2024: The good and the bad so far
Dang, it’s been a while…
It’s been a rough couple of years. Let’s do a rollback
Mid-July 2022 was the last time I posted. I was excited and determined to do anything possible to get a UX/UI designer job. It’s mid-April and so far no such luck. Am I bummed? Yes. Will I give up? Nope. Do I need more guidance? Most definitely. I’m still hunting and doing my best not to let my 9-5 burn me out even more than it already does to keep evolving.
November: my 9-5 was acquisition and job stability seemed to be all in the air. We also lost our main accountant and it just became a hot mess.
2023: Job stability in check however, if you didn’t know, I have diabetes type 2 and Kaiser was no help in regards to maintaining or lowering my glucose value. With the acquisition, I was forced to change to anywhere outside the Kaiser group, and THANK GOODNESS! I was able to find a physician’s assistant who had many ties to finding a way to lower my glucose numbers. I started at a 9.8 and within 5 months of proper eating, change of medicines, NO Insulin, and just walking, I was able to lower it to a 6.0. IT WAS INSANE! That short amount of time made such a HUGE impactful difference. I was with Kaiser for 5 years and never had such success. I’m sorry I’m not bragging here, I’m just still mindblown and can say that it can legit happen with persistence and a major life-changing relationship with food and exercise. I intend to aim to reverse my type 2 diabetes. If I can do it, you can do it too!
Another huge surprise was I never thought I could get pregnant. we tried for half a year without any results. If you have Diabetes, it’s difficult to get pregnant because unbalanced sugar levels are a bigger killer than taking narcotics or alcohol abuse. Hearing that caused instant heartbreak. I am a person who loves kids and always worked jobs where I aimed to teach the young some good. I hope I taught them something. That was my main goal working as an afterschool care and tutor for over 15 years since high school and college. I always planned on what I would teach my future son or daughter. I’ll be honest, hearing that statement from my endocrinologist about diabetes killing the kid not only hurt me but legit made me all the more motivated. I had to give it a shot and give it my all. With the huge lifestyle change, I was legit lucky to get pregnant.
That was back in October. Currently, I’m struggling somewhat to maintain my blood sugar, battling my cravings, and making sure I get enough fluids and sleep. I’ll be honest, I’ve been getting some bare hours of sleep due to my dreams. They’re just weird horror-like dreams, not sure if that’s normal for pregnant people…If you know me, I DO NOT do horror. I can’t. My imagination goes wild and I start to “see” things…then I freak out at every little sound and then you most likely got an unexpected buddy sleeping next to you for a good solid 3 months with the lights on. Sucks for my husband! muahahaha
While I’ve heard the wonderful stories of pregnancy and different symptoms so far I haven’t upchucked. However, since I’m over 35, diabetic, and with high blood pressure I have to be super strict on my life-changing diet and exercise regimen. Carrying on throughout all this will be one helluva experience and we shall see as I progress forward
January just kind of really sucked and I’ll explain that in a separate post. Its just too must for just a gist post
Hope you all have a great day and later days!