The month of March has not been the best start of a month for blood sugar levels.  I have hit 300 every day so far this month.  Not just once a day, but for a few hours every day.  Morning blood sugars have been around 250-300 and when that happens it pretty much just screws up everything.  Dinners have not been anything out of the ordinary, and neither has breakfast or lunch.  I’ve just been in a diabetes rut, if you will, for a few weeks. I can’t seem to get myself out of it. A couple of weeks ago, I tweaked a lower back injury that I had back in college and it has pretty...

Over the last few weeks I have been noticing a lot more highs.  Like, way too many more high blood sugars.  Too many for my liking.  I am not exactly sure why these highs are coming because I have been eating a lot better.  Not eating as well as I would like to, but definitely not eating as much fast food or crappy food as I once had.  I am also testing my blood sugar more frequently.  This may be why I am noticing more highs because I am actually testing to see the highs, as opposed to not noticing when I was not testing as much.  I have gotten back into the habit of testing every...

Yesterday was one of those days.  You know, the days where you blood sugar goes from like 160 to 450 within a few hours and you have no idea.  Mainly because you didn’t test your blood sugar for almost 6 hours.  Sunday’s are my relaxation, cleaning, and shopping for the week day all in one.  I ate lunch and bolused and my blood sugar was fine.  When dinner time came I realized that I was out of my insulin in my pump, which is weird because I never let that happen.  Thinking back on it, I do remember hearing the warning beeps several times throughout the day, but I...

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...

Earlier today I had to go to a client meeting and knew it was going to be about a 40 minute drive there, an hour meeting and then about another 40 minute drive home.  Whenever I have to sit it on meetings, I get nervous that my blood sugar is going to get low, and I hate pulling out Skittles in the middle of the meeting because people look at you weird, like are you serious, in the middle of a meeting you have to eat?  If they knew I was diabetic, then there would be no problem, but I don’t introduce myself as, Hi Im Chris, nice to meet you and I’m diabetic.  If I feel my blood...

Every so often I have a period of 2-3 weeks where my blood sugars pretty much hover around 200-250 all day, everyday for that time period and it seems that no matter what I do, I can’t get it down.  Once I eventually get it down, I drink something or eat something to fix the low and then I end up high again.  Recently, this has began to bother me a lot.  Normally I don’t allow myself to get upset with my blood sugars because I have the mentality, that it is just a number and I can correct it.  But when that number is there consistently for a long period of time, it goes from...