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I've been filling my new eyes with lots and lots and LOTS of eye drops. 😵‍💫🥹

I had my cataract surgery on both eyes, a week a part. One eye was strictly a cataract removal surgery and the other was for an astigmatism and cataract. The surgeries were easy. My anxiety was worse than the surgery.😧

The restrictions I have to follow, plus all those eye drops that I have to put in are a bit of a pain though. I have 3 different types of eye drops to put in both eyes 4 times a day for 28 days. Thank goodness for the cheat sheet they gave me to keep track of the drops.

The down side of clearer vision, I noticed that my windows really are dirty now.:LOL:
 
It's been a very busy day today. Hopefully have a schedule in place that my youngest is happy with at school so he stays in for his GCSE exams :)

Hoping for a chill day tomorrow :)
 
Despite the continued haze of Canadian wildfire smoke, this is otherwise a sunny day for now.

I have a bit over 300 watts (nominal) of solar panels out and charging power stations. Collecting around 150 watts at the present time. Usually I do better than that in the mornings, so it must be the haze.

Doctor appointment for 1:45 PM, but by then the rain is supposed to be back again. So around Noon I bring in the solar panels and get cleaned up for the hunt through road construction for a path to the Doctor's office.
 
Got in to see the doc. As I figured, I got a substitute. Mine is working late shift ER.

Brought in the curmudgeonly bossman, but for a change he seemed to be in a good mood. He said "we're going to keep you alive until you are 106."

They'll be ramping up my Mounjaro dosage and want me back in 10 weeks for a check. Meanwhile, starting me on Farxiga now as well. Lots of things to watch for taking this growing cocktail of meds.

Ordered an echocardiogram, and I need to make an appointment and coordinate that test so the Cardiologist has fresh data to examine.

Sucks to get old, but I still feel pretty good. As I told Doc Grizzly: "I don't see the end ahead."
 
Having a little "fun" on the new mix of meds. Long story short, I have a lot of periods where I feel like crap and sometimes it can be bad, but I check my glucose levels and while low for me they aren't getting bad (usually in the 90s of mg/Dl) but instead "normal." I think what I'm feeling are other side-effects these things produce. If the goal is to make me not feel like eating anything... well it sure works for that!

Got my solar power collected for the day between 7 and 11:30AM. Glad to be done, it is already hot and humid and I don't want to fiddle around out there any more today. Took a fan apart and washed its front and back "cage" halves and the blade. Dusting just wasn't enough to make me feel good about it.

Not sure we'll see much rain, but then again I just watched an update saying we've been moved into the severe area on the forecast map - mostly high winds. But while some parts of the lawn I seeded are coming in great, others haven't had enough water, and then there are the areas I "burned" by laying solar panels down flat around mid-day. 😜
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
Having a little "fun" on the new mix of meds. Long story short, I have a lot of periods where I feel like crap and sometimes it can be bad, but I check my glucose levels and while low for me they aren't getting bad (usually in the 90s of mg/Dl) but instead "normal." I think what I'm feeling are other side-effects these things produce. If the goal is to make me not feel like eating anything... well it sure works for that!

Got my solar power collected for the day between 7 and 11:30AM. Glad to be done, it is already hot and humid and I don't want to fiddle around out there any more today. Took a fan apart and washed its front and back "cage" halves and the blade. Dusting just wasn't enough to make me feel good about it.

Not sure we'll see much rain, but then again I just watched an update saying we've been moved into the severe area on the forecast map - mostly high winds. But while some parts of the lawn I seeded are coming in great, others haven't had enough water, and then there are the areas I "burned" by laying solar panels down flat around mid-day. 😜
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Do you live in rural area or city?And good morning.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Do you live in rural area or city?And good morning.
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Good morning!

No, I don't. So if I need to get help quickly it is within reach. There is an "urgent care" place within 3 miles and hospitals if it came to that. But I may have been exaggerating.

Staying on top of glucose levels when I feel dicey is easy enough. I just had some new symptoms and patterns of symptoms after starting on Farxiga. Things seem just fine today, but I'm alert to issues now.


Sunny enough this morning to get some solar collection done. Good odds of storms on the way, and I got that gear in before the first drops fell even though that's about all we've seen so far.

I have an unrelated string of solar lights out front that stay out there year 'round. Every few years though they poop out, so I replace them. I bought a couple spare strings and their solar panel battery boxes on sale a while back. This morning I tackled that chore.

The trick is hanging them. I have then beneath the front edge of a row of shrubbery along the front of the house. For hangers I have some galvanized "tent pegs" about as thick as a large nail. These pegs are folded over at the top to make a sort of hook less than a J but more than an inverted L. Each lamp in the string has a hole at the base for mounting, so I put the short end of the peg through the hole and then use a small metal binder clip - which get a little rusty but outlast the light strings themselves. Then I can insert the long end into the ground, holding each lamp a few inches above ground level.

The issue is getting down there on the ground to do it these days. Or rather, getting back up!

One peg was REALLY stuck this morning, maybe I had pounded it into a root years ago? I went and got the pliers, got a good grip, pulled and twisted...

Bang. Out it came and I tumbled over backwards onto the ground and some tree roots, then over onto my side. I was now covered in Cottonwood Tree fluff (that time of year) and stuck on hands and knees. I had a heck of a time getting to my feet!

I can laugh now, but I was sweating like a pig in the humidity as well at the time. I have GOT to get to work on strength and flexibility again. But I gutted it out and I finished the job. Whew.

Some days it sure sucks to be old.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
...usually in the 90s of mg/Dl...
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If you're between 90 and 99, why are you taking diabetic meds? That's an A1c of 4.8 to 5.1, which is considered "Normal", and I would love to be in that range. In Eureka, anything in the 5% range was commonly referred to as "The Coveted 5% Club." I was there for years when I was able to ride my bike. Now I'm doing good if I can stay in 6% range.

Jacob Petersheim said:
If the goal is to make me not feel like eating anything... well it sure works for that!
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Yeah, diabetic meds are like that. Kind of got me high at first a little too. By the way, there supposedly is a generic of Farxiga called Dapagliflozin. I have an appointment with my Doc on Friday and I'm going to ask about that. Every penny I can save eventually ends up being Coffee or a Mocha. :coffee: 🧋

Jacob Petersheim said:
Took a fan apart and washed its front and back "cage" halves and the blade. Dusting just wasn't enough to make me feel good about it.
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I bought this air blower to replace canned air to blow the dust out of my computers. It also works great for Fans. At about $50 it was a little bit pricey, but pays for itself in no time... That page says $54 now, but it said $47 when I bought mine a year ago. I also bought one in Eureka, that unsurprisingly did not make it when we moved. I bought the first one for $35 in 2020, and in two years it proved itself enough to make me buy a replacement in 2024. In the two years I used it I would have gone through a bunch of canned air with 4 computers, 6 box fans, and two wall heater vents before I lit the pilots in the fall.

Xpower X-2 Airrow

The reason I brought that up is don't forget to blow out the dust in the motor of your fan...
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
That's since adding the new medications recently. Before that I was getting from 110 to 120 most morning before breakfast, and sometimes more like 130. My A1C tests have been showing around 6.5 or close for a year.
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Even that is still pretty good. An average of 126 is an A1c of 6.0. Even 130 is still only 6.2. (But, remember my article A1c: The Diabetic's Richter Scale...) So if those numbers are consistent, it's possible you may have had the same problem I've had many times. After struggling with that for years I finally learned that while all of your numbers are important, the last 2 - 3 weeks before an A1c test can make things look better or worse than they actually are.

In other words, an A1c test can inadvertently be manipulated to make the test inaccurate. When I was riding my bike 15 to 25 miles a day, consistently taking all of my meds, and for the most part eating Cindy's cooking, my daily averages were 105. But my A1c was showing that my daily averages were closer to 130 or more. I was confused by that so I called my Pharmacist, who was a Certified Diabetic Educator (CDE), and he told me I was doing everything right, but I need to remember that specifically what you do in that last 2 - 3 weeks before an A1c test can really mess up an A1c.

He said that what you eat is important but so is when you eat it. If you eat low glycemic foods every meal for two months your numbers will be great, but then if you eat high glycemic foods just once or twice in that last 2 - 3 weeks right before an A1c test, it won't be a true A1c between tests. (I get my A1c tests every three months.) He also drove home the point that I should not let my Doc say all I need is an A1c every six months or longer, because then that problem is even more noticeable. If you have Medicare, it's covered for every three months.
 
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