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A Health Update

You may remember my writing a few months ago about making major changes in order to get on top of my type 2 diabetes. Well, I had a follow up appointment yesterday, labs done, and the results are in. Here’s comments from my doctor:

How exciting!!! Your a1c has dropped from 6.9 to 6.3! That is excellent. Your cholesterol has also dropped! And the HDL cholesterol (the heart protective cholesterol) went up from 41 to 55 which is excellent. You can still consider starting a statin drug — not for your cholesterol– but to help reduce your risk of stroke and heart disease given family history. For sure start the aspirin as we discussed. Kidney function is normal.

Also, my weight is down over 20 pounds as of this writing. My blood pressure which for years has run a bit high is back to the low normal range. But, most importantly, I continue to feel great and have not had a “sugar crash” that I can remember. Pretty proud of all of this.

Turns out, if you change things, things change.