Re: just checking in.

[Guest guest]

I do recall in the hospital that with the head of the bed sitting up I did

sleep better. do hate the flat feeling of laying flat. maybe should get one of

those beds that you can adjust?

just checking in.

> can't sleep. 5 years ago this very evening is when I had my first heart

> attack that about done me in. spent the whole month of August in the

> hospital that year. maybe it is simply on my mind, even though I don't

> feel it is? well wanted to let you guys know my weight is hanging around

> 285 the first day of August. can get down to 282 and then back to 288. now

> hanging in at 285. sugars are running steadily between 100 and 115 for

> more then six weeks now. only using five units twice a day of the novalog

> flex pen mix that I got left to use up. in maybe 2 weeks or less I will

> start the ten units of lantus once a day. still riding my no where bike

> between 90 and 120 minutes a day. one problem this time of the year is all

> the fresh fruit and veggies that I can lay my hands on at the farmer's

> market and folks with gardens. love to eat fresh veggies and fruit this

> time of the year. hate the heat though! one good thing about being retired

> is no more working in the heat. 33 years of sucking saw dust down my

> throat every day and sweating like a horse I do not miss at all! not even

> a small bit. do feel sorry for those fellows that still are there, but

> they can retire any time they get tired of it I guess. they say you get

> use to working in the heat and cold if you do it long enough. well that

> wasn't true for me. froze my butt off in the winter and burned up in the

> summer. here in OkC we are enjoying between 100 and 110 degrees for the

> past 3 weeks or so. last year we only had sixty days over 100. don't look

> like we will beat it this year and that isn't hurting my feelings any. Go

> see the doc this Friday for more thyroid test to see what it is or isn't

> doing. suppose then is when they will put me on some kind of medicine to

> make it act right. maybe losing the pounds will be a bit easier then. it

> really isn't one bit fair though for us who are diabetic with all the

> fresh fruit that is around this time of the season. fruit is suppose to be

> better for you then a candy bar, but it will send our sugar in to next

> week if we eat to much at one time. I use to eat a whole cantaloupe at one

> time and could tare a water melon up by my self and it wasn't one of those

> little melons either. love to go to the farmer's market this time of the

> year. hate the heat, but can't have good gardens with out the summer. well

> suppose I should back on out of here and go on to bed. always in bed by 8

> pm most nights, but just couldn't make my self get sleepy to night no

> matter how hard I tried. kind of funny how we humans can really work our

> selves up over a little thing. I think we are our own worse emmenes most

> of the time. I heard as we age we don't need as much sleep as we did when

> younger. could very well be true. how do you make your self sleep for a

> solid eight hours a night if you can't stay a sleep? not that I know of is

> there a drug that will keep you sleeping through the night. know of a few

> that will cause you to relax, but you will continue to wake up through the

> night. the harder you try to get to sleep, the harder it is to sleep.

> maybe I should try harder to stay awake and this will fool my mind and I

> will go right to sleep? 4 a.m will come sooner then you think, but with 4

> hours sleep or eight hours sleep I will jump out of bed running and never

> lay down during the day for a nap. I don't know about you guys, but naps

> always make me feel ten times worse when I wake up. I do much better if I

> fight the sleeping's and go to bed when I mostly do at the same time every

> night. ok, enough pig ramble for now. just wanted you all to know I hadn't

> kicked off and still remain with the living. still fighting the good fight

> and still traveling many miles on the no where bike. stuck in the 280's

> right now and have been for a month, but soon I will over come the

> mountain that is blocking me and move on in to the 270's. all do try to

> have a blessed day to morrow and I will be smelling you up the trail!

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