Type 1 diabetes

i was so surprised to see only 15 post today, is it because robby is
gone?

i am having one of those crappy days. my blood sugar is fine, but
my head hurts, i am tired i just feel like crap. i think it is all
of this rain here in Dayton, Ohio. it just keeps raining and the
sun went south for the season. what a gloomy day, yuck

For years, even prior to diabetes, the easter bunny has brought our bathing suits, flip flops, beach towel, pool toys, and new tooth brushes. My kids love candy, but don’t eat it like the average kid. They have never finished a bunny, even when they share!

They each get their favorite candy (m&m’s for Syd, Reese cup for Tia and 3 musketeer for Dee) then maybe some gum and then the STUFF. Now that 2 of the 3 are teens, they would rather have the new suit anyway!

Rhonda

Hi everyone, This morning UPS delivered a new monitor offered for free
from BD. Their website is www.bd.com. Anyone, especially moms
that need an extra one for the car for the kids should go on there and
see about getting one. It was totally free with 50 strips and all you
need to test.
I called the company just now to thank them. The number is
1-800-281-4717. You can get one by calling that number as well sent to
you. It’s a promo and won’t
cost you a dime!
Just thought I’d pass this on, nothing like a freebie when the monitors
can be so expensive when you need an extra one. Let me know if you were
able to get one. Mine, I obtained because of a postcard they sent me.
Take care everyone!
Carol

Hello Jen…..

I’m not a doctor…

The number’s you’re having could be all kinds of problems. Regardless of how it happened, you did just fine kiddo… even ASSUMING that you could have turned the &@)#&@#@) thing off… but none of that is important.

My advice and its purely my worthless opinion….. (ie not worth anything)

Until you see your MD today, tomorrow, consider going back to your normal short acting insulin injections. Something is wrong with the machine, or you made some kind of silly proceedural error. No biggie. But until you figure out what happened… disconnection sounds the safest route.

Heck the insulin you’re using could be comprimised… any chance its been frozen, boiled (real cold, real hot) in the last few days? Dorm rooms are not exactly comfortable places temprature wise. Classrooms, not much better… Left in the car for a few hours… all kinds of possibilities…

Anyway it goes… something is off. Your numbers need to come down because you feel like hell x10. Only way I can see in your shoes would be go back to what you are certain worked… even if less so called perfectly.

Please take it easy on yourself… you encountered one of the RIGHTOUS white coats… they deserve mockery and scorn. I know I tend toward cranky at 600 too…
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Hello…

Time is disguastingly short this morning, hense no time (at this second) was reading Joan’s post about a “low” experience she had… and thought it was frankly a GOOD story… a tad bit funny too to be perfectly honest.

Anybody have good stories about their being LOW…. things you’ve done, said…

It might be helpful… heck it could be fun?!!?!?

Perhaps it could even be about a “friend”… if helpful to the writing process….

Anybody

Jeff

Good Morning,

Robby there is no reason why you cannot eat the sloppy joe. Its like all other foods you will ever eat. Figure out how much insulin to use for exchange/carb coverage… feel free to eat it! (Brown Sugar in Sloppy Joe…. ugggh… must be using/making some awfully strong sauce to need anything like… that)

Now… the whole Honeymoon thing.

It is possible that everything diabetes is fairytale perfect for rest of ones days… and we all live happily ever after… once upon a time…. however I suspect as in most relationships of any type small things change after a while and we all need to keep things fresh… new… Using a horrible metaphor (sorry ladies)…. Diabetes is a ~nasty mistress~ if you do not attend to “her” on a daily basis “she” will make your life a living hell. She gets REAL JEALOUS… if the focus is not on her… “often”. If you ignore “her” she will and DOES get even…

She has a ~special type~ of “revenge” which she saves for holidays and family gatherings…. <wg

Like I said… its a baaaad metaphor.

<<it really hurts to be referred to as a fool. I was very angry at the time, and I wanted to put my pump back on. That I was not allowed and was informed that I would take the lantus even if the security guards had to hold me down

WHAT THE
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its amazing how my sugars have went down since i first got out of the
hospital. when i first got out my sugars were constantly in the upper
190s to 260’s. now i’m almost always anywhere from 70 something to
140. i’ve only had 1 time where i had it at 150 or higher before a
meal since back in late december. my average readings for the past
week were 127 at breakfast, 100 at lunch, 105 at supper and 104 at
bedtime.
robby

Well, I knew this day was coming, I didn’t expect it to be so soon.
Madelyn was at 325 at lunch for no apparent reason. Not a ketone to
be found, no fever, not a sniffle, same 35 gram breakfast that we
generally eat. Unless Sunday School is posing some underlying
stress to Madelyn, there was really no reason for such a high.
So I called the doctor to check in for our weekly chat, read her
back all of the numbers for the week, gave her the insulin doses,
and without warning, she laid it on me.
“I think we’ve reached the end of honeymoon.” Through tears I
gasped, “but the books say it will last up to two years.” And she
gingerly replied, “the books also say it will only last a few weeks.”
The upside is that the doctors feel it’s time to put her on the
pump. Maybe this will help stablize her some since she never really
has since being diagnosed. I’m a little cautious of this as when
she was first diagnosed they said we were at least a year from the
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