Diabetes: Three Nights Of Bitch Lows Inwards A Row

Because when multiple nights of pump of the nighttime Blood saccharide bitch lows arrive at off - 
and I am reminded i time once again that diabetes is indeed a fickle bitch too existence prepared isn't but for boy scouts. 
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There were iii nights inward a row concluding calendar week when severe lows had me sleeping with, too drinking from a 48 ounce bottle of Apple too Eve’s Apple juice past times my bed.
I was out of juice boxes too later on stumbling to the kitchen the outset night, I improvised too made certain I was prepared. 
3 nights of travail stained sheets sans the form of fun I would prefer when it comes to sweating betwixt the sheets. 
3 nights of thinking WTF. 
Three nights of doing my best to breathe deep, too remain calm. 
3 nights of consistently lowering temp basal rates.
1 nighttime of thinking that my blood saccharide mightiness non genuinely ever come upwards up.
3 morn where morn came to chop-chop too non quick plenty too all rolled into one.
3 mornings where java was key. 
1 morn of waking upwards amongst a crazy high rebound, ii mornings of waking upwards to textbook blood sugars too existence surprised.
2 mornings waking amongst the meter adjacent to my head.
1 morn of looking downward too seeing my meter sticking out from nether my bed.

On the 4th nighttime everything was fine too the crazy lows left.
Still, I slept amongst a bottle juice past times my bed for the balance of the calendar week - because it made me experience better. 
3 nights of lows inward a row doesn’t arrive at off to me often, but when it does... it does... too reminds me that I ever conduct hold to brand certain I'm covered. 
There’s the less than pleasant bottle of orange glucose tabs inward my driver side machine door holder (I don’t know the technical motor-head cite for it, but I’m calling it a machine door holder,) that stays at that spot inward illustration I run out of my preferred Tropical Fruit, glucose stash I maintain inward my 2nd machine loving cup holder. 
There are those moments when I run into moving-picture demo size SweeTarts or Mike&Ike's on sale too purchase them - hoping that I won’t postulate them to process a low, but ever relieved when I notice them inward the pantry during one. 
My suitcase ever has a ziplock dorsum filled amongst 3 infusion sets too 3 reservoirs, too my move toiletry illustration ever has an extra box of exam strips too lancets - but inward illustration something happens to my carry-on traveling chemist's shop of diabetes supplies. 

I brand certain I know where the gift store too vending machines are inward every hotel I remain inward - too I man child a bottle juice for my the nighttime stand upwards inward my hotel room - but inward case. 

Same goes for ever carrying a spare infusion laid too KIND bar inward my handbag  - because you lot never know. 

We brand adaptions to our basis when it comes to living amongst diabetes too existence prepared.
Being prepared helps us to go independent, it it seems similar it’s 2nd nature too it makes us experience prophylactic - until a crazy depression (or a stubborn high,) leaves us sweating too scared. 
Waiting those fifteen minutes for fifteen carbs to boot inward seems similar the longest fifteen minutes inward the basis because they are. 
But nosotros practice it - too nosotros maintain plowing through life too nosotros larn dorsum upwards later on the lows too the highs because nosotros are resilient.   

We conduct hold the Boy’s Scouts motto to pump too arrive our own - too nosotros practice our best to go prepared - too nosotros maintain praying that nosotros volition buy the farm along to larn dorsum on too plough through. 

Tonight I'll purchase a couple of 48 ounce bottles of juice, a pack of juice-boxes, too a duo of bottles of glucose tabs, because I’m going away on Th too won’t go dorsum until Sunday and don’t desire to come upwards habitation to a refrigerator without juice, a pantry amongst out juice-boxes, too a nightstand or carry-on sans glucose tabs. 

What most you?