Life's little surprises...

Okay so... erm... it seems i'm diabetic [bemused expression] - although i'm not sure if it's type 1 or 2 at the moment, but the smart money seems to be on type 2 so far. i went to my GP last week because i was feeling tired all the time, since then various people have taken assorted samples and i was forwarded to the specialist clinic at Jimmy's. This has, it must be said, come as a bit of a surprise; i'd assumed the tiredness was just my being a bit poorly and generally lazy or something and easily "fixable" (although the bloody-minded part of me would've sulked for days over the idea of a diet and then probably avoided it like the plague anyway) but it seems that things are a bit more... well, permanent.

Which is a bit of a bugger all told because it's probably going to need significant lifestyle changes and that stubborn side of me is aghast at the prospect of changing what and especially how i eat, of getting [shudder] regular exercise and so forth. But after a bit of wallowing and pessimism yesterday i've decided to put some effort in; the registrar i spoke to yesterday said i should get a thirty minute brisk walk in every day... well i can do that, so this morning i shouldered my laptop bag and left the house at about 10am for a 40 minute walk and i'll have another on my way back. Of course, i do have the concern that i'll not be able to keep this good start going (certainly it's a bit more difficult on Tuesdays or the weekend as such) but i'm actually quite willing to see how much i can do at the moment.

So, right now it's a quarter to one and i'm sat on a bench in a rather nice park, the weather is nice and bright but not too warm and i have a bottle of pineapple and passion fruit sparkling water which i got from a pound shop and had to check to make sure it was sugar free, something else i'll have to get used to doing from what i gather. And i'm and tapping away at my (t)rusty old Compaq Armada lappy with some pleasing results; in the two hours i've been here, i managed to write over 750 words for various publications and now this blog entry which i'll have to cut and paste to Blogger when i get home. Who knows, if i get into the habit of doing this i might get around to restarting work on that book i wanted to write...!