Happy 2010!

So how do you refer to the current year? Is it twenty ten or two thousand ten? I was using the latter until I realized that until the change of the century, I referred to the date as nineteen ninety-nine, not one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine. Still, twenty ten sounds weird to me. Whatever you call it, I hope it's happy, healthy and full of fun, laughter and good friends.

I completed week four of the clinical trial yesterday with no issues. As mentioned, I am now on Zetia for my cholesterol, and I can report that it works. After three days of taking it, my cholesterol dropped from 319 to 269. I'm also pleased to report that my glucose is also down, so perhaps I'll be lucky and avoid having to take any medication for that. The nurse said I don't need to worry about it unless it exceeds 120. She also informed me that since the high cholesterol is caused by medication, changing my diet won't help so I guess I can stop worrying about eggs and cheese, among other things.

We waited 2-1/2 hours for the medication to be prepared, so I'm going to try to work around that in the future. Since they need to draw blood from my arm anyway (using my port requires flushing it with heparin first and that interferes with the clotting factor test), I'm going to go in the day prior and have the bloodwork done. Then they can begin to prepare the meds as soon as the pharmacy opens on Tuesday morning and our wait should be reduced (theoretically) to almost nothing. I'll let you know next week how that works out.

It's still mighty cold here in the northeast. The temperatures are supposed to be in the mid-30s today and tomorrow, but then we are expecting some snow activity Thursday or Friday, and it's supposed to be bitterly cold over the weekend. I think I'll be staying inside!