Fun & Confirmation

[aekiy]

Two weeks ago, as well as Monday of last week, I worked an early shift at work, filling in for the other full-timer who was out on vacation.  During this time, I put in extra hours to cover the workload and also to take this past Friday off work without using any vacation days.  I hit 80 hours a little before six o'clock on Thursday evening and

Comments

[primaldog]

This pretty well confirms that I am diabetic, in addition to being gluten intolerant, arthritic, and.. borreliotic

Uhm, have you had a health professional back up these allegations? I'd be careful about declaring yourself all these things before being looked at by a doctor.

[aekiy]

Like I said, with as much certainty as I can before I can see a doctor. I got 123, which is lower-end borderline, and that's without having any starches, or any sugars other than from fruit for the past some months. Jana, who has diabetes, regularly gets around 126. It's in the range that it should be controllable through diet and exercise. That's the best information I have to go on until I start working from home, which should save me enough money so that I can afford to buy health insurance and start seeing doctors.

[primaldog]

Even before seeing a doctor, this isn't 'knowing', and it won't be until these findings are confirmed by a health professional. I mean if I where you and I had all these problems, I would've been saving up for a health insurance plan long before, and not spent money on things like a new laptop and videogames.

Just a thought.

[aekiy]

I qualified that "knowing" with "as well as I can," as I mentioned in the last comment. I have been saving as much money as I can, but it still isn't enough, and I haven't been spending money on laptops and video games. I got the laptop because I required it to go to school, as my old one isn't working, and because I didn't have to pay anything for it. I won't have to start paying on it until March, by which time I'll be both saving extra money and making more money than I am now. I've also spent a sum total of about $100 on video games in the past four years.

[kitten_goddess]

Congratulations on getting to telework!

[aekiy]

Thanks! Once this gets rolling, I should finally have the spare money to start really getting the ball rolling on my health, so it makes me really happy.