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insulin goes skunky ? Magic Eight-ball says YES in that place volition endure times when my insulin absolutely will,(and has,) gone skunky - peculiarly if in that place happens to endure a heatwave my area. And there's been those unfortunate times when i of my insulin bottles has met an early on popular off because it accidentally smashed onto a tile floor. Yep, its happened, multiple times. In my home, inward the bath at a hotel, inward my friends homes - both unopen past times in addition to inward New York City. Speaking of NYC, when I move I select to convey extra insulin amongst me in addition to in that place I times I can’t proceed that extra bottle chilled, in addition to I destination upward SOOL (Shit Out Of Luck) regarding that bottle. Most times I move amongst the bottle I’m already using, but if it’s an extended trip ( similar when I went to Hawaii in addition to Europe) where I had to convey 2 bottles, non one. Good luck explaining move plans/diabetes requirements ...

I sat on the bird waiting for it to direct hold off together with wing the friendly skies. I was a hot, tired, viscous mess together with for the outset fourth dimension inward 2 days I wasn’t surrounded yesteryear people amongst diabetes. And quite frankly, that only felt weird together with lonely all rolled into one.  I was on my means dwelling menage from the Roche Summit together with I was sad to function out Indy for therefore many reasons.  As I sat at that topographic point lost inward idea together with Fruit Zombies, my ticker chirped out a familiar array of beeps reminding me that I had indeed had a temporary basal charge per unit of measurement going on. I glanced downwardly at it together with saw that it was slightly entangled inward my seatbelt, fixed it together with tried to concentrate on the Fruit Zombies on my iPad.  Two minutes afterward I heard the familiar chirping in i lawsuit to a greater extent than together with got actually annoyed....

So final nighttime I decided to alter out my reservoir later on the Low Reservoir Alarm sounded most xx minutes earlier I was cook to striking the sack.  I had ix units left as well as I felt similar it was ameliorate to endure condom than sorry. So I got upwardly off the couch, unscrewed my reservoir as well as tubing from my catch & my person, rewound the pump, as well as thence went to larn myself a refill. I went inward the fridge, grabbed my insulin as well as a fresh reservoir ( I’ve mentioned this before, I perish on a few insulin reservoirs inward the refrigerator to salvage me a step,) filled upwardly as well as went to select handgrip of my pump. It wasn’t on my waist or my kitchen counter. I figured I must convey left it on the couch.  So dorsum inward the Living room I went.... And  it wasn’t on the couch. Or the java table, TV stand, or marble terminate tables on either side of my eggplant colored couch.  And at that signal I said these wor...

Two posts inwards ane day? So much for resting my splinted finger - CRAY to the Z, but this then cool that it's totally worth it.  I saw the next video on  the fabulous Our Diabetic LIfe's D Mama Meri Schuhmacher's facebook page (I acquire then much from her,) as well as it's chop-chop making the circular on many a DOCer's facebook page, including mine.  And personally, I've already watched it similar ten times - And it totally blows what's left of my mind.  All the diabetes realities inwards ane music video as well as A'la Bohemian Rhapsody - Freddie Mercury would hold upwards then proud! And every minute far every minute Jacob as well as his amazing Diabetes solid unit of measurement are concerned - I but desire to hug them!!! Here's a link to video's youtube page - Let Jacob & Company know what you lot think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vfei1UZluug

Like it or not, diabetes makes us prepare patience in addition to fine tunes our waiting skills in addition to makes us shout out upwards that promise does indeed float #####  The terms  " waiting it out" in addition to “ waiting out ” refers to all types of things when it comes to living alongside diabetes.  Sometimes nosotros receive got to wait out a depression blood carbohydrate xv grams of carbs at at time. We receive got to wait out the hunger, the fearfulness in addition to the fact that nosotros think that our blood carbohydrate volition never become up. And piece we’re waiting nosotros endeavor our best to calm ourselves downwards & proceed it together - in addition to non simply for ourselves, but equally good for the people nosotros love. Other times a high blood carbohydrate forces us to wait it out  for hours in addition to it tin terminate look similar forever. And sometimes no affair how much nosotros correction bolus ( or ra...

Every morning time since Mon I've woken upwards alongside a high blood saccharide as well as I convey no clue every bit to why.  It's weird, it's annoying as well as honestly, I JUST DON'T GET IT. I've switched infusion sites, done correction boluses as well as still, I wake upwards alongside a blood saccharide inward the mid to high ii hundreds.  I don't similar starting my twenty-four hours alongside a high blood saccharide (or a depression blood saccharide for that matter,) it pisses me off.  And don't fifty-fifty teach me started on the whole "It feels similar I'm walking through JELLO because I woke upwards alongside a high blood sugar," thing. I've been plowing through the calendar week at gangbusters speed as well as I haven't allow it behave on my work.   Because that's what PWDs do. We plough through the muck as well as shitstorm of flexure balls that diabetes throws our agency because nosotros must. Sometimes nosot...

I'm supposed to larn my blood operate done tomorrow for my Endo solar daytime of the month side yesteryear side week.  Here's the thing: My blood sugars get got been inwards the crapper since the substance of concluding week, I get got a nasty summertime mutual frigidity together with sore pharynx together with I'm currently on a temporary basal charge per unit of measurement that fluctuates anywhere betwixt 119% together with 125% over the concluding v days.  And FTR: I experience similar crap. every bit good the mutual frigidity together with sore throat, I get got a blood saccharide headache together with my cervix hurts.  I know it shouldn't thing if my labs exhibit a high together with or elevated fasting blood saccharide -especially since I'm fighting off a mutual frigidity together with a sore throat.     I know my lab operate isn't most the fasting blood sugar, it's most what's going on inwards my trunk since my concluding Endo appointment,...

Yesterday sucked - And thence it didn't. Here's what happened & I promise you lot tin flame relate! ########## “You know you’re A1c is 8.2,” said the attention Fellow (who looked similar she was maybe  15 too was extremely polite,) every bit she went through the criterion questions thence should could prep physician J. Me: NO, I DIDN'T. I expected it to live inward the mid sevens, but non 8.2 . And my pump sank into my the pit of my breadbasket too I kept looking downwards at the floor.  I explained virtually my recent cortisone shot for tendinitis too my crazy insulin requirements over the yesteryear few weeks - And how that ironically, my numbers had been to a greater extent than written report amongst the cortisone than pre-cortisone  - because I'd been tracking too adjusting my temporary basal rates accordingly.  I knew the attention was trying her best, but I simply wanted to beak amongst physician J. She left the room to grab physician J too ...

I looked down together with saw to a greater extent than or less weird triple combo of a diabetes rorschach test, alongside to a greater extent than or less diabetes origami &  "Still Life With Diabetes," portrait mixed in.... simply to mess alongside my caput - After all, nosotros are talking almost Rorschach exam   ###### So I got inwards my car, looked downwards together with this what I saw.  Actually, I saw this when it was clipped to my hip, but I couldn't instruct a expert moving-picture demo of it, thence I e'er thence gingerly placed the insulin on my knee.  And together with then I was said: Wow, it's similar to a greater extent than or less foreign Diabetes Rorschach Test , e xcept the ink blot's been replaced alongside view tubing.  Also: Diabetes equally Origami crossed my hear equally well  Damn, if the tubing had somehow maneuvered itself into at the cast of a crane, that would accept been awesome!...

I  spent  a few  hours  this weekend cleaning out my onetime machine together with getting it prepped to give to my nephew. In the procedure I constitute my favorite beaded flip-flops from v years agone shoved nether the driver’s seat. And i n the glove compartment I constitute a handbag of petrified Jellybeans I’d used to process a few lows from a few Easter's ago.   In the console I unearthed a spare duet of inexpensive sunglasses, a hard-as-nails Lara bar that must receive got been 4 years old, along side a long agone ringlet of expired glucose tabs, Tropical Fruit flavored.  I likewise constitute ii unopened infusion sets together with reservoirs. I LOL’d when I constitute my D stash together with my flip-flops together with felt a piddling nostalgic.  My machine had been adept to me, much meliorate than I’d been to it - And presently I would travel proverb adept farewell to it for good.  My ‘new to me car,’ is solely ii years oneti...

Sometimes annoying things occur alongside diabetes that direct hold zip to create alongside our blood saccharide or our insurance companies.   We tin direct hold a few beats as well as figure things out or nosotros tin allow the D logistics ruin our twenty-four hr menstruum - OR nosotros tin larn all MacGyver on diabetes donkey  - It's our selection #### Spent a lot of fourth dimension on the beach this yesteryear Lord's Day as well as Mon as well as I'm really glad I did.  The Sun was shining as well as at that topographic point was a cool sea breeze, the H2O temps  were  in the 70s as well as the  waves were took your breath away piece breathing life dorsum into y'all at the same time. I wearable an insulin pump, it’s non H2O proof, merely that fact never stops me from embracing my inner fish.  I  was jonesing for some much needed common salt H2O activity - I HAD to larn my trunk inwards the sea as well as nether the waves, ASAP....

3 days of actually nifty blood sugars sugars (except for an eighty blood carbohydrate before bed on Midweek night,) forthwith followed past times 24 hours of crap blood sugars, (because, of course) 3 infusion site changes too moderate ketones that snuck upwards on me too therefore stealth like, I didn’t fifty-fifty experience their presence until I tested for them.  If I hadn’t tested for ketones concluding black afterwards my numbers started climbing yesterday at 7pm, when I checked my dinner blood carbohydrate too it was 242 too upwards from 176 ii hours earlier.  I changed my site too had a   tomato too mozzarella salad amongst roughly italian breadstuff croutons for dinner because I didn’t desire to consume anything heavy until me blood sugars evened out.    The numbers that followed were 239 at 8:45 too and 250 at x pm, which is when I changed out my site AGAIN.  So it turns out my 3 hr infusion site was non exclusively clogged, it was a bleeder ...

So, I started writing this post service because I was incredibly annoyed alongside my diabetes exploits in conclusion nighttime in addition to today. But in addition to therefore the note changed when I started writing nearly the Diabetes Online Community - Now my whole note for today has changed. Not a big surprise when y'all mean value y'all nearly it, but much appreciated! THANKS DOC! ####### I could write nearly how I kept going depression in conclusion night, fifty-fifty afterward a dinner that included means also much Italian staff of life dipped inwards sautéed garlic in addition to olive oil, or how afterward said feast I couldn't larn to a higher house 72 in addition to had to strength feed Starbursts to process the lows that occurred betwixt 8pm in addition to 11pm.  I could write how I only had java for breakfast this forenoon because of waking upwards alongside a 327 blood saccharide in addition to how my blood saccharide refused to dip below 200 until a ...

Hard to to run across the complexities of the tide pool, but receive got a hold back at the duet amongst the domestic dog & maintain inward heed that they're standing far from shore, inward talocrural articulation deep H2O in addition to on the border of the tide puddle embankment. Photo courtesy of Purple Girl's Mommy   Last Sun was 1 of the most beautiful Indian Summer Sundays, EVER.  It was sunny in addition to 79 degrees amongst a cool breeze in addition to a slightly higher H2O temp, which made y'all to a greater extent than aware of the fluttering of autumn inward the air.  And to transcend it off, the currents in addition to tides had created a tidal puddle betwixt three in addition to only over five feet deep along the shore trouble that stretched out along for God knows how long.  My friends children were kayaking along the enormous stretch of tide puddle in addition to their dads were taking turns tossing each kid (between the ages of vii...