Welcome Home Shelley!!!!

Hi Everyone!!
I really did just have a couple licks of home made icing today....really! Well oh my goodness!!! My sugar shot up as high as ever...I felt so ill and HOT...I was sick all day!! There was leftover cake....and it went straight to the garbage!!!!!!!! Just not worth it!!
Hope all are well!! Check in when you can!!

Dorrie:

what am I going to do with you???

lol lol lol lol

Hi Melody!!
Is there a diabetic boot camp???!!!
I think I am going to have to become a creature of habit and eat close to the same things each day. I need to start to try to cut out eating at night as much as diabetically possible as this is the time when I snack the most...and need it the least!!!!
Hope you are doing well Mama Mel!!
Love ya, oodles and bunches,
from your naughty Dorrie

*running away from Melody*

Hey Dorrie can you pass the icing?

YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!!!! lol

as for Me, well, I'm getting over some stomach bug that i either caught from some imitation crab meat thing that I ate a few days ago, or god only knows where I picked this up from.

I had a fever of 101 point something two days ago. I haven't had any temp in over 8 years. With all the supplements I take, I'm surprised at how this hit me.

I had no real warning. No cramps to speak of, no diahrreah. I just had this HUMUNGOUS bowel movements (on the day of the Wounded Warrior march).

I take my benefiber on a daily basis and I go every day. With no problem.

That day, I got up and WENT LIKE I HAVE NOT GONE ....well, like I have never gone in my life. No liquid, no soft, just regular stuff BUT OH MY GOD.

I said "oh, it must be the combination of the benefiber and a small dose of the PlumSmart Light.

Well, two hours later, I did it ALL OVER AGAIN. I said "holy cow, I really don't eat that much so WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM. Felt fine by the way, hadnt' got the fever yet.

So I go out with Alan to the Wounded Warriors March. We get there (2 blocks from my home), and I take one look at Alan and he goes 'uh oh, what's wrong??" and I said "well, I have to go to the bathroom again"

He said "you just went" and I said 'see ya".

I go home, and BAM. Same thing. I looked at what I did and said "this is not humanly possible in one day. No diarreah, no liquid. Just pipes. BUT OH MY GOD.

It's like I felt I could have gone for a colonscopy if you all know what I mean. That's how empty I got.

I then felt fine, and went back to Alan and we stayed there for some time.

That night I didn't feel good. I felt achy and I felt my face and I said 'oh my god, I think I have a fever". Sure enough it was over 101.

I said "alan I have a temperature". He said "go to bed". I took two tylenol, and 1 hour later it was down to almost normal.

Since then, all I have is gas in my stomach, (haven't gone to the bathroom again (I mean, WHAT IS LEFT IN ME TO GO????)

It's now the 4th day, I have gas and I thought I would go but no. I have no cramps, just gas. No more fever. I'm just exhausted.

I spoke to my cousin who is an RN and I told her what happened and she said "You got a stomach bug, it's either bacterial, or viral, watch the fever part of it".

there is no more fever part of it. She was worried about my sugar (It had gone up to 275 on the night of the fever). she told me that people with diabetes have to be careful when they have infections. I knew this.

So I've been doing the tea and toast, and sleeping. Since I NEVER sleep during the day, I know that I have some bug in my system.

I'm much better than I was two days ago, but two days ago even with the 101, I wasn't sick. I walked around, I was a bit achy, with a bit of stomach discomfort, but I never grabbed my stomach and went OH MY GOD, like I did when I was 24 and I caught some stomach flu. God the diahrrea I had THAT TIME was terrible.

But no diahrrea this time. Just a temp of 101, and in one day I went to the bathroom enought for the people in my state.

Good Lord. lol

But for the past 2 days, normal temp and just a bit of gas. I'm staying in and resting.

It's a hurricane outside so thankfully we're not going ANYWHERE.

My cousin said she thinks the imitation crab meat I bought could have been contaminated or something like that. It's not real crab but it's pollack and whitefish and she says that fish is usally the culprit.

I never knew this.

I guess I'll never know for sure.

Mel

Oh Shelley ...you do not want it. I never thought I would be afraid to eat something so yummy but nope...I don't want it (I cannot believe I said that!!)
Heres a hug instead

To Our Wonderful Melody
I am sorry that you have been sick Get well really soon.
I must say I laughed and laughed at your rather "poopy" post lol!! I am sorry...had to throw that in! My day was OK, unlike your "sh*tty one!!!!! lol lol!! Sorry..couldn't resist
That crab meat(if that was the culprit) sure proved to be pretty "crappy!" Hee Hee!
I love how you described it too!! I once heard that your poop should not be runny nor hard but rather soft yet formed!! Sounds like something off a menu Sounds like yours is a well formed poop My hubby is a real funny guy and likes to explain just what type of bowel movement he has just had....some of the descriptions are so gross....I best not post them!
But seriously Melody..I really hope you are feeling better fast...take care of our Melody!!
LOVE YA LOTS!!!!!!

Dorrie:

I have always watched Dr. Oz on Oprah. He once had a show ON POOP!!! Someone once asked him "how should your poop look?"

He said: "it should look like tubes (I call them pipes, same thing). He said "you should be able to just sit down and it all comes out of you with no straining". If you eat well, and drink lots of water, this should happen naturally".

Now people over a certain age, well they dont eat enough and they most certainly don't drink enough so they get constipated. And if they don't have enough fiber (they won't be able to get anything out. That's why I do the Benefiber thing. Literally made a huge difference in how I went to the bathroom.

I didn't take it for the past 4 days because of this fever thing. I have no idea why I didn't take it. I didn't eat any roughage, no fiber (I SHOULD have taken the benefiber), but I really didn't know if I had food poisoning, a virus or a bacterial thing in my gut.

And on July 24, I went enough (as I said) equal to my home state. I have NEVER gone to the bathroom like that in one day IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. And all solid, all pipes. So whatever was in me, decided to come out of me.

But it knocked the cr*p out of me (lol).

So there was only one day with 101.5. All the rest was normal or 99 and a half.

Last night I was cool to the touch, but I knew I had to go the bathroom. It was the 3rd day of no pooping (and very little food because I wanted to not overload my tummy).

So I took some magnesium citrate that they sell in the drug store as a laxative. It says to take 1/2 to the whole bottle. HAVE YOU EVER TASTED THIS STUFF??

Oh my god, it's awful. I just took 1 quarter of the bottle (not a lot). And drank water all night.

This morning, because I felt fine (lots of gas during the night). and no temp, I decided that because I had no food in the house, I got dressed up and went out to breakfast (not dunkin donuts), a little breakfast nook that just opened up.

I had a small cup of coffee and an egg on a toasted roll.

I bought some grilled chicken, and knew immediately that I had to get home.

I came home and WENT.

Boy, did I feel better.

Just took my temp again (It's 11 a.m.). NORMAL AS PIE.

Let's just keep our fingers crossed that this gut thing is on it's way out.

Thanks much.
Melody

P.S. Want to hear something interesting. I just found out that my 75 year old friend from around the corner (she's BIG!!), eats a gallon of ice cream every two days.

I looked at her and said "you mean a quart right??" and she (and her daughter was right there on the porch), and she said "no, I eat a gallon of ice cream". Her daughter said "she has very bad eating habits". I just said "YA THINK???"

We all laughed very hard, because she's not about to change her ways any time soon and she's going to be 76 and is as robust as any person I know.

You gotta love someone who eats a gallon of ice cream every 2 days.

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH ICE CREAM THAT IS???

Good god.

Hi Melody!! I am glad that you are feeling better!!
I have been on alert for the chicken pox! Saffire was playing closely with a young girl that busted out in them the next day! They were hugging and kissing So far after 10 days there are no spots but she has been very flushed on her face and arms for 2 days. Her eyes look a little different too. She has had a small fever for 2 days on and off as well. I hope that she does not get it but she has not had her immunization against it yet!!
If she gets it I will just love her all better!!!!!