Last Thursday, the vampire at my clinic bled a few vials of blood out for a CBC (required yearly for the various meds I’m on) and for a glucose tolerance test.Â? (Apparently, my doc orders those for anyone who has high cholesterol/high triglycerides and we’ve been aware of mine being bad for about 8 years now.)

The Good News:Â? My liver actually works.Â? Considering that two years ago they were scrapping scar tissue off it along with my very diseased gallbladder, this is very good news.Â? I’ve also been on meds that have the potential of causing liver damage so it’s good to know that I do have some organ systems that are functioning like they’re supposed to.

The Bad News: My cholesterol is higher than normal and my triglycerides doubled.Â? Ummm… yah.Â? Not good.Â? They can’t put me on statins because I’m of child-bearing age so I now get to take a boatload of Niacin every day.Â? (I resisted the urge to ask if I could just suck on a watch battery because I *LIKE* my doctor.)

The Even Worse News:Â? My glucose tolerance test results show that I’m in the lower-mid range of being pre-diabetic so… I got a call from my doc’s nurse this morning telling me that I had a 3:15 appointment with them and I needed to be there PERIOD.Â? It turns out that in some hypoglycemics, one can swing up towards diabetes so this isn’t unexpected.Â? (All of this is of course genetic which means that my kids will also get this.)Â? It does suck however because I’m now on meds for THAT.Â? I got lots of nice pamphlets on eating like a diabetic to see if we can’t reverse this and they’ll do new bloodwork in 2-3 months.

So… could those with pissy pancreases please give me some tips on dealing with the latter news?Â? Please and thank you.