You know how some days, nothing goes well and your diabetes is just a right royal pain in the proverbial?
Well, today was the total opposite – here is my day:
- Wake at 11.6mmol/L – I’m high (again) and experience tells me that will be the start of a terrible day
- Both of my colleagues are away today so I’m doing the work of three people – STRESS
- Head out to a meeting at 3pm and realise that I’ve not eaten breakfast or lunch (sorry to all the cringing dietitians out there!) so I hesitantly buy a ft long subway
- Meeting done, it’s back to work for an hour of hard graft before heading out to a game of squash which is always, without fail a BG disaster
- On the way home, someone drives into me coming out of their drive 200m from our house and completely staves in the drivers side of my car. I don’t know if they have insurance and it’s 100’s of dollars of damage to 3 panels. Wicked.
BUT, though all that – it’s actually been a good day.
- Because I was too busy to get breaky or lunch I got a kinda of lame basal rate test done which I’ve been meaning to do for ages
- Subway have nutritional information pamphlets in their stores so I could tell how much CHO was in their food – awesome, no guess and stab and no high *Fingers crossed*
- I got a test done before squash and was 7.9mmol/L – Subway, thank you…
- Did a solid 45 minutes of hard exercise and come out the other side at 6.8mmol/L (I did lose though dammit).
- Two hours later I’m still 6.8
- I’m going to bed soon and if I go low, that’s going to be attributed to tomorrow and won’t count!
- Aaron
By Aaron on 16 March 2010 at 10.30 pm
Posted in Exercise, Food, General, Slice of Life
Tagged as eating out, Exercise, Squash, stress, testing
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Posted in Exercise, Food, General, Slice of Life
Tagged as eating out, Exercise, Squash, stress, testing
This post has 11 comments so far. Add yours here, or trackback from your own site.
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Aaron wrote
So, about 1 minute after posting this – literally, I was 2.4mmol/L. Oh well. Over it.
Renata Porter wrote
Better day tomorrow Aaron!
Aaron wrote
Thanks Renata! It could have been worse I suppose. It can always be worse!
Sonia wrote
Still trying to think up an amazing breakfast for you!
Nic wrote
So sorry to hear it, Aaron – I do hope today is a million times better x
Aaron wrote
You guys are lovely
Sonia, if you can solve that problem for me then I’ll be forever grateful! (Sonia is my neighbour and is training to be a dietician – lucky me!).
Nic – today HAS to be better!
Saffy wrote
Aaron, the car alone would’ve been enough to cloud the day! Dare I say that being able to mostly get away without eating if you choose (or forget) to is one of the bonuses of being on the pump i.e. being almost “normal”? And bless Subway and the other fast food joints that have nutritional info available now – we might not LIKE the info but at least we can get our bolus right.
May today be oh so much calmer
Aaron wrote
You’re so right Saffy – it was one of the massive draw cards for me about the pump for sure. It makes a HUGE different to lifestyle for me. I couldn’t do without it now!
Sianne wrote
Sorry to hear it Aaron but at least it can only get better
I’m an absolute subway fan but was told by a medical professional not too eat it cos its fattening? I don’t even have any cheese
Roy wrote
I would like to suggest Aaron that as you said,
“BUT, though all that – it’s actually been a good day.”
From a diabetes point of view it surely was and I would add that even if I was using a pump or did not have diabetes, I would still have no desire to check out your daily procedure.
However, for the life of me, I can not envisage what it must be like for someone with T1 to be able to arise of a morning still taking their insulin and not have breakfast then leave home and arrive at work and proceed to expend more energy then miss lunch, not to mention morning tea. Then adjourn to the squash court of all places and proceed to engage in an exercise routine that would lay low many a non diabetes person of the same age and body mass. (saw Nic and you in the March diabetes mag), and end up 6.8 mmol/L some hours later.
The low BG shortly after could be another sort of plus, not showing up overnight.
Losing the game by the way doesn’t even come into it, just being able to participate and finish is the winner every time, anything else can be considered nothing more than an optional extra from a diabetes point of view. Be proud of your good day, Dude.
Jade wrote
I love the fact that everyone has crazy days, makes me feel so normal for having them also… the other night went to stay at mums with the kids, left BG meter at home (I live in Titirangi and mum is on the Shore), which is also remote for pump, so winged it for the night knowing that I would be high in the morning (was 16mmol) and had to use calculator to work out C-I ratio to plug into pump, lucky my mum was there to entertain kids – maths has never been my strong subject.