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Blind Bolusing : Don’t Try This at Home

Wow, what a spectacular Sunday Morning.  I am not able to sleep past 9 a.m. ever.  My body has just become so trained, that I can’t sleep in past then.  When I was just a few years younger, I was still able to sleep in late on the weekends, and then re-adjust my sleeping schedule back for the work week, not anymore.  I feel like I am just wasting the day away.  Plus, I live on a golf course now, so I don’t get to enjoy this view during the week because of how late I get home every night.  Sitting out here writing a blog is one of the most amazing things that I get to do on the weekends.  Enough of this side story, let’s get into what I really want to blog about today.

Since I moved, almost a month ago, I still don’t have all my things unpacked and situated.  Which means that I don’t know where all of my meters are.  I have my main one that I keep in my work bag, which comes home with me and that is the one that I try to use 99% of the time.  However, that was left in the car overnight, so last night I had no meter to test.  At about 11 p.m. I had to use the bathroom, then again at 12:30, and then again around 1:30.  Hmm, sounds like my blood sugar is high to me. Since I couldn’t test, I took about 10 units of insulin (to you that may be a lot, but to me it’s not, my sensitivity level is 1 unit of inuslin per 11 “points” my bg is).  After this, I continued to still wake up every hour or so to use the bathroom, so I took 10 more units again.  I do not recommend doing this at all!.  Finally, around 5-6 am this morning I took 10 more units.  That was a total of 30 units over a 6-7 hour period.  When I woke up this morning, my bg was 275.  So even after all of that extra insulin, my bg was still high!

That means that today, I will find all of my meters and make sure that there is one right next to my bed so I don’t ever have to deal with a situation like this ever again.  I know the consequences of this.  What if my sugar wasn’t really high and I just had to use the bathroom, and I took 30 units over 6 hours and my bg crashed horrifically?

This will be the last time I do that.  Time to go look at Sunday morning ads.

Have a great Sunday everybody.

I am a Diabetes Hoarder

Currently I am watching this Hoarding: Buried Alive show, and I am seeing myself in this a lot, in many different ways.  One, I hate to throw things away and get rid of things, I like to hang onto things.  The other part is that the hoarders are constantly making excuses.  I am a diabetes Hoarder.  I hoard bad blood sugars and bad habits.

Unless I make drastic changes, then I am going to continue to collect these bad things and all the bad things that go along with all the bad diabetes related things, which I don’t think I need to tell you all what those things are.

I have been getting so much support from all of you in the diabetes community and I thank you all so much, because it means a lot.  It shows me that I can do these things because you are all doing it.  It’s almost a jealousy thing, I’m jealous when I see you all showing your Dexcom numbers and when it’s 180 you are like, OMG I can’t believe I went up that high.

I have been eating a lot better so far this week, I know it’s only Wednesday, but still.  For dessert tonight I am having some strawberries and kiwi.  As opposed to ice cream with a lot of sprinkles and syrup and whipped cream.

Well, I’m off to eat this and then relax and go to bed.  Have a great night everybody.