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Lazy Sunday

1/15/2012

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Over the past three days my blogs have been more about thoughts I've had for a long time.  During those three days my blood sugars were very respectable and my insulin intake was hovering around forty units each day.  Today like any day I did do a lot of thinking but nothing that deserved its own blog.  Today I awoke at 7am and it was off to test with my favorite band, Snow Patrol, singing Olive Grove Facing the Sea.  It’s odd the chorus of that song is “I don’t wanna wake up” I swear the songs I hear each morning predict my day with their lyrics.  When I tested I was happy to see 146, I would give myself 4.4 units to cover the Fiber One Raisin Bran.  My morning would be like the rest of my day, layed back and enjoyable.  The only negative was having to walk our dog after breakfast.  With the temperature at 10 degrees, I’d look like an eskimo walking Dusty.  Although the walk was only ten minutes my hands and feet were frozen.  Staying with the lazy Sunday theme I pretended I was my father, I made a cup of coffee; read the paper and watched Meet the Press.

I did my lunchtime blood sugar around 11:45 and was 88.  My wife and I would be heading to her parents’ house for lunch.  Lunch was scheduled for noon, as noon time rolled around I could see lunch was going to be delayed.  I could feel my blood sugar dropping and didn’t something that I rarely do any time in my life.  I made it known that I needed to eat and that I needed some juice to get my sugar up.  After a cup of apple juice I was back to normal, minutes later I began to eat my turkey burger and a few Fritos.  I gave myself 4.1 units knowing that I had a lot of juice and my sugar would rise.  The only carbs I had for lunch were in the hamburger roll and the five Fritos I ate. I find funny that my life is so scheduled that a fifteen minute delay causes some trouble.  I don’t know if that is good or bad, if I was at work and I needed to stay out on the golf course I wouldn’t have been able to.  I have a lot of trouble with that, I know it comes with the disease but I always feel that some think it’s used as an excuse.  For those that think that I’d like to trade places with you for a day.  The rest of the afternoon would consist of watching football. 

Dinner would be around 6pm.  As I started to prepare my famous brown rice and veggies I tested and saw that I was 114, perfect!!!  I’d go with a dual wave bolus for my insulin.  A dual wave is when I give myself about half of my total meal insulin before eating and I get the rest anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes later.  The carbohydrates in rice and pasta don’t kick in immediately; it takes an hour or more for them to begin working.   I have not used this feature as much as I should, I have begun playing around with it this winter when I’m less active and can afford to be low or high to see how the timing of insulin worked.  Tonight it didn’t work to well; I was 55 around 8pm.  Lesson learned; dial back the units of insulin given in the second wave.  A glass of apple juice and a small bowl of Cheerios would get the sugar back to where it needed to be.  But now the real fun begins, did the rice not kick in yet? If so I’ll be around 250 before bed.  Only time will tell, that’s the joy of Diabetes. 

Units of Insulin-36.00
Average Blood Sugar-122
Calorie Intake-1,284 (wow I don't eat when I don't workout)

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