It started last night. I guess it was right about the time I got home. I'm not sure there was one source or if it was a combination of things or if it was just one of those afternoons. I was cranky. Really cranky. Like drive me out to the middle of nowhere and leave me there kind of cranky. Even I didn't want to be around me.

It was close to an hour before it occurred to me that my crankiness might be due to a high blood sugar. I sighed. It all comes back to diabetes in one way or another, I thought angrily. I tested, and, sure enough, I was high. Really high, in fact. Over 300 kind of high. No wonder I was acting so terrible.

This was an interesting juxtaposition, frankly. Earlier that day I had emailed my endo about taking fast acting insulin in combination with the Byetta I had started just over a week ago. My argument was that I might want to have a higher-carbs-than-usual meal, or maybe go out for an ice cream. Oh no, he cautioned, I don't think you should do that because Byetta is self-regulating and if you take it with the fast acting insulin you might risk a low. Well, hmrph.

So, back to last night's dinner. Even though I was having a meal within acceptable carb range, I knew Byetta wasn't going to do much immediately for that over 300 blood sugar (yet another reason I wanted to add the fast-acting insulin back). At 90 minutes post dinner, I was under 300, but just barely.

The crankiness followed me to this morning. It mirrored last night's, despite the fact that my fasting was 129. I had my normal breakfast and went on with my morning. At two hours post breakfast I was shocked to see 262.

I grabbed a cookie and decided that if I was going to be high then I was going to enjoy it. Yes, I know, this logic is insane. And then, about an hour after I tested, I all of a sudden remembered that I hadn't taken Byetta this morning. I thought very carefully back to this morning's breakfast and had absolutely no recollection of taking the injection. Not only that, but I had skipped the Metformin, too.

I sighed partly do to relief and partly due to exhaustion. It seemed that my crankiness, caused by high blood sugar, was somewhat to blame for my forgetfulness. The silver lining, though, was that at least I knew why that post-breakfast reading was high. It's the little things, right?