Heard back from my doctor. She said: cholesterol is very high at 292. Would you be willing to try a very low dose of rosuvastatin 5 mg 1 tab daily #30 with 2 refills. If so repeat fasting lipid, ast and alt in 2 months, and I will call in your medication to your pharmacy. Glucose and A1c are over normal. Work on healthy diet and weight loss. Blood counts are in normal range. Thyroid profile was not run. We will need to have those labs redrawn. Labs sent to portal.

I’m kind of pissed that my thyroid wasn’t tested. Wasn’t that part of the point of my going to the lab in the first place?

Against my better judgment, I agreed to try the statin, but three strikes and I’m out! If there are any bad side effects then I’m just not meant to lower my cholesterol. Hopefully, though, three times will be the charm in my case!

Not sure what the “ast and alt” is about.

I don’t think people who have been skinny all their lives and who seem to be blessed with good genes realize that not all of us can just lose weight. If I could simply up and lose weight, I would have done that years ago. I’m not gonna spend the rest of my life hungry as fuck to lose the same few pounds over and over. There’s got to be a balance between living and depriving myself to the point where I’m that uncomfortable. I can’t keep myself alive forever. Whether I have 10 years left, 20 years, 30 years… I want to live. I don’t want to spend the rest of my time chained to such harsh routines. I thought of seeing a dietitian but I don’t see how they can help me. There’s no getting around the fact that I have to go to such low and unsustainable calorie levels in order to lose the weight and keep it off. No human being could spend the rest of their lives at just 1000 cal a day unless they were forced to. The best I can do is try to watch the sugar and keep active on days I have energy. Besides, being prediabetic doesn’t automatically mean I’m going to become diabetic just like not taking statins doesn’t automatically mean I’m going to have a stroke or a heart attack before I’m around 80.

Having another TMJ flare. That’s another thing I may have to deal with at some point and I still don’t even know for sure that it is TMJ or that it can be helped, whatever it is. So while I’m sleeping better and other things are getting less stressful, those are still things I have to stress over… TMJ, partials, fillings, extractions, trying a new statin, etc.

Anyway, he sees Doc D tomorrow morning and of course I’ll be sound asleep while he’s gone just like I was today when he was getting the car licensed. While it sucks that I have so little alone time, at least things are slowly falling into place. Well, things unrelated to my health anyway. All we have to do next is hope our shit hits the road sometime over the next week!

We finally got an electric bill and it was only $180 for 45 days. That’s a relief because I was worried it would be insane. So there is some good to having a small house.

I ordered and received a five-pack of nail stickers by Wokoto, and while the five sets are gorgeous, the rainbow set pictured online wasn’t included.

Margaret said she learned that Dixie will never get Diane back. I hope she learned correctly! Nobody should be neglected because someone else is too stubborn, selfish, and embarrassed to admit that they can’t even fucking take care of themselves.

We went on a quick walk. It was too warm and humid this time around for me to go any further. And OMG! Someone had their fucking mutt going off nonstop down the street. I could hear it for several minutes after I passed by even with my headphones blasting music from them. I don’t know if it was home alone and barking out the lanai or if the owner simply didn’t give a shit but I dread the day we get stuck with that shit close to us.

Crossed paths with a black guy out walking and smoking. The asshole was puffing away on a cigar or something that I was forced to inhale a few times as I walked by. They really should make it illegal to smoke outdoors unless you’re on your property!

Google Maps is trying to tell me the Phoenix house was just 6 miles from Sky Harbor. No way. We’d have gotten slammed around the clock every few seconds with planes if that was the case. I remember it taking about an hour to get to the airport, so I’d say it was more like 40-50 miles away. The only thing I remember was some copters but they weren’t as bad as CH. Maybe it really doesn’t matter how far you live from airports these days with all the flights there are. We were 14 miles from the airport in CH and here we’re 30 miles away yet getting the same shit we got there. So then how many miles away do you have to get to not hear planes every few minutes all day long and well into the night???