Thursday, June 19, 2008
Neon Health Update
I don't think I mentioned it here, specifically, that I celebrated finalizing all the political stuff for the first half of the year by picking up some sort of virus that went straight to one of the more problematic parts of my body (no, NOT my brain!) and gave me bronchitis. Happily, I am mostly over it now, other than the occasional mad coughing fit.
I've figured out I suffer from bureaucratic body parts. These guilty parties do the least they can get away with, complain about that little smidgen of work they DO do, and generally fail to get along with the other body departments.
So it seems the body-in-general decided to fight the rising bitterness by holding onto every molecule of sugar passing through, hoping this would restore our former sweetly sunny disposition. The brain TRIED to tell it this was a bad idea, but you know bodies....
Anyway, after teetering on the brink for years, I'm now considered Officially Diabetic. My doc prescribed Glucophage, and since he has confidence in my willingness to keep to a med schedule, and also knows I want the cheap version of things whenever possible, he set me up with the kind where you break one large tablet in two, and take half twice a day.
The only problem is that these tabs are roughly the size and consistency of bricks. The first day it sort of half broke and half crumbled on me. The second day I used one of those one sided razor blades, which worked okay except that it CUT the pill instead of breaking it, so the two halves weren't quite equal.
Today I found that using the razor blade and a HAMMER worked perfectly. As in the old adage, if force doesn't work, you aren't using enough.
More health type updates later...I need to pack and mail some books before I run out of afternoon!
I've figured out I suffer from bureaucratic body parts. These guilty parties do the least they can get away with, complain about that little smidgen of work they DO do, and generally fail to get along with the other body departments.
So it seems the body-in-general decided to fight the rising bitterness by holding onto every molecule of sugar passing through, hoping this would restore our former sweetly sunny disposition. The brain TRIED to tell it this was a bad idea, but you know bodies....
Anyway, after teetering on the brink for years, I'm now considered Officially Diabetic. My doc prescribed Glucophage, and since he has confidence in my willingness to keep to a med schedule, and also knows I want the cheap version of things whenever possible, he set me up with the kind where you break one large tablet in two, and take half twice a day.
The only problem is that these tabs are roughly the size and consistency of bricks. The first day it sort of half broke and half crumbled on me. The second day I used one of those one sided razor blades, which worked okay except that it CUT the pill instead of breaking it, so the two halves weren't quite equal.
Today I found that using the razor blade and a HAMMER worked perfectly. As in the old adage, if force doesn't work, you aren't using enough.
More health type updates later...I need to pack and mail some books before I run out of afternoon!
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