Friday July 29, 2005
Now that Red Rock, home of my favorite local running trails, is charred rubble after last week's lightning strike and fire, I decided to head out to Lake Mead today.
What a glorious and beautiful day it was. Hopefully you've already received the 20-picture package I sent out, but if you haven't let me know.
It was already a little on the warm side as I forged my own trail along natural washes between the Tunnel Trail and the lake's receding shoreline. But I worked my way around to the back entrance, for most the end of the Tunnel Trails and thankfully there was no fence blocking my entrance like last time. On that occasion with Dad, Ann, Uncle Wally and Rosa Maria on the main trail I had to scale a cliff in death-defying fashion to rejoin the main trail. But today it was clear sailing, much to my relief. I took over 90 photos along the way and narrowed it down to the top 20.
To replace the carbs I burned during the 79-minute sojurn, Lyndavegas and I went to the buffet at the Palms Hotel & Casino. I had my usual rabbit food plus some pasta and carrot cake (what else?) for dessert.
Afterwards I checked the numbers. Blood pressure 117/69. Excellent. Blood sugar 206! Whoa! Reports of my miraculous recovery may have been greatly exaggerated. Was this an anomaly or a return to diabetes? Well, I popped a couple of the pills I had stopped taking and waited nervously for my next reading before bedtime.
My fears melted when my bedtime reading was a non-diabetic 98. I'll just have to approach this in a cautious manner from now on.
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