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My blood sugars seem to have a mind of their own (more than normal) these past few days. I'm bouncing all over the place, doubting my meter's accuracy, and questioning my own ability to manage this stupid disease. I can't seem to stabilize and insulin doesn't seem to be working the way it needs to. Worst of all, I think it's really wreaking havoc on my body as my fatigue has increased and I'm waking up with sore throats.

 

Last week I noticed a few bouncing numbers, but nothing out of the ordinary. I'd been running high trying to get my insulin stabilized and figure out my problem areas. I'd also been snacking too much before bedtime for fear of lows since I was going to sleep with numbers like 104 and 111. Those left my morning numbers high setting my days off on the wrong diabetes foot.

 

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A recent post I put up, about trying to manage Olivia's blood sugars, generated a comment from someone about regulating carbs. I was initially kind of pissed off by the answer. I realized, after thinking about it for a couple of days, that I was more pissed off with myself than with the commenter. (READ MORE)

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Over the weekend, I met up with Nicole to see Blithe Spirit at the Trinity Rep, in Providence, RI. If you have a chance to see this, go. It's wickedly funny. I loved it.

After the show, we went out to a late lunch/early supper (lupper?) and the talk turned, as it so often does, to diabetes. We talked about food choices that Nicole made as a child and what Olivia makes for food choices now. Nicole was telling me that her mother doled out cookies to her, 2 at a sitting, which made her feel as though she had to horde them and hide them in her room, to have whenever she wanted.

I don't go thru that with Olivia, but she does tend to plow thru food. I've pretty much eliminated junk food from our house. I still get it once in a while, but it's not always here. What is here are good-for-you snacks, like fresh fruit and yoghurt and whole grain crackers.
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The other day I posted about how Christmas can be a downer.

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Sometimes being diabetic really doesn't bother me all that much. It's become such a major part of my life over the past seventeen years that it's more like breathing or eating. It's usually a love/hate relationship, for sure. I love who it's made me become and the experiences I have because of it, but I hate the day in and day out of this disease.

 

Lately, that love/hate balance is a little off kilter. I'm not upset or anything, just overly annoyed by the necessities of this disease. I've been in a snacking kind of mood between all the work that I have to do. I just don't want to cook and money is tight so I don't want to eat out a lot. So snacks are my "go tos."

 

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Two nights in a row, I have woken up at 50 or below. I treat. Then several hours later when my alarm goes off, my blood sugar has skyrocketed to 240 or above. This is the usual pattern when I fall low while I am sleeping.

 

I know exactly why this peak is happening, although I am not certain I want to change it. Considering my history with night and early morning lows, those lows really scare the living daylights out of me. I am scared of another seizure, or worse.

 

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My family always ate pretty healthy. With two older brothers, there was always a lot of food around. Stew, king ranch chicken, hamburgers. But always balanced meals. We knew that veggies were good for us, fruit was always accessible, and desserts were minimal.

 

It was never an issue to eat a salad or mixed vegetables. I don't recall ever feeling jeopardized for not snacking or having instant access to ice cream, cookies, and cake. They were treats that we always enjoyed, but in moderation.

 

I never really thought about food (or don't remember it) as helping or hurting my diabetes though. It wasn't ever really about how celery is a free food, but cookies weren't. I just ate what was placed in front of me or what I found in the fridge.

 

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Charlie took the cookie from the cookie jar.  Or from the diabetes bag, as it were.

 

At least one mystery has been solved in a month that has been absolutely atrocious on Charlie's blood sugars.

 

There is a reason why Charlie's lunch blood sugars have increased significantly in the past two weeks. He confessed sadly yesterday to the crime of mid-morning snacking while at school.

 

He didn't get an F on a math test. He didn't push a classmate. He wasn't disrespectful to a teacher. He just ate food with carbohydrates in it.

 

"I won't do it anymore."

 

"I was planning on stopping," he added, as if trying to kick heroin.

 

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During the opening day baseball ceremonies, the league president had some good news to share regarding the snack stand.

 

"This year, we'll have mozzarella sticks!"

 

The kids in their clean, colorful uniforms cheered and "whoo-hooed." Charlie looked up at me and licked his nose like a Labrador.  Me? I stared at the man with the microphone like he was the antichrist.

 

We are about three weeks into baseball. I had my usual brief chat with Charlie's coach, mentioning that he has diabetes and that he may see Charlie snacking on something in the dugout or coming off the field to test his blood sugar.

 

The snack stand is definitely a challenge.  It is filled with perilous options.

 

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I'm a bit behind over here so I'm wishing all of you a late Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all the best for 2012. This holiday season I was fighting an upper respiratory infection that completely side swiped me. I was voiceless for almost 6 days, had constant coughing for three or four, and still have a lingering cough at certain points.

 

For the past week and a half, I've slept as much as possible. By that, I mean constantly. I was sleeping 12 hours at night, napping through most of the day, and just making it out of the house in the evening to see Marvin and some friends that were in town. I'm back to work tomorrow and sincerely hoping that I haven't ruined my sleep patterns (which are completely off thanks to this craziness).

 

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