Day 58 : Flashback The Rest of Week 1

Yesterday was the last day of Brewfest on World of Warcraft.  Didn't get the Kodo I wanted on my 2 remaining level 80 characters.  Nodame did managed to score a Brewfest Ram.

Onto the Flashback of the rest of Week 1:

The cat scan dye induced muscle aches gradually subsides in the rest of the first week, as well as the abdominal pain at my diaphragm. I didn't do much of anything in for the rest of the week. Having my brother drive me anywhere is a bit of a hassle.

Three days after my surgery, I have an appointment with my primary physician, who was very pleased with the result. I kept the medical regiment as well as the new vitamin. By this time, I've stop taking the liquid codeine, which I think is the reason I was advice not to operate heavy machinery.

On Friday, after a call to the surgeon's office, that restriction was removed, which allowed me to move around a bit more.

My meal consisted of protein drink in the morning, protein drink for lunch, and more protein drink for dinner. I did buy some chicken broth (after drinking some of it in the hospital) in preparation for week 2-3.

126/92/69 279.8lb 110 mg/DL

Day 57 : Lesson Learned

Ok, Yesterday was a double whammy. First off, I ate home prepared mapo tofu, which I ate half at lunch and half at dinner.  The amount I ate at lunch seemed to be too much.  Further complicating the situation, someone at the office celebrated their 15th year anniversary, with cakes.  I took a small slice of strawberry cake.  I'm still feeling the effect of that cake.

119/89/69 280.6lb 100 mg/dl

Day 56 : Head Scratching Time

After looking at various solution of hooking up my Droid phone's music output to my car (FM adopter, cassette adopter), I opted for the cheaper solution of cassette adopter. I'm already short on DC plug on the front of the car already, and the cassette adopter seemed the be easier to use while FM adopter all requires me to sacrifice a DC plug. Next car I buy will have a build in auxiliary input jack.

In Warcraft news, December 7 is the day the next expansion comes out. That means I have 2 months to get the Raptor mount before it's gone forever. Redouble the effort Dianora.

Ok, back to the number for today. I think my body is still adjusting to the my current dosage of Metformin. Prior to my doctor's visit in early September, I was taking 1000mg, 500 in the morning, 500 in the evening. My Primary Care Physician halved that dosage, and it took a while for the drug to get out of my system. Lets see if we can work this number down again.

111/85/77 279.8lb 111 mg/DL

Day 55 : End of Week 8 - More photo

Today is the end of Week 8, so more pictures:

08-07-2010 Front

08-07-2010 Side

10-03-2010 Front

10-03-2010 Side

No adverse effect from yesterday's expansion of my food choice.  Now I just have to finish the fish we bought last week. 

110/86/77 280.4lb 102 mg/DL
Week to Week 5lb.
Total Weight Loss 47.6lb
Body Mass Index 40.23

Day 54 : Going Back to Rose Hills

Now that I'm off on-call, I can resume the duty of replacing flowers in front of my mother's urn at Rose Hills.

Before doing anything else meaningful, I spend 2.5 hours working on my cell phone, finally solving my 32GB sd card mounting issue (whenever the card is re-mounted after dismount from desktop, the phone does a soft reboot).  As it turns out, even though the phone does recognize the sd card, it isn't properly formatted.  I backed up the data on the sd card and format it while mounted the drive on my desktop.  No more soft reboot.

I also had an issue with doubletwist not re-synching my iTune library.  Finally end up buying an app call iSyncr from the Marketplace, and it does seem to do its job correctly.

I took a vendor gift water bottle (it fits better than the one I bought at store), and start drinking water religiously on my trip to Rose Hills (due to various factor, a 45 minutes drive turn into 90 minutes).  I finally get to eat the fried tofu at the noodle restaurant.  Eating it isn't as difficult as I imagine.  Just chewed the individual cube down to very very small bits.  The family have dumpling for dinner.  I have them minus the skin, which has the same kind of consistency as noodle.  Since I cannot eat noodle for a while (if ever), I opted to just eat the fillings.  Good to eat some of these things I haven't had in a while.

127/93/67 280.4lb 108 mg/DL

Day 53 : Cardiologist Appointment Second Attempt

So for the past 2 days, my solid intake has been greatly lessen.  I stop using chewing gum (it's amazing how much gum I go through on a long drive).  Perhaps it's because I'm actually looking for it, but the usual 1PM to 3PM pain didn't come on, or at last as sharply as the previous days.

The cardiologist appointment went without a hitch.  Back in 2007 I had an episode of chest pain that finally got me send to an emergency room and my attending cardiologist there became my actual cardiologist.  They ran a bunch of stress test with rather specific instruction (fasting to start baseline stress test, follow by eating food and then wait 30 minutes before doing the second stress test).  The test didn't reveal anything, but I've been seeing him every 6 months.  He was very pleased with my progress, and my blood pressure measurement in the office is actually better than the one I had at home.

I apparently have an inverse white coat symptom.   My blood pressure tends to be better at the doctor's office than at home.  I've been wondering about the size of the blood pressure meter's cuff that wasn't designed with my arm's diameter.  So much that I went ahead and buy a newer model that has a different design.  The result is still similar to my morning reading.  

120/88/67 281.4lb 103mg/DL

Day 52 : Trying Something Different

I think I finally diagnose my abdomen  pain in the afternoon as gas.  I'm trying something different today.  First, I skip my usual half bowl of oatmeal and 1 boil egg this morning, replacing it instead with 10 ounce of soy bean juice (about 10g of protein).  Second, I'll refrain from chewing gum.  Lets see if this makes any difference.  I am a bit concern about my blood sugar level, which is much higher than last week.

Oh, this is what I'm drinking for soybean juice.  I tend to drink 20 ounces a day, once in the morning, and once later on in the day.

 

Soybean Juice

In Warcraft gaming, I finally got one of my alt, Kasukabe the gnome warlock a Brewfest Kodo.  My main toon Dianora actually managed to loot that same Kodo 2 days in a roll, unfortunately for me, she already has it, and I cannot mail it to my other 2 80s.

Here's the picture:

126/95/77 282.8lb 99 mg/DL