Tuesday, November 26
Nov. 26th, 2025 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
I started painting the images for Christmas cards last night. It's not really that festive, but nice.
Good sleep last night.
That I was able to roll over for a few more ZZZzzzs.
Though I miss summer, I enjoy not feeling like I need to be outside pulling weeds.
I was able to let everyone out into their pastures for a while. I spent a few minutes just sitting with the goats and Roxy in their enclosure, just "being".
I did speak with Sister E, and felt like I lectured her again, though I had no intention of doing so.
She has the same kind of blood sugar issues that I have/had, that I have nearly eliminated through diet. It may seem strict, but getting serious about just NOT EATING SUGAR changed my life.
So today, she mentioned that she always seems to have low blood sugar issues during an exercise class she's going to. She has to right away eat a granola bar, the kind that is absolutely loaded with sugar.
She says "it's fine, because it has a lot of nuts in it".
So, just take along some nuts to eat? The sugar might help with the low blood sugar in a short term way, but it will just mean an insulin spike, and another low in an hour or so.
I talked to her AGAIN, about how I eat, and why it would help her. Not unsolicited, she always sounds like she WANTS to understand.
Then she goes right back to doing whatever it is she does, and continues to have blood sugar attacks. If you've ever had one, it's a terrible feeling. You get shaky and weak, your thinking is very fuzzy, you feel like you might pass out if it's bad enough.
If you don't eat right, all day you're just fighting off the next crash, and then it comes, and then you're drained afterwards.
It's awful, and I don't understand why that isn't enough reason to get serious about sugar consumption.
Oh well.
Then I went to see River. He did well overall, though as always I still have this thing with him where he is very slow to respond to cues, and I wonder why we're still at this point.
He was also very rushed in his trot again in the one direction.
Well, I can work with this with R tomorrow.
My Sweetie did show up at the barn, and we spent some time with the kittens, who are now more like little cats.
We came home, ate, and watched some more thinly disguised smut. Why not.
Then we changed the dressing on my incision, and I have to remind myself that it will improve in appearance.
We were able to put a large band aid on it this time (from a long roll you cut to size) instead of the medical tape. The tape has no give, and pulled on my skin a lot. The band aid is more comfortable.
I started painting the images for Christmas cards last night. It's not really that festive, but nice.
Good sleep last night.
That I was able to roll over for a few more ZZZzzzs.
Though I miss summer, I enjoy not feeling like I need to be outside pulling weeds.
I was able to let everyone out into their pastures for a while. I spent a few minutes just sitting with the goats and Roxy in their enclosure, just "being".
I did speak with Sister E, and felt like I lectured her again, though I had no intention of doing so.
She has the same kind of blood sugar issues that I have/had, that I have nearly eliminated through diet. It may seem strict, but getting serious about just NOT EATING SUGAR changed my life.
So today, she mentioned that she always seems to have low blood sugar issues during an exercise class she's going to. She has to right away eat a granola bar, the kind that is absolutely loaded with sugar.
She says "it's fine, because it has a lot of nuts in it".
So, just take along some nuts to eat? The sugar might help with the low blood sugar in a short term way, but it will just mean an insulin spike, and another low in an hour or so.
I talked to her AGAIN, about how I eat, and why it would help her. Not unsolicited, she always sounds like she WANTS to understand.
Then she goes right back to doing whatever it is she does, and continues to have blood sugar attacks. If you've ever had one, it's a terrible feeling. You get shaky and weak, your thinking is very fuzzy, you feel like you might pass out if it's bad enough.
If you don't eat right, all day you're just fighting off the next crash, and then it comes, and then you're drained afterwards.
It's awful, and I don't understand why that isn't enough reason to get serious about sugar consumption.
Oh well.
Then I went to see River. He did well overall, though as always I still have this thing with him where he is very slow to respond to cues, and I wonder why we're still at this point.
He was also very rushed in his trot again in the one direction.
Well, I can work with this with R tomorrow.
My Sweetie did show up at the barn, and we spent some time with the kittens, who are now more like little cats.
We came home, ate, and watched some more thinly disguised smut. Why not.
Then we changed the dressing on my incision, and I have to remind myself that it will improve in appearance.
We were able to put a large band aid on it this time (from a long roll you cut to size) instead of the medical tape. The tape has no give, and pulled on my skin a lot. The band aid is more comfortable.
