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"Pointer finger every bit both a gusher as well as mouse". Photo courtesy of my iPad #macismycrack.  I guide keep an one-time macbook pro (which I know I don’t utilize to it’s fullest potential, but I digress) and I honey my iphone - Even though it’s one-time as well as I bespeak a novel one, as well as in i trial I figure out how to salve the voicemails from my belatedly mom I will.  BTW, whatsoever advice on that dependent area would locomote greatly appreciated!  And speaking of #macaslegalcrack, I of late purchased an iPad instead of a novel laptop for both economical as well as portability reasons.  On the diabetes side of things, I exam my blood sugars at to the lowest degree 10 times a day, as well as for around argue I generally role my left hand (and I’m left handed, as well as thence become figure) to exam my blood sugars.  All my fingertips on both hands are calloused beyond belief. And alas gentle diabetesa...

So it's Fri in addition to I idea simply for shits in addition to giggles I'd enquire y'all to postal service how many times you've tested your blood carbohydrate today. And look, there's no correct anwer to this enquiry in addition to this is a justice gratuitous zone - No i is going to telephone telephone y'all out on your testing.... or in that place lack of. This is simply a enquiry of the twenty-four hr menstruation type of thing. And if y'all experience similar posting your actual blood carbohydrate numbers, great!  If not, that's non bad too! And since I can't enquire y'all to produce something I wouldn't produce myself, I'll start out the ball rolling. So far I've tested iii times today in addition to my numbers were: 146 147 (I know, weird.) 126 Have I officially logged these numbers??? That would hold upward negatory. And piece I'm beingness honest, estimate who forgot to bolus for dinner concluding nighttime i...

OK, I damn close sliced the tip of my correct pointer finger off final nighttime later on the #dsma chat on the twitter.   True Story: I was chopping broccoli (and yes, the irony of that statement on all its many levels isn't lost on me,) because I was making mistaken cream of broccoli soup for a Soup & Bread dinner I was invited to tonight.  So this isn’t going to move a huge post due to the fact I’m having a existent work typing alongside higher upwardly mentioned finger. And yes, I in all likelihood should accept gotten stitches, but I didn’t. I did bleed similar the Equus caballus scene from The Godfather though in addition to managed to exam my blood saccharide four times from my spouting finger earlier it stopped geysering out. And here's the numbers: 140, 144, 162 in addition to 149.  But this post isn’t almost my finger, it’s almost my reluctance to desire to alter my infusion set.  To move honest, there’s are times when I merely don’t desire...

I can't believe that this is the concluding calendar week for the our bodies GPS system , mapping out where our blood saccharide is currently in addition to where it needs to go. And all inwards nether five seconds.  Come to intend of it, then create CGMs - to a greater extent than on that later.  I shout out back when glucose meters get-go came out they took three minutes in addition to were the size of a VHS tape. Now a days I tin hold out out amongst friends in addition to nobody volition fifty-fifty realize I’m checking my blood sugar.  I shout out back the days earlier at that spot were glucose meters. I shout out back testing my urine in addition to burning my picayune fingers on the fizzy, urine filled test-tube. Not solely was it disgusting, it was damn inaccurate. I get upwardly to that fourth dimension inwards my life equally The Diabetes Dark Ages - And I never desire to larn dorsum at that spot again.  Going on the insulin pump was a huge g...

I accept a illustration of the Blood Sugar Blahs .... Basically for the yesteryear 24 hrs my blood sugars accept been blah , which accept me feeling blah . Not a terribly severe (there’s that word again,) illustration but non necessarily “Blood Sugar Blah Lite" , either.  Here's what went down: I went out Sat nighttime amongst two friends (and their families) who were celebrating both their usual birthdays. Cut to Lord's Day morning time when I woke upwards amongst a pizza in addition to birthday cake hangover &  blood carbohydrate of 391 -  fifty-fifty idea I went to bed amongst a blood carbohydrate of 160 summation a correction bolus. #damndiabetes Needless to say, I wasn’t happy. But pizza a birthday cake hap from fourth dimension to fourth dimension in addition to I did what needed to endure done & inward the shape of a combo correction/cover my morning time java bolus in addition to went on amongst my day.  Still, my numbers were wickedly ...

Today's the showtime twenty-four hours of 4 days of Diabetesalicious Holiday Giveaways .  Giveaway seat out i is all nearly lifting depression blood sugars together with your spirits via a  3 Bottle Sample Pack of Glucolift Glucose tabs . Glucolift Glucotabs are all natural,non GMO & come upwards inward 3 dandy flavors; Wildberry, Cherry & Orange Cream.  I showtime tried Glucolift Glucose Tabs at The  Children With Diabetes Friends For Life Conference inward Orlando, Florida last July - And I was impressed! Glucolift's tasty together with isn't chalky at all. But most importantly, Glucolift does the undertaking of getting those depression blood sugars to conduct maintain off!   CWD was likewise the showtime fourth dimension I met Glucolift's creator together with swain t1,  Christopher Angell -  And i time again - Impressed!  Chris is what nosotros inward the Diabetes On-Line Community telephone band "good people," togethe...

Including test-strips! And I accept a feeling that you lot powerfulness endure able to relate ;)  

Two weeks agone I was at a Birthday dinner when I realized my see solely had five units left -  I know, full rookie motion on my part!  Speaking of rookie moves, yours genuinely was sans  back upwards insulin to boot!  Since nosotros were at pizza articulation I knew that five units simply wouldn’t do, therefore I excused myself - And assured my friends that all was OK inwards Busted Pancreas Land in addition to that I was simply existence wifty inwards the diabetes department. Then I drove abode to larn a quick refill. Luckily for me I solely lived a mile away therefore it was no big deal... Or therefore I thought. When I got abode I went conduct for the refrigerator to pick out handgrip of my bottle of opened insulin....except I couldn’t notice it.  I checked on my nightstand in addition to inwards my bath - fifty-fifty on my java tabular array - And the missing bottle wasn’t inwards whatever of those places - It was no where to hold upwards found....

Cortisone shots powerfulness hold upward small, but they are indeed mighty members of the steroid household unit of measurement that tin campaign the liver to dump glucose inwards your blood for weeks, together with weeks. With that beingness said - cortisone shots reduce inflamation together with if yous have got diabetes together with inflamation issues together with have got exhausted every other method out in that place - Cortisone together with diabetes is doable.  But it takes piece of occupation - H5N1 lot of work! ######## It's been xi days since I received a cortisone shot for my trigger finger - And piece my finger feels nearly 86% better, it's nevertheless tight and feels slightly achy together with swollen. But amongst that beingness said, It's SO MUCH amend than before! And I'm keeping my fingers proverbially crossed that the cortisone will pick out a permanent destination to all the locking, clicking together with sticking on my left telep...

Every directly in addition to thus weird shit pops into my mind. Whether it's a commercial jingle from agency dorsum when, an obscure film reference or facts I wasn't fifty-fifty aware I'd remembered until they popped dorsum into my head.  During my depression blood carbohydrate final night, long agone facts from a college literature degree popped into this Litt major's caput in addition to made for or thus interesting diabetes analogies - And fifty-fifty though it makes for a foreign pairing at get-go glance- I intend it genuinely makes sense inward the end.  ####### You know when your blood sugar's depression right earlier you lot start to brand dinner thus you lot potable or thus juice in addition to thus you lot elbow grease your best to " wait it out ,"  because you lot don't desire to ruin your dinner? But "waiting it out" doesn't run thus you lot swallow saltines alongside peanut butter & strawberry jam, because you lot...

I accept off my glasses, rub my temples in addition to stare at my estimator cover - It's blank in addition to I receive got operate to do. My caput hurts in addition to I'm thirsty - Most probable because I'm blowing a midmorning blood saccharide of 308. My internal Magic Eight Ball thinks it's due to a 114 breakfast blood saccharide in addition to a miscalculation for a 1/4 loving cup of depression inwards carb high inwards fiber alongside almond milk,  coffee in addition to me beingness on the fourth 24-hour interval of a half dozen prednazone Rx. Oh. bytheway, big shoutout to this bronchitis that won't terminal stalking me in addition to is requiring me to accept some other antibiotic, addition a half dozen 24-hour interval Rx for the oral the steroid, (high blood saccharide inducing & cracktastic  hight temporary basal charge per unit of measurement required) prednazone. Ironically, I don't experience tired, but incredibly annoyed in addition to a...

Diabetes WTFedness & the InstamessageApp Last nighttime correct earlier I started making dinner, I felt slightly low.  Nothing crazy, no sweating or shakes.... only that feeling inwards my tum that things were going due south & that I powerfulness desire to cheque my blood saccharide sooner rather than later.  This happened every bit I was only almost to spell upward grape tomatoes too avocados too brand a beautiful pre repast salad.  I'd been looking forrard to the creamy avocadoness of it all since dejeuner too all I wanted to do was make, too thus forthwith consume the damn salad! Sidebar: Is it only me, or stimulate got avocados prices been genuinely friendly every bit of late?  So anyway, earlier the slicing too dicing commenced I checked my blood saccharide too the let out 55 came glaring dorsum at me on the screen.   And that would live on when I uttered: What’s alongside the diabetes WTFedness?!  Treating a depress...

An apeshit high blood carbohydrate does non accept to ruin your Sunday, #fact. ####### I'm non certain how the 436 blood sugar happened - All I know is that I went to bed on Sat black alongside a novel infusion site, 24 units left inwards my insulin pump, a bgnow of 200 together with a correction bolus of two units - And I should accept been golden. Cut to sun morning time at 8:30 am when I woke upwards alongside a raging headache, a blood carbohydrate of 436 together with moderate ketones. I position inwards a novel infusion site together with a build novel reservoir, did a correction bolus of 10 units ( including a bolus for my morning time coffee,) drank a huge drinking glass of H2O together with thence to a greater extent than or less other one... And  I waited. Because seriously, what else could I do? While waiting I had fourth dimension to intend where it all went wrong. Was it the infusion ready that had caused my blood carbohydrate jam up, or was it the xx...