Living with diabetes
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Some days
| Some days I just hate being a diabetic!!!! On those days my bloodsugars don't acknowledge my insulin and rise to the occasion of being stubborn no matter how much I try to drown them in insulin. Then the fear sets in that I might not have just drowned them, but me also, in low bloodsugars. Today was long and stressful without the bloodsugar issues. It is days like today that I want to strap on a pump not worrying about any of the hang ups I have about an insulin pump. Here's to better bloodsugar days. |
Monday, May 18, 2009
My Eyes Have It
As any diabetic knows, you should get an annual eye exam to make sure all is kosher with the eyes and no neuropathy is setting in, etc etc. I won't lie that for some reason this is exam is never my favorite. What person in their right mind likes having their eyes dilated in the first place, let alone, waiting to see if the gaunlet is going to come down with word of diabetic neuropathy or damage? Nope, not fun. I do have an announcement that my annual eye exam this year was GREAT!!! Things were good if not better than last year. My eyes are just getting old. Yes, you read that right, only my eyes are getting old....not me. ;) So the old eyes already have reading glasses, that we got last year, and are now getting distance glasses to help with driving. I keep wondering if all this means I could use bifocals or trifocals...it just makes me scratch my head...thank god my opthomologist hasn't mentioned those. He probably knows I'd laugh at him. Talk about making a lady in her early 30s feel old....mention bifocals...oh yeah. That is why my eyes have it because they did well this exam!!! YAY!!! Now here is too many more years of good eye exams. Oh, and just for some of my friends that I know love me for this, this will be all the better to see NKOTB with!!! Oh yeah!!! |
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Alcohol libations
| I like martinis. Gin and dirty please. Friday night I had a beer with dinner. I decided later that I wanted a gin dirty martini, but realized my dirty (green olives and olive juice) were becoming a science project in my fridge, so they had to be disposed. Once I got over the sadness of no olives/juice to complete my gin dirty martini I decided to drink the gin martini. After the gin martini was downed I mixed a screwdriver. This was odd because I am not an orange juice fan, but I've had screwdrivers before, and this actually turned out better than my gin martini (without the dirty it is not a good martini!!!). I was pleased with how my screwdriver turned out and enjoyed it in front of the television. I snacked at some point as I always do when drinking, gave my evening insulin, and went to bed. I felt good after my mixology too...I'm a cheap drunk. Saturday evening I dealt with blood sugars in their 80s and below. This makes for eating snacks way too much since I have not jumped on the pump wagon. Therefore, after the third snack of the evening, making sure my bloodsugars didn't plummet, I was tired of eating. I made sure my sugars were above 100 gave my night time insulin and went to bed. Sunday I woke up with a low sugar and had a below 100 sugar around dinner (94). So these happenstances have made me aware of two things: 1.) I find a way to use these mixed drinks to my advantage and devise a plan to have them help with my bloodsugar control or 2.) I can't drink like I used to due to the faltering bloodsugars that follow within the days following lovely libations. I tend to like option number 1 yet I have not devised a good plan. My nemesis of number 1 is that these sugars can become nasty lows if I give too much insulin with meals etc following a martini libation night. *Sigh* The sorrows of alcohol messing with my bloodsugars. |
Saturday, May 09, 2009
HA
| So the emailing post works here too. I will post more later. Just getting this set up. |
