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 Well I've discovered something that I like more than eating anything and everything that tickles my fancy.  Walking.  Yeah.  Last week I got to deal with diabetic neuropathy.  This happens when your blood sugar runs too high for too long and the nerves get injured.  My feet hurt like a motherfucker.  I can honestly say I've never had pain like that before.  It was worse than passing a kidney stone.  I spent 3 days in bed because it hurt so bad to put pressure on my feet.  Getting to the bathroom was a shuffling, suppressing screams, ordeal.  I drug myself to the doctor on Wednesday when I realized it was getting worse instead of better and they gave me some medicine to help.  What also helps is bringing your blood sugar down so I freaked out and didn't eat hardly anything last week.  On the upside, I am down 10 pounds and am using that as my jumping off point for making my diet better.  I've got 100 pounds to lose and I know it'll take some time.  I keep reminding myself that I didn't get here overnight and it's not gonna come off overnight.  I've been carefully watching my carb intake and my feet feel almost normal now.  Thank you, eight and a half pound baby Jesus.

This weekend a friend took me to Disney!  We went to the Halloween party and Epcot.  My feet were still a bit off so we took plenty of breaks when needed.  She assembled costumes for us to wear.  I was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch and she was Lilo's sister Nani.  We wore hula skirts and leis.  Met some characters and had a large time.  The next day we went to Epcot.  They're having the Food & Wine Festival so we ate around the world.  Had lots of good little nibbles and rode some rides.  I like going to Disney with my friend because she knows her way around and I don't have to think.  I can just follow her.

My friend was going to get a little French Bulldog from a lady down here so we went to see the 7 week old puppy yesterday.  Got a message from the woman this morning that the puppy had died.  It aspirated on some milk and passed away.  I feel especially bad for my friend because her last dog died a few months ago and now this.  Some things just aren't meant to be I guess.

We fared okay with Hurricane Ian.  A ton of rain and wind but no flooding.  Almost a whole side of our fence blew down though.  Sweety was on it and replaced it within two days though so the dogs got their yard back quickly.  Unfortunately, our fence isn't big panels of pickets so he could just put new panels up, it's done with individual pickets.  The Bean and I moved all 130 pickets from where he unloaded them in the front yard to the backyard where he needed them.  Bean is a good little helper.

My nephew and his wife moved into their own place this weekend.  The house feels especially empty now.  They moved into the same complex that my sister lives in (nephew's mom) so I'm glad they get to be close to help each other out if needed.  On the upside, I can run around the house naked again.