Hooray!

This post is TMI—too much information for my few readers, but it is a recording of what is important in my life right now! 

I kept postponing a six month glucose check hoping I would lose some weight.  But instead of losing weight I gained five pounds.  I googled first line of treatment for diabetes and decided it was not too threatening and if I had diabetes, I better not ignore it.  I told myself I would get through this hurdle and then decide about another hip surgery.  So yesterday (Friday) I fasted and saw Dr. Delacruz and had blood drawn at my primary care providers.  The aide said she would call me on Monday with the results.  We broke my fast by going to IHOP.  I was thinking it would be my last high carbs and sugar meal for a long time! And it tasted so good!

Much to my surprise, Jill from Montgomery Internal Medicine called already this morning and said my blood sugar was down a bit and I could have it checked again in a year.  Always before they had stipulated six months.  All the other tests (cholesterol, iron, etc.) were normal. I am so surprised and relieved.

So now I need to call to make an appointment for my right hip replacement surgery.  I dread it as I did the first time—maybe even more.  Dr. Delacruz really encouraged me to do it—saying life is short and you need to make it better.  He said I would not need to do another nuclear stress test—but that was only one of my many concerns and fears for surgery. 

A motivating factor for me is the reopening of the Princeton Art Museum and knowing there is no way I can walk from any parking lot to the museum and then enjoy a leisurely stroll through the exhibits.  That may seem like a strange motivation but it has been something I have been looking forward to in the five years that it has been closed.  And it is a significant sign to me of the limits imposed on my life right now.  

So Monday morning I will make myself call Dr. Culp and get the process started again.  I have to have courage. “What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.”  That is a text from my youth that comes back to me now.  Jim has called it the “year of the hip” and I am thinking that by March 3, 2026, it will be a year from the x-ray that said “serious osteoarthritis.”  That started the process for the left hip. Maybe by March 2026  I could be walking without a cane or walker and without pain.  And then the next year will not have to be “the year of the hip” again!