Diabetic Recipes
It's funny when your routine changes--either in a minor way or in a way that completely shifts your life--how hard it is to fit certain necessities back in.
We're sort of starting from scratch here in Arizona. New house, new jobs, new doctors, new almost everything. And since my benefits don't start until Sept. 1 (holy crap is 90 days a long time!), I've been without the nearly constant companionship of Dr. C for about six weeks now. While I know he's always available to me and said he would keep in touch and continue to monitor CareLink when I update until I get a new endo, the distance somehow makes things different.
I have not updated CareLink since before I moved here Memorial Day weekend. I have e-mailed Dr. C once since I've been here and that was to get my medical records from his office shipped off to the new endo's office (whose name escapes me now). My routines are so different -- and my things in new locations -- that I can't seem to remember to plug the CareLink flash drive into the computer and do the update every other week. (Often I even forget to take the Metformin pill every morning before breakfast!)
Part of me says "Why bother?" since life has been so chaotic over the last six weeks (I mean, geez, I only posted on dLife five times last month!). I'm not eating right or on any sort of schedule, I'm snacking more often than usual, often staying up way past my normal bedtime to continue unpacking, and feeling overall exhausted and very stressed among other things. I am so disconnected from "normal" diabetes life that I don't think Dr. C could make heads or tails of my reports anyway.
But still, I know I should update. I realize that's sort of a crappy excuse, but that's the way it is right now. Diabetes is a team effort and I'm doing it all myself, which, frankly, is not the best way to manage diabetes. Chances are that Dr. C would make tiny tweaks to my pump settings, whereas I have a tendency to shrug off highs. Soon, I say, I'll have a new sense of normal, which will include my endo. Until then, I'm sort of winging it.
Hi Michelle Changes = daily :). No two (2) days are the same for me either. The most recent BIG change was when my husband retired in September '07 and began taking over the picking up and delivering of our two grandsons from school to our house and now soccer practice/games and sometimes to our daughter's (their Mom) house after she gets home from school/work. Life can get complicated, but always interesting. I'm just VERY THANKFUL that the scientific and medical personnel have been given the ability to improve Diabetic care; primarily with instant home blood-glucose meters. Knowing what my BGs are at any given moment really helps in managing to get the glucose levels into a normal range in good time; thus, today my Hemoglobin A1c is 5.9? That is GOOD NEWS for a Type I diagnosed in September 1950 at age 5.
has anyone here tried dr. bersteins low carb approach? i just cant seem t get my numbers down. ate only 60 carbs today and my bedtime bs was 268! went for 2 20 minute walks. how long does it take to get numbers in line when you havent cared in months. just moved to a new sate, am an empty nester and lonely. anyone relate?