We have been needing to sell our house for about 2 years now. We tried when I was pregnant with my son Wyatt, but it didn't sell. Wyatt is now a year and a half old and we have totally outgrown this house. Its a GREAT little house, but its little. We have no play area's, no game room, no "extra" anything. There is no hallway closet/s for storage either. We store our blankets in the corner by the couch. I'm love doing arts and crafts with the kids, but unfortunately there is no room to do big fun things because I have nowhere to store the stuff. In our small little coat closet I have shoved all our art supplies on the top shelf. That would be fine, but where do I put the things such as umbrellas and hats/mittens/scarves that need to be in the coat closet. You get my point...back to the diabetes blog, Krista.
So today I started do the massive cleaning and boxing up of things we don't need on a daily basis. We CANNOT put our house on the market the way it is now. In Wyatt's closet we have an old sub-woofer of Nicks, a guitar of Nicks (PS, he doesn't play guitar...at all), extra diapers that kids grew out of that size before we ever got to use them....clothes boxes....and its not a very big closet! So Wyatt's room got my attention today. I went CRAZY. The cleaning bug got me good. Lysol wipes even got some major use in there...then...the xmas stuff started to get put away. Boy, I am on a roll... I also got 1 load of laundry washed, dried and put away...one more in the dryer and one in the wash.... THEN...I feel weak. Again. Everyday for the past few days I've been going low. Not at the same time as it would usually happen though. It might be at 10 in the morning, it might be at breakfast, after lunch, bedtime. UGH. So all my cleaning that so desperately needs my attention is stopped dead in its tracks. I usually don't really care about having diabetes; I'm so used to having it that I hate it, but I don't let it get the best of me. When it stops me from being able to do anything, I get kind of ticked off though.
Have I mentioned I've been looking into CGM's? I was. I decided against it because there seems to be more CON's than PRO's for me. So, no thank you CGM, even though my insurance would pay for a great portion of it... Want to know what I've been looking into though? DAD's. Diabetic Alert Dogs. Pro's and Con's again though. I NEED something to help me out though. I need something that will give me a heads up before I go low, and before I get too high. I can't keep living like this, I'll never make it. I don't really know what to do...so I'm going to keep looking into things. Right now, the DAD is looking like a pretty good option. Keep reading to see where this takes me!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Bringing Up the Low's
I belong to this wonderful diabetes blog on facebook. Its a blog for parents of diabetics, but I belonged to a different group on facebook and was asked to join the parents group. I did thinking it was kind of silly, but boy am I ever glad I did join. It is suck an amazing group, I feel really lucky to belong to it.
Anyways, this morning there was a posting from one of the moms who had given her daughter a glass of milk and her daughters blood sugars went through the roof. Her sugars were normal, then they skyrocketed after the milk. She was so confused as to why! I thought, its MILK, that's why she's high. I wrote to her saying when my blood sugars go low that the BEST thing there is for me to bring my sugars up is milk. It shoots me up while still being an easy to drink to try and get down when the yuckyness of the low sets in. Its smooth, and really easy to gulp! I was surprised when so many parents said they had never thought of using milk to bring up a low because its...well...milk.
I mentioned that she could try a test to see how the milk effects her blood sugars. Give her a glass of milk when she hasn't ate or drank anything, then test her sugars every 3-4 minutes for a while after. See how it brings her sugars up. Some foods and drinks affect us different so milk might be one that really brings me up, but not so much other people.
Some of the other things I use to raise my sugars are apple juice, and if there is nothing else around I will drink orange juice. Glucose tabs don't do a thing to me! NOTHING. Straight sugar tabs, and they do nothing. We were shopping at a grocery store a few months back and I felt weak. My blood sugar was low 40's. I ate 4 glucose tabs, checked about 6-8 minutes later....and I was the exact same number. It hadn't budged an ounce.
Anyways, this morning there was a posting from one of the moms who had given her daughter a glass of milk and her daughters blood sugars went through the roof. Her sugars were normal, then they skyrocketed after the milk. She was so confused as to why! I thought, its MILK, that's why she's high. I wrote to her saying when my blood sugars go low that the BEST thing there is for me to bring my sugars up is milk. It shoots me up while still being an easy to drink to try and get down when the yuckyness of the low sets in. Its smooth, and really easy to gulp! I was surprised when so many parents said they had never thought of using milk to bring up a low because its...well...milk.
I mentioned that she could try a test to see how the milk effects her blood sugars. Give her a glass of milk when she hasn't ate or drank anything, then test her sugars every 3-4 minutes for a while after. See how it brings her sugars up. Some foods and drinks affect us different so milk might be one that really brings me up, but not so much other people.
Some of the other things I use to raise my sugars are apple juice, and if there is nothing else around I will drink orange juice. Glucose tabs don't do a thing to me! NOTHING. Straight sugar tabs, and they do nothing. We were shopping at a grocery store a few months back and I felt weak. My blood sugar was low 40's. I ate 4 glucose tabs, checked about 6-8 minutes later....and I was the exact same number. It hadn't budged an ounce.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
OUCH!
So this is just a random post, but I wanted to put it on here anyways.
You know how your pickers (what I call the little machine that pokes my finger to draw blood) have different settings on it? To make the level of poking weaker or stronger? Well I accidentally changed mine and dang does it hurt! I have 2 kits that I use. One of the kits has an older picker in it and needs to be set to a 4 to draw blood. The newer monitor has a new picker in it and it hurts like heck, so its set to a 2. I must have changed the 2 to the 4 because MAN, did it hurt...and it still hurts...and I did it yesterday! CRAZY. I promise for some new fun posts soon...
You know how your pickers (what I call the little machine that pokes my finger to draw blood) have different settings on it? To make the level of poking weaker or stronger? Well I accidentally changed mine and dang does it hurt! I have 2 kits that I use. One of the kits has an older picker in it and needs to be set to a 4 to draw blood. The newer monitor has a new picker in it and it hurts like heck, so its set to a 2. I must have changed the 2 to the 4 because MAN, did it hurt...and it still hurts...and I did it yesterday! CRAZY. I promise for some new fun posts soon...
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