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"Did it hurt real bad?"
"It burned," Charlie said. "It felt like I was on fire."
"Do you think mommy and daddy want to hurt you?"
Charlie nods in the affirmative.
"That would be really mean; like really evil. Do you think mommy and daddy are evil?"
He nods up and down again, dipping his waffle in a small bowl of sugar-free syrup.
The slight smirk tells me he doesn't truly believe that, but it sucks to hear that from your child nonetheless.
That was this morning. Last night we took Charlie to hell and back with two site changes. The first site change was so absolutely horrendous that we just HAD to do it again, the monsters that we are. (READ MORE)

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The past four days have been a real pain. I have no idea what my problem is, but I just can't seem to get my diabetes right. I had been going fine, doing everything correctly, testing like a mad woman, and getting great averages.

 

But something got a hold of me on Sunday night and hasn't let me go. I'm checking a lot still, but I'm seeing numbers like 180 or 220 instead of 100 or 120. I'm eating anything and everything I want. I'm not bolusing for snacks. I'm not calculating boluses correctly. Basically, I'm just slacking.

 

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I'd kind of gotten used to life "without diabetes." So getting back on track with testing and taking my meds is feeling a bit like an intrusion into my life. But you know what the worst of it is? Low blood sugar.

 

I hate this feeling. When you're running a little on the high side, it feels better. But tonight, after dinner, I tested my blood sugar and it was 60. Not terribly low, but not really where you want to be two hours after a meal.

 

The big problem with this is we've been eating healthy lately. We're a sugar-free household right now. We don't even have fruit in the house. The best I could find was some dried papaya I keep around for bellyaches.

 

So I ate what I guessed was 15 grams of fast-acting carbs worth of papaya, waited 15 minutes and tested again. 43. That couldn't be right, so I retested at 53. And I didn't even feel low.

 

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Diabetes is a crazy disease. It's constantly surprising me and keeping me on my toes. I guess I enjoy the surprises so that I don't get stuck in the monotonous drone of diabetes life, but at the same time, some predictability would be nice.

 

I took too long to study for an exam this morning, which put me rushing to get to my first class on time. I left the house only two minutes late. I checked off the mental list in my head. A/C turned up. Check. Cat fed. Check. Meter. Check. Money. Check. And so on.

 

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I try to change my infusion site every 3 days. Generally, I hit the mark almost perfectly at 72 hours. Lately, I've been running the pump all the way to the last drop of insulin so my infusion sites go a little longer (only about 5 hours). I've just gotten lazy in changing them out.

 

Even before I started doing that, my pump supplies started piling up. I would get shipments for 3 months before I was anywhere near being out. I have a 3-month supply just sitting in my closet while I still use the current supply I have (about 1 month). My next shipment will probably be here within the month.

 

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I am still happy about my day of successful blood sugars yesterday. However, it would turn out, to not quite be the flawless day that I had hoped for. Last night, after I finished writing my Blogabetes entry, I decided that it would feel good to get out of the house and reward myself with a beer. So, I met a friend of mine at one of the bars here in Columbia. After arriving, I checked my sugar, and my meter read 156. I was ok with that. I knew that I would probably just have one beer, since I hardly ever drink anymore. So I thought to myself, "ok, if I have one beer, then I will be ok, because beer doesn't have very many carbs". Well, after hanging out for a while, one beer turned into two.
You can probably relate to that... if your over 21 of course. ;) (READ MORE)

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Yesterday's endo and CDE appointments left me with plenty of new techniques that I'm ready to put into practice. Even though my A1c finally bumped from 7.3% (which I'd been stuck at with the pump for over 6 months) to a 7.1%, I know that I can do better. And despite the better A1c, I'm not seeing the types of patterns that I prefer to see. So here are all the tips that I'm setting into motion over the next weeks.

 

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Right now, I'm staring at my logbook trying to decide what changes I need to make and what else I want to try with all this. This past week has been a bit rocky so my averages are all over the place. Mostly, they're high. At least higher than I want them to be. So while I'm staring at my book, I'm trying to piece together this last week and figure out what is going on with these numbers.

 

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Lowering my A1c is my diabetes priority at the moment. I'm ready to bump down from the 7.3% that I've been stuck at for the last six months. I'm looking to get back under 7% and head towards 6.5% to achieve another "lowest A1c of all time." But today it hit me that lowering my A1c is really taking a toll on me.

 

Not only is it increasing my diabetes stress to do everything right (or at least the majority), but it's also creating a domino effect with quite a few other aspects of my life. Things that are "tolerable" but when combined make me wonder if it's worth it. I feel like I'm always in a state of "weighing the consequences:" do I try harder to lower my A1c or do I tolerate the 7.3% and avoid the ill effects?

 

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