September 9, 2009

Last night I spent following multiple instructions to get ready for the ultra sound. No fatty foods, no eating after midnight. I had to also drink 32 ounces of water 1 hour prior to the test. Thank goodness I was scheduled for 8:30 in the morning and was not kept waiting. The exam went well. They apparently looked at all of my organs in the abdominal cavity as well as kidneys and spleen. At the time, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but what do we lay folk know about medical screening. At one point she did ask me if what she was doing hurt and I confidently said "No". "I am just supposed to ask you", she said. I was in and out of there, including the mammogram in about 1 hour. Done, cross that off my list and get on with trying to get ready for vacation on Saturday the 12th. Now all I have to work on health wise is increasing my weight bearing exercise and doing it at least 5 days per week so that I can get my cholesterol back done. I had it down once before but the diet went to hell and the exercise fell off a bit. So, now I'm back on the exercise bandwagon and eating the South Beach diet. (I'm getting really tired of looking at eggs). Manageable I would say just a bit of a diet & exercise change. (Little did I know)