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Categories: Type 2 Emotions
Tags: dream idle daydream
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If I could do one thing the next 3 weeks, it would be a vacation from my type 2 diabetes, weight issues and actually, my health entirely. Even one day seems like it would be divine.
Warning - "food fantasies" follow.
I would eat pastries for breakfast, and have another one or two for a morning coffee break (I do love me some carbs). Perhaps a nice Eggs Benedict. And oh, yes, I would have pumpkin spice lattes until I shook from the caffiene.
I would eat homemade cream of mushroom soup for lunch, or a nice lobster bisque, full of heavy cream. Then I would take a nap, just because I wanted one, not because my blood glucose was at 200.
Homemade cookies with full-sugar cocoa and lots of marshmallows for afternoon snack. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Fitness Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: Blogabetes blogs Diabetes weekly round-up
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There's nothing better on this snowy Friday afternoon than taking some time to catch up with the Blogabetes bloggers (that is, short of sledding down the hill behind my house on one of those round sleds, but I've digressed). Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Round-up!
Julia has had her share of dealing with the flu - here's hoping her family is on the mend! Share your tips for how you deal with the winter sicknesses.
George has found the answer to life, the universe, and everything during his bout with hypoglycemia. Do you have startling moments of randomness when you're experiencing a low?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: high blood sugars unexplained trends vacations
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Friday morning, I packed up my bags to head to the lake for the weekend. I had a long drive ahead of me, so I made sure to bring extra juice, keep my meter handy, and lots of water. I stopped for lunch on the way.
I checked my blood sugar. 264 (up from 102 at breakfast). Unexpected, considering all I had for breakfast was water and eggs. Nothing that should send my blood sugar spiraling. So I bolused for the blood sugar, bolused for lunch, and enjoyed my quick meal before hitting the Texas highway.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: high blood sugars taking a break from control
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Last week, I spent several days in Mexico on vacation and on a business trip. With the extra carbs and the change in normal routine, my averages went from the 140's to the high 150's. I had one or two severe lows and a handful of minor lows. I also had one day where my pump site went sour and sent me soaring into the 300's for several hours.
Coming back from Mexico has been interesting on my blood sugars. I've had a few lows, of course. But at the same time, I've decided not to try so hard to keep my numbers down. I'm not completely blowing it, but I'm just not stressing myself out over highs and off numbers.
So Monday night, I decided to order a pizza while working on a research paper. It was nice to eat the pizza, do a fairly normal bolus, but not stress about what my blood sugar might be in the next 12 hours. I didn't even freak out when I saw consistent 200's on my meter screen.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Women's Issues
Tags: childbirth postpardum
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I thought it was a miracle. The day after Danny was born, my diabetes suddenly disappeared. I no longer had to test a dozen times a day. And the few times I did test, my blood sugar was perfect. Not low, not high, but normal. In that magic 70 to 120 non-diabetic range. My meter looked like those in the commercials. It was wonderful, but it didn't last long.
For the first few weeks at home with the boy, I was able to ignore my diabetes. Granted I didn't eat with abandon or anything, but it sure was nice not to worry about it. Not to have it be the first thought in the morning or the last thought before bed. To go a whole day-a whole week even-without once testing my blood sugar, estimating a carb count or taking insulin. Diabetes was but a fleeting thought.
Granted I had plenty of other things to think about. Getting to know my son. Healing from a C-section. Figuring out how to breastfeed. Managing on little or no sleep. Nature had to give me a break somewhere. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: basal testing
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It's Spring break. The kids are home from school and the sun is shining (well, not really, but just go with it). Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yeah, I know it's crazy, but hey, it's Spring Break. You're only young once. Let's get a little wild!
I'm talkin' one full week of all-inclusive, inverted, unadulterated, topless …
BASAL TESTING!
Woo-hoo! Par-tay!
How awesome is this gonna be? Charlie will get the full Spring Break experience. Unlimited Jell-O shots; binge testing; zany contests to see how long he can go without eating. It will be like being in Cabo San Lucas only from the comfort of our own home.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: putting control aside vacation with diabetes
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My vacation was extremely nice. My mom and I spent several days with her family (who I haven't seen in several years), then trekked to New York City (my favorite place in the entire world). And mostly, my diabetes played nice. Nothing too out of the ordinary and no insane highs. Just plenty of hypo unawareness that left me annoyed, but thankful that I'm vigilant.
Now that I'm getting back into the grind of "normalcy," I'm kind of in a funk. There's a lot looming in my mind at the moment about my life, my health, and my future. And those things are weighing heavily into my diabetes world...causing me to forget insulin or blood sugar checks or to eat on a schedule.
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Europe is absolutely amazing. I love the languages, the atmosphere, the weather. I find it enthralling that you walk everywhere. The open air markets are insane. Everything is so perfect, so ancient, so human about this place.
Every time I turn around, we're learning something new about a culture, a language, or just this life in general. Yesterday, we toured a small town in Italy. It was perfectly picteresque. Today was Barcelona where you could buy exquisite chocolate creations in an open air market.
We still have four more stops here on the cruise plus the few days we've added to our trip for Italy. I'm totally excited about these next places. They are completely new and I have no idea what to expect.
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Sticking to a regular exercise routine and schedule has always been a real challenge for me. Yeah, I know it's something that I need to be doing, but that's not always enough to keep the motivation flowing.
I joined a gym around this time last year, and I went at least 3 times a week for a while. I developed a pretty good routine with the help of the trainers, and was doing great with it. Then I had to take a break from going because of an ankle injury. That had me down for a month or so.
I started going to the gym again for a while after the ankle stopped hurting, and got back into the routine I had been doing, and all was going well again. Then vacation time rolled around, and you know what that means? More time out of the gym. Oh sure, there was a lot of walking involved during the vacation, and that is certainly a form of exercise, but it just wasn't the same as being in the gym.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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I'm feeling a strange mix of emotions these past few days. Maybe it's getting back home from my European extravaganza. Or maybe it's just a normal emotional procedure for the place that I'm at in life.
The jarring part of it all is that I'm really not sure WHAT I'm feeling. I'm feeling something, lots of things. But I just can't seem to place actual names and terms with the emotions. I'm trying, but it doesn't seem to be working.
A big part of me is just feeling really raw with everything that is going on. Raw is a term that I really like to use in my emotional life. It fits a lot of emotions and it's a strong term. Raw is the feeling that your guts are hanging out for the world to see. Raw is the way it feels to remove a bandaid, to start something new, or to hit rock bottom. It's everything and anything you want it to be.
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