Ooooh, look, a new toy - Diabetes 365 Day 127 - February 09, 2008
This is Princess Paisley, the newest addition to our household, we’ve had her for almost 2 weeks now and she is quite the busy body.
Today I was taking pictures of her playing with her toys and she comes over to me and grabs my tubing for my pump, having had the camera in my hand, I took a picture before reprimanding her.
I’ve had cats shred the tubing, but I’ve never had a dog worry about, guess I gotta keep an eye on my pump when she’s roaming around.
Safe At Night - Diabetes 365 Day 126 - February 08, 2008
A few years back when I started having seizures I was forbidden to have a bedside table any longer because it was a hazard to my head should I have a seizure.
For many years I’ve had my machine and juice and glucose tabs on my desk across the room from my bed and in the middle of the night if I woke up feeling low I had to get up and get to my desk.
I recently moved my bed to next to the window seat so that I could put my machine and the supplies to treat my blood sugars near to me so that I didn’t have to worry about getting up and getting to my desk.
It also makes it so that the danger of a bedside table doesn’t exist.
Chocolate and Candy - Diabetes 365 Day 125 - February 07, 2008
5th grade was probably the last time there was an exchange of candy was made at school. That was the first year that I had had diabetes during this special holiday and so the candy went home to mom, and I probably never saw it again, I don’t remember.
But this bag of valentines candy comes to me and I tell you what, I was excited. I had been telling my friend Alli that I needed chocolate for well over a week now, and she sent me this (among some other cool stuff and great words in a card).
There was more chocolate before the picture was taken, but as I said, I needed it!
Syringes - Diabetes 365 Day 124 - February 06, 2008
I was cleaning up (read: organizing) my diabetes cupboard and I saw the box of syringes, I was bored enough that I decided to line them up and take a picture.
There were 60 of them, which used to be a month worth of basal rate if you will (14 units of levimir in the morning, and 16 at night).
There is no cure for diabetes…
Yet!
The Signs Aren’t Always Clear - Diabetes 365 Day 123 - February 05, 2008
When I saw the snow on the stop sign, it made me think about how the signs of my blood sugars aren’t so clear.
Of all the signs that accompany my blood sugars, the sign of a low are the ones that I have the most trouble with. After my blood sugars being so out of control for so long and often having too many lows, I had become immune to the signs of a low, and now they are slowly coming back, but they’re not always clear.
There is no cure for diabetes…
Yet!
Stopped Receiving/Sending Signals - Diabetes 365 Day 122 - February 04, 2008
We joke at work sometimes about my dead pancreas. This week it was how my pancreas wasn't sending or receiving signals. It resulted in this picture. His antennas are broken. I found it amusing. This picture still resides on my white board at work.
Making the Sugar Free Sweet Again - Diabetes 365 Day 121 - February 03, 2008
I’m really bothered sometimes by the fact that we’re still loosing flavor with some of the “sugar free” or “reduced sugar” foods.
It’s as thought the manufacturers can’t add a substitute to it to make it sweet. so we have to do so ourselves. The other thing is, why do we go for the “sugar free” or “reduced sugar” food if we’re only saving ourselves a few carbs. I spent a lot of time thinking about this, and finally decided that it just isn’t worth it.
That and, if the “sugar free” foods have almost the same amount of carbs (within one or two carbs) as the sugar full foods, what is it that makes that food special. It seems to me that it would do the food manufacturers some good to find out that there’s more to “sugar free” than just taking the sugar out, and perhaps if they could lessen the carbs by like half and keep the flavor it might be worth the effort for me to go out of my way to make sure I’m not eating “regular” foods.
I’m done ranting now, it was just something to think about.
Chewing Problem - Diabetes 365 Day 120 - February 02, 2008
For as long as I can remember I’ve been a gum chewer. It’s a joke that I chew as much gum in a day as a chain smoker smokes cigarettes. Constantly having gum in my mouth helps me control the amount of food that goes down the hatch. If I have gum in my mouth I’m less likely to go eat “just because”.
Gum also helps me to not binge on candy, so I always try to keep gum around, it’s a good substitute for me.
New Nutrition Bar - Diabetes 365 Day 119 - February 01, 2008
After last summer and eating far too many Clif Bars, I vowed to never eat them again. I decided that they were far to heavy in my belly. I was surfing around some cycling team sites and I clicked on a link to these CheetahBars.
They were tasty and they didn’t feel heavy in my belly and they have the same amount of carbs as a Clif Bar. I think they’re a fair replacement for the Clif Bars.
I’ll be testing these bars to see how my blood sugars do while cycling after eating one of them. If my sugars stay stable they’ll be Courtney Approved.
Time For A Change - Diabetes 365 Day 113 - Jan 26, 2008
In the past month with my general disenchanting disposition regarding diabetes, my D blog Ride to Remedy has suffered immensely. In fact, up until the other day I hadn’t touched it since Dec 8th.
Sometimes in order for me to get on track with things, I just need something to change. Thus is the case for my D blog.
I’m hoping that with the change it will be easier to maintain and that I’ll write more, plus, I’m excited about it.
I wish that changes like this could be made in my diabetes more often because I might be inclined to do something about it instead of moan and groan about the monotony of living with the same thing day in and day out.
There is no cure for diabetes…
Yet!