A1C
Numbers are up! And not in a good way…
Jacob and I successfully made the 15 hour drive to Portland from San Diego over the weekend, and now we’re camped out at his brother’s house and starting the Great Apartment Search of 2013. We’re also looking for jobs, emailing with our wedding coordinator, and catching up with folks we haven’t talked to since before [...]
A1c Evolutions
I’m getting my blood drawn on Monday to find out my A1c, just as I’ve done faithfully every three months for over 10 years. I’m not nervous about this one – I’ve been working hard to reign in my control, using my CGM more closely and eating better. I think I’ll have lowered my number [...]
A1C Now: For Folks of Antsy-Pants Variety
I’m having one of those three-month windows in my life where I’m entirely unsure of what my A1c test result is going to be. I’ve felt a little all over the place with my numbers lately, and feel like my A1c could reflect all that bouncing by either averaging out kind of decent, or being really [...]
Burnt. But bouncing back.
I flipped through the calendar yesterday and realized I have an endo appointment and the accompanying A1c test in just three shorts weeks from now. And my reaction to that was somewhere along the lines of “fudge.” Except replace “fudge” with a totally different word that starts with “f” and you get the general idea. [...]
The latest numbers…
On Monday I had an appointment with my CDE. I’m religious about getting an A1c done and seeing him every three months, and I credit my adherence to these appointments and tests as a big part of my recipe for control. I make my next appointment with him on the way out from the last [...]
Back to the basics.
Saturday night, I got one of those compliments that most of us just love to hear: “Lex, you’re looking really fit these days – you been working out more?” Granted, this came from one of my very best friends who is always incredibly kind and complimentary towards me, but shoot – I’ll take a compliment [...]
What the mean really means…
I felt as confident about knowing what my most recent A1c would be as I do about betting on horses at the track (read: not at all). So when I walked in to my appointment with my CDE on Monday morning, his guess was as good as mine. The nurse who roomed me set my [...]
The A1c Game: Keeping me Guessing
There are some A1cs that we’re able to predict. You kind of know where your blood sugars have been the past few months, the average reading on your meter makes sense, and you can kinda ballpark what the lab work will say. Right now is not one of those times for me. In fact, it’s [...]
Points Plus: The Latest A1c
The anxiety-inducing “waiting on the A1c” time is finally over (until the next one of course!) On the day before Thanksgiving, I had an appointment at my endo’s office (I see his PA- CDE regularly, instead of the doc – he rocks!) and the big reveal finally happened: After having the lowest A1c of my diabetes [...]
A1c, the gift that keeps on…causing anxiety…
Want to know the best part about having a kick-ass A1c? That would be…having a kick-ass A1c that you can rest your laurels on for the next three months. Want to know the worst part? The pressure of trying to do it again. I had the lowest A1c in my diabetes history last August: a [...]
