Today, the first Friday of February, is national "Wear Red" day in honor (or observance) of Women's Heart Health Awareness, as spearheaded by the "Go Red for Women" campaign. So of course I will be wearing red to work and I've been handing out Red Dress pins.

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Finding a new endocrinologist has proven to be quite interesting. First, my insurance apparently doesn't have a whole lot of options in my area (or maybe my area doesn't have a whole lot of options in general), especially in the female category. I had about 4 choices, one of which I'm currently seeing.

If you hadn't heard, I decided to change my endo because of a recent mess up regarding my test strip prescription that has me scrambling for more strips to last three months. This was the straw that broke the camel's back after two appointments with her that just didn't go as I'd like. She is a competent doctor, but she isn't the kind of doctor that I'm looking for.

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It really is the little things in life that make everything worthwhile. It's a productive day at work or an awesome fasting number. It's the fact that payday is tomorrow or a movie with the boyfriend.

Sometimes I have to take a moment and remind myself of all these tiny things that make my life great and worth living. It's so easy to get pulled under with all the negativity around you. The news, work, and other people's problems. It's easy to get pulled under with my own negativity about diabetes or PCOS or whatever it is.

Today, I'm taking a moment to remind myself of these little things in my life and the moments that make me stop and smile:

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Last night, I participated in a DiabetesSisters' PODS meetup for the first time. I've seen them online and always wanted to join, but there hasn't been anything in my area and I'm not in a position to add anything to my plate right now. I noticed it on the list last week and spoke with the woman leading the group.

So I made the trek (it's about an hour's drive for me) to the meetup and enjoyed an hour and a half of diabetes related conversation (with a little life mixed in) with three other diabetic women. Three of us were type one and the other type two. Two other women are supposed to join next time (one of them being a friend of mine who I met at JDRF).

It was nice to just sit and talk about lows and highs and doctors and all that goes on. For DiabetesSisters, there are some "guidelines" supplied for these meetings. The facilitator goes through a training to even host the meeting.

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My averages for the last week are down to 168. I'd be thrilled by this if there wasn't so much deviation in my numbers. 107, 192, 150, 272, 80, 59. I'm bouncing in no clear pattern and for no clear reason.

There are a few out of range that I can pinpoint like a 244 after an 80 because I didn't bolus for a low carb dinner thinking the carbs would bring me into range. Apparently, I was wrong. The 59 because I then over corrected the 244 too close to bedtime. But several lows and a couple highs are unclear to me. It looks like I'm overshooting my insulin when I'm dropping low, but I'm not doing anything different as far as I know (except probably being a little more exact with my carb counts which makes me wonder if my 1:10/1:8 ratio is too high).

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I'm very impressed with myself right now. As many of you know, I've been working on a "goal list" each week of 3 to 4 workouts, checking my blood sugar five times per day, and only one "splurge" (like dessert, fatty meals, etc) per week. Last week, I did the best that I've done so far and I'm proud.

I worked out 4 times. I splurged once on chocolate ice box pie from Luby's (so worth it). I checked five times or more on five different days. Great success and I feel awesome about myself.

Right now, my blood sugar averages are dropping to the 180 range from 200 and above. I know it's not long lasting though because it's a change in my hormones this week but I'm still pleased with the numbers that I'm seeing. If I could continue to keep these numbers down, I'm positive that I'd see improvements across the board.

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