Friday I received a note from my doctor giving me my blood test results from Wednesday.

Despite taking the fish oil tablets and the prescribed medication he had told me to take for my trigylcerides, my triglycerides were still almost three times what the top part of normal should be.

My good cholesterol was low while the triglyceride readings made it impossible to measure my bad cholesterol.

This is a new problem for me. I am a type 2 diabetic and know I should not eat as much starch as I would like, but I’ve done it anyway.

Friday night I asked the Lord to keep me alive so I could stay alive. What I meant was to let me hold on until I can get back on an exercise program and diet of mostly fish and chicken, lots of non-starchy vegetables and get some weight off that will bring the triglycerides and bad cholesterol down and the good cholesterol up.

My knees have made it impossible for me to use the treadmill any longer, but I can go to the local park and walk on a fairly level part of the walking trail, building up speed and distance as time goes on.

In the meantime, I can use my stationary bicycle, as a bicycle is supposed to be better on the knees. When you’ve had two operations to remove cartilage from one knee and you have bone on bone you have, by definition, arthritis in that knee. Therefore, you tend to use the other knee for climbing stairs etc. and before you know it you have two bad knees.

I talked to a friend from church and he told me he got his triglycerides down by using cinnamon. I asked where he had heard about it and he said he had read about it in a magazine or online.

I searched online and found that cinnamon is helpful to blood sugar and cholesterol, so I’ve purchased cinnamon capsules, which are nothing more than ground cinnamon in capsules. I take two a day and use cinnamon in tea and other things to flavor them.

Check here for the benefits of cinnamon.

I might add I had half my thyroid removed about four years ago and need to ask this doctor to do a test on my thyroid levels since he’s a new doctor for me. My throat specialist said I shouldn’t need thyroid medication and every test so far has shown he is right, but things change and I want to have it checked.

My sugar levels are good and my liver is good, so I’m not completely falling apart unless the grease in my blood vessels clogs up like unchanged oil in a car.

Please bear with me while I go through this change, as I may get grumpy sometimes because I’m hungry. I know I’ll be outside doing things to help keep the blood flowing, but that should be in the early morning (I’m not a morning person) or in the evening when the heat and humidity have lowered enough to be able to breathe outside.

If you’re a praying person I ask for your prayers, and if you’re at risk as I am I ask you to join me in trying to get healthier.