Day Eight - Add Another Appointment to the List

Being diabetic, I have multiple appointments on a fairly regular basis.  I have my family doctor, who gives me lab requisitions.  I used to have a diabetes nurse as well, who I saw in my former family doctor's office.  I really liked her.  She was so encouraging and positive.  She made the whole thing seem easy once I had the chance to really sit down and tell her how I felt about it.  I have a dietician, who I see when I remember to see her.  

With the ADHD, add another list of doctors and psychologists, nutritionists and even a second family physician who works with my psychologist.  I feel like a lab rat sometimes.  

Now, I've decided to go back to my counsellor I saw in the past.  I think it's time I saw someone outside of my "regular" rotation of doctors and mental health specialists, to speak to her and see another perspective, and be able to discuss my feelings and how I'm handling this whole new thing.  She will be a great resource and can give me strategies in order to learn to organize and re-think my present situation.  

I've always liked this counsellor.  She reminds me a lot of a friend of mine in Whitehorse who I always connected well with.  She listens, lets me vent, rant, blabber, whatever it is I need and is really good at helping redirect me and bring me back to topic.  That's not always an easy task.  She's very honest, almost brutally so, but I appreciate that.  I don't particularly like tippy toe-ing around something.  If you have something to say to me, say it.  I might get mad, upset, cry, rail, whatever, but I'll get over it!  However, I can't see her until the middle of May, but I'm okay with that.  I'm really used to making appointments months in advance, whether for myself or the kids, and waiting.  It's not a commentary on the health care system.  I really don't mind.  I always know that there are people who need some specialists more than I might at that moment.

I'm also going to see my dietician again.  Go over things, redo my diet plan, not that I've been following it well.  Might as well be honest.  She's really nice and helps me see where I'm falling short and need to pick up my socks a bit.  One of the best things she ever told me was to take things at 80% good, 20% bad.  If I eat something I shouldn't, don't beat myself up, and then get back onto the wagon.  However, I've taken that to the extreme, as I am wont to do, and managed to talk myself into whatever I want.  I'm good at that.  Probably something I can talk to both my counsellor and dietician about.  I'm looking forward to seeing them both.  

At least the kids are healthy.  I don't have to add any appointments for them, for the time being.