where to begin...

so Saturday the 14th i think i was, i was going to Winco with Katie, and all of a sudden it felt like someone punched me in the back, my elbow hurt, and my pinky and ring finger were tingling, and i started sweating a little bit... i kinda knew what it was, but i kept telling myself it was just a panic attack...

never said anything to Katie, who deals with this crap every day, which was very very stupid of me...

so the following Thursday, i was going fishing with my buddies, woke up at 1:30 and my vision was absolutely jacked, thought i had gunk in my eyes so i rubbed one eye to be able to see, went piss, and back to bed... woke up 2 hours later to go, everything was fine...

got our limits of nice coho relatively quickly (still cant figure out how to post pictures), came home, did the fish, took a 1 hour nap, went to the store to get stuff to cook some of the fish, everything was fine...

had a beer, and Katie gets off, and all of a sudden im seeing double again, it was like my eyes crossed, and was turned counter clockwise... so she gets home and we go to the hospital at like 8pm at night...

get to the hospital, and it happens again, entire ER department erupted and freaked out, called a code, ran me back and started sticking things all over me, IV in, had to to a CT, MRI, and one other thing i cant remember...

my blood sugar was at 300 , my A1C was a 10.8, and the heart thing... well your Troponin levels, which is the protein thats released by only your heart, generally after a heart attack, or if you have heart failure etc, normal ranges are from 0-27 for a normal person, mine got up to 1280 at the highest point in the hospital...

they initially wanted to keep me for 5 days, but started seeing that i was actually OK, and thought it was the Diabetes causing everything, so they sent me home the next day afternoon... i was super hungry in there, and they gave me eggs, oatmeal with brown sugar, and orange juice, and i thought i was eating sh!tty yet healthy hospital food... good thinking process right?

wrong...

i came home and continued doing that for a few days, eating oatmeal, and eggs for lunch, and drinking orange juice, no pop, no candy, nothing... well i tested my blood one night, and the sugar levels were at 398, then 405, and Katie was like WOAH, but i felt fine, so i went to bed...

since then ive changed everything, almost zero pop, and only Coke or Pepsi Zero if i do have any (yes, i know artifical crap is just as bad, but im working on it), and its usually just a small glass with lunch, zero candy, zero fast food, which i was eating pretty much 25 days out of the month, then taking Katie to Dennys for breakfast every Saturday...

to bring my sugar intake into light, i would drink a 20 oz of Pepsi afer slamming a Ultimate Cheeseburger, or McDonalds equivalent, then at night, slam another half a one, and stuff my face with chocolate and candy .... every... single... night...

i told the hospital i was 250 pounds but i was likely more around 235 or so, i went to the cardiologist and weighed 228 a few weeks after being in there, and i weighed myself yesterday and was 217.. i do walk a mile or so per day, if im spoon fishing that can be jumped up quite a bit because i like to cover water, then cover it again, and a gain, and again... plus my backpack weighs 30 pounds so...

with changing my eating, while my BS isnt dead on perfect right now, a couple weeks ago i spent a whole week with a fasting BS level of low 120s, and got it down to 115 one day after eating and walking a sh!t ton...

i just eat salads, a protein shake for lunch, maybe some cottage cheese, then dinner, which is usually chicken or maybe tacos with low carb tortillas (1 gram net), fish, more fish, chicken, blah blah... kinda boring but it is what it is i guess for now... ive also done it all with no medication whatsoever for that...

i do have high blood pressure, and have, so i have to take Metropolol, and have a doctors appointment next week and will likely have to start taking Losartan because my baseline blood pressure right now is like 145/93 which is still way too high....

after changing my diet tho, all the pains i used to have, are gone for the most part, now its just some lingering BS from beating my body up and whatnot, but i feel really good now and am going to continue to keep doing what im doing because everyone has said im on the right track, and they are actually pretty impressed with what ive done which makes me feel good about everything...

ahhhh, the burglary...

im not even going to go into detail with all of it publicly, dont need his friends or family thinking we are the reason their dipshit son wont be getting out of jail for the next 15-20 years, but lets just say, if Ferguson would have done his job, and Inslee would have done his, it wouldnt have happened... but it did... it was also on the news.... atleast the detective is cool...