Well howdy there internet peeps and those who understand poutine
It's Troy again
First the good. Slept through the night with one potty run.
Missed the slot to take my tylenol. woke up at the normal 4:30, stumbled to the loo, and half-way through the pee, the sciatic nerve woke up in a bad mood.
But, I got to sleep in my own bed, not on the heating pad on the couch.
Not sure if its the tylenol, the prednisone, or the cookies.
Now I'm back on the couch, with the heating pad. Took the first doses of everytHing at 4:45. Hoping the steroids and muscle relaxers keep doing their thing.
Now for the not so good. Got my wellness labs back. Nine tubes of blood drawn. Still have a bruise in my left elbow from it.
As expected after a month of heavy Nsaid usage, the liver stats were moving the wrong way. The inflamation counts were high. Wonder why???
And for the first time ever, my pre-diabetes screening was in the wrong zone. Now, given that sweet consumption was up all summer, i wasn't surprised. But other contributing factors could be a month without exercise, high stress levels between the PVD in my eye and the sciatica hostage situation my left butt cheek is waging.
Fortunately, my wife is a medical lab tech, ASCP certified. She took a look at the results right before bed, and said we'd be discussing this today. My time with cookies in the freezer is about to end.
I also suspsect that a membership at the Y is in the near future. Recumbent bikes may be a good exercise option for these sciatica stints. I've never been a gym rat. I never want to be a gym rat. Too many memories of high school come flooding back every time I see a barbell or a dodgeball.
Before Willie says "Pizza"... I dropped twenty pounds while we lived in LA, and we still ate pizza a lot. The difference is that wife and I both walked a LOT. It was too much of a hassle to drive to dinner. So I'd walk 1.5 miles to Mama's Pizza - half-way between her work and our apartment. Then another 1.5 mile walk home.
Moved back to Indiana, and I lost half the year's ability to walk due to weather. And Indiana isn't walker friendly. It's a car state. Mostly left turns because of a big race. But we drive most places. We could walk to Culvers. It's about a mile away. But walking in 80+ degree humid soup isn't how I want to get there.
Fortunately, I sold the treadmill. With the sciatic issues, I wouldn't be able to use it. Walking hurts right now. So, who knows.
So, no donuts, no cookies beyond the few I have in the freezer. I'll use those for the "take with food" prednisone pills I have left.
Keto: I need to get more oriented back into a keto mindset. I might head out to the grocery in a while and see if I can find a chuck roast to throw on the kamado for some poor man's brisket. But at today's meat prices, it might be best to go to Costco and get a small brisket. Either way I might have to get a 2nd mortgage to afford the beef.
