I mowed the grass yesterday and oh boy do my legs and feet hurt today. When i was in the back mowing I stepped wrong and almost caused my knee to bend in a very weird way, I thought I was in real trouble for a minute becuase I was home alone. I decided to take it easy today to recuperate.

My friend that had surgery is doing well except she is having trouble with her cognitive activity, she seems confuse sometimes and she has trouble putting sentences together. We have been told it's probably effects of the anesthesia and the surgery, I sure hope  so because she wasn't like that before the surgery. It really puts a lot of stress on me because I want to help her and there really isn't anything I can but be patient.

I'm having an emotional time, because my daughter is very close to giving birth to my first grand child. I gotta tell you all this stress is having an affect on my blood glucose and it's making me crazy. In other news, I am getting ready for the mowing season, I got all the stuff I need for my lawn mower, my knee braces, and I can't wait, it's about the only exercise I get and I do like being outside working in the yard.

I had kind of a weird day yesterday. It starts with the fact that I was up all night because my family friend was going into the hospital for heart surgery and had to be there at six am.  So, since I can't sleep at night I just stayed up. I did make me some breakfast because I knew we was in for a long day and I never eat when I go to hospital because I don't the food in the cafeteria and I'm to stressed and concerned about whats going on to think about eating. My friend was in surgery for about seven hours and thank goodness everything went fine. When we got home I ate and when I checked my blood glucose it 198 which is not great but pretty good for me, so after I ate and knew everything was good and my friend was doing well I took a nap because I had been up for  about twenty seven hours. After all we had been through I still wasn't able to sleep because my feet hurt so I took a pain pill and then I was to sleep for a few hours. I checked on my friend and the nurse said it probably wasn't a good idea to come out the hospital because my fiend was restless when she woke up because of the respirator so they are keeping her sedated but she is doing fine. I suspect when she wakes up she's kinda scared and fights the respirator.

Another rainy day and I'm still trying to control my diabetes. I think the pain I feel because of my arthritis affects my blood glucose, although I'm not sure how that works but I have noticed that when I'm in a considerable  amount of pain, my blood glucose is higher. I would like hear any thoughts on that.

Had a stressful night, my daughter was having trouble and went to the E.R. thankfully she was just dehydrated. By the she she is pregnant, and it's close to her due date. Anyway I was up all night so my blood sugar is probably going to be out of wack for a while and I had to take my friend to the clinic today because she is having surgery on the twelfth and I'm worried about that because she is up there in age.

This doesn't have much to do about diabetes but I have to get this off my chest because stress is not good for me.  I go to the publisher clearing house website every day because I enjoy entering the sweepstakes and playing the games. The thing I upset about is in order to play the tournament games they want me to disable my ad blocker and I am not going to do that. I still get offer from companies that pay to advertise on their site so I don't think I should have to disable my ad blocker just to watch their little commercials.  I don't really care that much about those tournaments it's the principle and the more I play on the site the more it screws up. I like the sweepstakes and other things I do on the site but it is frustrating. Thanks for letting me vent.  

Well it's another day, and I'm still working to get my diabetes under control. I have been eating more fiber in the morning and for the past few days anyway way after I check my blood glucose,( I check before I eat) my blood reading is usually in the mid two hundreds and when I check my blood before lunch it is significantly lower. I don't know why maybe it's because the bars I eat are one hundred calories a bar maybe it's the fiber. I will just have to keep eating fiber in the morning and see what happens with other forms of fiber.