Month: March 2006

I’ll get the haiku up tomorrow, never fear.

I have to make this quick, because I have to go to my shrink for my sesion in a few minutes.

I spoke last night at a nearby meeting and it went very well. I have no idea what I said which is usually a pretty good indication of my message. The theme seemed to be ‘honesty’ which is as good as it gets for me.

My sponsee is still not addressing his hygiene problem. Like many people who are MICA he has a weird fear/aversion to water and soap. Not much I can do, but perhaps others can help me. I might have to lie and say that when I was getting sober I had to relearn everything about hygiene, and wash more thoroughly than I used to.

I received my results from my blood test as a part of my physical last week. My chlolesterol is fine, as is my bp, hr, and other fluids. My triglyceride level, however, is out the roof. It should be around 100, or less, and is at a whopping 624! If my bp weren’t good, I’d have had several heart attacks already and would probably be dead. For those who don’t know, the triglycerides are the molecules in the blood that grab hold of fat cells, whisk them along to the liver and other organs to be processed, or pass them out. They are not doing their job. My doc thought that this was genetic, but there is no history in my family, which is good news. This means that I can address this with diet, exercise, and medication, namely Tricor, which I have been taking for 4 days now. This is supposed to lower the tri, raise the HDL and set me back on course.

My sister in Maine wondered how much of this was caused by my alcoholic history, and I wonder how much was caused by eating three-meals-a-day of high saturated fat, carbs, and junk food for 19 months, i.e. jail. Probably a combination of the two.

So it’s no more animal fats for Johnnyboy (that’s cheese, Grommit), and lowlowlow chlolesterol. This is where I’m thankful and grateful that I’m a chef, and know how to cook. I do not have to live out of packaged foodstuffs.

Another friend said that sincethe tris are not doing their jobs, which is burning fat, I would never be able to lose any weight if this problem had not been addressed. Interesting. Maybe I’ll be svelte by June!

Johnnyboy

I should have posted this sooner, as in Saturday, but I became distracted.

Remember that guy I wrote about on Friday night, who seemed lost in the woods? Well, he stopped by on Saturday to pick up the $$$, and I must say, looked 100% better and different than the last time we’d met. He’d gained about 50 pounds, was clear of eye and thought, looked you in the eye when he spoke, didn’t sit there and grind his teeth and jaw, and was very thankful for the meeting list, saying, “Thanks a lot, I haven’t picked up the new one yet!”. He then went on the say that he had a year clean and sober, living in a nearby flophouse/motel and working across the line in another state, at a plastics factory. Miracles do happen, if only we wait for them. I think, however, he is still very much the ‘horse-thief’ of days gone by: I asked if he was going to meetings and he said he was going to a meeting that I have been attending religiously for over a year. I haven’t seen him, and it’s not a big group, so he can’t hide. He doesn’t have a sponsor (this will not be me, btw) and was in a treatment center north of here for a spell. So, we’ll see. It takes a while to get out of the woods after having wandered in the brush for so long. I get the feeling that he’ll pay back the loan, though. It was just a vibe I felt. He’s OK, but is unsure about where to go. Maybe the meeting list will help him out. I’ll make an amends to the blog-o-sphere for taking his inventory in my previous post.

So that’s it, really. I spent the last 2 days goofing off, making a model for a small contest, and I’m pretty focused on that right now. I’ll finish it up today and get right back to Kant, Meso-American studies, and Cultural Lit. No class today, so I’m being lazy, although I did manage to clean my bedroom, office, foyer, and wash a load of laundry, all before 11:30am…

Johnnyboy