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Just got back from my appointment with Dr. Liu. I swear I have never been so happy to have my pain meds refilled. Trying to suck water out of the carpet with the shop vac has KILLED my back. That and standing on the stepladder stretching my arms up over my head and cutting away the ceiling.....Oy.
So anyway, my appointment went well. We went over my lab results (I posted them on here a couple weeks ago). My biggest concern was that my cholesterol is 243. A year and a half ago it was 300, so I'd at least brought it way down, but 243 is still way too high. But when I asked him about it, he pointed out that my "good cholesterol" is 80. 40 is considered good. Anything higher than that is great....and he said that 80 is a reading that would make a cardiologist jump for joy. So he said that as long as my good cholesterol stays so high, that I could have a total reading of 243 for the rest of my life and be completely fine. Good to know.
He also looked at the inside of my nose piercing....and at the inside of my ear since I found blood in my ear this morning. He said the piercing looks perfectly fine and isn't inflamed inside. And my eardrum is fine. So he thinks that when the piercing got so inflamed last week and I had so much facial pain....my ear probably just needed to flush some of the crap (blood, pus) out. He saw nothing wrong, so that made me feel better. He did give me some prescription antibiotic ointment to use though, in case it flares up again. I can also use it to lube up the nose ring when I change it.....which came in handy when I got my fingernail caught in it a little while ago and tore it right out of my face. Sigh. It's back in now, but sore and swollen again. He said the ointment will come in handy when I have my lip done too, in case I encounter the same problems.
I was going to ask him about having the mole on my jaw removed too....but we talked about so many other things that I forgot. Next time. He wanted to know all about Scotty's appointment at Doernbecher's and how Ireland's asthma is doing.
So today has been the first day of Scotty's new diet. It's gone pretty well so far. He skipped breakfast (I slept in, and Tom didn't want to force feed him without knowing what my plan was), but he had greek yogurt and blueberries for snack. I screwed up and got fat free yogurt, and I'm sure that's not the only time I'll screw up, but it's a start. Then he had an egg salad sandwich (with extra yolks) and carrots with ranch for lunch. Then a hardboiled egg for snack, and we're having baked potatoes for dinner with all the fixings laid out for them to choose from.
Do any of you have ideas for fatty snacks? I've got the fatty meals down, but I'm having a hard time coming up with snack stuff. He's supposed to have lots of eggs, but he's gonna get real tired of them if that's all I give him for snacks...;-)
I know I had more to write about, but I forgot....and now I have to go scrub the potatoes and put them in the oven. This will officially be the first time in my life that I've baked a potato.
So anyway, my appointment went well. We went over my lab results (I posted them on here a couple weeks ago). My biggest concern was that my cholesterol is 243. A year and a half ago it was 300, so I'd at least brought it way down, but 243 is still way too high. But when I asked him about it, he pointed out that my "good cholesterol" is 80. 40 is considered good. Anything higher than that is great....and he said that 80 is a reading that would make a cardiologist jump for joy. So he said that as long as my good cholesterol stays so high, that I could have a total reading of 243 for the rest of my life and be completely fine. Good to know.
He also looked at the inside of my nose piercing....and at the inside of my ear since I found blood in my ear this morning. He said the piercing looks perfectly fine and isn't inflamed inside. And my eardrum is fine. So he thinks that when the piercing got so inflamed last week and I had so much facial pain....my ear probably just needed to flush some of the crap (blood, pus) out. He saw nothing wrong, so that made me feel better. He did give me some prescription antibiotic ointment to use though, in case it flares up again. I can also use it to lube up the nose ring when I change it.....which came in handy when I got my fingernail caught in it a little while ago and tore it right out of my face. Sigh. It's back in now, but sore and swollen again. He said the ointment will come in handy when I have my lip done too, in case I encounter the same problems.
I was going to ask him about having the mole on my jaw removed too....but we talked about so many other things that I forgot. Next time. He wanted to know all about Scotty's appointment at Doernbecher's and how Ireland's asthma is doing.
So today has been the first day of Scotty's new diet. It's gone pretty well so far. He skipped breakfast (I slept in, and Tom didn't want to force feed him without knowing what my plan was), but he had greek yogurt and blueberries for snack. I screwed up and got fat free yogurt, and I'm sure that's not the only time I'll screw up, but it's a start. Then he had an egg salad sandwich (with extra yolks) and carrots with ranch for lunch. Then a hardboiled egg for snack, and we're having baked potatoes for dinner with all the fixings laid out for them to choose from.
Do any of you have ideas for fatty snacks? I've got the fatty meals down, but I'm having a hard time coming up with snack stuff. He's supposed to have lots of eggs, but he's gonna get real tired of them if that's all I give him for snacks...;-)
I know I had more to write about, but I forgot....and now I have to go scrub the potatoes and put them in the oven. This will officially be the first time in my life that I've baked a potato.