Good to know your dh is doing well here at this holiday season!

I am grateful for the way something worked out for me today. Yesterday I started having a sore throat and within hours had a headache, fever, extreme sore throat - felt like I still had a right tonsil. Things like this scare me after a year of dealing with breathing issues and still taking an inhaler. I called the MD office and asked if I should have some Tamiflu and they said check the pharmacy in the morning. So I started taking all the home cures I could think of. OTC Airborne, echinacea, vitamin C, gargled with apple cider vinegar (omg that stuff is nasty lol), and soothing the throat with organic sesame oil. Not what what did it, but I woke up this morning and it was completely gone!!! Ya gotta love that!!

Good morning!

We had a nice Thanksgiving; my younger son came down from Chicago for a few days.
It was fun tp catch up.

In other news, a little over 2 weeks ago, I started on Lantus, a once-a-day-insulin.
I am happy to report that I saw results immediately. I hadn't checked my numbers for a few days--just too busy or forgot--but my fasting blood sugar this morning was: 84. It's NEVER been under 100 since I was diagnosed as type2 15+ years ago. EVER.

That's all for now.

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Anyway.. that's a relief.

Cris I can't believe it has taken this long for them to put you on Lantus! That has been a standby for years! I'm so glad to hear you are having such wonderful results with it.

Jan, yes I was delighted that my barage of home remedies worked so well! you never know with these things lol

I am grateful that this year of medical is almost over. I look back to where I was last year, and last year during the holidays I was so sick that I honestly do not even remember much about them. I was living in a hotel a year ago for almost 6 weeks while our home was completely gutted and it was not until the week of my birthday (Jan 19) that I finally stumbled into the doctor's office and met the doctor who I credit saving my life. My resting oxygen saturation was 87% that way and I had serious doubts about making it into the office. He later told he gave me about a 50/50 survival rate when he met me. What a difference a year makes!!! So I am more grateful for this holiday season than I have ever been before!!!

So glad to hear positive reports from you all. Self knowledge really helps, imo.
I'm grateful I got a binge under control quickly and didn't see any serious side effects (aka poundage).

Grateful this morning for how easy it was to jump back on program once I hit that switch. At this point it really felt more like flicking a switch than running to catch a fast moving wagon and dragging myself back onto it lol

I am so grateful for this group!!! I've been really off track lately too and it's this group that has kept me from giving up on myself. Even though I've not been posting much I've been reading your posts. To share this struggle with you all has given me the strength to pull myself back from the brink of failure. Thank you, thank you, thank you each and every one of you for having the courage to share your set backs and your victories! You are all winners in my book!

I am soooooo grateful to have all the planned medical stuff DONE and can relax and enjoy the holidays!

I am also incredibly grateful to have survived this year and be where I am now. My husband pointed out to me last night that at this time last year we were living in a hotel, I was struggling to breathe and so sick that the holidays are just a blur to me now. He was having to handle the work crew and everything in the house by himself and he is NOT good at those decisions, so we had no house, no furniture, the mattress in the hotel was killing his back, the animals were boarded and we were just bleeding money. Oh my what a difference a year makes and how grateful I am to have made it to this point!!!

AH, memories!

Whoops! lol Grateful we are kissing this crazy year good bye and starting a fresh one in the morning!!!