My baby girl Scarlette is in serious pain. Her name is Scarlette Snowtoes...and she may have a broken toe. It's either that or a sprained ankle according to the emergency vet we went to see at 6am this morning.
She and Boomer were playing under the bed last night, and when she came out from under the bed, she was holding her back right leg up off the ground. Poor thing got no sleep last night. She wouldn't lay down, she just sat on the bed holding her leg up. I didn't get much sleep myself from waking up constantly to check on her. At 5:30am she finally started pawing my face and whimpering. She never makes sounds like that unless she's in pain, so I knew it was time for a trip to the emergency vet.
The bill was $253 as it was, and they wanted to charge me another $285 on top of that for x-rays to narrow down the problem. I simply didn't have that much money. The vet prescribed some pain pills and anti-inflammatory meds and said that would get there through today until I can take her to her normal vet tomorrow where the x-rays will be much cheaper.
She also said if it IS a broken toe that it will have to have a splint on it for 6-8 weeks. If anyone knew exactly how I feel about my fur babies and how I treat them like human children, they'd know I was within a gnat's ass of giving up on this job that starts Wednesday just to be home and take care of Scarlette. The thought of her being left all day and dragging around a little splinted puppy leg behind is her is nearly more than I can take. I am doing my best to stay rational and look at the long-term but boy this is just ripping my heart out. She is so tiny and she's my first baby. I love her so much.
Needless to say this day has sucked ass. Dwayne and I have been right beside her today. She's not eating hardly any at all, hasn't had any water today and hasn't used the bathroom at all. We are worried sick. I will have her at the normal vet at 8am when they open and will find out for sure what she needs to get better. For now, I'm just tied up in knots.
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Sunday, July 5, 2015
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Major Carb Adjustment
Well, here's the deal. I was diagnosed with diabetes & also hypothyroidism when I was 30 years old. I am now 42, will be 43 in July. I have been on and off of pills for the diabetes all these years but I've never taken very good care of it. There was a time when I lost the first 100 lbs. that I had the sugar under control and my numbers were stable and under 120. That was a very short time period though, just a few months if I remember correctly.
Due to my ignorance and stupidity I now have all sorts of issues that I believe are caused by the diabetes. I am hoping with reigning my numbers back in and keeping them under control once and for all, that maybe some of my "issues" are reversible. Some may be, some may not. Shame on me if they're not. If you are reading this, have diabetes, and are not taking care of it because nothing hurts (yet), please, PLEASE heed my advice. Don't be a moron. That's my new motto now...with everything. Don't be a moron.
My labs that came back a little over a week ago were bad enough to scare me into getting serious about my health. I believe most of our health problems can be tied to what we eat and drink. No, I am not a health nut (obviously!), lol. I am not a homeopathic wannabe. I just think it's common sense. I am not anti-pharmaceutical but I probably could be if I did enough research, like my mother. Speaking of mom, she has been riding me for what feels like years to jump on the flaxseed wagon. She finally wore me down the other day and I went and bought a bottle of flaxseed oil and a bag of whole flaxseeds. But I will save the rest of that conversation for tomorrow's post. Today is about the evil carbs!
When I got my labs back, I knew I had to make changes but realized I had no idea where to start. Cut the carbs, yes. But what number? How many? How badly was this newly reformed carb lover going to have to suffer? Yes, I know it is ridiculous to have this illness for this long and not even know the basics of how to deal with it, but I've already admitted to my stupidity. I went to the American Diabetes Assoc.'s website to look up how many carbs to eat. Recommended amount was 45-60 per meal. So if you ate the absolute most allowed, you're eating 180g a day??? I thought surely they got that wrong, must be a major typo, and set my own limit at 50g/day about a week ago. I stuck to that as my limit and most days have been way under.
Then I had a conversation with a fellow blogger and diabetic today and told her about the numbers I found on the ADA website and didn't she think that was ridiculous??? Um...no. I learned that "normal" people eat 250-300g of carbs per day, so 150-180g is considered lower carb and perfectly fine for a diabetic. In fact, she said she has a friend who is a diabetes RN and they strongly recommend not eating any less than 125g as a bare minimum.
Woot!! Momma's having her tuna salad on PITA BREAD today!!! Let's just understand that I am a sandwich FREAK. Have always loved them...mostly for the bread, partly for the convenience. Let's face it....rolling up your low sodium ham or low sodium turkey and putting it on a Dixie plate to eat next to your carrot sticks is just not the same as having a sandwich.
So anyhoo, I had some Joseph's pitas and the net carbs are 4g each. I got really crazy and split my tuna salad between TWO pitas, just because I could, for a grand total of 8g of carbs today. I had an egg white scramble w/ ham and veggies for breakfast, so no carbs there. So at 2pm today I realize I still had 142g of carbs to go, if my new goal was going to be 150g. How did I make that happen? I made chicken and dumplings for dinner.
I wish I could have added some yummy veggies to this like diced carrots, celery, onion, even zucchini but alas, the hubs does not eat veggies. Only lettuce, as in Caesar salad. So when I make a dish to feed both of us, it has to be sans vegetables or he won't eat. There are many nights that I make us 2 separate things if I want a one pot meal that includes veggies and I'm sure you'll see pics of that in the future.
That's about it for today...it was pretty quiet around the house. Just me and my babies on a rainy day. I'll leave you with a pic of my precious Scarlette....being nosy and spying on the neighbors. :)
Due to my ignorance and stupidity I now have all sorts of issues that I believe are caused by the diabetes. I am hoping with reigning my numbers back in and keeping them under control once and for all, that maybe some of my "issues" are reversible. Some may be, some may not. Shame on me if they're not. If you are reading this, have diabetes, and are not taking care of it because nothing hurts (yet), please, PLEASE heed my advice. Don't be a moron. That's my new motto now...with everything. Don't be a moron.
My labs that came back a little over a week ago were bad enough to scare me into getting serious about my health. I believe most of our health problems can be tied to what we eat and drink. No, I am not a health nut (obviously!), lol. I am not a homeopathic wannabe. I just think it's common sense. I am not anti-pharmaceutical but I probably could be if I did enough research, like my mother. Speaking of mom, she has been riding me for what feels like years to jump on the flaxseed wagon. She finally wore me down the other day and I went and bought a bottle of flaxseed oil and a bag of whole flaxseeds. But I will save the rest of that conversation for tomorrow's post. Today is about the evil carbs!
When I got my labs back, I knew I had to make changes but realized I had no idea where to start. Cut the carbs, yes. But what number? How many? How badly was this newly reformed carb lover going to have to suffer? Yes, I know it is ridiculous to have this illness for this long and not even know the basics of how to deal with it, but I've already admitted to my stupidity. I went to the American Diabetes Assoc.'s website to look up how many carbs to eat. Recommended amount was 45-60 per meal. So if you ate the absolute most allowed, you're eating 180g a day??? I thought surely they got that wrong, must be a major typo, and set my own limit at 50g/day about a week ago. I stuck to that as my limit and most days have been way under.
Then I had a conversation with a fellow blogger and diabetic today and told her about the numbers I found on the ADA website and didn't she think that was ridiculous??? Um...no. I learned that "normal" people eat 250-300g of carbs per day, so 150-180g is considered lower carb and perfectly fine for a diabetic. In fact, she said she has a friend who is a diabetes RN and they strongly recommend not eating any less than 125g as a bare minimum.
Woot!! Momma's having her tuna salad on PITA BREAD today!!! Let's just understand that I am a sandwich FREAK. Have always loved them...mostly for the bread, partly for the convenience. Let's face it....rolling up your low sodium ham or low sodium turkey and putting it on a Dixie plate to eat next to your carrot sticks is just not the same as having a sandwich.
So anyhoo, I had some Joseph's pitas and the net carbs are 4g each. I got really crazy and split my tuna salad between TWO pitas, just because I could, for a grand total of 8g of carbs today. I had an egg white scramble w/ ham and veggies for breakfast, so no carbs there. So at 2pm today I realize I still had 142g of carbs to go, if my new goal was going to be 150g. How did I make that happen? I made chicken and dumplings for dinner.
I wish I could have added some yummy veggies to this like diced carrots, celery, onion, even zucchini but alas, the hubs does not eat veggies. Only lettuce, as in Caesar salad. So when I make a dish to feed both of us, it has to be sans vegetables or he won't eat. There are many nights that I make us 2 separate things if I want a one pot meal that includes veggies and I'm sure you'll see pics of that in the future.
That's about it for today...it was pretty quiet around the house. Just me and my babies on a rainy day. I'll leave you with a pic of my precious Scarlette....being nosy and spying on the neighbors. :)
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