My Mom gets to leave the hospital today! Finally! It's been 2 1/2 weeks. She's really got a very positive attitude about starting a new chapter in her life, but I know the next few days will be really hard on her. She hasn't had to really face the reality of my father being gone yet because she's been in the hospital.
We were able to steal my Mom away from the hospital a few hours to take her to look at the retirement community we liked so much. Her face when she saw the apartment..... it just made my day. She loved it. She signed a lease! We'll take her back to Hot Springs and figure out how quickly she can get out of her apartment there. My parents, having had a house fire a few years ago, don't have a lot of things, so it's really not going to be a huge task packing up things. We might have to hire someone to actually move furniture, though. We'll need to go through Daddy's things, but again, they kept things simple after the fire, so it won't be a huge (just emotional) task. Hopefully, it will just be a couple of weeks until she's moved. Then we can settle into a new normal around here.
My doctor has been on vacation the past 2 weeks, so I probably will get some feedback on my blood sugar numbers from the past 3 weeks. They haven't been good. I faxed my numbers over on Friday and put a little note at the bottom that I'm ready to discuss insulin. I wish I could just beg for more time, and I could argue that he gave me until June, but I know he's not going to want to wait and I'm just wanting to see normal numbers. I know I shouldn't let the numbers on my meter effect my mood as much as they do, but I can't help it. Insulin still scares the hell out of me, but I just don't know what else to do, to be honest.
I signed up for Weight Watchers the other day. I never tried it in the past, because it just seemed like a slightly more complicated method of calorie counting. But it just kept popping up in conversations and I thought, why not give it a try? I decided to go all out, and sign up for the meetings as well as the online tools. I've never had any kind of face-to-face group support so maybe it will help. My first meeting is tonight, unless I can't make it because of my Mom, but I think I'll be able to make it. I've been using the app the past few days, and it's been kind of shocking to see the Points value of some foods. It's really not that much different than just plain ol' calorie counting, so I hope the meetings help, otherwise it's kind of a waste of money since I can calorie count for free. Plus, I still am having to use my calorie counting app to check carb numbers on a lot of things.
I tried Weight Watchers for a while and I think the meetings are the important part. You're right, using their Points is just another way of calorie counting. I enjoyed the meetings but they ended up closing mine and none of the others was convenient for me. I lost weight for a few months then gained it back - but actually lasted longer with them than most diets! Usually I only stick to something for a couple of weeks, not months. I found group support and official weigh-ins motivating.
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