make it inaccurate. (I've discovered that there are fasting-glucose convert-to-A1c websites out there—even a mathematical formula that you can use—if all you have are fasting-glucose numbers. Still discovering new resources even after all these years.)
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*But I haven't gotten my Kakao message from the hospital that confirms the appointment and gives me my QR-code pass to allow me to enter the hospital. When I left the hospital a few weeks ago, I did get an initial confirmation message about the May 24 appointment. We'll see, in a day or two, whether the hospital forgot about this coming Friday's session. I'm tempted to let it slide, but I'm about to run out of some meds.
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