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Life of a Diabetic Has Been Busy

Posted by Chris on Jul 15, 2010 in Living Normally with Diabetes, Stress | 2 comments

The life of this diabetic has been crazy busy over the last few days.  This new work schedule is finely starting to feel normal, and I must admit, I actually like the schedule.  Let’s take a look at how my new day goes:

7:00 a.m. – Alarm goes off

7:15 a.m. – I actually wake up

7:15 a.m. – test blood sugar

7:20 a.m. – coffee, breakfast, shower

8:00 a.m. – hitting the road for my commute

8:45 a.m. – get to work and test sugar again to see how breakfast was holding up

11:00 a.m. – test sugar to see if correction was good

12:30 p.m. – test sugar because it is lunch time soon

2:30 p.m. – test sugar to see how good my bolus was

5:30 p.m. – test sugar once more because I am getting ready to leave at 6 to drive home

7:00 p.m. get home from work and go for a quick walk

7:30 p.m. – get home from walk, start to cook, eat and cleanup dinner

9:00 p.m. log into blog, check out comments, attempt to respond to twitter comments

10:00 p.m. – check sugar

12:30 a.m – laying in bed trying to fall asleep to start the same thing over the next day.

There is not one time throughout the day that I hate that busy schedule.  I absolutely love it.  Living a schedule like this with type 1 diabetes or any disease in that matter can start to wear on your health if you are not taking care of yourself properly.  I try to force myself to test my blood sugar during these times because I know that I will forget to do it.  I set the alarm on my pump now, I have never used that alarm before in my life.  I think it might annoy my co-workers, but nobody has said anything yet.  They are all usually listening to music anyway, so I don’t think they even notice.

Tonight I am going to be up later because I have a lot of other things to take care of, lots and lots of e-mails I haven’t responded to in almost 3-4 days.  So if you e-mailed me, sorry I will get to it tonight, promise.

Time for that energy drink.

Have a great Friday tomorrow everybody.

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2 Responses to “Life of a Diabetic Has Been Busy”

  1. karend1 says:
    July 15, 2010 at 10:00 PM

    Are you sitting in the cube next to me??!!

    Sounds so like my day.

  2. Steve S. says:
    July 22, 2010 at 12:24 AM

    Loved the timeline!!! Sounds about like Me! Seems like all I do is check my blood sugar. It’s a tough disease to live with, and a lot of people choose not to stick themselves as often as WE do, but with Diabetes, what you don’t know can hurt you. Keep up the great writing. I’ll keep on reading! Come check out my blog also! We are all in this big boat together! Paddling an uphill stream….

    Steve
    http:thediabeticmindset.blogspot.com

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