The right direction

 

It's been a while since I last posted a blog. Lots of things have happened.

My best friend in all the world came to visit. It was more than wonderful.

I finally got in to see the kidney specialist. It was not wonderful but it was necessary.

New doctors always seem to think they know everything. Mine started me on four new prescriptions at once.

How do you figure out which one is causing you problems when that happens? There are 24 possible combinations for creating problems! And that is before you add in the prescriptions I already take.

Seventeen days, many hours of incredible and frightening pain later, I am starting to feel almost as good as I did before I went to the new doctor. In the end, this was still a good decision.

I was right. I cannot take statins. Evidently I cannot take as much of other drugs as he thought, but today, for the first time, my blood glucose was 127, my blood pressure was 135/74 and I am fifteen pounds lighter. I finally got a night's sleep and I can breathe when I walk, so we are headed in the right direction.