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...

Sorry that this post is so late at night, but I had a long day and just got around to it now.  I was at work until 6:15 tonight and then I started my Spanish classes at my job tonight, so that didn’t get over until almost 7:45.  After that, I came home, ate, relaxed for a few minutes then got a haircut, showered and now here I am.  I am excited to be taking a Spanish class.  This is the first class that I’ve taken since I graduated college a few years ago.  I have a textbook and everything! Before class started, around 5-ish, I noticed that my blood sugar was down at 103 and...