Granny's gone and done it again

[h2oratt]

So i met my friend at the feed store and locked the keys in my truck. What a dumbass!

When I had my truck I would keep a key in a magnetic holder hidden in the truck somewhere.

 

[prostar]

When I had my truck I would keep a key in a magnetic holder hidden in the truck somewhere.

awesome thing about my truck - it has the keypad on the side of it, so I can lock/unlock it with that


Sigh, heard back from the doc. So yes, my sugars were a bit high...and in the pre diabetic range. course I wonder if that could be exaserbated by the fact that I had a freaking hazelnut uncrustable on my way in (yeah, really helping my cause there). My platelet count is also a bit high, but not sure what that means...get to go visit the vampires again in 3 months. Hubs is going to hate me....because...well...things are going to have to change in this household...

HGBA1C%	5.7 %	4.6 to 5.6 %4.6 - 5.6 %
A repeatable HbA1c > or = 6.5% is diagnostic of diabetes. A single HbA1c > or = 6.5% can also be confirmed by a fasting plasma glucose measurement > 125 mg/dL, a random plasma glucose > or = 200 mg/dL, or a 2 hour oral glucose tolerance test result > or = 200 mg/dL. Patients with HbA1c of 5.7-6.4% are at increased risk for future diabetes.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

To someone that really struggles to sleep, it doesn't always look welcoming, but I can relate to the hard goodbye.

My son has always had a hard time too. I feel for you. Have you ever tried melatonin?

 

[cherrynberry]

4H leader came by our house today. SO helpful. Turns out we could be doing a lot of things better

 

[Granny Hatchet]

4H leader came by our house today. SO helpful. Turns out we could be doing a lot of things better

that was sweet of Him? to come by and give you tips

 

[cherrynberry]

that was sweet of Him? to come by and give you tips

Yeah, him. Yeah it was! Super helpful. We also did another weighing today. Hammie is now 117. My brothers is 56 and my sisters is 120.

 

[troyer]

My son has always had a hard time too. I feel for you. Have you ever tried melatonin?

Yes I have. I even doubled and tripled the recommended doses and every time it made me more awake. I have probably tried about everything out there. Most things worked for approximately three weeks and then wore off. I haven't tried sleeping pills because of side effects that numerous of my friends have experienced from them.
We think that the main problem that started the difficulty of falling asleep was an extreme uptick of stress sixteen years ago. Because up to that point, I had slept very well. I quit my job at the end of 2021 to rest for a month and pretty quickly found out that one of my problems was that I was functioning on adrenaline most of my waking hours. I would wake in the mornings feeling exhausted and mind weary, I would lay in bed and wish I didn't need to go to work, not because I didn't like the work, I had a great job, it was because I was completely weary/exhausted. After a while I looked into what the symptoms are of burnout and I was experiencing most of the symptoms. We have concluded after three months now, that I was so low/exhausted that I simply didn't have the energy to continue going. In the morning I would lay in bed feeling exhausted, but knowing I need to "get up and go", but there was nothing in the energy tank. I would lay in bed with my eyes on the clock and when it hit a certain time a switch flipped in my brain, my body received a flood of adrenaline and I was off and running until I returned back home in the evening, then the off switch wouldn't work. Most of the time I had GREAT DIFFICULTY turning the adrenaline off. Even after returning home in the evening I often felt revved up and didn't know why.
I was literally running on adrenaline and that is a killer.
I have been off work for three months now and I'm finally beginning to feel better.
My ability to sleep nights is slowly getting better as I just rest myself.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

That sounds terrible Troyer. Im glad things are some better for you. Have you seen an endo dr. about this? I have adrenal hyperplasia and it effects my adrenalin for hrs after a scare of some sort. Some meds will do it too. I dont understand it all. When my body is stressed like in illness or surgery they give me cortisol shots

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Yeah, him. Yeah it was! Super helpful. We also did another weighing today. Hammie is now 117. My brothers is 56 and my sisters is 120.

they are huge! What was the best tip he gave you?

 

[cherrynberry]

they are huge! What was the best tip he gave you?

Probably the spreadsheet he made for us, teaching us how and when to feed what type of feed, teaching us what kinds of amino acids are most important to pigs, etc. I really love learning about the nutritional aspect. We asked a ton of questions and he answered each SO well. We call it “picking brains” here.