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I've been under 100 for half of the last ten blood sugar checks. My lows are mostly in the seventies and eighties now. Only three below 60 in the past week. My averages are steady at 133, with certain times of day at 110 while others average at 158.

 

I'm certainly not complaining about good numbers and amazing averages. It's taken years of blood, sweat, and tears to get my diabetes where I want it to be. I actually feel like jumping up and down for joy at the moment. I can see the future ahead of me, not tainted by complicated pregnancies or kidney disease.

 

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Last night my buddy and I played some Racquetball. When I got off of work at 4:00 pm the temperature outside was a whopping 104° F. I figured this would be a total sweat fest and a great opportunity to melt some pounds off.   

 

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If anything can make having diabetes "fun", it's the cool toys I get to play with. While I don't consider myself within the normal confines of geekiness, I'm one of those folk who feel lost without multiple computers and a broadband Internet connection to-hand, and the ability to capture and analyze data up the wing-wah. (Whether or not I actually use that ability, or use it consistently, is another story.)

 

Managing diabetes falls right into the obsessions of a data wonk.

 

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Blah, blah, blah, here she goes again, pissing and moaning about logging.

Back when the year was shiny and new, as opposed to snow-covered and grubby (and enough with the snow already, ok? I'm SICK of it. Sick.) I resolved to be more diligent about logging Olivia's blood sugars. And for a few weeks I was. And then I forgot for a couple of days. And then it was Thursday and I thought, well, I'll just start over on Monday. And I forgot again.

I've logged in fits and starts over the last 2 months, but mostly, I haven't logged at all. And now she has an endo appointment tomorrow and I'm not going to have that much information to give her and I'm pissed at myself.

I just don't know how to make myself log. I forget. And if I'm forgetting to log, how am I supposed to teach Olivia? I'm not setting a good example at all and they always tell you (who are they anyway?) that you should lead by example when it comes to your kids.
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I can't believe I'm actually going to say this, but here goes. I'm sort of looking forward to my next A1C test. I know. I know. I'm a nut, but I have good reason to believe that the next one will be lower than the last one, which was (*blush*) 9%.
I decided to torture myself the other day by looking at my meter average. In the past when I've done this, a little calculation will show me that the average number of times I was testing per day was about one or two. The other day after a little calculation I found that my average number of per-day tests was four. I was incredibly happy with this because it meant that I am actually paying more attention to what is going on with me. Now, I know that I'm still slacking in some areas, but an average of four test per day is way better than one or two. Even for a type 2.
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Creep into the room quietly. Like a shadow.
Place testing supplies down gently beside the bed.
Don't stir the child. Avoid strong lighting. Use only enough to see what you're doing. I recommend a candelabra.
Tell the person playing the spooky pipe organ music to knock it off. It's not helping.
Gently pry his warm, sweaty fingers from underneath his pillow like they're bones guarded by a sleeping bulldog.
Inspect his fingers like a bad poker hand and discard each one until you find one you can use. (READ MORE)

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Beep Boop Beep.
My pump tells me it’s been two hours since my last bolus and that I should check my blood glucose level.
Beep. I clear the alarm.
I slip a test strip into my meter.
Beep. It is ready for me to drop blood on it.
Beep. The machine starts the countdown.
Beep. 163.
Press the Bolus Wizard button on my pump and enter the number.
Beep. Beep. Beep. I accept the amount of insulin and get it sent on its way. As soon as the bolus amount is finished being delivered I hear one last sound.
Beep.
From the other side of cubical partition I hear, “What is that beeping?”
“Sorry, that’s me and my stuff.”
“Ugh, I kept hearing all this beeping. I thought I was going crazy.” She replied. (READ MORE)

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I've made some bad judgment calls in my past.

 

There was the time I jumped off the roof of my house in 1983.

 

The time I used sunblock to burn mine and my girlfriend's initials onto my skin inside a giant heart across my back in 1984. Hello, skin cancer!

 

And who can forget the 6-foot-long gigantic snow penis on the front lawn of our suburban home in the winter of 1985.

 

And now this. The worst idea ever.

 

Bunk beds.

 

Getting up every night at ungodly hours to test Charlie's blood sugar hasn't been difficult enough for the past seven plus years. Just to make things a little more challenging, we've made the brilliant decision to get bunk beds for the boys. And yes, as the older brother, Charlie is on the top bunk.

 

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I went to get the mail today and found a package from Minimed. It wasn't the normal size box for Olivia's pump supplies and we've already received our Care Link doo-hickey (technical term, that - doohickey. The whatsit that you download pump info from. I think. I haven't actually used it yet. I keep forgetting....)

 

Anyway, inside the box was a brand new One Touch Ultra that beams blood sugar readings directly to Olivia's pump. Yay! I was all happy. I thought it would be great, that Olivia wouldn't forget about putting her blood sugars in, since the meter would do it for her.

 

Oh, how wrong I was. I gave it to her, all eager to see her reaction, since when the BD meter went away, she was very upset. But no.

 

"It's not green!" she exclaimed. "And it's not tiny." And she sort of flung it aside, sighing in exasperation.

 

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There are enough issues with the data from our diabetes devices to make the average PWD's head spin.

 

First off, there's the sheer volume of it. Consider that the average glucometer burns through 1500 readings a year -- which hikes up somewhere closer to 6000 if you have type 1 diabetes and don't have a continuous monitor you can rely on. Then there are the carb counts, food data bases, multiple basal rates, special basal rates, bolus wizards, special bolus calculations, and the smartphone calendar alarm to manage them all. Those of us with type 2 diabetes may not have all the insulin data to collect, but we have instead the blood pressure data, and along with the caloric impact of the foods we eat, we have to capture the fat distribution and the sodium levels. For all of us who exercise regularly, there are the heart-rate monitor data, the treadmill, elliptical, and cyclocomputer statistics, and the rep charts for weights.

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