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As a person with multiple chronic illnesses, my body, mind, and soul can take a multitude of beatings. Whether it is the fatigue from those illnesses or the stress of fighting out of range blood sugars, there are times when life isn't ideal. Outside stressors definitely don't help those issues.

Sometime in my freshman or sophomore year of college, I decided to drop my first class. I was struggling to meet the demands of college life on top of managing to live on my own with the cat and I just couldn't handle the course load that I'd bitten off. The subject wasn't too hard, I just couldn't take the daily demands it was placing on my body and mind. The fatigue, the aches, the stress, it was all too much to bear.

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Sometimes, what a person needs is different from what they think they need.  I'm sure most people come to this realization somewhere in their lifetime.  I tend to discover it on a fairly regular basis.  There are, of course, occasions when I believe I know what I need and I'm precisely right, but I'm always open to the possibility that I'm off-track and open to suggestions around what might help when times are tough. 

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Have diabetes? Get married.

This headline out of Mumbai caught my eye. I've been urging Charlie to get married for years.

The article is about an online matchmaking service in India called diabeticmatrimony.com.

Looking for your diabetic soul mate? Looking for that certain special diabetic someone? Want to trade in your spouse for one who gets it? Someone who really understands what it's like to have diabetes? Diabeticmatrimony.com might be for you.

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I should start this post by saying there is a history of heart disease and stroke in my family. 

My father, at 43 had a heart attack resulting in a quadruple bypass surgery.  The doctors at the time of the surgery told him that had he not quit smoking eight years earlier, he'd be dead, given the condition of his arteries. 

My maternal grandmother, who struggled with insulin dependent diabetes (we're unsure if it was actually type 2 or LADA) and its complications, for the last 35 years of her life, died at 62 of a massive heart attack.

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I went to the doctor about my leg again yesterday. A different one. One that I feel much more comfortable with in the whole scheme of things. She seemed confident, personable, and concerned. They asked about my blood sugars, about what had been going on, and all that jazz.

And she believes that the infection is probably from a spider bite that turned into MRSA. Yep, MRSA. The big, scary staph infection. So now I'm sincerely hoping the new course of antibiotics kicks in soon. Because I'm totally run down in body and soul with this whole thing. I'm so exhausted, but can't sleep. I'm in pain. I'm annoyed.

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The past week has been intense, to say the least. I had three midterms, two of which I didn't feel prepared for up until about 5 minutes before the exam. And one of those was canceled so now I'm looking at three this week despite doing all the work for three last week. On top of that, I have homework assignments and meetings and bills due.

But the topper is that my leg infection from last week is no where near better. It actually got much worse Wednesday through Thursday. It finally started healing a little on Friday, but turned into an incredibly painful sore over the weekend. So now, I'm heading to the doctor bright and early in the morning hoping that isn't as serious as it feels.

Between the busy schedule and the infection, my blood sugars have been way too high. I even raised my Lantus today to combat the elevated glucose. Unfortunately, the crash that I was expecting didn't come in the form of blood sugars.

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I didn't sleep enough Wednesday night, so by Thursday afternoon my eyelids were heavy and my body was screaming out "Sleep! Sleep!" So a little after five in the afternoon, I decided to take a quick nap. A little power nap to recharge my batteries before diving into study and cleaning mode to prepare for the coming weekend.

My blood sugar was at 222 with only a little active insulin. I'd been high in the early afternoon and hadn't accurately bolused for a late lunch. I decided to leave it alone until after my nap though...giving my body an hour or two to use that remaining insulin and peak out.

I curled up in bed with my cat and a good book...falling asleep within a few minutes. It was a dreamless sleep...too deep to notice the world around me or the world inside me. A limitless fatigue overwhelming every inch of my body and soul. The effects of ineffective sleeping and the recent change in medications.

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Back in November I wrote a song called "Not By Choice" for World Diabetes Day.

The words I wrote were pulled from my memories of how it felt to be diagnosed and not know what type one diabetes was. Thoughts like, “why did this happen to me?” “What did I do wrong?” And I blamed myself for a long time too.

Then I found this community online. The Diabetes O.C. which we affectionately call it and a community I mention often. When I found this group of other people with diabetes who had those same feelings, I realized that we could help one another and not give up hope.

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It’s been one of those days, the type of day where you just want to get some things off your chest (or mind). I wrote my last blog about television. I said some strong things; I got out some strong feelings. But they were heartfelt at the time, and looking back, I still feel strongly about what I said. TV sucks. It’s not natural. Their are a few things on occasion that are worth watching; sometimes you can catch something on that is educational or good for the soul. TV CAN be used as a good medium, or tool for our health. Sometimes, you see something you connect with or that gets you fired up, but in a good way. Tonight, for example, I watched a documentary on Netflix called, “Mario’s Story.”

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Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year but for so many it is not. The holidays tend to be a time that people reflect on the past year and sometimes that can be a real downer.

This Christmas will not be so “Holly Jolly” for me.

My health was pretty good as far as my diabetes goes. I had no major incidents like DKA or hospitalization of any kind so that front has been pretty good. In fact, I may have some really good news to share soon but I will wait for the official word on that.

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