Wednesday Ramblings & Pictures

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Hi, y'all. I'll warn everybody right up front, this post is going to be full of random bits and pieces.


I want to send out a big THANK YOU to one of my blogging buddies. Somebody who wished to remain anonymous, even to me, has given me an Ama*zon.com gift card to be used to buy a new camera. I won't reveal the amount of the gift card because that would just be tacky, but it's a generous amount, and I am so grateful!

I'd love to be able to say I wept delicately when I found the gift email in my inbox, but that would be a great big fat lie. I went into the ugly cry and bawled until my eyes were all swollen and I had to blow my nose several times.

Dear Anonymous Gift Card Bestower, whoever you are, Thank You so much! I haven't used the gift card yet, but I hope to order my new camera sometime in the next few days, so it should be here within a week or so. I am grateful for your generosity, and I know my sister Ducky will be happy to get her camera back.The main reason I haven't been blogging and commenting as much as I usually do is that I'm still not feeling my best. I went to my nutritionist Tuesday and my blood sugar is teetering on the edge of becoming full blown diabetes. It's been spiking and bottoming out, but I didn't have a meter to check it here at home.

Every time they've tested it in the lab with the 2 hour fasting test and the 6 month long term blood sugar test, I've tested exactly one point below the cut off to be considered full blown diabetic. The 2 hour fasting total was 119 and the cut off is 120, and the 6 month total was 5.9 with the cut off being 6 to be diagnosed as diabetic.

After a 12 hour fast overnight, my sugar was still 110 yesterday morning when the nurse checked it at the doctor's office. Even though I haven't been officially diagnosed with diabetes, my nutritionist (who is actually an M.D. who counsels for diabetes and weight loss) fudged a little and gave me a glucose meter kit so I can start checking my sugar and keep a log of my sugar levels.

At one point last night, my sugar was 186 and I felt like dreck. I've suspected all along that it was my sugar that's been making me feel so terrible, and this confirms it. They drew blood yesterday for more tests but it will be at least a week before I receive any results from the blood work.

Until I have a confirmed blood sugar reading above the levels to diagnose diabetes my doctor won't prescribe any medication to treat my sugar, and my insurance won't pay for any of the medication or the test strips for the meter, etc. She said she'd prefer that I was on met*formin now, but until I'm officially diagnosed as diabetic she'd rather try to control my blood sugar with diet and exercise.

It's kind of a catch-22 though because I can't exercise because of my arthritis, and it's almost impossible for me to lose much weight because I can't exercise and the diabetes tends to make you pack on weight. I can't win for losing!

I haven't gained back any of the weight I'd lost but I haven't lost much either. I weighed about 2 lbs. less this time than when I was there a couple of months back. At this point I'm just glad to be holding my own and not gaining.Enough of that now.

My sister Ducky let me borrow back my old camera that I gave her when I bought my new one (are you following me here? stay with me!) so I managed to download the rest of my pictures from my rurnt (ruined) new camera. Although they're different model cameras, both my old camera and the new one that isn't working right are both Ko*dak Easy*shares so the memory cards are the same and the software is compatible.

Some of you had wondered where I got the pictures I posted last time, but I had already downloaded those before my camera died. The ones I'm posting here are from the memory card on my new camera, the last of the ones that I took before it gave up the ghost, so to speak. What I've been doing is taking pictures with my new camera, then putting the memory card in the old camera and downloading them to my computer.

This is working for the time being, but it's a royal pain. Plus I'm sure Ducky would like to have her camera back sometime in the near future. I'm working on getting a new camera but it'll be a little while yet before that happens. As I said, thanks to the generosity of an Anonymous Benefactor, I'll be ordering a new camera, but I've never ordered anything from Ama*zon.com so I'll have to create an account there and figure out all the technical details.

I know, some of you are probably shocked that I've never used Ama*zon, but I don't shop much online. I don't have any credit cards by choice, and I just prefer not to shop with my debit card. I know a lot of people shop online almost daily, but this will be a learning experience for me.

***Edited to add: I just placed the order for my new camera and got the order confirmation email from Ama*zon, so I should receive my camera in about a week or so.*** On to the pictures. These were taken on Tuesday, June 24th and were taken at the same time as the ones on my last post.

I love these pictures of Emmy with her Son*ic drink.
Cecil bought her a cherry limeade and Emmy
decided that the cherry limeades, they are good, LOL!I don't remember now what it was about,
but Jessica was amused about something here.It was hotter than blue blazes the afternoon
these pictures were taken. Emmy has her
pool, her cold drink and her admiring fans.
The only drawback to it being a perfect
Summer day might be that her pool is
infested with big people. ;-)

More of the same....And this is my absolute favorite picture
out of the whole bunch.
When you're one year old, Summertime
doesn't get much better than this.

I think that's enough rambling for today. I'm sure you're all glad to see the end of this hot mess of a post anyway. Hopefully I'll have something more exciting to blog about besides rurnt cameras and my blood sugar next time I post. I wouldn't count on it, though.

Happy Wednesday! Y'all have a good one.