August 19, 2009
My crazy day!
My day began with taking the boys to school, then coming home and feeding little miss THING. lol She’s two, and quite a handful!
I have been dreading going through the boys’ clothes and getting rid of things they can no longer wear. Well, today…. I gathered up the steam to just do it and get it over with!
I filled an entire twin sized bed with clothes my boys can no longer wear, piled about two feet high! WOW! I knew they had a lot of clothes they couldn’t wear, but I had NO idea there was THAT many.
I hung their jackets, long sleeved shirts, polo shirts and pants. I neatly folded their t-shirts, pajamas, underwear and shorts and placed them neatly in the dresser.
Then I had the bed full of clothes they can’t wear to deal with. What am I going to do with ALL these clothes!?!?! I called my son’s school and asked if they knew of any kids that NEEDED clothes. I mean, I can donate these to a thrift store and let them sell them, but I would much rather give them to needy kids. I know there are kids at my son’s school that wear raggedy, holey clothes to school. These clothes have been passed down from friends and my kids wore them, but there is still a lot of life left for someone who can’t afford to buy clothes.
While in the middle of doing the clothes, my mother in law gets released from the hospital from having knee surgery. My sister in law was taking her daughter to the doctor and couldn’t go get her mom. I had to wake Brookelyn up from her nap and take her to get “nanny”. It was a 45 minute drive, one way.
We got home, I put my mother in law in my bed to sleep. After all, she was pretty well doped up on pain meds.
I went and got the boys from the bus stop. Came home to my mother in law UP and walking around. She isn’t supposed to be left alone, but I had to get my kids.
I took my mother in law to pick up her medicines, took her by her brother’s to borrow his walker, took her by her daughter’s to get her apartment key, then took her home. I helped her to the couch and fixed her some ice cold tea before I left.
I came back home and washed more clothes. This is my third (I think) load for the day. I’ve already taken clothes to our closet twice today. I’ve put all the kids clothes neatly away (which I usually slack at because they won’t leave them folded & hung neatly).
It’s dinner time now. But…. because of my dishwasher SMOKING yesterday when it was running, it’s no longer in the house, and oh yeah… I have NO hot water in the kitchen. I can’t wash dishes without hot water. I can’t cook dinner without clean dishes. So… I have no idea what we’re eating tonight but I’m getting really hungry!
So my kids are going CRAZY and wild. Billy swept the kitchen floor (that’s his daily chore) and Dakota picked up the living room floor.
Ok, so there’s my crazy day in a nutshell… how was yours? lol
July 3, 2009
Diabetes; In the eye of the beholder
I’ve always, as long as I can remember, been overweight. I lost and gained here and there, but nothing major.
In June 2008, I found out I am diabetic. Wow. For a person who lived and breathed Mountain Dew and chocolate, that was devastating news. I immediately started drinking diet Mountain Dew and trying anything and everything ‘Sugar Free’. I’ve never been one to like diet or sugar free anything, so this was quite a change for me. I adjusted.
I was put on 1000 mg of Metformin twice a day. Then they added 5 mg of Glyburide twice a day.
Fast forward a year, I’ve lost over 60 pounds. I had it in my head that losing that much weight would make the diabetes disappear. I was mistaken. Apparently the diabetes wasn’t from my weight, but my body just stopped producing the needed insulin.
I’ve never been a person who was good about remembering to take medication. I hadn’t been to the doctor in a while, wasn’t checking my blood sugar, and wasn’t remembering to take my pills as prescribed.
I went to the doctor for what turned out to be a staph infection. He did some lab work, and when it came back, I was told my average blood sugar levels were 345 over a 3 month peroid. Oh my GOD! So ya know what the doctor did? He put me on insulin! I was taken off the Glyburide, I am still on the Metformin, and now an insulin shot every 24 hours.
The doctor told me being diabetic things such as the staph infection on my knee, could cause me to lose my leg. I’m 31 years old and I have three kids 8 years old and younger. That really scared me. It must have scared me into taking my medications like I’m supposed to, because I haven’t missed a dose since then. My sugar levels are not really as low as they need to be as of yet, but we’re working on getting them under control.
Diabetes is very scary. I’m sure it’s scary no matter your age, but I feel like I’m too young to let this disease distroy my life.
Ok, now for some complaining! LOL
Like I said, I’ve lost over 60 pounds since last June. If you’ve read any of my other blog posts, you know that my husband was out of work from last November until about one and a half months ago. We’re just now getting a little caught up on our bills, so I can’t afford to buy new clothes that FIT.
NONE of my clothes fit me anymore!!! I mean NONE. My shirts swallow me whole. My pants litteraly fall off when I walk. My underwear and bras are HUGE on me, my bathing suit straps fall off when I swim.
What’s a person to do? Don’t get me wrong, I love that I’ve lost weight. It’s awesome, and even though it didn’t make the diabetes go away, it sure it didn’t hurt me to lose weight. I just can’t afford to buy clothes that fit, and wearing the ones that are huge on me makes me look terrible, slob-ish even.
I was wearing size 24 jeans (yes, I know, I was HUGE!). I have a pair of size 18 jeans that I love that fall off. I haven’t worn size 18’s since I was 18 and they were skin tight on me then. I found a pair of 16 jeans in my closet that I had tried on before, and they wouldn’t even button up. When I tried them on today, they fit. But guess what?? They fall off too! I was vacuuming the bedroom floor and when I was done, my hiney was hanging out of my pants. My husband laughed at me, but I really don’t find it amusing. I get really upset because nothing fits.
Losing weight is a blessing, but it just sucks to not have clothes that fit 😦
I wish I could find someone who has gained weight that wanted to trade me her size 16’s & 18’s for my 22’s & 24’s. Any takers on that trade? lol
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