A bit of good news. The downpour last night was fast and furious, but short lived. We actually made it out the door with the dogs at 8:30pm for a 30 minute jaunt around the neighborhood. Getting out and walking 2 days in a row made me feel SO much better mentally.
A bit more good news...we just walked in the door from tonight's walk around the neighborhood so hooray for 3 straight days of exercise. :) Tomorrow we'll be walking at the park again. My darling friend Kim is coming over for dinner and a walk. And to see my babies of course. I think she loves those little turkeys as much as we do, and I love that about her! She's going to be walking the Peachtree Road Race 10k here in Atlanta on July 4th weekend. She says she needs to get a little practice in before the race, but the truth is, she's been doing this 10k for several years in a row now and she always finishes just fine. She's in WAY better shape than I am, that's for sure. She inspires me. Love you girl!
On to the crappy doctor news. I had expressed concern that I thought he may be trying to drop me since he referred me to an endocrinologist. I was pretty much right. I called the dr's ofc today and instead of leaving a FIFTH voicemail, I stayed on the phone with the receptionist until she went and got a nurse and put her on the phone. Finally!
I found out that yes, the dr most certainly did intend for me to follow up with the endocrinologist for further diabetes and thyroid care. I mentioned before in this blog that my last labs were really bad. The nurse said the diabetes was starting to affect my kidneys in a negative way, and the doctor, being a primary care, didn't feel well enough equipped to continue treating my diabetes and thought an endo would give me more specific treatment and care.
However, what he did NOT know is that I already talked to the endo's office, found out an initial visit is $350, and with my $4500 deductible, there was no way in hell I was going to be able to pay that much per visit with a specialist. It's just an impossibility. So once the nurse found that out, she said she would relay it to the doctor and try to get my meds refilled.
While I had her on the phone, I mentioned a couple of other things. One, that the Januvia he prescribed was rejected by my insurance...they refuse to pay for it. And two, I have serious concerns about my thyroid. I told her I've been on synthetics like Synthroid for 13 years now and yet I still have a list a mile long of hypothyroid symptoms, as though it's not being treated at all. I told her to ask the Dr if he would prescribe a natural treatment such as Armour or Nature Thyroid. She said I can already tell you NO on the Armour. I asked why. She said most doctors just won't prescribe Armour. I said, "But do you know WHY?" She said they just don't think it works and won't prescribe it.
Alrighty then. My first rejection. I do wonder how many more there will be before I find a doctor who will give me a natural med for this. From the books I'm reading, I pretty much already knew the answer would be no. There is absolutely nothing progressive at all about my doctor. I knew he was traditional, so I was ready for it, but I had to ask to make sure before moving on to someone else.
Here's the really annoying thing about it. I doubt I'll find any primary care doctor to approve it. I think it will take a specialist of some sort. And now we're back to specialist prices that I can't pay. Not sure how it's going to work out. Just going to pray that the Lord's will be done and that he'll point me in the right direction and open the doors that I need opened.
On a brighter note, I made the lasagna soup that Biz makes like every other week, lol. I keep seeing her pics of it and I finally decided to make it today. I only made the soup part....I haven't made the pasta yet. I will do that tomorrow. She said to make them separately so the pasta doesn't soak up all the liquid by combining them. She gave me the original recipe and I did not make the cheesy part...I'm just not a huge cheese fan so I'm not one to put it on everything I eat. And I must say it is absolutely delicious without it. So spicy and flavorful. I used hot Italian sausage links...3 of them. I think it called for 1.5 lbs of sausage. I didn't bother measuring the links on the food scale...the package had 5 links in it and I just decided to scramble up 3 of them and froze the other 2 for next week's batch. ;) Oh, and the fresh basil! Oh my Heavens...that fragrance is divine! I don't remember the last time I put fresh herbs in something but there is just no substitute! Ahhh....so good. I can't wait til lunch tomorrow. :)
And finally, I dropped 3 lbs. FINALLY. When I started eating better and seriously cutting the carbs and axing the Cokes altogether, I just knew I'd drop like 20 lbs in a couple of days. At least that was my hope. Well, not only did I NOT lose last week...I GAINED 2 lbs. Went from 240 to 242. This morning I stepped on and finally saw 239. I'll take it. And hopefully it's just enough inspiration to spur me on to get as far away from the 240's as possible and keep myself focused on reaching the 220's.
I saw the cool quote Biz posted about this morning. And I saw where one of the girls in the challenge said she was going to post it on her wall, maybe over her desk or something, I can't remember. All I can remember thinking is if I did that and my mother came to visit, walked in and saw the "F" word hanging on my wall I'd have to scrape her off the floor...after she was done beating me, LOL. 'Nite all. :)
That must be so annoying for you that you aren't getting any further with this doctor. Hope it all works out for you soon.
ReplyDeleteGood for you for walking 3 days in a row! I often do 10K walks, we have a lot of organized walks here in the Netherlands, you can find one every weekend except for the month July which is vacation period here. When Bella is recovered and she's ready we will be doing those 10K walks again, can't wait.