{"id":680,"date":"2012-02-19T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/?p=680"},"modified":"2012-02-19T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T20:50:12","slug":"time-to-take-action-with-my-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2012\/02\/time-to-take-action-with-my-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to take action with my health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much control right now and I am totally blowing it. My last doctor&#8217;s appointment showed that while my cholesterol was perfect (150 total), my glucose creeped a few points above normal. Up until now, that number was around 93 with 100 being top. This time it was 105.<\/p>\n<p>I was also a bit low in iron so the doctor wanted to take more blood to check. I originally went to Lab Core for my blood work since I know that is what they do and I don&#8217;t trust my doctor doing it (I recalled issues the last time).<\/p>\n<p>So I was a little nervous when she asked to take more. As she went at it I yelped ow and at the that most key time, she reversed course and we had a blood fountain. I think. I don&#8217;t know, I didn&#8217;t look but she did have a bit of clean up to do. She didn&#8217;t want to hurt me since she just stared she was afraid it would hurt for the whole time. She then tried with the other arm, hurt the same which wasn&#8217;t that much but enough that an ow seemed appropriate. I now know to keep quiet.<\/p>\n<p>With that second (or rather third) draw she was able to determine my blood sugar for the last three months and that she now calls me pre-diabetic. First of all just how can they tell for the last 3 months? Yeah, whatever. But it was a wake up call to start exercising and eating less sugar.<\/p>\n<p>I started walking at work. i did it for a whole whopping two days before things were going on at lunch. Next week hopefully I can get in a swing. Also I still need to get the treadmill down and walk at home. I am sure if I just get moving and eating right, I can reverse the trend.<\/p>\n<p>As for the low iron, I think some peri-menopause things are making my cycles shorter and periods longer but not so much heavy. That was until last week. Oh boy, I can see how you can be low on iron with those periods. That was however after my blood test so I don&#8217;t know what was up then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much control right now and I am totally blowing it. My last doctor&#8217;s appointment showed that while my cholesterol was perfect (150 total), my glucose creeped a few points above normal. Up until now, that number was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2012\/02\/time-to-take-action-with-my-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}