doc visit not bad

[fflo]

She seemed chipper and positive.  And I feel pretty good today physically, so I'm sure that helped.  My BP and heart rate were ideal. 👍  The A1C result wasn't as bad as I feared it might be.  It was higher than the goal range, but there's definitely some breathing room between it and diabetic levels.

I did find out that I've been taking a lot less fish oil than she wants me to.  It's cuz I've been using a chewable option--- a gummy, specifically.  I don't even like gummies.  But I can't swallow big things.  So for now I'm going to try chewing gelatin capsules that are super-foul (while at the same time being fish) (haha).  And soon I'll get actual liquid fish oil, and do it that way.  You do what you gotta do.

Fish oil is good for all kindsa stuff, it seems.

Our queertet got asked to sing at one of those you're-okay-EVEN-THOUGH-YOU'RE-QUEER church services.  I was gonna go along with what the rest of them want, but was relieved when one of them put the kibosh on it.  Which word I feel like should have a "y" in it.  And a hyphen, maybe.  Ky-bahsh.  I dunno.  Something about the accent being on the first syllable.

There's a strange quality of light out the window.  Makes me wanna go outside.  But not yet.

How are you?

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[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

I have wicked reflux problems. Turns out, refluxing actual fish oil capsules is disgusting, so I finally switched to the gummies.

[lynn82md.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that the appointment went well :)

I took Omega 3 oil for a long time and it was just blah. I didn't know they had gummies.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

They could be a fairly new thing, what with the increase in interest/market for the supplement. I'd have to chew up 31.71 of them a day to get to my recommended dosage, tho. That's too many!

[goodliver.livejournal.com]

Now I feel much more confident pronouncing kibosh. Thanks.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

:) You prompted me to look up the etymology, and check it out:

kibosh (n.)

1836, kye-bosk, in British English slang phrase put the kibosh on, of unknown origin, despite intense speculation. The earliest citation is in Dickens. Looks Yiddish, but its original appearance in a piece set in the heavily Irish "Seven Dials" neighborhood in the West End of London seems to argue against this.

One candidate is Irish caip bháis, caipín báis "cap of death," sometimes said to be the black cap a judge would don when pronouncing a death sentence, but in other sources this is identified as a gruesome method of execution "employed by Brit. forces against 1798 insurgents" [Bernard Share, "Slanguage, A Dictionary of Irish Slang"]. Or the word might somehow be connected with Turkish bosh.

[goodliver.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I have wondered if it was Yiddish.

[yesididit2.livejournal.com]

i swallow pills in a strange way. i take a drink of water and hold it in my mouth, tip my head back and drop the pills in and swallow and IMMEDIATELY drink more water to be sure its all washed down and not stuck on my tongue or in my throat. it sounds a little ridiculous, but it works for me.

alternately, can you buy smaller dose fish oil pills and just take more of the smaller ones?