Lows
Low moments.
I felt the low start to creep in about 15 minutes after lunch. I was just a little lightheaded, and had the telltale heaviness to my body that I get when a low starts to set in. In the middle of running errands, I was annoyed to have to deal with this. I sighed as [...]
Monkey Wrenches.
I should have known. The morning had started with a low, and I should have known. In fact, the DexCom went off before the alarm, and I just should have known. I woke up, and downed a GU for the low, dozing back off for a few short moments before actually getting out of bed. [...]
Low mileage…
I somehow managed to book either a social bike ride or cycling competition for almost every weekend in April, so I thought this past Saturday would be a great time to get out on my road bike and a little training. One of my rides is a team triathlon coming up on April 11th, and [...]
The Low Dream
One thing that I’ve been lucky with in diabetes is that I am very hypoglycemic-aware. I feel my low symptoms acutely most of the time, and it’s rare that I’m surprised by a low. They also (knock on wood) wake me up when I have a low in the middle of the night. We’ve all [...]
Where have you been today?
Hi. I’m not gonna lie, I’m about to complain. Peep the pic of the Dexcom. That’s my last 12 hours. 117 at bedtime. 375 by 2:30am. 5 units of correction. 41 by 4:58am. GU pack. 223 when I wake up. 2.5 units of correction. 62 by the time I get to work. Damn. The. Pizza. [...]
At least I wasn’t in a kayak this time…
Last Friday I woke up to a particularly yucky fasting BG: 259. Ew. The night before I had been dropping steadily as bedtime approached and had downed two packets of GU in desperation to get to bed. Apparently I didn’t need them. I dialed in 4 units. My normal ratio is 1 unit for every [...]
68 grams of Carbohydrate. Believe dat.
I am sitting in Starbuck’s while I write this post, and I’m eating a bagel. Yeah I said it. Bagel. A veritable carbohydrate land mine just waiting to explode and ruin my numbers for the day. And I just don’t care that much. I know that’s not a great attitude, and I know I could [...]
Hard to swallow
Last weekend I went to Palm Springs for a bachelorette party for one of my best friends (just thought of another blog post: Insulin Titration for Tequila Shots: A User’s Guide…) and its safe to say that we tore it up. We sat down to breakfast at the hotel on Sunday morning, recapping the night while we [...]
Its the little things….
There’s so much inside information with diabetes – we have our own slang, inside jokes, and an entire medical dictionary’s worth of words that the non-’betic folk don’t know about (my best friend of 10 years just learned the word bolus - understandably, because why on earth would that come up in her daily conversation? Although maybe it should: [...]
Where’s the worst place to get a low blood sugar? Let’s talk kayaking…
Low bloodsugars are, by nature, inconvenient. They happen rapidly, they demand immediate attention regardless of scenario, they cause all sorts of bizarre bodily reactions, and if left untreated, a low glucose can actually kill you. Come to think of it, this is sounding remarkably like having children….but that’s a different blog post. You name the location, [...]
