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This is not the post I intended to write this morning.
Today, I woke up to a fasting of 151, which is pretty darn good considering where I've been lately. I dressed for my morning walk, sat on the couch and ate what I'm now referring to as a snack--a small cup of yogurt, just 15 grams of carbs. It was all I needed to sustain me through my walk. I used to eat half of a peanut butter sandwich, but it's really hard to choke down that much dryness before the sun even comes up. But I digress.
I decided that with a fairly decent fasting, so few carbs and a 30-minute walk upon me that I didn't need to take any insulin. I mean, 15 grams of carbs! C'mon! (READ MORE)

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His knees are bent.

 

Like a frog.

 

His nostril whistles.

 

He sleeps peacefully.

 

He's 56.

 

"Charlie," I whisper into the dead of night, giving him a slight nudge.

 

The ceiling fan hums.

 

"Charlie, you're low. Have some juice."

 

"Charlie!"

 

So many nights I've whispered these words into his sleeping ears. So many nights for four-and-a-half years. So many nights Susanne has. So many nights other moms and dads around the world whisper the very same words to their children in the darkness. We need a cure.

 

He keeps his eyes closed.

 

He just nods and opens his mouth when he feels the straw poking at his lips.

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Saturday was my friend Scott's Tour de Cure in Minnesota, and my last known day for getting in a long endurance session before my ride on the 13th. With the route already mapped out, we are encouraged to pre-ride it -- in whole or in part -- as part of our pre-event training. I have some logistical issues with that, since most of the time I first have to ride to wherever something is, and then I have to ride home from that training. (READ MORE)

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Today was my Aunt Lisa's funeral.

It was a beautiful service that honored her and brought up lots of good memories. She will be missed but never forgotten.

 

One of the pluses that comes out of tragedy is the time you get to spend with your family. Sure, a funeral is never the event where you want to have a reunion. Weddings and birthday parties are much better but with my family, things are always good when we get together.

 

I spent most of the time visiting with my uncles, aunts and cousins. We talked about all the members of the family we have lost. Lots of tears and belly laughs could be heard throughout my uncles house.I was nice.

 

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On more than one occasion I've been rather surprised at how low a post-meal or random blood sugar check is. Not in a 'wow-I-did-good' kind of way; more like a 'geez-I'm-53-and-not-feeling-it' kind of way.
I don't consider myself to "suffer" from hypo unawareness, but it's safe to say that I get it quite often. I remember plenty of times waking to a fasting of around 60 and feeling great.
So when I have a day like today, it really drives me crazy.
After lunch, I was feeling pretty shaky. Not terribly low shaky, just like a going-low kind of shaky that I knew needed to be dealt with soon or it would get bad. I expected to be in the 60s and was quite shocked with an 83. I treated, thankful that I caught it early and went on my way. (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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I'll get right to it. I'm not at all pleased with an A1c of 8.3. We got the result right away, and to be honest, it put me in a pretty sour mood for the rest of the three-hour appointment with Charlie's new diabetes team at Children's Hospital. The result is just about level with the last one taken in August.
The past three months, Charlie has had some of the best blood sugars he's ever had. His monthly average on his meter has been hovering in the 150s to 170s. Much lower than the 195-205 range we've gotten accustomed to seeing. Susanne and I were expecting better. Much, much better. We were also concerned about too many lows. That's troubling. If we seemingly had good blood sugars and even too many lows and still crossed the finish line with 8.3, what the hell? What do we have to do to get an A1c in the low to mid 7s? We've really worked hard at this. I'm so frustrated! (READ MORE)

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I really don’t try to incorporate diabetes into every facet of life. Really, I don’t.

  

It just happens.

  

Take Maeve’s homework assignment last night. Her assignment was to “bridge” or connect the story she was reading to something she could relate to in her own life.

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