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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: days off donuts high blood sugars
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One of the things I hate most about diabetes is that I never get a day off. I always have blood sugars to check. I have to count every carb accurately. Or I have to face the consequences. Which is exactly what I did today.
After finishing my last final exam for the semester at 8:30am, I decided to celebrate. I bought donuts and kolaches for a little celebration breakfast with a friend. I hadn’t eaten donuts since before starting on the pump (they aren’t something I indulge in all that often), so I wasn’t sure how the day was going to turn out.
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Categories: Emotions
Tags: boxing Stress and diabetes overload weekend trip chaos
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Everyone needs to take a personal day every now and then. At least that's how I feel. Lately, It seems like I have been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I have been putting in some long days of landscaping work, I just returned from a weekend trip to Omaha, and my girlfriend is in the process of getting a job back in her home state. And needless to say, all of the chaos and daily schedule changes have my blood sugars going a little crazy. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
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Long day.
Long day after a long night after a long day after a long night. Tired. Very tired.
Not in mood tonight to negotiate with Charlie when he throws a minor tantrum because it's shower time.
Angry dad voice comes out. I hate my angry dad voice. I hate using it on any of my kids, but I'm especially regretful after the fact with Charlie.
Charlie whips his head back on to the couch and then lays face down on the floor. I've asked him five times now to come up with me for a shower.
"Charlie! Get. Upstairs. Now!"
He crawls upstairs slowly on hands and knees like a weak desert wanderer searching for water. "Can't," he moans. "I'm so tired."
I'm certain he'd be up the stairs like a leopard if said let's play a video game.
"Charlie! Now!"
The voice in my head tells me he can't be low, you just tested him. Don't fall for it. He's just being a 5 year old not getting his way. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: Dropping Stuff Hard Days lows The Cat
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There are some days when a person ought to just stay in bed.
Under the covers.
Cuddled with the cat.
Warm and safe and happy and comfortable.
There are some days when staying in bed is the best possible option. Of course, those days are often realized in hindsight. When the proverbial ball is already rolling in the absolute wrong direction.
Today has been, without a doubt, one of those days.
I got up this morning feeling alright. Fairly well-rested, actually, and not fighting - as I'm wont to do - the inevitable reality that another day has dawned and it can't be spent in the paradise of slumber.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: pump to MDI's sensitive skin
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Right now, I'm a complete bundle of nerves. Last night, I suddenly decided that today I would go off the pump. I know that I've been talking about it, but I assumed that I'd get it all straightened out and be back into "normalcy" before April 1st came around.
But you'd be surprised to find that poor control is actually NOT the reason why I'm going off the pump. In the past two weeks, I've had some highs and far fewer lows (which is just amazing). My averages are still in the 150 range though, which is what I'd settle for to get down to the 130 range (slowly, without lows).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: bad habits
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Back in March, I wrote a post about my top five diabetes habits that needed to be changed. I'm curious to see how I've progressed in the last four months. I haven't made a conscious effort to truly change, but I have kept these things in the back of my mind. So here goes:
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: Forgetting To Bolus lapses Out of control
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Sometimes I get in slumps with my diabetes. I just put things off and don't watch much. I guess you could say that I get kind of "spacey" about all things diabetes related.
The last few days I've been feeling this "spacey" feeling. I don't test like I should. I don't log anything. I can barely remember to bolus.
Today, I've checked my blood sugar three times. Once when I woke up. Once before lunch. And once a few hours ago because I was low. Good pattern, huh?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Real Life
Tags: CGMS use financial cost of diabetes sensor problems
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When I inserted the first sensor on Saturday, I thought it might give me a little trouble. It'd been through a lot in the last months (traveling around in my "everyday" case and moving from fridge to backpack to suitcase multiple times). It looked old, it looked like it wouldn't work. But I gave it a shot anyway.
And my suspicions were confirmed. It gave me two error messages before showing me a steady level in the 50's when I was perfectly okay. Instead of messing with a crazy sensor and wondering about its accuracy for days, I changed it out. I had an entire new box of them anyway and I don't use them often enough to be upset on throwing one out.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Real Life
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He walks into our bedroom and stands over Susanne, who is fast asleep and likely dreaming of something catastrophic like a bridge collapsing or an alien invasion or being chased by a murderer. She has the worst dreams. EVER!
“I’m 118. I’m having cereal and a yogurt,” Charlie says, pulling his insulin pump off his waistband.
“40 carbs?” he asks.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Yes. I do believe I'm in a bit of a writers' rut. Not much to say. Maybe that's not such a bad thing since many of my blog posts are conceived out of the woefulness of it all. It is business as usual, I suppose. More good days than bad. This is good. Though this makes the bad days feel especially bad.
The dog days of winter (so to speak) are upon us and diabetes is just there, as always, buzzing around like a wasp in a closed car. Now hooked on Undercover Princes, the TLC channel continues to be a bright spot to fill the doldrums. Soon I suspect I'll grow addicted to an upcoming show about addiction.
Charlie's ice hockey has been without incident (knock on wood) in recent weeks. However, last Saturday, I spent a good 10 minutes at the front of the snack stand line shaking my head like a baseball catcher at every item of food Charlie requested; only to begrudgingly settle on the least of all evils set before me - a hotdog.
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