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So it is about halfway through my vacation in North Carolina. I’m still alive, but have resumed pumping after two mornings of 200+ wakeups. The days, surprisingly, have been pretty much perfect, hovering around 100 every time I checked. Hmmm… Anyways, this morning was not a happy one. Woke up sweating, scared crapless because of a nightmare I was having…. checked and rang up around 280. Damn you, Lantus! It was about 5:30am, and I was not about to go back to sleep after that nightmare, so I popped in a site and headed down to the beach.
I got a ton of cool pictures of the sunrise over the ocean… Looks a lot more like a sunset, but still. I have to work with what I’ve been given. The sun rises over the ocean, I’ll get up to take sunset pictures at sunrise. :-) I shall clean them up once I’m back at home and have an image editing program readily available. Forgot to double-check that it was installed on my laptop before leaving. Doh!
Everything else is going well, got a tad burned on the first day, but other than that everything is great. Hope everyone’s week is going as well as mine. :-)
It’s been a while since I’ve posted…. haven’t exactly felt like, it to be truthful.
My girlfriend returned from her trip to Germany both safe and sound, although she was quite tired. It is really great to have her back in town, and to be able to see her whenever I’d like. :-)
I’m leaving for the Outer Banks, NC, early Sunday morning. I have decided that, while the pump is soooo much easier, I will be taking the MDI route for this vacation. In the recent past, I have tried thigh sites, and they do not work all too well. That is how I got through last year’s vacation, but it really is not an option this time around. I know it is really vain, and pretty stupid, but I really don’t want that big white oval for when I show the tan I got. It’s obnoxiously…white. So shots it is. It shouldn’t be too bad… I started experimenting with my Lantus last night, and today has gone pretty well. Running on the high side for my liking (woke up at 155mg/dl… as opposed to my normal high 70s, low 80s).
It really feels like a blast from the past though. Giving myself shots… Actually counting the carbs and not just checking the onboard list of foods to double check the carb count…. I have a slight feeling this might be the kick in the pants I need to get back on the horse and get everything under control again. The only problem I forsee, however, is that I’m running somewhat low on strips, and I can’t refill my prescription, and my Endo’s office was closed when I got off of work today… grrrr…. Luckily (no, not really), my mom is a Type 2, and she has currently laying flat on her back with the horse nowhere in sight (she doesn’t test all too much… and yes, I yell at her). She re-filled her script for strips, so I’ve got a backup supply if I run out of mine. Sort of nice to have a person I can leech strips off of when I run low. :-p
Moving on to the next big point of this post: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the movie. I saw it on Wednesday, and I absolutely hated it. Having just completed the book over the weekend, I had all of the key plot elements, as well as every other element of the book, fresh in my mind. Main elements were missing, semi-key characters were non-existent…. The entire sport of Quidditch, a big thing in the book, was left out. Entirely. Not one mention throughout the movie. Luckily, I was with my girlfriend, so I couldn’t get too angry about it, but still. It was pretty amazing how that movie got into theaters when it was so different from the book.
Another important thing to report on.
Penny, from “My Son has Diabetes”, tagged me with the “Thinking Blogger Award“. This award was started Ilker Yoldas. It is quite an honor, receiving this award, but I’ve got no idea who to award in turn. All of the blogs I read, except for maybe I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER, make me think. But, as is tradition, I will pass this award on to five people who make me think. I know that all of you have received the award already, but as Penny said in her post, think of it as an honor times two, or three for that matter.
1) Kerri, from Six Until Me. She was the first D-Blog I ever found, and I have not stopped reading her words ever since. No other blog makes me think about things the way I do after I read one of her posts. She makes me laugh, makes me get dust in my eye, and even makes me wonder how she escaped the asylum sometimes.
2) Scott, from Scott’s Diabetes Journal. Scott scott scott…. His writing has its own feel to it, like none other. Ever since the spider incident, I have not thought of Scott the same way. His posts really make me open my eyes and say “Oh shit. It’s not just me that bleeds all over the place.” Made famous by his words about tudiabetes.com, everyone knows that we’re all just like him: we’re all scared shitless of huge spiders.
3) Kevin, from parenthetic (diabetic). He is somewhat MIA at the moment, but he really does keep me going sometimes. His awesome logging spreadsheet made me worship him like a God, until I realized that I was tired of the D and basically told those spreadsheets where they could go to find some love. His posts are always filled with meaning, and his sense of humor is a rare sort.
4) Amy, from Diabetes Mine. This woman is the bomb. She informs us of all the crazy stuff happening out there in the world of Diabetes research. She rallies us behind “criminals” to keep them out of jail, and keeps our minds going with well-written posts all the time.
5) Carey, from Up high … Down low. I have always wondered what it would be like to have been diagnosed at a younger age. I have also always wondered what it would be like to have a child who has been diagnosed at a young age. This blog gives me a window into both of those worlds. Some of his posts scare the crap out of me, for what could come to pass if my child ends up being diagnosed, and for what kids are going through all over the world.
So, here’s the deal, this is a tagged-only meme. You must be tagged by someone in order to participate. If any of the above bloggers choose to participate, they should:
1. Write a post with links to 5 blogs that make them think.
2. Email them to let them know they have been selected.
3. Link to my post so your readers can find the origin of your award.
4. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote.
I’ve gotta jet now though. I’m going to see “Ratatouille” with my girlfriend. I promise I will introduce her to you all soon, I still have to ask her if she’s cool with it. Ya know, the entire world can see anything on the internet… could get shifty. :-p
Until next time,
_Tom.
Well I seem to be slowly coming out of my slump. I’ve started testing more, and correcting, and actually figuring out my carb intake, rather than ballparking it. I think this is a step in the right direction. Somehow through this slump, though, my averages stayed under 120. I’m actually very happy about that, especially when I think what could have happened if I had simply said “screw it” and walked away from the disease.
For the past two weeks, I have had this headache that just will not leave me alone. I wake up with it, I go to sleep with it… I even shower with it. Sounds like it should be fun or something, right? False… I’ve taken Advil, and it numbs it for a little bit, but as soon as it wears off, BAM. I’ve taken Excedrin Migraine, and that works for a few hours longer than the advil, but it still comes back. I’ve done some experimenting on my own: sleeping more, sleeping less, eating more, eating less, no caffeine, more caffeine, striving for completely perfect sugars, letting them hang out a little higher…. nothing seems to have an effect on this darn headache. My parents think it’s time I go to a doctor to get it checked out, but a large part of me does not feel like going through that much trouble. I am most likely going to end up at a doctor’s office anyways, though.
The fifth Harry Potter movie (HP & the Order of the Phoenix) came out at midnight on Wednesday. I am psyched to see it once my girlfriend gets home from Germany (which I hear has been a truly amazing trip so far, and she gets home on Tuesday), but as I was looking through the book on Monday, I realized that I had only read about half of it. That really bummed me out, as I was planning on reading the sixth book (HP & the Half-Blood Prince) before the seventh book comes out on the 21st. My plan was to read the seventh while I was away at the beach, and I’d be set for reading material for the week. My plan is failing me. I’m a little over halfway through the fifth book, so my goal now is to read the sixth at the beach, and the seventh sometime between then and school starting up on the 18th of August. Oy. This summer sure has flown by… sort of a bitter-sweet feeling.
I think that’s pretty much it for now, not really any news on the D-front other than the fact that I’m climbing out of my little hole. The main thing that keeps coming into my mind is that my girlfriend gets home in 5 days. So excited!!!
Until something interesting happens,
_Tom.
I stumbled upon a search engine today called GoodSearch. This search engine donates one penny to a charity that you choose each and every time you search using it. There are a ton of charities participating in it, and I have added a link to it on my sidebar. My link will take you and have the Joslin Diabetes Center (in Boston, MA) as the charity. You can change that if you wish by clicking the “Clear Selection” link under the charity name.
I know this is a tiny donation each time you search, but the statement “Every penny counts” is so true. For those people who don’t have the means to donate any amounts of money regularly, or simply want to give as much as possible, this is a great way to do it.
***In other news***
I’m in a slump in the world of diabetes, I just can’t seem to get myself to care all that much. We’ll see how this all pans out. :-\ I’m maintaining safe BGs and testing pretty regularly, but I’ve been taking frequent pump breaks (wearing the pump for three days, then not putting a new site in for a day or two and just going on injections of novolog). Not healthy, I know, but I’ve been keeping my numbers under control without the lantus somehow. Not really sure how that works out, but hey. I’m not going to complain about something that isn’t all that bad.
Hope everyone is doing well and I wish everyone a great 4th of July. :-)
_Tom.
