I grabbed a favorite shirt of mine and went out to eat recently. This particular dinner has been blogged about below with pictures. My shirt looks like crap on me, because it had been on a much larger version of me.
All my old shirts are too big. This, is very annoying to me for a couple of reasons. I LIKE my old shirts but when you put on a dress shirt and its like tucking in a spinnaker sail IT LOOKS LIKE GATHERED CRAP!
It was bad enough that my Briefs had turned into Boxers (I do not like boxers). Now my shirt collection is requiring being purged! Tee-shirts can be worn big. It is even comfortable. Sweat Shirts I prefer big. It turns out there is something to be said for work shirts that fit.
Do NOT get me wrong. I am well pleased that for the first time in 30 years I am below 200 pounds. I just never took into account that my wardrobe would become obsolete.
Silly me...
Okay, I feel better (until I look at my FORMER shirts again)... So anyways. I went to the Doctors today. My NEW doctor. My old one saw the writing on the wall and opted for early retirement then face the Government Rationed Healthcare system that seems to be coming our way.
This new doctor was not born in the USA. No big deal, but I am starting to wonder if there are ANY new doctors being born in the USA... And I got a bit of a life shock, this may or may not make sense\be funny to anyone out there depending upon your age and experience.
THIS DOCTOR IS YOUNGER THEN ME! For the first time EVER! yes, it was a fundamental shift in my universe. Shocking to say the least. Doctor baby face was nice enough, he apparently enjoys his laptop computer as he spent much more time looking at it then at me. I was anxious to hear how my blood work went. Being Type II, and having shunned 88 pounds, you can understand.
He starts explaining things, with an increasingly confusing loop the loop of information:
Doc: Okay your blood test results are excellent, your numbers are at the upper range for normal.
Me: Wow, Normal? Great I was hoping to get off my medication.
Doc babyF: Well, your numbers are normal for a regular person.
Me: I have daily bowel movements, I am not sure what that has to do with...
Doc babyF: No I mean your blood work would show your not diabetic in a normal person.
Me: I'm not a normal person?
Doc babyF: You have Diabetes.
Me: Yes, but with my weight loss I was thinking I would be able to reverse that. Now you say my numbers show my blood sugars are normal! That means I'm Cured!
Doc babyF: No, it doesnt, you still have diabetes. If you Did NOT have diabetes your blood test would be normal.
Me: Did the numbers before show I had dabetes?
Doc babyF: Yes, most assuradly.
Me: and now the numbers show my blood is the same as a normal, non-type II person?
Doc babyF: Exactly correct.
Me: So the only reason I am not cured NOW is because I was diagnosed earlier?
Doc babyF: Yes, that is correct.
Me: ........................................wtf?
Anyways. My BP is phenomenal! My Cholesterol is Excellent! My weight is a tad high (according to a highly flawed calculation called BMI, but so be it).
All in all I am a much healthier human being, just in time for Christmas! Now if I just had something to wear!
4 comments:
Congrats Lee!
Your doctor is apparently somewhat of a moron. I suggest skipping the medication and maybe having bloodwork done again in a couple months or so. If it is still normal after being off mediciation a couple months, then you can have that interesting conversation with your doctor again. Ask him how they can determine you are cured. Also ask exactly what causes diabetes.
I think their mental model of diabetes is that we have no cure. So, therefore, you can never be cured. It is merely dormant until you gain all that weight again.
See, you are still obese: your obesity is merely in remission, ready show its ugly face as soon as you gain weight.
Wardrobe: that is what I am looking forward to. I promised to not buy any new clothes until I reach my target weight, then I get to splurge and replace my entire wardrobe.
This sort of reads like the "who's on first" script.
Congratulations to you! I am confident you've got the Diabetes back in it's cage!
And for heavens sake, go shopping!
Shoo,
Actually I empathize with the doctor. being in Tech support I realize that there is a "delusion of knowledge". That requires (in some cases) carefully demonstrating in order to foster true communication.
As for the Meds .vs. my blood work. I was contemplating that same thing. However, given my HbA1c is at 5.8% and under 6% is "normal" and that a slight amount of over weightiness can trigger insulin intolerance.
So my battle plan is to lower my medication and check my blood for a month to see if my average trends any given direction. This could be skewed by my goal weight (185 lbs) as I loose. But, I think that is the reasonable. If I hold steady blood wise after a month, re-assess and move forward. (pills are $8.00 a bottle at Wal-Mart)
Shoo glad to hear you are on a similar wardrobe purge!
Myrna, I loathe shopping. Good thing I married Tina eh? She has been slowly replenishing my togs.
Every time I go to Freddies or Wal-Mart I'm checking the clearance racks for new shirts.
I got him a nice shirt at Macy's last night at the fundraiser for United Way. It was originally $38 - marked down 50% off, and then I had an additional 20% off card they gave us at admission - so it was $11 & change :) Whee!!
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