Re: Ladies and Germs! all please stand!

June 9, 2012

we all have many bad habits we got to turn around, but at least you can sleep

better at night knowing you aren't on a Island by your self. turn bad over

eating habits in to good choices and soon you will be on the right track. I'm a

cold turkey kind of person my self when trying to give up a special food or item

that I dig a lot, but other folks do best with the slow manner of backing off a

bit more each day. which ever works for you the best or how ever you figure it

out is the right way for you. next time make 4 cookies. then the next time only

make 2. then the next time only make one. I use to have the mind set that it was

better to eat something you really wasn't wanting then wasting it. I was

programmed growing up that if you wasted anything, then you were laughing in the

face of thousands of small kids going hungry around the world. I also thought

baking a small thing in a big old oven was a waste of gas and time. why only

make 4 or 6 when you are using enough gas or electric to make forty or sixty? I

also thought bigger was always better. more bang for the buck and more to have

of what ever it was. most of us thought when our TV had a little hand held

object they called a remount how our life was so much easier and how the

cordless telephone made life easier as well, but the truth is it made us more

kinds of lazy and we sit longer and ate more and grew out of our smaller

clothes. how can young folks play out door games like baseball any more with the

hand held pc and all the hand held games? all this cool stuff is really to me

what is actually destroying us as healthy human beings. nothing wrong with all

the cool things that makes our life easier, but we still got to put some

exercise back in our daily life, because all these cool inventions have took it

away. our parents and grandparents may have had it a bit harder, but they did

get more kinds of movement per day then we do now. easier isn't always better.

cheaper isn't always the best buy. good looks doesn't always mean a loving

heart. book sense, doesn't mean they have common sense. then we go to a

restaurant and see a plate piled high and smelling grate, so we think we got our

mone's worth and it is healthy as well because they say it is. we believe what

they say, because we want to believe it is so. none of us who are able to

exercise each day can put it in our daily life if we first don't start to day.

we all can put off until to morrow what we don't wish to do to day. I done this

most of my life and I done it so well that I got to be over 300 pounds, I got to

be a T 2 diabetic, I got high blood pressure, I got a heart attack, I got a bad

attitude, I got way kinds of lazy and to top it all off? I got very selfish and

only cared about me and what made me happy. so I over ate my way in to a box

full of all the personal issues I just named off. once I got all this crap all

around me and I really looked at it all up close, I got mad! then I got sad and

cried. then I talked to God and told him I didn't have enough strength of my own

to get out of the place I found my self. then I woke up to a new day and I had

all I needed to change my life and get rid of all that crap around me that I no

longer wanted in my face. just look at how far I've come in only 3 months!! how

many months did I put off doing what I just done in the past 3 months? well

about 35 years times 12. this is a pile of months. over 400 months of being lazy

and making up more excuses to continue putting off good health just so I would

enjoy bad health. now I don't know about every one else, but why in the hell was

I putting off good health so I could have bad health to enjoy? who in there

right minds enjoys bad health? but putting off exercising daily and continuing

to over eat what ever you wish to eat is exactly what I'm talking about. it

appears to me now as I look back on my yesterday's, that I wanted health issues

as a part of my life because of all the excuses I found to use to cover why! how

sick of a attitude was this? this shows you that I deserved what I got in the

end. I could lay the blame any where I wished to lay it, but the facts were it

was all mine to keep. now I'm working my fat pig butt off to make it all better

and it is hard work, but it is all my own fault that I am where I am to day.

only I can change it and I am doing just that. why??? because I want it bad

enough to do something about it. I can tell you right now after 3 months I'm on

a roll and it is down hill most days. once I get past the first ten or 15

minutes of a ride on my no where bike, it gets easy after that. I'm mean so easy

that I could go longer then the one hour that I ride. my muscles are hot and

lose and I can go on and on. how bad did I want it? well the past 90 days will

show you how bad I wanted it and now I got it. I wish to share it with the world

and maybe some one else can want it like I did. however, I never would listen to

any of those telling me the right way to have healthy life, so I really don't

expect any one to listen to me either, but they continued telling me and I will

continue telling you as well. there is always some one watching how we live life

and how we handle life that comes our way. always some one is listening to what

you and I have to say. we have no clue who or when, but they aren't out there.

are we planting good seeds or bad seeds? this list planted good seeds in me and

they took a while before they got roots, but the list continued to water the

soil they planted the good seeds in hoping that some day they would grab hold

with strong roots and they did! so as you can see, none of us who no how to do

it right and have shown we can, can't ever stop telling our story and planting

good seeds to some day take our place. what a blessed life the pig has!!! I all

ready rode my no where bike this fine morning for one hour. have you done your

ride or walk yet?

Ladies and Germs! all please stand!

> O how nice it does feel! now before I get to the truly blessed new from

> the saw bones, I will tell you of the sister's luck at the neighborhood

> casino. we went by there around eleven and on her very first $5 bill she

> put in a quarter machine called wild cherries. 75 cents is the most you

> can bet if you are playing max bet. my sister mainly plays only penny

> machines at maybe 20 or 30 cents a spin, but her blind brother the pig

> likes quarter machines. so she sat down be side me and put a whole five

> dollars in the wild cherry quarter machine which if she hadn't of been at

> that machine I would have played it next. this is what I do when there

> isn't a pile of folks around hogging the machines. it made noise the one

> she was on and us who can't see we need noise when playing a slot machine.

> so what did she do you ask? her very first spin! her very first 75 cent

> spin turned red and spung again, but this free spin only landed on 3 wild

> cherries that were worth only 10,000 quarters! only a sad $2,500 on a

> little bitty 75 cent investment! she did give me a C note out of it

> because if not for my doctor apt to day with the specialist, she wouldn't

> have been in OKC this morning. she took me to my apt and after the apt we

> went to the casino I like to go too and sure is a mighty fine plan I had

> to go! Ok, now to the good news the set off the lucky day for the pig and

> his sister. my A1C so said the doctor was 13.3 on March 8'th. 3 months

> ago. he put me on the 70 30 novelog flex pen and started me out at 20

> twice a day. he said to fax in my numbers for the next week and he would

> have to adjust my dose higher because this is simply how he must do it for

> most of his patients. I told him I was going to be a different kind of

> patient and my dose would go down. I told him about this list and how much

> you guys has taught me about how to control diabetes the right way. he may

> not have totally believed me then? but I can promise you he believes now!

> not only was he impressed with the 30 pounds lost in 3 months, but he was

> blown away with my A1C of 5.9, which is a average sugar of 117 if my list

> is correct. he said to drop from 13.3 to 5.9 in 90 days was way above what

> he had in his mind that I would do. he didn't check my triglycerides to

> day and plans to check them in the next visit in 3 months. he says he can

> all most assure me they are very close to where they need to be with my

> A1C under six. they were only 1400, but he made me feel a bit better when

> he said he has seen triglycerides as high as 5,000 in some diabetics that

> wasn't in control of there sugar. he told me to go on and finish up the

> novelog flex 70 30 mix pens that I still got and I can even go down to 5

> units twice a day until I use up the 3 pens I still have. then I start on

> ten units a day only in the morning or evening of lantus. he said it

> didn't really matter if I done it early or late, but do it the same once I

> started. now one thing he did say that I don't understand. he said to

> start out at only ten, but if my morning reading is under 130, then only

> do one less unit the next day. like drop to nine if my reading is less

> then 130. I told him I haven't had a reading over 130 in about ten weeks.

> he said by only using ten units of lantis a day my numbers wasn't going to

> be a low. think I will call the nurse next week and get them to explain

> this in a way that I can better understand it. I can't figure out who was

> more excited with my A1C of 5.9 between him, me or the nurse? he said the

> 2 hours of riding my no where bike has a whole lot to do with the huge

> drop in my A1C. he said my feet and the rest of me looks grate. he said I

> don't even have to come in but every six months if I would like, but I

> wish him to see me every 90 days and said I will be back in September. I

> told him I can keep my A1C under six and I will prove it to him every 3

> months. he acted like he may have bought my story this time. he did ask a

> lot of questions about you guys this time and I told him how well some of

> you do who are T one's and how you are as old as dirt and still kicking.

> he was impressed with this news as well. I do love you guys and thank you

> more then you will ever know for all the help you have taught me over the

> years about grate diabetes control. I always listened to your good advice.

> I didn't always follow it, but that wasn't your fault. we each must make

> that choice our self. I just proved that a A1C of over 13 can be cut in

> half and more so in only 90 days of hard work and grate control and I owe

> it all to the grate people on this list!

>

June 9, 2012

So glad to hear that is home and that you will be getting some much

needed help. Hospice people are usually very wonderful.

Too bad about those cookies being so good! You should give the rest of the

dough to your non-diabetic friend! Is able to eat or is he still on

the Ensure?

_____

From: blind-diabetics

[mailto:blind-diabetics ] On Behalf Of Lora Leggett

Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 2:44 AM

To: blind-diabetics

Subject: Re: Ladies and Germs! all please stand!

That is so wonderful, Mark. It does prove to me that it can be done.

I must get back on the wagon soon. I have been letting stress get to me so

much. We brought home on Tuesday and are going to have hospice

helping us out now. This does not mean he is checking out but it means we

will get better support here at home.

I got a call from Dr. on Friday morning and he is happy with our

decision to go with hospice and he said they have patients who thrive in

hospice care and do get well enough to be discharged from it without dying.

He is still going to be our doctor. He said anything for ! I was so

thrilled to hear that.

We had a little get together with my friend, Karla, and we got some pizza

and I got a catfish sandwich.

I did a lot of eating this past week and I did not do too many things I

shouldn't except a couple brownies.

But my weight only went up .8 of a pound.

I am hoping that now with some support from hospice, I can turn my attention

to exercise and eating more healthy.

I did try my new baking mat with a batch of cookies called Sugar And Spice

Cookies. I am sure they would work well with Splenda. But I was

entertaining Karla and trying my new mat. I only made six cookies that

Karla and I split and I have more dough in the fridge.

The cookies came out fantastic and did not stick. I only went 5 minutes,

not the 10 to 12 minutes called for and they tasted wonderful.

The next batch I make will use Splenda and I am making them quite small so

that I will not eat very much at a time.

It is also neat your sister won all of that money.

Our brother-in-law finally received the gift of money our family sent on

Wednesday so it took almost a week to get to its destination.

So I am feeling good about a few things and trying to change the things I do

not feel good about. I have two exercise cassettes to try to learn and your

good results and these new people who are starting to come to our house to

help me with are a good motivation for a brand new start.

I will be a diabetic for one year on June 13th and maybe I can turn it from

a sad anniversary to a good turning point. I am trying to convince myself.

Isn't it the hell of it all that I finally conquer making some good cookies

after I should nhot be having them? They are fit to give to company. Dang.

Lora