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Knowing Myself a Lot Better

4/12/2017

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Over the past year or so I learned a lot about myself and about life.  When it comes to my diabetes and my health endurance running has helped me learn so much about both.  I know my body a lot better than I ever have and that helped a lot the past two days.

Late Monday afternoon I was not feeling good at all, my stomach was off and I was very weak.  Kate and I would go to dinner and I was unable to eat anything and was very quiet.  When we arrived home I did my usual bedtime routine and headed right to bed.  I would be up at midnight and 2am to get sick.  After each I would test my blood sugar and see that I was in range, on the lower end but still in range which was good.  Tuesday I got to know my bed a lot better, I would only get out of bed to use the bathroom, have some soup and to call work.  Tuesday night I had some help from Kate and her mother motivating me to go to the emergency room to get some fluids.

I was planning on going Wednesday morning and told I should go sooner rather than later which looking back makes a lot more sense.  The hospital was a diabetes adventure, from a nurse asking me why I didn't take humalog when I got sick at 2am to another nurse bringing me a regular coke for a beverage while I got fluids.  It was interesting to the least, but knowing my body and my diabetes helped me standup for myself and get the proper care that I needed.  All of my blood work would come back normal and after a liter of fluids I was feeling much better.

Today with temperatures in the 70s I wanted nothing more than to go for a nice fifteen mile run that I had planned earlier in the week.  Yes I could have gotten that run in but what would it have done to my body?  I'm sure I'd be feeling like crap and sick again later next week.  A couple days off will not kill me, if anything it will help me and keep me on pace to run my first 50k in just over a month.  

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