It's been a few days since I posted my last blog. Alot seems to have happened with my two Daughters, and a step Cousin, and two of my neighbors, and a couple of my friends who live in the same town and area in Northern California. So I have been on an emotional rollar coaster for the past few days, simply because I love and care about all of these people. But when I woke up, I was thinking about one of the Beatles songs. So I pulled the song up on You Tube, and I listened and enjoyed. I still believe in it's message: "Love Is All You Need". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maXGPQE3Aaw
It's a good song to listen to and get our minds into the proper frame of mind. However, what my family, friends, and neighbors are going thru are very serious things. Almost all the problems, except for two folks, is directly related to the recession and finances. Over the years, I have tried to help as I could financially. One friend I helped over the years here and there, called last night and told me she isn't going to have a Christmas. I'm not going to get into everyone's business here in my blog. Besides, one of my family members, I know something has happened, I just don't know what yet.
We think the Holiday Season is a time for family and friends to gather together, think of God, and reach out to one another. Some people reach out during the Holiday Season when distance is between you geographically. My Mother had a Aunt Mary who she rememered as a little girl, and the only time her Aunt Mary and her would write back and forth, is during the Holiday Season. My Mother did this, her last time, Christmas 1994. My Mother turned 68 December 29th of that year. My Mom passed on 3 months later. So I then took up where my Mom left off, and continued writing my Great Aunt Mary every Christmas, until my Great Aunt Mary passed on in 2008. Now family back east in Pennsylvania and I send Christmas Cards back and forth every Christmas. Christmas Cards may be the only thing I can send out this year for the Holidays. This year I am on a fixed income for the first time. Due to my health, I have been forced into an early retirenment.
But I still love the Holidays! My Son put up the little Christmas Tree on the Fireplace Mantel for me. It's a fiber Optic little green Tree and it's so beautiful when it's turned on. And I also have a little "Christmas Village" complete with houses and stores that light up. And street lights. And it has a mirror cut in the shape of a frozen pond in which two skaters are on it. And I have fake snow that everything sits on. Not cotton, but tiny bits of snow, and it my Christmas Village brings a smile to me every year. So I have decided, even though I can't do alot this year, I am still celebrating the Holidays in Spirit! I am going to remember God, Family, Friends, and Pets. I am going to remember those who are still in this world, and I am going to remember those who have passed on. I am going to remember all the good memories I have of the Holidays growing up and over the years with my kids. And I am going to thank God for all my Blessings!!
I think everyone needs to stop and be thankful for their blessings, no matter what is going on. Do you have a roof over your head? Be thankful. Do you have food in your mouth? Be thankful. Do you have a warm place to sleep? Be thankful. Do you have family, friends and/or pets around you that love you? Be thankful. Be thankful we are all still here! And with this thought, this is going to be my thoughts for today. When all of us wake up in the morning, we can choose to look for the good, the positive, the constructive each day we wake up. Or we can choose to get sucked into the negative. Negatives are always going to happen. But it is my thoughts and choice today, and I hope you will join me, to focus on the good, the positive and the constructive! Now, lets all go and have a Happy Day!!!! :-)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2010 EVERYONE!!
Happy Thanksgiving!! Well, I currently cooking Thanksgiving meal. My yougest daughter, Mary, is coming up from Sacramento to have Thanksgiving Meal with her Big Brother, Mark, and I. My middle child, Rebecca, is having Thanksgiving in Idaho where she lives with my two Grandchildren and my Son-in-Law, James.
Currently I have the Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV, which began at 6 am. The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade starts at 9 am here on TV. The sky is blue, and the sun looks like it is coming out. It is currently only 28 degrees out (-2 C), and it's COOOOLLLLDDD outside!! I love this time of year!
My kitty cats, Tiggee, Baby Girl, and Sherwood (named after Robin Hood's forest) are out and about the house. They are indoor cats only, and are all fixed, and shots. I usually boil up the gizzards of the Turkey to give to them. We don't eat gizzard or anything like that. However I know many people do.
This is short and sweet today! Simply because I am cooking and enjoying today! HAPPY THANKSGIVING, and may you and yours have a safe, happy, and wonderful Holiday!! :-)
Currently I have the Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV, which began at 6 am. The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade starts at 9 am here on TV. The sky is blue, and the sun looks like it is coming out. It is currently only 28 degrees out (-2 C), and it's COOOOLLLLDDD outside!! I love this time of year!
My kitty cats, Tiggee, Baby Girl, and Sherwood (named after Robin Hood's forest) are out and about the house. They are indoor cats only, and are all fixed, and shots. I usually boil up the gizzards of the Turkey to give to them. We don't eat gizzard or anything like that. However I know many people do.
This is short and sweet today! Simply because I am cooking and enjoying today! HAPPY THANKSGIVING, and may you and yours have a safe, happy, and wonderful Holiday!! :-)
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Diet and Abandonment.....
I woke up this morning after having two dreams about two different topics, and I realized I must talk about these issues today. The first topic I wanted to discuss out loud here is the recession and the American Diet. I say American Diet, but actually it is becoming a problem with the World Diet.
I remember hearing stories about the Irish. How they were so poor and people were starving. And how the Irish mostly only ate potatoes and cabbage. All I could think of was all that starch from the potatoes. Which brings me back to one of today's topics. During times of less moneys, have you noticed that people fill up more on potatoes, rice, pasta, and grains? So not only are we having to deal with more processed foods where they add sugars, high fructose corn syrup, and other "fillers", people can't afford to buy all the foods they want to when moneys are tight. And currently we are still going through a recession. So what are people doing? And it is this kind of diet that is making the world more obese, and making alot more Diabetics, causing inflamation and making people alot more sick!!
Not too long ago, I went to an appointment and looked at their wall. What did I see? They had a "Food Pyramid" up on the wall. It was a very big picture of a food pyramid, and IT WAS WRONG. On the bottom of the pyramid, it showed grains and all that. Saying people need to fill mostly up on the very stuff that is making people fat and sick now adays. To me, ideally, these things would rather be the tiny space at the top of the pyramid, or not on the pyramid at all.
Ideally, we should eat lots of vegetables, fruits, protiens for each meal each day. And a small handfull of nuts assortments each day like walnuts that are high in Omega 3's. But the problem is, most folks don't eat like that. In the American/World Diet, most folks eat more starches and foods that turn to high sugars instantly in the diet and raise blood sugars like grains, pasta, rice, and potatoes.
Also, people eat alot more fast foods. And what are those foods? Processed meats and breads full of processed ingredients.....high fructose corn syrup, salts, starches, and more fillers. But with moneys tight for everyone, they head to value meals that only cost 99 cents to $1.00 per item. So many folks who are on a fixed financial budget, and that is most of us, are trying to make our moneys stretch.
Here in America, they have not had a "cost of living" adjustment in wages or fixed income in a couple of years. And the cost of living adjustments never match the raise in the cost of living. For instance, look how much food, gas, water and more has gone up this year alone. Yet this year, no "cost of living" adjustment to wages or fixed incomes. Why not?
The next subject I want to touch on, is something I found out I suffer from: Abandonement issues. When I was little, my Dad moved out when I was 3 years old. Then we moved to Vallejo with our Mother and Grandparents from southern California where I was born. Then I was taken away from my own Mother when I was 8. Moved with my Dad and Step Mom, who didn't want us. At age 9, she told my older sister and I, "I hate you. You remind me of your Mother." We never did figure each other out. At age 10 years old, I was sent away from Foster home to Foster Home. I changed many schools, and changed living with many people. Until finally, my Dad sent me to a Christian Boarding Academy, which was the best thing he could have ever done. I had also prayed and God answered my prayers. The Christian Boarding Academy was like having my own apartment and eating healthfully, and having friends who also loved God. But until that time, I felt abandoned by everyone eventually. I learned that people let you down whether they mean to or not.
Then I went off to college, where I found friends and co workers abandoned me. I felt my church had abandoned me back then. Young men were pursuing me to try to have sex with me. It was a very very traumatizing time in my life for me. No adults there to help me. But God never abandoned me. My only blessing, I got pregnant. And that child is a blessing to me until this day. A friend of mine who I went to the Christian Academy with, he recited a verse for me to comfort me. He said in the Bible it says, "I will be a Father to the Fatherless". And I knew God would be the head of my house from that day on. Funny, during that time when I was first pregnant, I went to see some friends. One friend told me "I'm glad I never had sex".
And the other friend I went to see wanted to be a Pastor. So I went to that friend looking at them as a Pastor. I went into their office and waited for them to come in and talk to me. And they never came in to talk to me. I felt even abandoned by that friend, too. However, when I got older, I understood that since my friend was my age, he didn't want to be seen with me because other hypocrites might think he was the Father of my child, and it would do in his future career. But now we are all older. And see things differently now then when we were young.
About other friends during that time, Do you know, that even to this day, some old friends won't talk to me, even after all these years? Why? Because back then, people started spreading lies and accusing this person and that person of being my child's Father. Lies ran rampant, and no one but God Himself, could see what was really going on. I'm so glad God went after me!
Eventually I got married. And during the almost ten years we were married, my first husband abandoned me too. He never sowed his wild oats, and I couldn't stay in a relationship where he got another young lady pregnant, or blew his paychecks at stripper bars, or had girlfriends or dates on the side, or he beat me especially, and started to go at the kids. I had tried getting private counciling for 2 years thru my Pastor. I prayed. I became more and more active in my church in Idaho, even becoming the communications secretary for our church. I wrote for a local newspaper as a newspaper columnist at that time, and other publications. Even getting published in the USA Today paper, and I had an application to join the Screen Writers Guild. I had studied script writing for 2 years.
But things got worse and worse between my first husband, Rob, and myself. We divorced. All I wanted was a family, and never to get divorced. I wanted a marriage for life. I wanted to raise my kids and be close to my Grandkids. I wanted them to have that happy family. But the time came and I knew it wasn't going to happen. And things kept getting worse. My family in California was afraid I would be sent back home to California in a pine box it got so bad. So I divorced him.
Second marriage of 18 years was better. But he was a little younger then me. And I had my problems in that marriage too. I became the bread winner. I had to take charge of everything because he got too stressed out. Yes, he did cheat on me, too, and tried to cheat on me many times. I remember being in our bedroom with the window open.
We lived in some condo's. And the garages were under us. I listened as my husband told a girl next door in her garage, "She's married, I'm not." The "She" he was referring to, was me. I ended up divorcing him too. I realized then, that I would never be successful in a marriage of this world. I looked up in a dictionary what "Husband" means. It means "Manager". And neither of these men I married couldn't even manage their own lives, let alone a family. Yes, I have forgiven them along time ago and moved on with my life. We're all on life's journey, and sometimes we make mistakes. But we learn from those mistakes. If we don't learn from our mistakes, the same things are brought back around for us to go thru again and again until we do learn from our mistakes.
Having a family, is more then going to work and getting a paycheck. Did I not find the right men who were ready to be married? If they were not ready to be married, then why did they get married? Could it be they didn't know this until they got married? Or was it simply none of us knew how to be married? After all, none of us had observed any happy or successful marriages.
Now that I am an old broad, a Grandmother, I really think that couples should be made to get couciling BEFORE they marry. Not only to learn how to deal with things if they should arise, but also to learn to not disrespect one another and to never de-value one another in words or actions. Or never to take one another for granted, just because you are married or feel you've got the person now.
Yesterday, I got a lovely quote from an old friend's facebook page. It was written by John Lennon of the Beatles.
John Lennon said: “We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.” —John Lennon.
I thought how true these words are. You've really got to look after love and nurture it. You can't just leave it and think it is going to get on by itself. You can't just "get used to it" like an old shoe or fixture of furniture at home, and ignore it, simply thinking it will always be there. Because maybe it won't! You've got to talk to it, giving it your full attention. You've got to observe it and listen to it to see what it needs to make it happier and healthier, and what will make it thrive.
I think this is true with all relationships. And each person must respond to one another. Because if they don't, if they don't even talk to one another, how will a person know what the person needs to thrive, feel loved, and more?
Which brings me to another thought....the cycle of life. When I was young, in my parent's generation, they never discussed many things. Like what happens once you turn 40. That your own health starts to slide, Diabetes in my family, or any subject on aging. Or how our Grandparents pass on, or our Parents and Aunts and Uncles, and how to deal with those things. Often times, now that I am older, I wonder if my Parent's and Grandparent's ever felt like I do or think the thoughts I do? My Grandparent's passed on first, both sides. Then my Mom passed on in 1995, and my Dad passed on in 2006. I miss them all. Now that I am older, I think of them and ponder some of their choices and decisions as I was growing up, now learning that I suffer from abandonment issues time to time.
But then I realise this Truth: People love the best they know how. It may not always be what we need or what we want, but people love the best they know how. This is my quote, my thought.
What is the answer now and for future genertions? We need to once again define love and what it is. And what committment is. How to love, and keep it alive. How to protect our relationships. And by that I mean, that when the other person is not around, to continue to act like they are around and to never do anything you wouldn't do with that person around. We need to rebuild the family. We need to keep God in our lives whether single or married. That doesn't necessarily mean going to church. It's talking to God each and every day, knowing He is real. And understanding that we are in this world to learn and experience both good and bad. We have Spiritual Bodies and Fleshly Bodies. The Bible speaks of these things in old and new testaments. The Apostle Peter called his fleshly body "A Tent". Meaning his fleshly body was the tent for his Spiritual Body to camp out in while here in this world, and while we are learning and experiencing. Until the day our "Tent" wears out, and releases our Spiritual Body's to go back to God.
Some religions believe that their Spiritual Bodies remain in the fleshly body even after death. I don't believe that God is going to leave something that belongs to him in rotten flesh. And if you have ever seen a deceased body, you see it no longer looks like the person. Why? Because the Spirit body of the person is no longer there.
Which brings me to other thoughts on that, but maybe another day. It is almost 8:30 am as I write this, and it is 32 F (0 C) outside right now here in the Northern California Sierra Mountain Foothills. It was colder then that last night, but now the temperature has risen to it's current readings. I see blue sky and sunshine, but it is still freezing outside literally.
I hope all of you have a lovely day! And I hope while I work thru my own issues mentally and emotionally, and share these openly with Family, Friends, or whom ever chooses, I hope that somehow these blogs might be helpful to others working out their own issues. And for my family and friends to get a deeper glimpse into the person of Sandy. That would be me!!
Also, I wanted to say about both of the men I was married to, they are not bad people. They were young men going on a journey called life, and still learning. Just like I was. The second husband passed on in 2001, the day after Christmas. The first husband is still alive. And still in denial when it came to our relationship. His way of dealing with all his relationships that never worked out, is by telling everyone that me and all his other ex wives and girlfriends were all nuts. He isn't in a position to mentally and emotionally take responsibility of his own actions yet. I understand this. I hope others do as well. A person cannot be helped until they come to a point themselves of understanding or wanting that understanding. No one can do it for them. So I forgive them all. And we keep on going!! Life if good. God, family, friend, pets, life....these are the true treasures in life! :-)
I remember hearing stories about the Irish. How they were so poor and people were starving. And how the Irish mostly only ate potatoes and cabbage. All I could think of was all that starch from the potatoes. Which brings me back to one of today's topics. During times of less moneys, have you noticed that people fill up more on potatoes, rice, pasta, and grains? So not only are we having to deal with more processed foods where they add sugars, high fructose corn syrup, and other "fillers", people can't afford to buy all the foods they want to when moneys are tight. And currently we are still going through a recession. So what are people doing? And it is this kind of diet that is making the world more obese, and making alot more Diabetics, causing inflamation and making people alot more sick!!
Not too long ago, I went to an appointment and looked at their wall. What did I see? They had a "Food Pyramid" up on the wall. It was a very big picture of a food pyramid, and IT WAS WRONG. On the bottom of the pyramid, it showed grains and all that. Saying people need to fill mostly up on the very stuff that is making people fat and sick now adays. To me, ideally, these things would rather be the tiny space at the top of the pyramid, or not on the pyramid at all.
Ideally, we should eat lots of vegetables, fruits, protiens for each meal each day. And a small handfull of nuts assortments each day like walnuts that are high in Omega 3's. But the problem is, most folks don't eat like that. In the American/World Diet, most folks eat more starches and foods that turn to high sugars instantly in the diet and raise blood sugars like grains, pasta, rice, and potatoes.
Also, people eat alot more fast foods. And what are those foods? Processed meats and breads full of processed ingredients.....high fructose corn syrup, salts, starches, and more fillers. But with moneys tight for everyone, they head to value meals that only cost 99 cents to $1.00 per item. So many folks who are on a fixed financial budget, and that is most of us, are trying to make our moneys stretch.
Here in America, they have not had a "cost of living" adjustment in wages or fixed income in a couple of years. And the cost of living adjustments never match the raise in the cost of living. For instance, look how much food, gas, water and more has gone up this year alone. Yet this year, no "cost of living" adjustment to wages or fixed incomes. Why not?
The next subject I want to touch on, is something I found out I suffer from: Abandonement issues. When I was little, my Dad moved out when I was 3 years old. Then we moved to Vallejo with our Mother and Grandparents from southern California where I was born. Then I was taken away from my own Mother when I was 8. Moved with my Dad and Step Mom, who didn't want us. At age 9, she told my older sister and I, "I hate you. You remind me of your Mother." We never did figure each other out. At age 10 years old, I was sent away from Foster home to Foster Home. I changed many schools, and changed living with many people. Until finally, my Dad sent me to a Christian Boarding Academy, which was the best thing he could have ever done. I had also prayed and God answered my prayers. The Christian Boarding Academy was like having my own apartment and eating healthfully, and having friends who also loved God. But until that time, I felt abandoned by everyone eventually. I learned that people let you down whether they mean to or not.
Then I went off to college, where I found friends and co workers abandoned me. I felt my church had abandoned me back then. Young men were pursuing me to try to have sex with me. It was a very very traumatizing time in my life for me. No adults there to help me. But God never abandoned me. My only blessing, I got pregnant. And that child is a blessing to me until this day. A friend of mine who I went to the Christian Academy with, he recited a verse for me to comfort me. He said in the Bible it says, "I will be a Father to the Fatherless". And I knew God would be the head of my house from that day on. Funny, during that time when I was first pregnant, I went to see some friends. One friend told me "I'm glad I never had sex".
And the other friend I went to see wanted to be a Pastor. So I went to that friend looking at them as a Pastor. I went into their office and waited for them to come in and talk to me. And they never came in to talk to me. I felt even abandoned by that friend, too. However, when I got older, I understood that since my friend was my age, he didn't want to be seen with me because other hypocrites might think he was the Father of my child, and it would do in his future career. But now we are all older. And see things differently now then when we were young.
About other friends during that time, Do you know, that even to this day, some old friends won't talk to me, even after all these years? Why? Because back then, people started spreading lies and accusing this person and that person of being my child's Father. Lies ran rampant, and no one but God Himself, could see what was really going on. I'm so glad God went after me!
Eventually I got married. And during the almost ten years we were married, my first husband abandoned me too. He never sowed his wild oats, and I couldn't stay in a relationship where he got another young lady pregnant, or blew his paychecks at stripper bars, or had girlfriends or dates on the side, or he beat me especially, and started to go at the kids. I had tried getting private counciling for 2 years thru my Pastor. I prayed. I became more and more active in my church in Idaho, even becoming the communications secretary for our church. I wrote for a local newspaper as a newspaper columnist at that time, and other publications. Even getting published in the USA Today paper, and I had an application to join the Screen Writers Guild. I had studied script writing for 2 years.
But things got worse and worse between my first husband, Rob, and myself. We divorced. All I wanted was a family, and never to get divorced. I wanted a marriage for life. I wanted to raise my kids and be close to my Grandkids. I wanted them to have that happy family. But the time came and I knew it wasn't going to happen. And things kept getting worse. My family in California was afraid I would be sent back home to California in a pine box it got so bad. So I divorced him.
Second marriage of 18 years was better. But he was a little younger then me. And I had my problems in that marriage too. I became the bread winner. I had to take charge of everything because he got too stressed out. Yes, he did cheat on me, too, and tried to cheat on me many times. I remember being in our bedroom with the window open.
We lived in some condo's. And the garages were under us. I listened as my husband told a girl next door in her garage, "She's married, I'm not." The "She" he was referring to, was me. I ended up divorcing him too. I realized then, that I would never be successful in a marriage of this world. I looked up in a dictionary what "Husband" means. It means "Manager". And neither of these men I married couldn't even manage their own lives, let alone a family. Yes, I have forgiven them along time ago and moved on with my life. We're all on life's journey, and sometimes we make mistakes. But we learn from those mistakes. If we don't learn from our mistakes, the same things are brought back around for us to go thru again and again until we do learn from our mistakes.
Having a family, is more then going to work and getting a paycheck. Did I not find the right men who were ready to be married? If they were not ready to be married, then why did they get married? Could it be they didn't know this until they got married? Or was it simply none of us knew how to be married? After all, none of us had observed any happy or successful marriages.
Now that I am an old broad, a Grandmother, I really think that couples should be made to get couciling BEFORE they marry. Not only to learn how to deal with things if they should arise, but also to learn to not disrespect one another and to never de-value one another in words or actions. Or never to take one another for granted, just because you are married or feel you've got the person now.
Yesterday, I got a lovely quote from an old friend's facebook page. It was written by John Lennon of the Beatles.
John Lennon said: “We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.” —John Lennon.
I thought how true these words are. You've really got to look after love and nurture it. You can't just leave it and think it is going to get on by itself. You can't just "get used to it" like an old shoe or fixture of furniture at home, and ignore it, simply thinking it will always be there. Because maybe it won't! You've got to talk to it, giving it your full attention. You've got to observe it and listen to it to see what it needs to make it happier and healthier, and what will make it thrive.
I think this is true with all relationships. And each person must respond to one another. Because if they don't, if they don't even talk to one another, how will a person know what the person needs to thrive, feel loved, and more?
Which brings me to another thought....the cycle of life. When I was young, in my parent's generation, they never discussed many things. Like what happens once you turn 40. That your own health starts to slide, Diabetes in my family, or any subject on aging. Or how our Grandparents pass on, or our Parents and Aunts and Uncles, and how to deal with those things. Often times, now that I am older, I wonder if my Parent's and Grandparent's ever felt like I do or think the thoughts I do? My Grandparent's passed on first, both sides. Then my Mom passed on in 1995, and my Dad passed on in 2006. I miss them all. Now that I am older, I think of them and ponder some of their choices and decisions as I was growing up, now learning that I suffer from abandonment issues time to time.
But then I realise this Truth: People love the best they know how. It may not always be what we need or what we want, but people love the best they know how. This is my quote, my thought.
What is the answer now and for future genertions? We need to once again define love and what it is. And what committment is. How to love, and keep it alive. How to protect our relationships. And by that I mean, that when the other person is not around, to continue to act like they are around and to never do anything you wouldn't do with that person around. We need to rebuild the family. We need to keep God in our lives whether single or married. That doesn't necessarily mean going to church. It's talking to God each and every day, knowing He is real. And understanding that we are in this world to learn and experience both good and bad. We have Spiritual Bodies and Fleshly Bodies. The Bible speaks of these things in old and new testaments. The Apostle Peter called his fleshly body "A Tent". Meaning his fleshly body was the tent for his Spiritual Body to camp out in while here in this world, and while we are learning and experiencing. Until the day our "Tent" wears out, and releases our Spiritual Body's to go back to God.
Some religions believe that their Spiritual Bodies remain in the fleshly body even after death. I don't believe that God is going to leave something that belongs to him in rotten flesh. And if you have ever seen a deceased body, you see it no longer looks like the person. Why? Because the Spirit body of the person is no longer there.
Which brings me to other thoughts on that, but maybe another day. It is almost 8:30 am as I write this, and it is 32 F (0 C) outside right now here in the Northern California Sierra Mountain Foothills. It was colder then that last night, but now the temperature has risen to it's current readings. I see blue sky and sunshine, but it is still freezing outside literally.
I hope all of you have a lovely day! And I hope while I work thru my own issues mentally and emotionally, and share these openly with Family, Friends, or whom ever chooses, I hope that somehow these blogs might be helpful to others working out their own issues. And for my family and friends to get a deeper glimpse into the person of Sandy. That would be me!!
Also, I wanted to say about both of the men I was married to, they are not bad people. They were young men going on a journey called life, and still learning. Just like I was. The second husband passed on in 2001, the day after Christmas. The first husband is still alive. And still in denial when it came to our relationship. His way of dealing with all his relationships that never worked out, is by telling everyone that me and all his other ex wives and girlfriends were all nuts. He isn't in a position to mentally and emotionally take responsibility of his own actions yet. I understand this. I hope others do as well. A person cannot be helped until they come to a point themselves of understanding or wanting that understanding. No one can do it for them. So I forgive them all. And we keep on going!! Life if good. God, family, friend, pets, life....these are the true treasures in life! :-)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
24 Hours.....
I find it amazing what all that can happen in just 24 hours. After I wrote yesterday's blog, I learned that one of my Aunts passed on in her sleep Sunday night. And this morning, I learned that North Korea who lied and said they were developing nuclear energy for energy, in fact just sent bomb shells at South Korea, and President Obama learned about it at 3:45 am this morning.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101123/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_clash
We already look around and see the war in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we see Radical Muslims trying to bomb any persons or country who choose not to join their religion of Islam. Our leaders are in charge of all this stuff around the world, to keep an eye on things, to help friends and innocents around the world, and they need prayer. We all need to pray for innocent people, men, women, children around the world who are for love and peace and who want to co exist peacefully.
We also learned that Prince William and Kate have set a wedding date of April 29th, 2011 (It's a Friday) to get married. And it will be at Westminster Abbey, where William and Harry's Mother's Funeral was held. That way, Westminster Abbey will not only hold sad memories, but happy ones as well for the new couple.
So you can see that alot can happen in 24 hours, and in deed, much has happened. Today, I have decided to go visit some friends. The older a person gets, the more they learn, understand and realise how important God, Family, Friends, Pets, Life are. These are things that money can't buy. These are precious gifts that each of us must appreciate while we have the time. As my Dad use to say, "Life is too short." It is such a waste of life and time to hate, be angry, hold grudges and what ever seperates a person from God, Family and Friends. It's such a waste of life. Now I understand why the Lord said that Forgiveness is important. Even 77 times or more, from what the scriptures say.
I'm choosing to have a happy and good day despite it all today. I am choosing to love and forgive everyone today. I am choosing a good day today! May you do the same in your part of the world!
:-)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101123/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_clash
We already look around and see the war in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we see Radical Muslims trying to bomb any persons or country who choose not to join their religion of Islam. Our leaders are in charge of all this stuff around the world, to keep an eye on things, to help friends and innocents around the world, and they need prayer. We all need to pray for innocent people, men, women, children around the world who are for love and peace and who want to co exist peacefully.
We also learned that Prince William and Kate have set a wedding date of April 29th, 2011 (It's a Friday) to get married. And it will be at Westminster Abbey, where William and Harry's Mother's Funeral was held. That way, Westminster Abbey will not only hold sad memories, but happy ones as well for the new couple.
So you can see that alot can happen in 24 hours, and in deed, much has happened. Today, I have decided to go visit some friends. The older a person gets, the more they learn, understand and realise how important God, Family, Friends, Pets, Life are. These are things that money can't buy. These are precious gifts that each of us must appreciate while we have the time. As my Dad use to say, "Life is too short." It is such a waste of life and time to hate, be angry, hold grudges and what ever seperates a person from God, Family and Friends. It's such a waste of life. Now I understand why the Lord said that Forgiveness is important. Even 77 times or more, from what the scriptures say.
I'm choosing to have a happy and good day despite it all today. I am choosing to love and forgive everyone today. I am choosing a good day today! May you do the same in your part of the world!
:-)
Monday, November 22, 2010
It's The Monday Before Thanksgiving 2010!
I cracked myself up this morning! My 36 year old Deaf Son, Mark, and I share an apartment. He stayed up last night, and was asleep. Soon it was 10:30 am and he has an appointment today, so I had to wake him up. I turned on his light in his room. He kept sleeping. Anyone who knows anything about deaf folks, is that their fire alarms, their alarm clocks, the doorbell, and my Son's Video Phone let him know which is which by the sequence of how different lights blink. So wanting to wake him up, I sat here at the computer and dialed his Video Phone on my cell phone. I called him, LOL!! He answered and I said to him, thru an inturpreter, "Can you come see me please?" And then he came out and was cracking up, shaking his head at me at the way I finally woke him up!
Needless to say, it's a good and happy day! The winde is blowing and it's total gray sky again. We have another storm blowing in from Canada, and they expect plenty more rain and snow here in the Sierra Mountain Foothills! Hurray!! Let it Snow!
This Thursday is Thanksgiving. I went to the store and now have everything I need for a nice Thanksgiving meal! My youngest Daugher, Mary, is coming up Thursday for Thanksgiving with her brother and I. And I will be calling and thinking about my oldest Daughter, my middle child - Rebecca, and my two beautiful Grandkids -Alyssa and Max, and my Son In Law who will be in Idaho for Thanksgiving, where they live.
:-)
How are all of you today? I hope fine and well! My Son, Mark, just came out, still laughing and shaking his head at me. Love to make my family smile!!!
Yesterday I ended up not writing a new blog. I wasn't feeling that well yesterday and had to rest more. I have my good days healthwise and my bad days healthwise. But I am always thankful I am here!! Since January 2010, I've undergone all kinds of tests on my heart, my lungs, sleep study, etc.. Besides being a Diabetic, they diagnosed me with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Obstructive Lung Disease and Restrictive Lung Disease, dyspnea, and severe edema. Dyspnea is gasping for air when I walk normal walking across the room. Severe Edema, swelling of my feet, ankles, legs, hands, etc. still despite taking 160 mg's of lasix (water pills) daily and potassium. About my breathing problems, I quit smoking over 20 years ago, and never smoked that long. However, I also read somewhere the other day that my full body radiation that they did to me as a kid, might affect my lungs and health now. They outlawed that certain X Ray in 1961, and I was only like in first grade back then. But long term damage can be done, besides having to watch out for thyroid cancer. So Far, no thyroid cancer!! That's good! And hopefully I will never get it. Back to health issues, I was forced into early retirenment due to my health. However, inside, I still feel young, happy, alive! It's just the outside body that is having issues.
Talking to my older Sister, Linda, she has Lyme Disease and some other things wrong with her, too. We both discussed how when a person has health issues as they get older, we tend to try to keep out minds busy. Whether it be online, or watching TV, or reading....keeping our minds busy on other things is the way to be!! We look for the good, the positive, the constructive every single day! My Parents and Grandparents taught me this. My Mother always looked for the good each and every day. So did my Dad. I remember asking my Dad something, and he said with love, "Don't think like that". So I realised back then, that we have a choice on our mental thoughts. We can choose what we want to dwell on or think about. We can choose happy happy joy joy, or down in the dumps. If I ever start feeling down one day, I find going on line and looking for humor (I love to laugh!!) is the best thing to do!! So each and every day, we can make a concious decision to focus on the good, the positive and the constructive. It's the only way to be I was taught!
Well, I am not writing alot today, but wanted all of you to know I was thinking about all of you! And I wish you all a Happy Week and a Happy Thanksgiving!! I will write a new blog tomorrow.
:-)
Needless to say, it's a good and happy day! The winde is blowing and it's total gray sky again. We have another storm blowing in from Canada, and they expect plenty more rain and snow here in the Sierra Mountain Foothills! Hurray!! Let it Snow!
This Thursday is Thanksgiving. I went to the store and now have everything I need for a nice Thanksgiving meal! My youngest Daugher, Mary, is coming up Thursday for Thanksgiving with her brother and I. And I will be calling and thinking about my oldest Daughter, my middle child - Rebecca, and my two beautiful Grandkids -Alyssa and Max, and my Son In Law who will be in Idaho for Thanksgiving, where they live.
:-)
How are all of you today? I hope fine and well! My Son, Mark, just came out, still laughing and shaking his head at me. Love to make my family smile!!!
Yesterday I ended up not writing a new blog. I wasn't feeling that well yesterday and had to rest more. I have my good days healthwise and my bad days healthwise. But I am always thankful I am here!! Since January 2010, I've undergone all kinds of tests on my heart, my lungs, sleep study, etc.. Besides being a Diabetic, they diagnosed me with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Obstructive Lung Disease and Restrictive Lung Disease, dyspnea, and severe edema. Dyspnea is gasping for air when I walk normal walking across the room. Severe Edema, swelling of my feet, ankles, legs, hands, etc. still despite taking 160 mg's of lasix (water pills) daily and potassium. About my breathing problems, I quit smoking over 20 years ago, and never smoked that long. However, I also read somewhere the other day that my full body radiation that they did to me as a kid, might affect my lungs and health now. They outlawed that certain X Ray in 1961, and I was only like in first grade back then. But long term damage can be done, besides having to watch out for thyroid cancer. So Far, no thyroid cancer!! That's good! And hopefully I will never get it. Back to health issues, I was forced into early retirenment due to my health. However, inside, I still feel young, happy, alive! It's just the outside body that is having issues.
Talking to my older Sister, Linda, she has Lyme Disease and some other things wrong with her, too. We both discussed how when a person has health issues as they get older, we tend to try to keep out minds busy. Whether it be online, or watching TV, or reading....keeping our minds busy on other things is the way to be!! We look for the good, the positive, the constructive every single day! My Parents and Grandparents taught me this. My Mother always looked for the good each and every day. So did my Dad. I remember asking my Dad something, and he said with love, "Don't think like that". So I realised back then, that we have a choice on our mental thoughts. We can choose what we want to dwell on or think about. We can choose happy happy joy joy, or down in the dumps. If I ever start feeling down one day, I find going on line and looking for humor (I love to laugh!!) is the best thing to do!! So each and every day, we can make a concious decision to focus on the good, the positive and the constructive. It's the only way to be I was taught!
Well, I am not writing alot today, but wanted all of you to know I was thinking about all of you! And I wish you all a Happy Week and a Happy Thanksgiving!! I will write a new blog tomorrow.
:-)
Saturday, November 20, 2010
A Day of Thoughts.....
I wanted to discuss Type 2 Diabetes today, and blood sugar problems in general. Where should I start? Let's start with my story. I was born to Edward LeRoy King, who was part Native American (yes, I have a roll number, too) and Anna Lee Flynn King in January 1954. My Dad was one of the first Navy Seals, trained in World War II even to undo bombs underwater so that they wouldn't sink any ships. He joined the Navy at age 16 like many men did, right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. His ship was the USS Lowndes APA-154. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lowndes_(APA-154)
My Mother was a Secretary at Mare Island in Vallejo, California and typed 91 words per minute. Needless to say when she went in to test for the job, after they saw her fingers fly, they thanked the rest of the girls and hired my Mom on the Spot. I am giving this information this time, because of what took place when I was a little girl.
In the late 1950's, right up until 1961, there were special x-rays given to people. These gamma ray X Rays were then outlawed in 1961. My brother, sister and I were subjected to these X Rays before they got outlawed. It was during a time that our own government experimented on it's own citizens with radioactive materials. Now, none of the parents knew of these tests, as they were kept secret. But President Clinton finally admitted that during the cold war era, America had done radiation experiments on some of it's own citizens.
The requirenments were general, but they accepted people who were poor, or Native American, or military personnel and their families. They were done on any minority, and being done all over the USA. Here is another's person's research. I only know of my own....
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/experiments_with_radiation.htm
(Someone here in California I have emailed back and forth, is Cherie Anderson. When she was a child, they stuck a radioactive thing up her nose. She could develope brain cancer anytime. There are many of us grouping up together in Northern California.
"We're not here to point fingers at anyone, we're here to come up with solutions to help us," said Cherie Anderson, a Sacramento woman who was among an unknown number of children given radioactive implants during the Cold War. "We're not just statistics. We have families that care about what happens to us." http://articles.sfgate.com/1995-10-13/news/17818354_1_experiments-presidential-panel-panel-s-report )
As a little girl of 5, I had what they call "Full body radiation". I remember they stripped me down to my underwear, I was placed on a guerney, and they put special glasses on me. My Mother was taken to stand behind a special screen with the doctor. And then my body was subjected to all this radiation. The doctor said he was doing these tests on me and my older sister, for "Skin Treatments". But we had nothing wrong with our skin. I became sick, and later understood the feeling now, that I was having blood sugar problems, and sick so much more. There were many many times as a child, that I could not even get up out of bed to go to school.
My Grandfather Smith use to tell me, "You better eat or you will dry up and blow away." We'd go to my Grandparents almost every week end after church. My Grandmother noticed I was sickly, and she asked my Mother, "What are they doing to her??!!" My Mom answered innocently, "Skin Treatments." Grandma said, "Why?" My Mom said, "I don't know. Ed had that skin issue on his feet." Grandma said, "Yes, but that was different. She doesn't look good."
Eventually with these treatments, I woke up one morning with blood from my kidneys. My Mom panicked and called my Dad. They were seperated at that time. He came with my Aunt, and they took me to a specialist in San Francisco who couldn't understand why this was happening to me." When the so called "Skin Treatments" or special X Rays were outlawed in 1961, eventually I got better. But I still had blood sugar episodes. I recognise them now, but you know when you are a kid and that is all you know, to you, it's normal.
Well, I suffered from very very low blood sugars back then. Again, since I didn't know that it was not normal, to me I never said anything because to me, it was all I knew and it was normal to me.
Fast Forward to when I was in my very early 20's. I was married with 3 kids by the time I was 23 years old. I adored and loved my kids and still do! And I love my Grandkids, too! Anyhow, I kept having worse and worse problems. One day I slipped and fell when we were living in Hermiston, Oregon. I ended up in the hospital for 2 days. They did a 6 or 8 hour blood testing on me then. By the 2nd hour, I got so sick. When the doctor later came in, he said my blood sugars had dropped dangerously low the 2nd hour. He then told me after all my tests were done and my ankle put in a cast since I broke it, the Doctor told me about my blood sugars, "I've seen it before. I think by the time you turn 40, your pancreas will wear out and you will turn Diabetic". I kept that in my mind all those years after that. My first husband never could grasp me having low blood sugars and the effects it has on the human body all those years we were married. It's ironic, because now at age 55/56, he nows suffers from low blood sugar problems. Now, I think he understands, at least some. He must.
At age 39, things started happening on my body. I went in for a thyroid scan, and the Radiologist asked me point blank if I had "Skin Treatments" as a child. I said yes. He said my thyroid was burned and he had seen this before from that treatment. I learned that anyone who had these "Skin Treatments", they found, had a good chance of developing thyroid cancer in their later years. Then I had alot of questions, like, did this change my DNA? Will it affect my children and grandchildren and future generations? He said he didn't know. So I tried to contact Dr. Joseph in Vallejo California the one who did these treatments on me. I found out he died and that all previous patient records had been shredded. Except for the radiologist who verified this, I had no physical proof.
I've had two thyroid biopsies, and so far, they've come out normal. I am actually fortunate to have only been subjected to the Skin Treatments. Because during that time of testing, some people got injected with platonium thru shot needles. And others had radioactive stuff put up their noses as children. I belong to a group now of radiation experiment survivors.
Then in January 1999, I lost 70 pounds in 10 to 14 days. I felt sick, flu like. I ate a sandwhich 3 times a day, trying to be good and eat. But I still lost weight. Finally I went to the doctors and she diagnosed me as having turned Diabetic. But more then that, I was in Ketoacidosis and my body systems were shutting down to die, literally. Thanks to God, and an excellent team of doctors and dieticians, they pulled me out of it. But I was still so sick, I was not able to work and was still under a 24 hour kidney failure watch, and more. But I fought and got better at that time. I began trying to go back to work part time.
More and more I learned about Diabetes. I learned it runs in both sides of my family. My Parents and Grandparents were from the time, that people didn't want to discuss health issues, or anything that was not of a positive nature. So I was totally uninformed. My Mother passed on in 1995, so I couldn't ask her.
So here I was, still sickly, trying to work 4 hours or less a day at least, and trying to find out about Type 2 Diabetes. At that time, there were no Type 2 Diabetes Groups in Yahoo, or that I could really find online. After a few years, I began my own group for Type 2 Diabetics in Yahoo. I decided I didn't want others to go thru blindly what I went thru.
I learned that a Type 2 Diabetic's cell receptors don't work right. For me, it is on a cellular level. For most Type 2 Diabetics, either the cell receptors don't work right, or the body rejects it's own insulin for some reason. Or a combination of both problems. Now, this happened to all Type 2 Diabetics. Not just me. I also know that genetically, it can and does run in families. I learned you don't have to be overweight to get Type 2 Diabetes. Many skinny people get it too.
Stanford University found that when a person turns Type 2 Diabetic, two or three protien genes get turned off. Also, it may be well into the DNA coding as to why people turn Type 2 Diabetic. Our bodies replicate themselves every year. I don't look like I did at age 16, and most of us don't when we are 56 years old. It's because our DNA cells do not exactly copy themselves over time. That is why we get to a certain place and then age.
I've learned that anyone with Low or High blood sugars should eat a higher protien diet because it stays in the stomach longer, as long as a person's kidneys are still working as they should.
I learned a Diabetic should eat something every 3 hours. Even if it is 6 almonds, or a cheese stick and apple slices. Something healthful.
Friends have discovered that by eating low carbs, they were able to eat and get filled up. They lost weight. Their blood sugars went down to normal! Are they still Diabetics? YES. Because if they were to start eating the old way, their weight would come back on and they would be full blown diabetics again.
But some doctors feel that if you no longer have blood sugars of 200 and above without medications, then you are no longer a Diabetic. But in the minds of Diabetics who's blood sugars have returned to normal, and have lost weight eating a low carb diet, they understand that they can never ever go back to eating the old way again. Low Carb eating is a way of life for a Diabetic.
With so many Americans and people around the world being over weight because of all the hidden sugars in foods, and processed foods, high fructose corn syrup, that's why people are more over weight now adays. When I see those commercials with people saying, "Corn syrup is the same as regular sugar. It's the same", and the woman walks off smiling like it's okay...IT'S NOT OKAY. Sugar is poisening people all over the world. I don't hand out candy on Halloween. I smile as I watch the kids enjoy themselves dressing up, but I don't want to contribute to any future health problems they may encounter in the future.
I may come back to these subjects in the future, but for now, I am done for today. My Diabetes group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Diabetes_Type2
is open to anyone to join. If you are a Diabetic or not or want to join this group, just make sure you said you saw Sandy's Dear Diary Blog and I'll know.
It's night time right now, and it's very very cold outside. The snow has made it's way 20 minutes up the road from me here. Now I am going to count my blessings, pray for my family and friends, and enjoy the evening. May all of you have a lovely evening as well.
:-)
My Mother was a Secretary at Mare Island in Vallejo, California and typed 91 words per minute. Needless to say when she went in to test for the job, after they saw her fingers fly, they thanked the rest of the girls and hired my Mom on the Spot. I am giving this information this time, because of what took place when I was a little girl.
In the late 1950's, right up until 1961, there were special x-rays given to people. These gamma ray X Rays were then outlawed in 1961. My brother, sister and I were subjected to these X Rays before they got outlawed. It was during a time that our own government experimented on it's own citizens with radioactive materials. Now, none of the parents knew of these tests, as they were kept secret. But President Clinton finally admitted that during the cold war era, America had done radiation experiments on some of it's own citizens.
The requirenments were general, but they accepted people who were poor, or Native American, or military personnel and their families. They were done on any minority, and being done all over the USA. Here is another's person's research. I only know of my own....
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/experiments_with_radiation.htm
(Someone here in California I have emailed back and forth, is Cherie Anderson. When she was a child, they stuck a radioactive thing up her nose. She could develope brain cancer anytime. There are many of us grouping up together in Northern California.
"We're not here to point fingers at anyone, we're here to come up with solutions to help us," said Cherie Anderson, a Sacramento woman who was among an unknown number of children given radioactive implants during the Cold War. "We're not just statistics. We have families that care about what happens to us." http://articles.sfgate.com/1995-10-13/news/17818354_1_experiments-presidential-panel-panel-s-report )
As a little girl of 5, I had what they call "Full body radiation". I remember they stripped me down to my underwear, I was placed on a guerney, and they put special glasses on me. My Mother was taken to stand behind a special screen with the doctor. And then my body was subjected to all this radiation. The doctor said he was doing these tests on me and my older sister, for "Skin Treatments". But we had nothing wrong with our skin. I became sick, and later understood the feeling now, that I was having blood sugar problems, and sick so much more. There were many many times as a child, that I could not even get up out of bed to go to school.
My Grandfather Smith use to tell me, "You better eat or you will dry up and blow away." We'd go to my Grandparents almost every week end after church. My Grandmother noticed I was sickly, and she asked my Mother, "What are they doing to her??!!" My Mom answered innocently, "Skin Treatments." Grandma said, "Why?" My Mom said, "I don't know. Ed had that skin issue on his feet." Grandma said, "Yes, but that was different. She doesn't look good."
Eventually with these treatments, I woke up one morning with blood from my kidneys. My Mom panicked and called my Dad. They were seperated at that time. He came with my Aunt, and they took me to a specialist in San Francisco who couldn't understand why this was happening to me." When the so called "Skin Treatments" or special X Rays were outlawed in 1961, eventually I got better. But I still had blood sugar episodes. I recognise them now, but you know when you are a kid and that is all you know, to you, it's normal.
Well, I suffered from very very low blood sugars back then. Again, since I didn't know that it was not normal, to me I never said anything because to me, it was all I knew and it was normal to me.
Fast Forward to when I was in my very early 20's. I was married with 3 kids by the time I was 23 years old. I adored and loved my kids and still do! And I love my Grandkids, too! Anyhow, I kept having worse and worse problems. One day I slipped and fell when we were living in Hermiston, Oregon. I ended up in the hospital for 2 days. They did a 6 or 8 hour blood testing on me then. By the 2nd hour, I got so sick. When the doctor later came in, he said my blood sugars had dropped dangerously low the 2nd hour. He then told me after all my tests were done and my ankle put in a cast since I broke it, the Doctor told me about my blood sugars, "I've seen it before. I think by the time you turn 40, your pancreas will wear out and you will turn Diabetic". I kept that in my mind all those years after that. My first husband never could grasp me having low blood sugars and the effects it has on the human body all those years we were married. It's ironic, because now at age 55/56, he nows suffers from low blood sugar problems. Now, I think he understands, at least some. He must.
At age 39, things started happening on my body. I went in for a thyroid scan, and the Radiologist asked me point blank if I had "Skin Treatments" as a child. I said yes. He said my thyroid was burned and he had seen this before from that treatment. I learned that anyone who had these "Skin Treatments", they found, had a good chance of developing thyroid cancer in their later years. Then I had alot of questions, like, did this change my DNA? Will it affect my children and grandchildren and future generations? He said he didn't know. So I tried to contact Dr. Joseph in Vallejo California the one who did these treatments on me. I found out he died and that all previous patient records had been shredded. Except for the radiologist who verified this, I had no physical proof.
I've had two thyroid biopsies, and so far, they've come out normal. I am actually fortunate to have only been subjected to the Skin Treatments. Because during that time of testing, some people got injected with platonium thru shot needles. And others had radioactive stuff put up their noses as children. I belong to a group now of radiation experiment survivors.
Then in January 1999, I lost 70 pounds in 10 to 14 days. I felt sick, flu like. I ate a sandwhich 3 times a day, trying to be good and eat. But I still lost weight. Finally I went to the doctors and she diagnosed me as having turned Diabetic. But more then that, I was in Ketoacidosis and my body systems were shutting down to die, literally. Thanks to God, and an excellent team of doctors and dieticians, they pulled me out of it. But I was still so sick, I was not able to work and was still under a 24 hour kidney failure watch, and more. But I fought and got better at that time. I began trying to go back to work part time.
More and more I learned about Diabetes. I learned it runs in both sides of my family. My Parents and Grandparents were from the time, that people didn't want to discuss health issues, or anything that was not of a positive nature. So I was totally uninformed. My Mother passed on in 1995, so I couldn't ask her.
So here I was, still sickly, trying to work 4 hours or less a day at least, and trying to find out about Type 2 Diabetes. At that time, there were no Type 2 Diabetes Groups in Yahoo, or that I could really find online. After a few years, I began my own group for Type 2 Diabetics in Yahoo. I decided I didn't want others to go thru blindly what I went thru.
I learned that a Type 2 Diabetic's cell receptors don't work right. For me, it is on a cellular level. For most Type 2 Diabetics, either the cell receptors don't work right, or the body rejects it's own insulin for some reason. Or a combination of both problems. Now, this happened to all Type 2 Diabetics. Not just me. I also know that genetically, it can and does run in families. I learned you don't have to be overweight to get Type 2 Diabetes. Many skinny people get it too.
Stanford University found that when a person turns Type 2 Diabetic, two or three protien genes get turned off. Also, it may be well into the DNA coding as to why people turn Type 2 Diabetic. Our bodies replicate themselves every year. I don't look like I did at age 16, and most of us don't when we are 56 years old. It's because our DNA cells do not exactly copy themselves over time. That is why we get to a certain place and then age.
I've learned that anyone with Low or High blood sugars should eat a higher protien diet because it stays in the stomach longer, as long as a person's kidneys are still working as they should.
I learned a Diabetic should eat something every 3 hours. Even if it is 6 almonds, or a cheese stick and apple slices. Something healthful.
Friends have discovered that by eating low carbs, they were able to eat and get filled up. They lost weight. Their blood sugars went down to normal! Are they still Diabetics? YES. Because if they were to start eating the old way, their weight would come back on and they would be full blown diabetics again.
But some doctors feel that if you no longer have blood sugars of 200 and above without medications, then you are no longer a Diabetic. But in the minds of Diabetics who's blood sugars have returned to normal, and have lost weight eating a low carb diet, they understand that they can never ever go back to eating the old way again. Low Carb eating is a way of life for a Diabetic.
With so many Americans and people around the world being over weight because of all the hidden sugars in foods, and processed foods, high fructose corn syrup, that's why people are more over weight now adays. When I see those commercials with people saying, "Corn syrup is the same as regular sugar. It's the same", and the woman walks off smiling like it's okay...IT'S NOT OKAY. Sugar is poisening people all over the world. I don't hand out candy on Halloween. I smile as I watch the kids enjoy themselves dressing up, but I don't want to contribute to any future health problems they may encounter in the future.
I may come back to these subjects in the future, but for now, I am done for today. My Diabetes group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Diabetes_Type2
is open to anyone to join. If you are a Diabetic or not or want to join this group, just make sure you said you saw Sandy's Dear Diary Blog and I'll know.
It's night time right now, and it's very very cold outside. The snow has made it's way 20 minutes up the road from me here. Now I am going to count my blessings, pray for my family and friends, and enjoy the evening. May all of you have a lovely evening as well.
:-)
Friday, November 19, 2010
I Love The Holiday Season!
How I love the Holiday Season! The smells of Holiday Cooking, the sights of rain and snow outside. And the trees ablaze full of colors! Fuzzy gray squirrels collecting the acorns out in the parking lot to eat now, and also to store for later. It's wonderful, isn't it?
Right now in the Sierra Foothills in Northern California where I live, it is gray sky and overcast. We have a big storm moving in today the TV Weather Person said. And they said it is the first big storm for us in November. They said that we will have snow showers starting this Sunday. Let it Snow! I love snow!
I'm a Grandmother of two beautiful Grandkids. Alyssa who is 12 years old. And Max who is going to be 5 years old in December. I have 3 "Adult" kids all in their 30's. I am so thankful for God, Family, Friends, Pets, and Life!
I am entering another chapter in my life right now. And I am enjoying reflecting on my past and present, with contemplation for my future. And the future of all. Both of my Parents have passed on, and I miss them and think of them. As I get older, I wonder if my Parents or Grandparents ever went thru the things I am. Specifically, not only health issues which I know they also went thru, but mentally, emotionally, their thoughts and feelings.
In our generation of the Baby Boomers from the 1940's on (I was born in 1954), the focus was mostly on family, togetherness which included God and Church. It was about speaking and acting a certain way around others with courtesy and respect. It was also about being somewhat reserved and cautious of what we spoke and did. It was, to me, a much simpler time.
As kids we could go outside and play. Holidays, when I was young, we all met at Grandma and Granddaddy Smith's house. The entire family met there....Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Friends, everybody. We also met there after church each week end. These are memories I will always treasure. I wanted so much for my own kids to know these kinds of things. But it seems when the 1970's came in, it was a time of adventure for most of us just getting out of Academy (Private School). I got married in 1974. And we moved away for the adventure of it. Or at least I did with my new husband at that time (I've been married and divorced twice. I'm not looking for marriage again. I'm not successful at it.). My Son (Mark) and oldest Daughter (Rebecca) are my first two kids. My youngest Daughter (Mary) was born during this adventure time of mine, in Pendleton, Oregon (Mary was born at Pendleton General Hospital). But my Son and First Daughter were born above Calistoga, California, in a little town called "Deer Park". I wanted you to know it is above Calistoga, because apparently there is another place in California also named Deer Park. Mark and Rebecca were born at the St. Helena Hospital & Health Center.
Since this is my first blog, I realise that not all of my thoughts are outlined and organized. I should know better because I am an experienced Freelance Writer and Newspaper Columnist. But I wanted to do an on line journal to think out loud, reason with myself. Not be professional here. And also for my adult kids, my grandkids and my friends and other family to follow if they desire. So many of these blogs may be random, emotional, non emotional, recipes, memories, and everything can be very very random. I do hope you can keep up with it all. But reality is, you will come to see inside me, the very being of me.
It's good, at this moment, to say "I am present". Do you know, so many of us go on "automatic"? I did that especially at work, or jobs were not writing and revealing. Sometimes, I think, younger people tend to go automatic as well. They may not always stop to think before making choices. This goes for every generation that has ever lived on this earth, LOL! So if any of you readers are young folks, please do not think I am singling you out!
Okay, so this is my first blog....such as it is. Thank you for reading. In each blog in the future, I will be "thinking out loud" each time. I hope you come with me on my daily journeys. :-)
Right now in the Sierra Foothills in Northern California where I live, it is gray sky and overcast. We have a big storm moving in today the TV Weather Person said. And they said it is the first big storm for us in November. They said that we will have snow showers starting this Sunday. Let it Snow! I love snow!
I'm a Grandmother of two beautiful Grandkids. Alyssa who is 12 years old. And Max who is going to be 5 years old in December. I have 3 "Adult" kids all in their 30's. I am so thankful for God, Family, Friends, Pets, and Life!
I am entering another chapter in my life right now. And I am enjoying reflecting on my past and present, with contemplation for my future. And the future of all. Both of my Parents have passed on, and I miss them and think of them. As I get older, I wonder if my Parents or Grandparents ever went thru the things I am. Specifically, not only health issues which I know they also went thru, but mentally, emotionally, their thoughts and feelings.
In our generation of the Baby Boomers from the 1940's on (I was born in 1954), the focus was mostly on family, togetherness which included God and Church. It was about speaking and acting a certain way around others with courtesy and respect. It was also about being somewhat reserved and cautious of what we spoke and did. It was, to me, a much simpler time.
As kids we could go outside and play. Holidays, when I was young, we all met at Grandma and Granddaddy Smith's house. The entire family met there....Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Friends, everybody. We also met there after church each week end. These are memories I will always treasure. I wanted so much for my own kids to know these kinds of things. But it seems when the 1970's came in, it was a time of adventure for most of us just getting out of Academy (Private School). I got married in 1974. And we moved away for the adventure of it. Or at least I did with my new husband at that time (I've been married and divorced twice. I'm not looking for marriage again. I'm not successful at it.). My Son (Mark) and oldest Daughter (Rebecca) are my first two kids. My youngest Daughter (Mary) was born during this adventure time of mine, in Pendleton, Oregon (Mary was born at Pendleton General Hospital). But my Son and First Daughter were born above Calistoga, California, in a little town called "Deer Park". I wanted you to know it is above Calistoga, because apparently there is another place in California also named Deer Park. Mark and Rebecca were born at the St. Helena Hospital & Health Center.
Since this is my first blog, I realise that not all of my thoughts are outlined and organized. I should know better because I am an experienced Freelance Writer and Newspaper Columnist. But I wanted to do an on line journal to think out loud, reason with myself. Not be professional here. And also for my adult kids, my grandkids and my friends and other family to follow if they desire. So many of these blogs may be random, emotional, non emotional, recipes, memories, and everything can be very very random. I do hope you can keep up with it all. But reality is, you will come to see inside me, the very being of me.
It's good, at this moment, to say "I am present". Do you know, so many of us go on "automatic"? I did that especially at work, or jobs were not writing and revealing. Sometimes, I think, younger people tend to go automatic as well. They may not always stop to think before making choices. This goes for every generation that has ever lived on this earth, LOL! So if any of you readers are young folks, please do not think I am singling you out!
Okay, so this is my first blog....such as it is. Thank you for reading. In each blog in the future, I will be "thinking out loud" each time. I hope you come with me on my daily journeys. :-)
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