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So, good news first- I'm on a week of PTO. My employer caps the number of personal time off hours I can accrues at 140. I'm at 139.74; if I don't take some time off, I lose anything earned over 140.
And I desperately need a week (or more) off. There's a new supervisor at work, and my prospective employment under him does NOT look good, for various reasons. After saying he doesn't understand what I do, so he's not going to change anything ... he's changing everything, from telling me I am not in a leadership position, even though that's exactly what I've been doing for the past year, even stating I never should have been treated like I was in a leadership position, but that he "supports me" if I ever want to transition into one.
So work right now is ... tense. I fully believe he is looking to get rid of me. That's not stressful at all! I am looking for new employment opportunities ... but I don't want to. I like what I do, and I'm good at it. I was not planning on leaving this company any time soon.
At least I have the week to think about it.
On the health front ... I've been working to change my diet. Downloaded some diabetic recipes from the internet, things like that.
The same bloodwork i had done at the beginning of February that showed me as being pre-diabetic also showed an abnormally high red blood cell count. My primary care physician asked me to follow up on that with my sleep therapist, because it can be caused by untreated sleep apnea, so I did on Friday. She founded it odd that I have "thick blood" even though I'm on blood thinners. Yay.
She ordered an at-home night time oxygen test to see how much oxygen I'm getting while I sleep. If it's low, then oxygen therapy will be added to my CPAP (I had that done when I was hospitalized ... it simply involves an adpater on my mask that adds oxygen to the air flow.)
If it shows normal blood oxygen levels while I'm sleeping, then I'll need to have the excess blood cells manually removed from me. That doesn't sound fun at all, but I'm assuming it will be a process similar to having blood plasma removed, or dialysis. Neither of which I've ever had done, but it sounds simple enough.
On a different note ... when did LiveJournal remove the spell check option?
So, good news first- I'm on a week of PTO. My employer caps the number of personal time off hours I can accrues at 140. I'm at 139.74; if I don't take some time off, I lose anything earned over 140.
And I desperately need a week (or more) off. There's a new supervisor at work, and my prospective employment under him does NOT look good, for various reasons. After saying he doesn't understand what I do, so he's not going to change anything ... he's changing everything, from telling me I am not in a leadership position, even though that's exactly what I've been doing for the past year, even stating I never should have been treated like I was in a leadership position, but that he "supports me" if I ever want to transition into one.
So work right now is ... tense. I fully believe he is looking to get rid of me. That's not stressful at all! I am looking for new employment opportunities ... but I don't want to. I like what I do, and I'm good at it. I was not planning on leaving this company any time soon.
At least I have the week to think about it.
On the health front ... I've been working to change my diet. Downloaded some diabetic recipes from the internet, things like that.
The same bloodwork i had done at the beginning of February that showed me as being pre-diabetic also showed an abnormally high red blood cell count. My primary care physician asked me to follow up on that with my sleep therapist, because it can be caused by untreated sleep apnea, so I did on Friday. She founded it odd that I have "thick blood" even though I'm on blood thinners. Yay.
She ordered an at-home night time oxygen test to see how much oxygen I'm getting while I sleep. If it's low, then oxygen therapy will be added to my CPAP (I had that done when I was hospitalized ... it simply involves an adpater on my mask that adds oxygen to the air flow.)
If it shows normal blood oxygen levels while I'm sleeping, then I'll need to have the excess blood cells manually removed from me. That doesn't sound fun at all, but I'm assuming it will be a process similar to having blood plasma removed, or dialysis. Neither of which I've ever had done, but it sounds simple enough.
On a different note ... when did LiveJournal remove the spell check option?
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Date: 2017-02-21 12:48 am (UTC)Have you been given info on the Glycemic Index? It rates different carbohydrates on their diabetic-friendliness.
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Date: 2017-02-21 02:17 pm (UTC)On a whim, I also picked up some black bean spaghetti noodles (http://www.explorecuisine.com/en/products/bean-pastas.html) when I bought the bread, and had them last night. They didn't taste bad; nor did they taste good - they were surprisingly neutral in taste. Looks kind of funky, but the texture is nice, and not at all what I was expecting. I intend to have them again. They were also surprisingly affordable, only $3.50 for the box. I'm used to organic and/or "health food" being ridiculously high priced.
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Date: 2017-02-22 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-22 02:36 pm (UTC)And then, something happen, and bread makers went crazy. There are so many different kinds of bread now, it's fantastic.
And a little scary.
The Ezekiel bread is interesting, since its recipe is biblically based. There are many slightly different versions, but usually they contain at least four different grain flours, as well as ground up dried beans of various types!
It's a little crumbly, but tasty.