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Charlie got happy on Saturday. Happy to the tune of 520 mg/dl.

For several reasons, if we have something fun planned for the kids, we don't divulge the news until the very last moment. This is because A. – it's really annoying to hear "is it time to go yet?" over and over again for weeks because they can't comprehend the concept of time or understand the complexities of calendars,  B. – we don't want them to be disappointed if for some reason we can't go, and 3. – it's really annoying to hear "is it time to go yet" over and over again for weeks.

When we went to Disney, we kept that secret for months. They found out we were going to Disney about three hours before our flight to Orlando was to depart.

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I love this time of year so much and there are dozens of reasons why. Christmas time elicits so many warm feelings of love and togetherness. My mind is instantly filled with great memories and thoughts. My body just seems to run on happy auto-pilot all the time. I just feel good. People in general just seem to be so much more pleasant. Everybody's energy is so much more peaceful and caring. I constantly wonder how the world would be if everyone would just stay in this peaceful mind frame year round. Wouldn't that just be amazing? I wish. Right? One of the things that I like the most is hearing all the Christmas songs.
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Day three of my Lantus experiment has gone great! I tested again today 2 hours after lunch and my sugar was 135. I was very happy to see that since I am feeling good on my new dose. Today I made sure to carefully watch my carb intake at lunch. I also made sure when I took my shot with an insulin pen that everything went in as it was supposed too. I realized last night, after I had already submitted my blog, that another potential cause of my high sugar could have been that my insulin pen had failed to deliver the dose. Whatever the case, sickness, excess carbs, or delivery error, I am happy to be back on track and moving in the right direction again.

Now on to something else,.

I have talked before about how amazing and wonderful it is to have today's reliable technology and medicines. I feel like I need to mention that again.
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Day three of my Lantus experiment has gone great! I tested again today 2 hours after lunch and my sugar was 135. I was very happy to see that since I am feeling good on my new dose. Today I made sure to carefully watch my carb intake at lunch. I also made sure when I took my shot with an insulin pen that everything went in as it was supposed too. I realized last night, after I had already submitted my blog, that another potential cause of my high sugar could have been that my insulin pen had failed to deliver the dose. Whatever the case, sickness, excess carbs, or delivery error, I am happy to be back on track and moving in the right direction again.

Now on to something else,.

I have talked before about how amazing and wonderful it is to have today's reliable technology and medicines. I feel like I need to mention that again.
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A friend of mine emailed a few days ago to tell me she got her first pump. She was scared and excited at the same time.

 

I felt like she told me she had gotten engaged -- I had so much happiness and joy for her. It reminded me of the day my own pump arrived. I was in the middle of a deadline at work, but I still ripped into the box and tore into everything. I put Toohey on my hip almost immediately. It would be several days before I had my training, but I immersed myself in pump life immediately. Although I had had reservations about being attached to a contraption for 24 hours a day, those fears went out the window as soon as I was hooked up. I just knew this was going to be better.

 

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I had a very nice time this weekend sweating it out at the sweat lodge. I had a few concerns that were diabetes related, but in the end everything went very well and I learned a lot. I arrived at the location where the sweat would take place feeling prepared for an event I had no way of knowing how to prepare. The experience will never be forgotten and one that I will always be proud of. Ultimately the lesson I was reminded of this weekend is that you should never let diabetes stop you from trying anything that you want to do no matter what anybody else says and that preparation is always key to a good time.
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With a tainted past of endless symptoms ranging from irregular periods to joint pain, I am constantly looking for new ways to manage my life. By manage my life I mean that I look for new techniques to relieve stress, I change my surroundings to optimize my happiness and I closely examine the medical choices I have to make. This all started about three years ago. Right after my senior year in high school, I started experiencing an array of symptoms. Slowly, they all compounded leaving me with an entire page of bullet points of things going wrong with me. Joint pain, muscle weakness, fatigue, irregular and painful periods, headaches, ear aches, mood swings and so on. (READ MORE)

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I've joked about adjusting Charlie's happiness levels due to the effect it has on his blood sugar. I'm finding now it's not so funny. The adrenalin that comes from excitement shoots Charlie's blood sugar up like a bottle rocket.

The latest culprit: summer street hockey.

Everything was fine on game day. We were at the pool having fun. Charlie clocked in at a lovely 132 just before I made the mistake of saying, "OK, let's go Charlie. We have to go home and get ready for hockey."

What a horrible dad I am to say such harmful words. In retrospect maybe I should have spoken with the enthusiasm of a corpse …

"You have that thing, Charlie. It's really nothing though."

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(To the tune of "Jingle Bells")

Andy Bell, Andy Bell, Andy had a great holiday. Even with all the food, sugars were good most of the waaaay. Hey! Now it's time to get back to work and focus on fitness for the day.. Here we go, do a curl and burn that fat away. Hey!

(To the tune of "Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer")

Andy had one day of high sugars, Eating his face off with a jello mold. You can say there's no such thing as hyperglucose But as for this diabetic, I am sold.

(To the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer")
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Wow.  What an unbelievable adventure life is.  I don't even know where to begin today.  I guess one thing that I wanted to share is that I recently moved.  Last weekend I was in a bad way.  It's no secret - just look at my past entries - that I have struggled with bouts of hard times.

 

So Saturday, after a few longs nights and hours of heavy contemplation, I packed up my stuff and left.  I needed to get out of my home town - away from some feelings that I've been struggling to overcome.  I had made a call that day to a guy whose number and add I found on Craigslist.  The add said that their was a room for rent near the beach in Florida.  I was sold.  I arrived on Sunday night after a total of about 18 hours of driving. 

 

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