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Eventful day and it’s not even noon yet.

Went back to the endo and went to the first appointment at my new primary care physician.  They are on the same floor, and their waiting rooms are in the same space.

First, the parking lot was stressful and they told me it was only going to get worse because of impending road construction but that’s the story of our life right now.

Dropped off my paperwork first, and left my cards (need to go double check and make sure I have them, I remember getting them handed to me but did I put them back).

Went to the endo, and have lost 5 pounds since last month’s.  We’re doing some tweaks.  Go back in July with full labs.

Then went to new primary care physician and met new nurse who is nice.  Met doctor who is also good.  I stressed to both that I had two good primary care physicians in a row, then one bad.  Biggest problem with new one was that he wasn’t getting labs, and figured solving that problem with practice that shared everything with the endo.

They want full labs in 6 months but said the  July appointment would be fine.

So I guess I have a new primary care physician.

I’ve decided to slice my weight loss into small chunks so that they are more attainable.

Thus my  weight tickers are showing that I’m only a pound away from my latest goal.

Hey, whatever works.

We’re trying two meds.

Topiramate which we are using off label.  Supposed to be sedating, and man, is it.  Also supposed to suppress appetite which I don’t see so much. 

We also added Riomet, the liquid form of Metformin, again.  Not seeing much in the way of changes in blood sugar yet.   

I am wearing a Fitbit, and it tracks sleep.  I don’t wear it every night, especially if I know my sleep is going to be messed up, as I think it just makes it worse.

Here’s the last week so far:

The surveillance cameras help, a lot.

But it was a week ago last night that we had crash – skid.  Woke up at 4:30, rolled over and checked the surveillance cameras on the phone and no problems.  However, we did have a guy walking down the street and I wonder if that is what has been waking me up at 4:30 all along.

Nice to have them.

Here’s my Fit Bit sleep:

Have you ever said something you thought was perfectly normal, but ended up shutting up everyone in the room?

I was in a teacher meeting, said that the security guards on campus where happy to run little errands if you could make it their while ….

and then mentioned that our security guards LOVED to babysit me.  I’d had a low incident bad enough to call the school nurse, treated it but wasn’t sure it was going to work and didn’t want the kids to have to deal with it.

That whole concept freaked them. 

So about 4:34, we hear crash, skid. We look at the cameras and see nothing.  No damage.  About to go back to bed, and husband thinks to look north of us.  Sure enough, stupid car is still on Josey and not moving.  Call cops, go pull fence cam footage:

We’ve got another good view of it, but I haven’t figured out how to retrieve it.

And boy were the cops glad to see the footage.

BTW: stupid driver has no license and claimed he was texting. At least this one was a neighbor.

And yes, it affects everything.

I went through the round of doctors that could help during Spring Break.  Only one answer, and may have to do that.  Which is some type of behavior therapy focusing on sleep and pain.

Worst A1C in a long time.

Guess I need to get on things.