How low can you go?

After a late night with some extremely poor food choices - I knew I was going to up for a high at some point of the night - but I didn't expect to wake up at 3am with a reading of 20.2 (no ketones thank goodness). I corrected and upped the basal by 20% only to wake 5 hours later with that horrid sluggish feeling and a 12.4-huh? 

Ok so corrected again - had breakfast and jumped on the bus to work. 9am comes around and I'm now rocking a 2.2..... It's going to be a long day people.

Longest 10 minutes

Cold sweats... the shakes... confusion...Waiting out those 10 minutes after treating a hypo are the longest 10 minutes of my life...

Vintage Pumpers I need your advise

Ok I need your help (ladies in particular)- are there any other vintage loving pumpers out there? I am in the process of changing from MDI (multiple daily injections) to a pump (it seems to be a long and laborious process which is oh so frustrating).

But while I have been waiting for everything to align for me, I got to wondering - where am I going to wear the pump?

I hear lot of ladies say in they wear it attached to their bra – ok that’s great but what happens if you tend to wear tight fitting tops? On a garter you say? But what if you wear a tight pencil skirt? I’m also a dancer (socially not professionally) and my husband and I lend more towards the very fast Rockabilly jiving songs – so if I wear the pump on garter – is it going to stay up? Or will it tend to slip down?

In winter I wear foundation garments too – girdles, long line bras – and sometimes by the end of the day these undergarments can dig in to you in the most unfortunate and uncomfortable of places (and let’s not forget those boned dresses we wear too) – is the cannula going to dig in and irritate me? – Where does the pump go in these situations?

I know there is a whole raft of accessories out there on the internet – but really why they might work for some people – they are not for me – the only one that is coming close to my sensibilities is one I stumbled across on etsy called Medifashion who sell a garter type thing – has anyone had any experience with these?

Any advice/help would be most welcome.

Blue Friday

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

WDD

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…