What did you do Today – Diabetes
What did you do Today – Diabetes
The following article was posted on mydiablog.com and it will inspire you to improve Your lifestyle today!
I DID SOMETHING AMAZING TODAY!!!!!!!
I have enlisted the help of Doris, self-admited pain in the a**, she of strong opinions, who most of you know as a big contributor on this site, as a diabetes mentor. I’ll might never be the SuperHuman that she is, but I know I can do better.
My numbers lately have been bad, but today was the worst.
Today I learned too much insulin can result in big numbers. Who knew that, either?? I was traveling on a plane, had to get up super early, airport food, etc.
Here was my BG day: woke up, BG 196. Just before boarding plane, 339. (Ye gods I do NOT have days like this.) Landed at Noon, BG 300. Post lunch – I was at 439!!!!!!! This is not a typical day for me. I don’t panic, however, but the course of action I took was entirely different than the one I might normally have taken, and here it how it went down, with Doris’ guidance:
I followed the “rule of small numbers” according to Bernstein, like this:
4:15 pm – BG reading: 439 – 2 units of Humalog on a pre-warmed spot on my arm. Pre-warming to speed insulin absorption (who knew?)
5:15 pm – BG reading: 363 (wow – I was surprised 2u could do that) Took 2u more of Humalog (prewarming again)
6:15 pm – BG reading: 274 – 2 more units of Humalog (prewarmed, of course
7:05 pm – BG reading 191
7:45 pm – BG reading 126
What was remarkable about this to me was that normally, if I’d had a 400+ reading (and I’ve only had 2 of those that I can remember!)
I would have given myself a massive dose of insulin to correct, dropped like a rock and then would have had to gulp orange juice or glucose tabs or something to bring myself back. This was so much safer and predictable. And along the way, Doris helped me learn my correction number (the number of units of Humalog to correct for a high). Doris told me I should be very proud of what I did today. What I am is proud of what WE did today. I’m just beginning a journey that I think is going to be amazing, the Amazing Blood Sugar Normalization Journey.
I am far from perfect and like everybody, I have some bad habits, but I see definite positive change ahead. So THAT’s what I did today for my diabetes!!!!!
Cheers!!!
In-conclusion a prayer from nmgrandma: “Please God, help me to control my blood glucose so that I never have to deal with this.”
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