Wednesday's Waiting

This morning I had to wait to eat breakfast until after I got back from having my blood drawn for a glucose level test. Since my appointment was not until 0930 that meant that I would not be having breakfast until after 1000.

So I pulled my Wrangler out of the garage and noticed that it was pretty dusty, I does not get driven enough and had quite a collection of dust on it. So I got out my California duster and spent a couple minutes dusting it off. I only have about 60 miles on it since I filled it up over a month ago so you can see that it really spends most of its time in the garage.

After getting back from the blood draw, I ate breakfast and then since it was not raining out, I decided to go work out in the yard for a while. I pruned roses, dug up sucker from the Italian prune and the apple tree and then mowed the lawn.

The lawn had not been mowed in a couple weeks, first it was too dry, then last week I felt so poorly that I did not get around to it and then the rain started, so today was really the first day that I had to mow.

I felt better today than I have in about a week, so I wanted to take advantage of that as much as possible. After mowing, I decided that I would go for a short walk, as I have not done that on a regular basis for over a week. I wound up walking a little over four aerobic miles. I have been wearing a pedometer for over a month and it keeps track of the number of steps, number of aerobic steps, calories I burn, and miles I walk.

I watched it one day as it turned over and found out that for me 1450 steps equaled a mile of aerobic walking. So far today I took I have taken 11545 steps, 6014 aerobic steps burned 966 calories and walked 8.01 miles.

I was pretty tired this afternoon but I did not take a nap. By the time I finished my walk it was getting close to 1500 so I made some lunch and after that I read the paper and mail. Shortly after that Kathleen came downstairs to make dinner.

So I never did get my nap in today. I have found that it does help when I take the time to take a nap, but too often I do not do it. I am going to have to schedule a nap into my afternoons, but most afternoons Kathleen and I are running around and it has not become a habit yet.

Well, that about does it for today, now I just have to wait a couple days for the doctors office to call and let me know what my test results show. I would not be too surprised if it turned out that I were diabetic, I have been showing up borderline for several years and I was talking to Kathleen's nurse yesterday and she said that the stress for the radiation could cause one to show up in a diabetic curve. More good news!

For someone who had been relative healthy for the first 59 and a half years the last year and a half has not been much fun. I think that I must be making up for lost time. So between that and the constant pain that I am in I guess I should not be surprised by being so tired all the time.

With that said, I think I will just say good night for today!