My Motorcycle Injuries

June is almost over and July will bring with it various blessings and challenges. I always consider Independence Day to be a milestone within a calendar year. Summer will push forward from there toward the autumn months, and before you know it we’ll be celebrating the Holiday Season. I think that the important thing is to enjoy what you’ve got while you have it. Life’s an adventure to be appreciated every day. I’ll be going to a bunch of different medical appointments related to diabetes over the next couple of months as the summer advances. I find it all a little annoying because it takes up a lot of time and it will be costing us bookoo bucks. The most annoying part of it is the fact that I wouldn’t be diabetic if I hadn’t received some type of mystery damage to my pancreas in the motorcycle accident. It took a couple years to manifest itself fully, but yeah, it was the accident that did it. When I’m finished with all of these various appointments throughout the summer I won’t be dea...

When I was in junior high school there was this kid who could easily be referred to as an annoyance. He was the same age as me and I saw him at school often. He didn’t live too far from me so I saw him outside of school occasionally. The thing about him was that he often behaved in a way that provoked others. The combination of terms that would accurately describe him would be “annoying smart aleck  /  pain in the neck”. The thing is that he was a small guy, both in stature and in body frame. He probably couldn’t have protected himself physically against someone younger than himself. I could have easily beaten this kid into submission at any time, but I never did. I always knew that his behavior was a source of compensation for his physique and for issues that he was having at home. I chose to tolerate his behavior and withhold any retaliation. I wish now that I possessed the ability then to help him with counselling, but I was just a kid myself back then and I didn’t have the...

Things have been glaringly obvious to me lately. What I mean by that involves the condition of my body. I have settled into a routine of sorts, and it seems as though this is pretty much it for the future. I get up, I assess where things are with my hips, my leg, my arm, and my head, and I move forward toward whatever the day demands of me. The issue with my head has to do with how sober I feel (Hey, no alcohol involved. Baptist preacher, remember?). It’s just that I sometimes feel so lightheaded and fatigued that I have to be careful with what I do and how I do it. Certain tasks require a more alert spirit than others. Once the day gets going a bit I have to be careful with the twilight zone. This is the time, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., when my body starts to give in to whatever ails me most and decides to fall into a place of weakness, or pain, or fatigue. Sometimes it’s a combination of the three and it can last for a while. Yeah. I have had to measure success concerning my health ...

I’ve mentioned often that I developed diabetes as a result of the injuries sustained in the motorcycle accident. I had an appointment this morning with my endocrinologist. The blood work needed in preparation for this visit was done last week. Everything went well during the visit today with my vital signs and such, and the blood test results from last week showed me to be in really good shape with all of the different things that he had me tested for. There are usually thirty or so items that he orders for each test. They differ from visit to visit, but certain things regarding glucose issues are consistently tested each time. My A1C, which is a number that gives an indication of my blood sugar levels over the past three months, was at  5.3 . This number is clearly below diabetic levels! I’ve been working hard with proper diet and exercise, but I’m very much thankful that the grace of God has been such a big part of my health in this battle to control diabetes. My doctor had very ...

This past Sunday I had a member of our church mention to me how much pain I seemed to be in and then ask me to go and take a pain pill between the morning services. I told her that I didn’t have any pain medication, so she told me that I should be certain to take something when I got home later that afternoon. I then clarified that I didn’t have any prescription pain pills at home either. She was a bit shocked by my response. The thing is that I don’t take drugs for pain, not even over-the-counter meds. I just endure until it’s gone because the more severe pain always goes away. I wake up to some degree of pain every day, but I really hate placing more chemicals into my body. I prefer to simply endure the nonsense until my body’s pain receptacles empty out a bit. It’s a daily issue, but most days are fairly mellow. I get a sympathetic look from others from time to time, but they don’t understand that the pain really isn’t that big of a deal. I fight against the pain in my body daily, a...