Catching up, part 1: Diabetes

I have so many things I want to write, but I just haven't had the time to do it. Hopefully over the next few days (or hours) I'll be able to get my thoughts together and get them written. In trying to keep this neat and organized, it'll be grouped by topic as best I can.

First, the diabetes update. After coming home from Pebble Beach, I went to the doctor for a follow up. I emailed my numbers to the doctor the night before so he would have them when I got there. When he saw me walk into the waiting room he came up and shook my hand. He was thrilled with the numbers, and said pending the results of an A1C test that he would do that day, he would start taking me off the Metformin. The A1C is basically a three month picture of what your blood sugar has been doing.

He got the results of the A1C the next day and called me with the good news. It came back as a 5.3 Remember on April 29th when it was done, it was 9.4. Ideally, you want to be 6 or below. A 5.3 equates to an average glucose reading of a 90. The 9.4 equaled a 234. That's a huge drop in under 2 months.

I'm also below 250lbs for the first time in a long time. I'm getting weened off the medicine now, with the hope of being totally off medicine by Labor Day. He wants to make sure that my numbers do stay down as the dosage goes down -- basically making sure I'm going to keep up the lifestyle changes that I've made.

As far as I'm concerned, if I made it through the US Open show without drinking a coke, I'm going to make it. I was tempted many times between working consecutive 20 hour days and how good it goes with the peanut butter sandwiches I was having, but I managed to avoid it.