The day my life began..A1C
So..I can pretty much garantee that I could count on one hand how many people have seen me cry in my adult life...but today I had a bloodwork followup appointment at my doctor's. As you know..I had surgery on November 10th..about 2.5 months ago.
Today, I was sitting in the little room, waiting to see Dr. Regan and she came in and handed me a piece of paper. She said 'I want you to look at this and we will talk about it when I come back, in a few minutes'. Immediately I am thinking a million things. 'What's wrong..she's never done this before..'. So..I look at this piece of paper..It's my bloodwork results. I scan it until I see one particular line...A1C. I followed that line over to a corrosponding number..It says "6.5". Let me tell you, I am so glad I was alone in the room, because I lost it. I cried like a little *****
Remember..just 2.5 months ago I was a diabetic on 45mg of Actos..even on that medication I had an A1C of 10.8. I had lost weight..I had done everything I should, but I was so insulin resistant that my near future would consist of daily insulin shots, constant monitoring and a life full of diabetic complications. For those of you who don't know, an A1C of 4.0-7.0 is consitered normal with no signs of diabetes or pre-diabetes.
My daily blood sugar has been normal, but it wasn't until today...when I saw that 6.5 in my medical records...6.5 on no medication..it wasn't until now that everything I have done..every decision I have made recently has been worth it. Having this surgery has saved my life. Because of it, I will have a normal life, and if I had to do it over again, I would in a heartbeat.
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