I won second place at our church's chili cook-off out of eleven entries. Booyah! I got some of my Grandma Lavelle's culinary blood. My friend Kristin captured my best impersonation of my mother winning all of her game shows. I seriously love second place. You get all the prizes without the pressure to perform the next year. :)
This is my dear friend, mentor, college mom, and spiritual godmother, Kathy Blume. She also introduced me to Nathan. She is AWESOME! I'm so glad she came to the Christmas program last night. It didn't hurt that her son, daughter-in-law, and one of ther grandchildren were a part of the program as well. I chased after her in the parking lot and got a quick picture before she left to go home to Indiana this morning.
Can you tell that these pictures were taken early this morning? The bags under my eyes clearly communicate this fact. Anyway, I took some hair pictures for my mom to see. I definitely have a "hair pictures face." Kristi does the pouty lips for her hair pictures. I do the Michael Jordan tongue.
I went to the doctor on Tuesday for my 6-week post-diagnosis checkup. They checked my meter for all of the tests I’ve done over the last six weeks (239 of them), and I got back a fabulous report. As of about two weeks ago, my levels are completely normal! Pat, my nurse practitioner, showed me printouts from my meter that showed all kinds of charts and graphs showing my progress. My A1C level went from 11 (an average 310 blood sugar reading) to 7 (an average 150 blood sugar reading). I asked her to make copies of the printouts for me to show off to whoever was interested in looking at them.
Pat said that she’s never seen anyone get diabetes under control so quickly. Praise God! At my last visit she told me it would take six months to get regulated, and during those first four miserable weeks, I thought I wouldn't live to see six more months. BUT! God is good, and now I am feeling great! I just need to keep doing what I’m doing with my disciplined eating and testing, and you need to keep doing what you’re doing with your prayers.
I walked out of the hospital more proud of my A+ diabetes report card than I ever had been of any academic report card. On my way to the car, I was tearing up, overwhelmed with the thought of all of your love and prayers and time and help. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support for Nathan and me during this rough period.
I love you.
Nathan and I went to see the movie Australia for date night last night. Wow! I was so excited to be going to the movies in the first place, because the last movie we saw together in the theater was Babel, which was a miserable experience. Nathan had a hard time following multiple interwoven plots and was constantly asking me questions.
"Who's that?" he'd ask.
"That's Brad Pitt, honey."
"Is he famous?"
"Yes, honey."
"Has he been in any other movies?"
"Yes, quite a few, honey."
"Oh! I know him. He's married to that girl from 'Friends.'"
"Sigh..."
On the other hand, Australia was so, so amazing. I just loved it! It had beautiful cinematography, a great plot, multi-dimensional characters, complex social issues, etc. I enjoyed every minute of it. For more information, go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455824/
You won't regret it!
