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Olivia has had diabetes for almost ten years now. The first few years were a struggle, emotionally and blood sugar-wise. I felt like I'd gone back to school - I had to learn this new language, this new way of life and it was hard.
It's been so long now, though, that diabetes care is pretty much second nature for us. We all look at carb information on packages of food, we're all really good at guessing when that information isn't there. I've talked about this stuff with my family, too. I thought they were on board with it all. I didn't expect them to be as expert as I am (and believe me, I know I could always know more), but I thought they'd at least gleaned information from all of my speeches over the years. (READ MORE)

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Since I often go into grueling detail when Charlie is going through a rough period of high blood sugars, it’s only right that I also share some good news for a change.

 

Charlie’s blood sugars have been near perfect for the last three or four days. To Lucy Van Pelt, happiness may be a warm puppy and to John Lennon, happiness may be a warm gun, but to me, happiness is knowing that Charlie’s blood sugars have been in the low 100s for hours and hours. Just as long periods of highs make me sick to my stomach, long periods of just-rights feels like nirvana. It can completely make my day and get me chirping with the birds.

 

It’s also nice to go into our quarterly endo visit, which is tomorrow, on a good note. I almost said, "on a high note." No way. No high note. I want a good A1c. Big money! No whammies!

 

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Family. Health. Necessities.
We were all thankful for so much as we shared our turkey feast this year. We are spending the Thanksgiving weekend in Albuquerque New Mexico this year with my sisters and mother. Having to make a 13 hour drive made me thankful for low carb snacks and caffeine too.
The thing that stands out as I contemplate the meal last night was the laughter I heard and participated in. I laughed a lot. We brought up old memories of family events and funny stories. Joked about each others habits and quirks, and just laughed at my kids and my nieces being silly. It was a lot of fun and so comforting.
One of the few qualities I have is the ability to make people laugh. I love to poke fun at myself, the world, and pretty much everything! I am also good about not being mean but just funny. All and all it was a very good time. (READ MORE)

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When things couldn't possibly get any worse ...

 

"Hi dad, I'm 31."

 

It's not something you ever want to hear. That is, unless it was his 31st birthday and he was just calling to remind me.

 

It's certainly not something you want to hear on the other end of the phone when your son is at a friend's house and you really don't know the father too well are you're miles away from him in a strip mall buying a brass turtle.  

 

We've only just begun letting him go to friends' homes without us - dealing with diabetes on his own. He's maybe done it three times prior to this one and all has gone well.

 

A.  He knows to check his sugar if he feels low.

 

B. He's wired with piercing alarms that go off when he's too low or too high.

 

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I'm over seventy-two hours post-op on my wisdom teeth removal. And I'm doing okay. The surgery went well with no ups or downs in blood sugars or the actual removal. Ever since, I've just been recovering as best I can.

 

Immediately after the surgery, my blood sugars did okay. The anesthesia and the stress haven’t seemed to have any kind of effect on them. However, the diet that I'm keeping is throwing me into a minor tailspin.

 

Some soft foods (like shakes) send me sky high so I go scrambling to get them down. And some soft foods (like soup and fruit) leave me low after a few hours. And since I'm not eating as many carbs in general (eating is more annoying than it's worth), my blood sugars are staying in a moderate zone.

 

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I never meant to take a six-week vacation. It started with the intention of just a few days off. A rest. A break from diabetes and all things that go along with it. Testing, tracking, carb counting and, most obviously to dLife, blogging.

 

I just needed a few days off. It started around Memorial Day, and here it is the middle of summer and I am completely off track.

 

So, as of today, as of this moment, I am back.

 

Although I didn't take my fasting blood sugar this morning, or my medicine at dinner last night, at 9:30 a.m., I will take my two-hour post-breakfast reading. And write it down. On an official form. That I will show my doctor. When I get around to making that July appointment.

 

Yup, diabetes, I'm back.

 

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I am severely lacking motivation here lately. My diabetes is all over the place with blood sugars like 223 or 345. I am one big diabetes mess. Because I just don't care.

 

Which is a total lie. I hate having numbers that high. I do care. I cringe every time I see it on the meter screen. I avoid checking just because I know that it's not going to be pretty. I do care.

 

I just apparently don't care enough to put diabetes on the priority list. I don't care enough to log the past two months of numbers that I've skipped out on. I don't care enough to give the right boluses to cover the high carb snacks that I'm consuming. I don't care to raise my Lantus to offset those carbs or even sometimes take my Lantus.

 

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I've worked really hard the past few months to lose some weight. I've been eating better (cutting out fast food, "extras" like dinner rolls or second servings, and leaving the snacks on the snack aisle at the grocery store). On top of that, I'm working out about three times a week either at the gym or on the treadmill at home. And I'm proud to say that I've lost six pounds and several inches.

 

But the past week has thrown a major kink in my progress. I'm too scared to even step on the scale to see how these low and "lower" blood sugars are affecting me. I know my calorie intake has increased between the cokes, snacks, and extra carbs I'm consuming to offset these things.

 

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Saturday night, I raised my evening Lantus dose to 16 units and kept my morning dosage at 13 units. I also moved the evening dose up by about three hours, hoping to stop those highs that sent me into sleep at 218 and 241. I also took the plunge and decided to do a trial run of boluses with the pump instead of pen or syringe. And I'm still as perplexed, but this time for the opposite reason.

 

Within a few hours of bolusing with the pump, I saw a 55 that bounced up to 114, 131, and back down to 93. Several snacks throughout the night left me at a morning number of 130. For most of Sunday, I stayed under 150 with a brief spike after working out. After dinner on Sunday night, I dropped to 84 then 69. And after about an hour, I was 146. But at 4am, I woke to an unexpected 47. I also lowered my evening Lantus to 15 units since I'd seen a rise in lows after the 16 units.

 

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I'm currently recovering from a fairly unexpected blood sugar of 49. It's the lowest I've been all week despite battling a multitude of lows. It really doesn't feel good. Especially after I've just finished an intense Jillian Michaels' workout (30 Day Shred) and just had to guzzle Coke and snacks.

 

Even before starting the Symlin on Tuesday evening, I was having lows at two odd times of the day. Morning and early evening after work. I'd wake up lower than I'd like, spike through the morning and afternoon and drop low almost immediately after leaving work. Symlin has only complicated this issue.

 

Today was the worst low of them all. After watching the Dexcom sit above 200 all day long, I had a salad with waffle fries for dinner. I bolused for the 204 prior to the meal on top of the fries and chicken. Then I decided to drink a Coke. 10 units of Humalog. An accurate bolus.

 

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