eyes and urine can be indicators of diabetes....as you might not know...but I had eye sight significant sudden change because of high blood sugar...which also shows in urine....be very careful ask questions eye exam can locate issues...good your going for one now...taking our health last seems to be a thing depressed and poor people like us do...diabetes is silent killer...be careful pal...hugs bill

bill,

I just dumped...half...of a 2 litter bottle of soda down the drain after reading your post---I also drink way too much soda.

hopefully, i'll dump the rest of it away; I keep on promising myself to stop all the soda....yeah, there went the other half.

today the definite end of any more soda---I have a box of walmart 100 bags of tea for two bucks to open up.

thank again, for the needed scare.

by the way, Penntucky, so sorry for the loss of your cat. that must have been had. I had to get my little one put down the year before last - it ripped me apart. all the best, with your health.

I'm glad you threw away the soda penntucky. In the long term too much sugar is bad news for everyone it seems. I'm pleased you are having health checks from those qualified to give them as well.

Health was possibly the last thing on my mind while I was in active alcoholism but I really appreciate being healthy today.

penntucky, stay away from high carb foods too. I was pre-diabetic about 4 years ago and I got way from those carbs, and not I am fine. I have a tester and it is always good now. Get your carbs from Veggies and eat your protein. My sister was type 2 diabetic and she went on this same low (bad) carb eating and is no long a diabetic.
Good luck. it is something that is reversible..

for the good, bad, or crazy....this is helping me forget my poor cat!

nothing like a personal health scare to make, at least, me forget other stuff.

gonna be drinking THREE QUARTS OF WATER today, and 2 litters tea, to try cleanse my system. and bike ride to walmart tomorrow, even if minus degrees.

so much comfort food that i knew was bad, to get over my cat being sick...ten times as much ice cream as liquor.

if my cat had been alive and sick another year---i'd be dead by then.

(a quick reply, from library computer)

thanks, nelliefay,

yesterday and today fed two homeless cats that look like your avatar.

AntoniaB,

I knew lots of health info, and a year ago was eating healthy, and even donating (not selling) blood....it all went out the window during the last year of dealing with my sickly cat, with him getting a steroid shot in april maybe being the start for me.

meblonde,

thanks, a million, for that upbeat info, cause I'm afraid to even say out loud what bill is probably right about me being in early stage of.

I've started drinking 3 quarts of water, from bottled water jug I bought for my cat; that and 2 liters of tea as well today; only have cashews and bread in house to eat, so I should be able to do all that.

am typing from home----nice librarian told me of milk thistle, which is for liver, but I'm gonna be overdosing on that caise sugar is bad fo liver.

ice cream and soda kills----I had lots more of that than actual trigger, with actual trigger "only" getting bad in last few weeks my cat was on earth.