Well what a weekend!!! First off I would like to say congratulations to my sister Rena for completing her first Crim... 10 mile race thru Flint.. Very impressive to be able to run that long. I certainly could not do it. I myself just did the 1 mile walk with my family and that was fun.. Kinda made me feel bad about not doing something a little bit more challenging but when you add up all the walking you had to do to get from where you parked to the start of the race you pretty much completed a 5k.
This past week and weekend have been very busy and stressful. I had a big garage sale this weekend and will probably have it again next weekend. Did not get a whole lot of traffic as the bridge is out on my main road and traffic is being detoured but next weekend I will have it again and since it is a holiday I am sure there will be allot more people out and about.
The great thing about being busy of course is that I am super active and really working off the calories and what I hope to be pounds. I think this weekend if you add up all the walking and running around I did It probably equals a marathon.. My uncle was gone again so I had to go to his house twice a day and take care off all his chores too. So with the garage sale, the race, work, his chores and mine... I was busy, busy, busy.. and I am also tired, tired, tired..
I was finally able to get a copy of my blood work from the doctors office. And of course after all this the doctor did not order my protein level so I am still in the dark about where that is.. Makes me so mad that things just can't be done right. I am really upset with the after care program that the bariatric clinic has for there patients. They won't order the blood work even though they are the ones who want it. They make me order it from my primary doctor who in her defense did not do the surgery or even specialize in it so she is not really to blame and because of the friggin mountain of people who have to have there hands in it things get missed and messed up.. I really just do not understand why the bariatric clinic just can't order the blood work themselves so that it does not have to go through so many other channels to get to the place it needs to be. I am looking at my results and see that there are several things that are low ( Iron, HDL cholesterol, Vitamin A, & prealbumin not sure what that is) But being I am not a doctor I have no idea whether or not these things are something that need to be addressed or whether they are OK. There are also several things that are right on the border of being low but I guess I will have to wait and see what the clinic says. I called them and told them I was faxing the result over and that I expected a phone call ASAP, so we will see how long it takes for anyone to call.
Otherwise though I am feeling rather well. It continues to amaze me how little I eat. My sister in law who was here over the weekend is very tiny and such a light eater. It cracks me up that I am now the one who eats so very little and I mean little. Before I could eat 3 to her 1 and now It is the other way around. I just hope that someday I will be as little as she...
Well anyways better get moving this morning got a million things to do and what seems like so little time.
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
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I noticed the other night that my ability to actually eat is smaller. Of course mine is in my head, not anatomically, but the mind is working correctly.. Great job and the bet should be... A Vespa....
Hi Mechelle ... just wanted to comment on the bloodwork. I know how frustrating it is to have to go through out PCP for labs, but I kind of like that my family doctor is involved in the process. He tends to explain things to me much better than Hurley does.
Its very normal for our iron levels to be low, so you'll probably need to start an extra supplement. HDL is the good cholesterol levels, mine was low too. But exercise and eating healthy gets that number up. Mine is finally up to 50 with all the walking Ive been doing... so this is something you can work on yourself.
Vitamin A and Prealbumin (protein) is actually related. prealbumin is your protein level and overall nutrtion. Vitamin A is one of the fat soluble vitamins that we malabsorb, but it also helps to synthesize protein that we eat. So if your Vitamin A is low, it's logical that your protein levels will also be low. You will probably need to start taking a separate Vitamin A pill and increase your protein intake .. so they can both work together to increase your blood levels.
Congrats on the 1 mile Crim race. I agree that the long walks to and from the start line was crazy... so you definitely got your 5k in that day. :-)
Pam
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