Hello there.
I want to bake. Really badly. My mom decided to buy me a $25 baking book (I've been nagging to her about letting me bake since I was twelve) so I guess when she was shopping today, she finally relented. Then when she picked me up from school today, she yelled at me for spending too much money on "uneccessary things." ......I was not present at the time she made this purchase. :| Psychotic mother? CHECK. So she's making me return it this weekend. YEAH, I don't even know where she BOUGHT the dang thing. She said "Go to Borders and get a ten dollar baking book." Where do you get a sufficient baking book for TEN DOLLARS? A cooking book, maybe. But baking is complicated. A $25 baking book is considered CHEAP. I've seen baking books that cost $38. Wish me luck on my endeavor for the Miraculous Ten Dollar Baking Book. Okay, BUT while I have this absolutely wonderful $25 book, I'm gonna erm...skim through it. ;]
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I think I have hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is "the medical term for a pathologic state produced by a lower than normal level of glucose (sugar) in the blood." I stayed after school today for about an hour. It was about 100 something degrees. And I'm hungry. I walk into the library and sit down at a table, and I'm shaking ALL OVER and I feel light-headed and I couldn't concentrate on anything. So what did I use to satiate my need for sugar? Gum. Yeah that did NOT work. Here are the symptoms of hypoglycemia. :] I shall bold the ones I felt today.
Adrenergic manifestations:
Shakiness, anxiety, nervousness, tremor
Palpitations, tachycardia
Sweating, feeling of warmth
Pallor, coldness, clamminess
Dilated pupils (mydriasis)
Feeling of numbness "pins and needles" (parasthaesia) in the fingers
Glucagon manifestations:
Hunger, borborygmus
Nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort
Headache
Neuroglycopenic manifestations:
Abnormal mentation, impaired judgement
Nonspecific dysphoria, anxiety, moodiness, depression, crying
Negativism, irritability, belligerence, combativeness, rage
Personality change, emotional lability
Fatigue, weakness, apathy, lethargy, daydreaming, sleep
Confusion, amnesia, dizziness, delirium
Staring, "glassy" look, blurred vision, double vision
Automatic behavior, also known as automatism
Difficulty speaking, slurred speech
Ataxia, incoordination, sometimes mistaken for "drunkenness"
Focal or general motor deficit, paralysis, hemiparesis
Paresthesia, headache
Stupor, coma, abnormal breathing
Generalized or focal seizures
Isn't that just sunshine and a bag of chips?!
