Not much to report in the diabetes department. I hit my 22-year anniversary in a week and will probably try and write some sort of blog post for it. My blood sugar control is still excellent, although I've had some highs due to my own fault (eating junk, etc.). I tried the other day without Skin Tac and it was super itchy after one day. The last one I put in I used Skin Tac, and it seems fine but it is sore, which I found so annoying as the first time I tried it hurt a lot, so I moved it and it's still sore, but I didn't feel like moving it again.
Lately my health-life has been "exciting" in several ways. I got a nightguard at the dentists which I've never had before. I also got custom orthotics from a podiatrist (I finally broke down and saw one) as the "sort of custom" ones I got years ago were in need of replacing. And, as I found out, they had a bunch of problems. So here's hoping the new ones work better. Between the nightguard and wrist splint at night and orthotics, I feel like I have to protect my body from self-destructing. I made this comment to two friends a few years older than me (mid-30s) and they were both like, "It's called getting older!" Great. LOL. :)
Today I saw the ophthalmologist. No diabetic eye damage. So that's good! But my eyes are damaged even without diabetes' contributions (which it can keep to itself!), and especially over the past two years I've had a bunch of problems and encounters with LASERS. Today there are no new retinal tears so that's awesome! But my doctor is worried about glaucoma, which came up a few months ago and I was hoping would disappear. He referred me to a glaucoma specialist who happened to be in the building today (I go to a university-based centre), and that doctor looked and was also concerned. He wants to see me again in his office, but said he'll likely recommend a laser procedure to shoot a hole in my iris in each eye. So I may not be done with LASERS yet ... just this time they'll be aimed at my iris instead of my retina.
At some point down the road, in the distant but foreseeable future, I'll also be facing cataract surgery, which is probably what's causing the angle-closure problems right now (the cataracts I have, I mean). But due to my primary eye condition, cataract surgery is much riskier for me than it would be for an average person. I think an average person has about a 2% risk of something "bad" happening, whereas I would have about a 40% risk of something "bad" happening, and that "bad" thing itself might likely be more difficult to treat than for the average person. I think the cataract procedure involves actual instruments instead of just light, so hopefully it'll be a long way off yet.
That's all for now. Ironically I'm more stressed about getting enough participants for my master's research than I am about this eye stuff!