RE: could it still hurt after 4 years?

[Guest guest]

You are right Mark abut the stopping and starting thing. When you stop

doing the right thing, send us a note and maybe we can help you.

My husband, who is partially sighted has a wood shop. It really helps keep

him busy, as does working on computers. He is a type 2 diabetic and has to

work on not over eating.. he recently got a guide dog and goes for long

walks with her, which helps him keep the sugar down. No one feels good when

the sugar is elevated, which is another reason to keep it down.

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From: blind-diabetics

[mailto:blind-diabetics ] On Behalf Of Mark Ruth

Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 6:46 AM

To: blind-diabetics

Subject: Re: could it still hurt after 4 years?

funny you should ask. I do have a wood shop and belong to the same blind

wood worker list that you do. I don't post much, but again I read most post

so I can pick up on some tips. I retired from my job only a month ago after

35 years. I'm going to try some thing different for the rest of my life. I'm

only 54 and should have some time left if I take better care of my self. I

as well dig water and do drink probably a gallon a day. when you add up the

water, milk, and diet Dr. Pepper, well I do pee a lot. my biggest thing to

get done is eat right and exercise daily. I can do both for 3 or 5 days and

then I stop for a week. then I do it over again and then I stop for a week.

I just got to get pass the stopping and starting back. I do love my wood

shop and do now that I'm retired spend a lot of time out there. but here

lately with my sugars high and who knows what else, I haven't felt good

enough to stay working out there for long periods. You know how some folks

turn on the TV and hit the kitchen at the same time? well when I read I also

wish to eat as I read. I know all this is in my head and my head is what I

must change. I got the know how from listening to this list. now I got to

put it to the test and not give up so fast. success lies in the long haul,

not the short run. I must look at it as a journey taking baby steps and not

a short race with a quick finish. I believe us who are around 100 pounds

over weight get over whelmed by the hugeness of it all. thinking about how

long it will take to get all this weight off and this is where most of us

fall on our face. we didn't achieve the extra pounds over night, but we wish

to get rid of it to morrow. we wont our cake and to eat it as well. I got 54

years of bad eating habits and worse decisions of how I ate all these years.

Now I must change all my past thinking if I wish to continue a healthy and

long life. If I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, then it is time

to do some thing about it or remain in the funk and nothing will change.

right now not going to concern my self with lunch until I get home from

church. then I will think on it and what to eat. water is my friend and we

have been together for many years. I think I should spend more time in my

Prayer closet to get piles of strength that as a human I don't have. I also

belong to the hands on cooking list that you do as well. If I ate everything

that they put out on that list I would probably all ready be dead! but I do

enjoy reading about it and licking my lips.

could it still hurt after 4 years?

I had my cabbage, open heart by-pass back in 2007 and then coded ten days

later. they probably broke some ribs jumping up and down on my chest, but

26

minutes later I rejoined the living. But this split on my chest has never

stopped hurting. I can press on it in certain places and it will hurt

really

bad if I push to hard. I heard that when the weather is cold or wet that

this can make a place you had cut open on your body hurt. is this so? Will

the pain ever go away? I have wondered if I could have some kind of

authoridus in the place where they wired me back together. I told the

heart

doc, but he just says after all my chest had to go through that month he

isn't surprised that it hurts and that is all he has ever said about it.

also have wondered if that spot where they wired me together, could it

ever

get infected after all these years? I go for a chemical stress test next

week because I have been having some chest pain. but when they run the

test

they run in the hospital nothing shows up that says there is a problem

with

the heart.

Now my A1C was 13 about six weeks ago and the doc put me on time release

metforman, 1000 milligrams twice a day. Do you think this could be causing

the chest pain? I know it has been upsetting my stomach in a bad way for a

week now. I certainly hope the A1C will come down if I got to put up with

the sick feeling like I'm going to lose my cookies. then in the hospital

they put me on the purple pill because I told them it feels like there is

a

knot in my throat all the time. they said that is a complaint of folks who

have reflux problems. Well this little pill is higher then a cat's back. I

only pay $42, but my insurance pays $170 each month. I bet it won't be

long

when I will be in the doughnut hole as they call it. When that happens I

will have to make a choice to pay the difference or go back to the knot in

my throat feeling. the purple pill has helped that feeling go away though.

Well anyway was hoping some of you may have an answer for me. thanks for

any

advice you might have.