Friday, December 28, 1990 (Part 1)
I didn't get much sleep yesterday afternoon before Guy came in to wake me up. He says I need to do better about taking a nap in the afternoons & not worry about Chief. I guess he's right cause I sure don't get enough sleep at night. It seems like whatever time I go to sleep, I wake up about 5 hrs. later either needing to go to the bathroom or thirsty or with that sick feeling. This morning it was about 2:00 or 4-4&1/2 hrs. later & I kinda started feeling sick but it wasn't like the past two mornings. For one thing I started sleeping in a T-shirt instead of my flannel nightgowns so I don't wake up hot. But this morning I was so thirsty I had Guy bring me a glass of milk & drank half of it at once. I had a little trouble getting back to sleep, just getting comfortable. I heard Guy's alarm & remember reminding him when he went downstairs to bring me some OJ when he left. I was asleep when he came back & he was telling me about Chief getting one of his socks while he wasn't looking and ripped it up. He spanked him. I didn't hear any of it. I think I heard Chief whimper once after Guy left but I didn't have any trouble getting back to sleep. I only woke up once before my alarm went off. And it made a weird noise at first before it sounded like normal.Anyway, I got up at 8:30, did my medicine, ate breakfast, played a little with Chief, & got ready for my appt. with the nutritionist. I couldn't believe it when the scale said 122 & 1/4! She said my last visit had been 116 & 1/2, two weeks ago. I told her what all I had been going on. She went and talked to Dr. Rand & took me to the lab & asked for a random blood sugar level. It was just a finger prick and she got the results in just a few minutes. It was 96. I asked her what number would it need to be for me to start worrying & she said about 120, so she said I'm normal so far. She said if I kept having these spells I could come in and have another random test, then when I see Dr. Rand next month decide if we should go ahead & do the diabetes screening which I think is when you don't eat and you drink the stuff & wait a certain length of time for the blood test. I feel better knowing that it's not my blood sugar. She said that the concentrations of hormones do increase overnight and are greatest in the early morning. She also said she has similar symptoms sometimes (she's a couple of weeks farther along than me) so I feel a little better knowing that too. But still, that is a lot of weight to gain in 2 weeks. She told me to try cutting back on the fats some. By not buttering my bread or adding extra to my veggies. She asked if I wanted to try low-fat milk & I said not really so she said ok, just to cut back elsewhere. So I guess we'll see how it goes.
Well, we had our anniversary dinner last night. I was surprised & disappointed that they didn't do anything special for us at all. We picked up a matchbook on our way out to write it in our selves. We exchanged gifts before we left. I should've known what he was getting me from the questions he was asking about ring sizes & birthstones. He got me a birthstone ring with four little diamonds around it. I had gotten him a hardback copy of Trail of Tears by John Ehle, about the Cherokees. I'd read it from the library and tried to get him to read it but he didn't have time before I had to take it back. I was sure he'd like it because of his grandmother being a Cherokee. He seemed to be pleased.
Then he surprised me by bringing out another present for me. It was a necklace & earrings to match the ring! He said that the lady said we could exchange them for the same thing in white-gold. For that reason, I didn't wear the earrings cause I know you can't return pierced earrings after you've worn them. We're going to Penney's tomorrow to look at what else they have - he said I didn't have to keep it in my birthstone because when he was asking me those questions last week & I said I preferred whichever one was pink. But these are so pretty I may keep them in the yellow-gold. He said for me not to be shocked at how much they were - he charged them. That'll be another monthly payment we'll have now. I forgot to mention that he also game me a half dozen red roses!
(To be continued...)
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