It happened quickly: one day I was dealing with a cold, another day I realized I was fighting allergies, and between the time I woke up on Monday and drove to work my throat was so sore and my ear hurt so bad that I called the doctor.

You wouldn't think that in such a dry climate we'd have to deal with allergies, but allergens can actually be pretty bad here in the spring. So I'm sure that between the cold and the allergies my body just couldn't fight any more and my tonsils got infected. Not bad enough that they need to come out, but bad enough for a seven-day course of antibiotics.

And with antibiotics -- not to mention an infection -- comes a whole host of diabetes considerations. First, just the nature of having diabetes makes it more difficult to fight an infection. Diabetes + infection = high blood sugar. Or at least it can. On top of that, antibiotics can cause high blood sugar.

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I posted last week about feeling out of the ordinary and just plain sick. It was off and on all week with some days feeling great and others feeling terrible. I waited it out through the weekend, trying to take it easy as much as possible and eat as best as I could.

I thought I'd made it through without needing anything other than my immune system. But Tuesday night, I was feeling the worst I'd felt so far. I had suspected a urinary tract infection before, but now I was almost positive. The urgency, the pain, all those telling symptoms were all much worse. To top it off, my blood sugars were lingering in the 200's despite boluses.

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