Mad, I am sorry to hear about the automobile accident and also the fall. This is the time of year for it. The doctor told DH that there were 5 cases of broken hips from falls on the ice in the past couple days.

It has been a very long day. By the time we got to the hospital, they had changed what they were going to do to DH. Instead of just the pins, he was getting a partial hip replacement. This was decided after looking closer at the Xrays. They took him up at 2PM for what was supposed to be 3 hours, but then there was an emergency surgery and he got moved back. He came back to the room at 7. We made sure he was settled in and then left. He is in pain but they are giving him pain meds. They brought in his walker just as we were leaving and they will get him up and walking tomorrow. When he comes home will depend on how well he does with rehab. The fact that we have 12 steps in our house might be a drawback and he may have to stay and do rehab a little longer.

I just want to go to bed, but I will stay up a little longer so I don't wake up in the middle of the night.

Carol Sue So sorry your about the hip replacement, but DS has had hip and knee replacement and she told me today that a hip replacement is so much easier and less painful. I pray for a good and quick recovery. How is your DH about working to get well? Do you think he will be good at working at his therapy? If he is he will be perfectly fine.

It saddens me to see my Daddy who would continue trying if they would do therapy but Medicare won't allow any more.

Do they have a rehab center connected to the hospital or do they just do it all where he is now? I know so many things are done differently in different places. Hope you can rest tonight and get a good nights sleep.

went to bed early, and here I am up in the night. I don't have any work scheduled today.
The accident was not my fault, the other driver went over my right of way. But thanks to good brakes and snow tires, I wasn't going too fast when I hit her in my way. It was the emotional impact of realizing they could have gone into the river that scared me. She had her son in the car, they were also leaving the hospital after she went in with him for pneumonia; how I wish they had admitted the little boy and this would not have happened.
I felt fine while working, but as I was leaving the house, was distracted by another visitor, and wasn't mindful going down the stairs. My feet just went our from under me. My upper back is sore from where I landed. I used the hot tub, pain meds and DH gave me a nice back rub. I will keep doing the same for the next few days. I go off call this evening, there is a good chance I will not have to work at all before then. I managed to maintain the fast. I took the meds with chia seeds in water to protect my stomach.
Well, weight is down to 154 today, and waist is a solid 34 inches. I was hoping for 34.5 so this is great. I will regain a bit with eating today, but no worries about that. I am not terribly hungry but am craving tortilla chips. Its too early to eat. I plan lunch and supper today. We are going to a film night, and will maybe eat out before that.

Carol: glad you DH's surgery went well. Always happy when doctors look at the big picture and do their best for their patient. Doing the replacement with this injury will likely prevent the need for another surgery later. You be sure to take care of yourself in the meantime. It may be hard to resist the comfort foods, but keeping to a nutritious diet will see you through, I am sure.

Trish and Pipsicle and friends: have a good day, and stay warm and safe!

I am running low on test strips so I did not test this morning. I didn't have much to eat yesterday so I don't expect a problem. For a while I went months without testing and that was when I was not eating healthy, so I think I will be OK testing later on after I eat, to see if I need Meds. I will take Metformin, but hold off on Glimiperide until I see how high post prandial goes.

The scale says 191. :) Yesterday I had eggs before going to the hospital. We went for lunch in the cafeteria, which I expected to be a disaster, but got a pleasant surprise. For $5 I had a piece of blacked talapia, little tri colored potatoes and broccoli. Either it was delicious or I was starving. LOL When I came home at 8 I was not hungry, but ate a half cup of cottage cheese. It is helping me that I can eat when I want, and not have to eat when DH wants. The other silver lining to this cloud is I will save a lot of money with him not here to want to go shopping constantly. That is until the medical bills start to roll in. I'm really not concerned about that. I just want him to get better.

He thinks he is coming home as soon as he can get up and walk, but they told us he has to have rehab, either there or at a separate facility. He will say "No" to that, but I don't think he will get a choice. They won't release him. Taking it day by day. He just called and he sounds good but has pain. The nurse told him yesterday that he was to ask for pain meds. They don't just give them out until he says he needs them. I hope he learns to ask for them.

Carol: I am surprised by this but maybe its a response to the opioid crisis. Where were always taught to keep ahead of the pain after certain types of surgeries, hips being one. With patient feedback of course, but get to the meds before the pain gets bad, as we need more if we wait. I hope he asks and takes it now. It may seem odd, but by managing the pain well now, usually people are off the strong pain meds quicker, and can get on plain tylenol and advil sooner. Its win/win all around.
I am glad you will be able to eat what you like, when you like.

DH wants to eat at home tonight instead, so I will make spaghetti. I get the Konjac noodles. I am better at working with them. Somehow I had missed the directions to dry them. I will do that and enjoy some yummy supper. I am planning yogurt for lunch. All set now for the day, I don't have to leave the house!

DH just called and is sitting in a chair. He said it was the most painful thing he has ever experienced in his life and wishes he still had the broken hip. I feel very bad for him and wish there was something I could do but I think it's just going to take time to get through this. I want to get a lot done around here while he's gone, to make it easier when he does come home.

fatmad Did you make a report at work and have yourself checked out? I know I didn't always do that on my jobs so I doubt you did. Your a nurse so you probably know what to do, I wasn't and wasn't always wise when I didn't. The 2 times someone saw me and made me do it, I hated all the junk I had to go through so it made it easier not too.
Don't put yourself on a guilt trip about the little boy having been a patient. You are an excellent nurse and I am sure you made the right decision. It would have prevented the accident, but there is no way we know those things in advance. Life happens. I just pray you start feeling better soon. Be careful getting out and stay warm.

Carol Sue It sounds like DH is coping pretty well. That is good. Since he needed the hip replacement so this was probably a blessing in disguise as he got it taken care of. I know he won't like going to rehab, but can and will they do it at home? I know until Daddy had the stroke he had Homebound therapy. If he could have walked and taken care of himself, he could have gone home and had home therapy. The sad thing that Daddy still doesn't want to face is that he cannot do anything for himself any more. Of course, knowing how your DH wants to go homebound might not be easy for him.

I decided 2 things this morning. I am not happy with the way things are going with my eating etc. I have followed rules and I have taken this stupid statin for about 2 months or more and now I am starving all the time. I probably would not think any thing about this but I keep hearing DH complaining about the fact that he wants to snack all the time. I have never felt that way. In all the years of my weight problem, I've never had the problem of feeling like I couldn't get satisfied. I told my doc that I would take it until it started causing me problems. I read yesterday in some medical article that if you take statins you run the risk of becoming diabetic and if you are prediabetic and you take them you most definitely will become a full fledged diabetic. I'm going off of them as of today and see what happens. I know I am older, but I refuse to believe that I cannot get my eating and life in control.

Every time I have lost weight I at only when hungry and most of the time that included IF. That is why I always liked the IE/IF approach. That is how I was losing weight when I married DH and lost the majority of the weight I lost after we married. I am through with rules etc. I am going back to eating that way again. I hate this you have to eat this and do it this way etc. I am going to learn to work with my own body the way I have done every time I've been thin. I am taking back my life.

My weight is the same as yesterday. My FBS in the same range of 142. That is not going to work for me. When I first married DH I didn't eat breakfast. I had my coffee in the morning and later DGD and I would have fruit. Sometimes I would have an egg, but most of the time I didn't. I ate pretty much whatever I wanted and only because I had to feed her. MIL drank soup for breakfast so I didn't have to do anything but take her a cup of coffee and I would have a cup with her while we visited. Most of the time I fasted until noon when I would have a tuna salad if I even had that. I didn't eat until I was hungry.

Carol Sue I noticed that as much as possible, you are going back to the way you ate when you were younger and thin. You may not be losing the weight a quickly as you want but you are losing and your FBS is better and you are using less and less G. I'm not on any diabetic meds. I only take the bp medicine and I have been taking the water pill lately, but from what I read about the magnesium, it will even help with that. So I don't think I will have to take the water pill once I get all that straightened out.

The other thing I am going to do besides not taking the statin is I am going to cut my eating window back some more. I am going to fast until at least noon everyday like I did when DH and I married. Sometime I didn't eat until 3 and will work toward that goal again. I never ate snacks and I will try to do that as well, although by cutting my window most days, I know I can have something light and healthy if I needed. I did read that when fasting you need to figure out a time that works for you and this is what I am working towards now.

Got to get busy. I want to get my exercise and some other things done. Also have somethings I need to do before I have to call Daddy and DH gets up.

Y'all have a great day.

I call DH's phone company and got him unlimited minutes so he can talk to whoever he wants as long as he wants. He could use the hospital phone, but he can't reach it easily and won't be able to answer it. He can keep his cell phone on the bedside tray and can reach it. He has the automatic charger there and all we have to worry about is charging that if it needs it. It was fully charged when I left yesterday. It was only $5 to upgrade his minutes. Normally he hardly ever uses any minutes.

He is still in so much pain and I feel so bad and wish I could help him. I just keep telling him to tell the doctor or nurse and he says they won't do anything except tell him it will get better. I think it will too, but that's no consolation now. I really feel bad for him.

Today he told me he thinks he's going to have to go to rehab, so maybe by the time he is ready to leave the hospital he will be resigned to it. I think he could have rehab at home if we didn't have all the steps. Everything is on one floor but he has to do the steps to get into the house. If we didn't have that, he could probably do the rehab at home.

Step daughter just called and is going to Walmart after work at 5 so she is taking me with her.

I did ok today, I did have a few tortilla chips with cheese melted on them, and that stopped the craving, maybe I wanted the salt. I also had a little ice cream after lunch.
Supper was spaghetti and salad, regular whole wheat spaghetti for DH and Konjac noodles for me. It IS better is they are dried. The sauce sticks to the noodles like with regular spaghetti, and the fishy smell is completely gone. I had everything done and ready when DH came home, because he can't stand that smell in the kitchen. Also he would cook white noodles and not get the fibre. he likes the whole grain stuff fine, but it takes longer to cook properly, so he doesn't bother. Like with rice, he likes the basmati rice and brown rice, but left to himself he buys and cooks minute rice. He always goes for the fastest, easiest stuff. Not the best. I would rather spend time cooking and have a great meal. I did better today. I had a bowl of spaghetti, then some salad. I waited 10 minutes and had more salad. I waited 10 minutes and had a little more spaghetti. There is leftovers for me on Saturday now. He has lots of leftovers for tomorrow when I am not eating.
I won't have anything at the movie tonight. Will just take my water bottle. Its a documentary "the Woman who loves Giraffes" Its about my undergrad academic advisor, Anne Dagg, who is the Jane Goodall of the giraffe world. I am happy to get to see her again she will be there after the film for a question period. She is elderly, but as bright and dynamic as ever, at least she was 2 years ago when I last saw her.
My back is not too bad, I had a hot tub during the day, and might go in again before bed tonight.
Trish, there is no one to report to.... I am not an employee and it did not happen at the hospital, but rather on the drive home, even if it was just two blocks from the hospital. I do have extra health and disability insurance if I am unable to work. Fortunately, I go off call tonight and will be off for a couple of week to heal up. If I had been seriously injured, that would have kicked in, but I am just sore. My colleague who got a concussion recently is on the disability system. She can only work part time right now, and not be on call at all, but the system will help cover her. She is rarely ill, so overall its not a strain to cover her, but it does have an impact on the rest of us, to pick up her work.
Right now we hope to have her back to work in the New Year full time, but we are not sure that will be possible. With head injury, healing can be slow, and uncertain. She might function perfectly well, until she gets sleep deprived. And then not function. SO we will see. At least I didn't hit my head.
SO I am now done eating until Saturday. Will see how tomorrow goes.
Hope things go well for you and DH Carol. Glad to see his daughter is stepping up a bit.

fatmad I'm just glad you aren't hurt worse and thankful you didn't hit your head. Glad you are going to have some time off to completely heal.

Carol Sue I am glad your step daughter is taking you to Walmart. I was concerned with you not having your diabetic strips to check FBS. I know you check to determine whether you need the G or not. You are doing well with that. I'm glad your DH doesn't want to abuse the pain meds, but hope he is asking for them. He doesn't have to worry about taking to much because they won't give him more than he should have. But he does need to take them if he needs them. Sounds like he is beginning to realize that he may not have a choice about going to rehab and hopefully will have himself ready to accept it better when it is time.

I read the other IF book and it is a shorter book. I'm glad I read it too. It has 7 Steps and I'm already doing those. He does say that Splenda should be used during eating window only. However, Stevia and Xylol can be used without problems if needed and Stevia seems to be the most acceptable. I don't use that much Stevia any way so not worried about it.

Deciding to just do IF/IE and eating only when hungry and no rules about anything worked great today. I indeed up doing total of 30 + minutes of exercise along with 21 minutes on bike. I like to wait at least 15 minutes before I eat so I can check bs before I actually break fast and eat something. By noon, I was not hungry so I didn't eat. I didn't get hungry until almost 3 pm so I have only eat once so far today. My bs reading was 120. That is great. I plan not to eat again until tomorrow. I think I am going to put an ounce of nuts and one string cheese in a baggy and take it with me tomorrow when I go to the beauty shop and then go see Daddy.

So I consider this a very good and successful day.

Trish , which 2nd IF book do you mean? The Obesity Code? Even though much of the information is the same, the two books are quite different in focus.
I like the Diabetes code best for me, anyhow
Weight 155 again after an eating day. But waist is staying at 34 inches. I didn't think just a couple of pound would mean an inch already. Pretty nice.
I have the ultrasound this morning, so nothing to drink even until after that. There is a Tim Hortons at the hospital so I can get tea afterward. They do a steeped tea that is not like most takeout tea, where they put a bag in the cup and add hot water that isn't boiling and you get crummy tea. This is quite good. I don't usually even order tea in most restaurants, its so bad. I get decaf coffee, but I really can't drink coffee with out sweeteners. So I just won't order a hot drink after supper out anymore.
Carol, I am sure you are exhausted with everything going on right now. Just know we are thinking positive thoughts for you and DH. come and chat when you can, its a safe space here for you.

DH called me at 6AM telling me he was having chest pains. I told him to ring for the nurse. I stayed on the line until the nurse came in and he said he would call me back. I was getting ready to call the nurse's station when he called at 8:30. They transferred him to ICU and are giving him Nitro. Now the nurse came in again and he had to get off the phone. I will do my best to get up there today.

fatmad I found to kindle books by a Robert Paxton. He wrote 2 books to share with beginners what he had learned as he did IF to help them avoid the mistakes he did while learning to make this work for him. He evidently did a lot of research to successfully follow IF and lose weight etc. Although a fairly short book he first book was more in detail and the second one was shorter with 7 steps to follow as you begin. I am glad I've read Dr. Fung's books first, but these books has been helpful too. I am on his FB support group.

Carol Sue I am so sorry about the latest news on your DH. Thankfully he was at the hospital. Prayers coming your way.

Not much to report here. I fasted all day and broke fast this morning because I was so nauseated and can't deal with that today. I plan to start another fast after dinner today and go till 3 tomorrow. Walking will be my exercise today. Going to beauty shop and go see Daddy then come home and get DH to go shopping. So lots of walking today.

They are going to do a heart cath to see if he has a blockage. If so, I hope he doesn't need open heart surgery on top of this. He has been having heart symptoms for a while now, shortness of breath, pain, but would not go to the doctor or ER. Maybe this is God's way of getting him in there to get checked out. I was praying for him this morning and all of a sudden I got a comforting calm over me and God was telling me he will be fine. He just has to go through all this.

Carol Sue I agree. I think if this was going to happen that he is right where he needed to be so he could get help fast. I have been praying for you this morning that God will take care of him and he will heal. I am so thankful the way the Lord gives us that sweet peace to let us know everything is going to be okay. Prayers continuing for him and you. I think the fall probably was a blessing in disguise.

I am not one of those people who thinks or believes that bad things from our precious Lord, but I do believe He uses these things for our good just as He promised. I remember years ago when Daddy burned his arm. He always said that saved his life because it was during that time that they found out he had a blocked artery and had it cleaned out. At the same time, I imagine your DH probably feels like everything is hitting him at once.

I've been reading a lot about diabetes and things that cause it for thin people. Besides DH taking the statin, I also believe his problem is sitting around to much. It would have been easier for me to go to the store today when I left Daddy, but DH needs to start moving around and I am going to start insisting on him becoming active again.

I think my nausea this morning was caused from drinking my coffee black with just a touch of Stevia. I just may have to start using H&H again. I don't drink but 2 or 3 c a day and I usually drink it on an empty stomach. If I am going to be able to go without food for a number of hours, I need my coffee in the morning. I read about a 9 to even 12 hr eating window. I just may have to extend my eating window just so I can have the H&H within the window. I only drink milk with my main meal, most of the coffee is drank with meals except for the one I have by itself before exercising per Dr. Whitaker's IF book and the rest of the time I drink water. I could make my eating window 9 or 10 hrs and still get the benefits of IF. Weight loss might be slower, but I still will be fasting. I read that you can still get the benefits and I am going to trust that.

Looks like I weighed 1 lb less November the 1st and we will eat out or get take out so it looks like I will either have a 1 or 2 lbs gain or stay the same this month as I did last month. I'm not sure GOLO is doing anything for me, but then you do have to remember to take it. I might just save the bottle for DH and go back to just using berberine and the blood sugar support pills I've been taking.

I do agree with fatmad that fasting is so much easier because I usually can get up and just go without having to think about food. Even if I have to change my coffee drinking time to be included into a eating window, it still will be easier than dealing with what to eat all the time. FBS was 152 this morning???? Don't really understand that one, but I know that it bounces until it settles so will KOKO.

DH is up and I want to get going so we can get out and do our shopping before people get off work and stores get crowded.