Blue Friday

That's right it's Blue Friday peeps....

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Happy World Diabetes Day! Great news The Big Blue Test made its target of 20k - fantastic news!

I baked cup cakes with blue circles on them for a meeting at work today - but unfortunately they had a wee accident
on the bus - and my circles all went haywire. Below is the best if the bunch - they still tasted great - really who can go past line and coconut? It's like a piña colada in a cake!

Blue Friday

Ok so I'm a tad behind the 8 ball (as i really should have been rocking the blue last Friday too) but hey I'm still new to this - but at least I'm giving it a go!

Don't forget to log your test results on The Big Blue Test website theres only 5 days to go, if they reach their goal of 20K by World Diabetes Day on Wednesday 14th the program sponser will donate $10K to organizations that provide life-saving supplies and services to people with diabetes in need.

I'd also like to say a big thank you to the dolphins who accompanied me on my jog this morning - it was so worth getting out if bed at 5.30am to see you!

My Diaversary

It was a toss-up between a tattoo or starting blog to mark my diaversary – and I figured a blog was less painful – so here it is.

It's 12 months to the day that I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 37. To say it was shock to system is an understatement – who knew you could be diagnosed with T1 at this age, no one in my family had D – it hadn’t even crossed my mind that this was the problem. In fact it was kind of an accident that I was diagnosed – I was seeing the doctor for something totally unrelated and they ordered numerous blood tests – of which an HBA1C was one of them – no wonder I felt like crap – my fasting BLG’s were high and don’t even talk about the oral glucose test that I had to follow up with. I guess I’m lucky that we ‘discovered’ this before I ended up in hospital (like so many others) – I was still producing some beta cells at the time, I had lost a bit of weight – but I was nowhere near emancipated (unfortunately this has crept back on, thanks insulin).

So 12 months on, and I’m getting the hang of things – I have my ups and downs (but who doesn’t), there are times where my BGLs just don’t make sense and I have panic attack or 2, but it has made me think more about what food I consume on a daily basis, it gets me out of bed early most morning to run on the beach (which is one of THE best ways to wake up) , I have discovered the online diabetes world (which has been a god send – I may not have commented on your blogs peeps but I have been stalking you) and it’s made me see just what a truly fabulous man I married – he has been an absolute rock and taken this all in his stride.

So dear diabetes on our 1 year anniversary – I may have to live with you for the rest of my life – but I do not have to like you – you may slow me down from time to time but you will not stop me from living my life or being the person I want to be.

These are my ramblings…