Diabetic Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!!







I've never really had a particularly great Valentine's day. Never had somebody to buy flowers for, or to take out to dinner, or to sit next to on a park bench, or to gaze longingly at. And I haven't really minded that. So to say today was my best Valentine's day ever may actually be true, but don't get too excited.

Here's what happened!

I woke up!! Always a good start to the day. The sun was shining and I was feeling well rested despite a persistent post-nasal drip. Suddenly I had a bolus of inspiration and decided to do something I had been meaning to do for awhile. I went to Yoga. Twenty women and me... THAT's how to spend Valentine's day. I grunted and sweat and trembled for the next hour and fifty minutes and by the time it was over I was weak in the knees. Note to self: do that again, fortnightly if possible. From there I had some food, read a bit, took a walk around the neighborhood and did some errands.

Then while at work I got the most lovely and unexpected Valentine's day message from a girl far far away. It has made me feel truly loved. It has also made me question whether the advent of globalization is a good thing or not. It's nice to know where all the pretty girls live... except when they live thousands of miles away. Maybe some day I'll Good Will Hunting it, until then, I'll be here philosophizing what love is while working out, counting carbs, and injecting insulin.


Dailies:

11:06 -> 100 Had 1 Prandin and 15 minutes later had Cereal 110c and Vitamin D. Did almost two hours of yoga.
3:08 -> 149 Hmm... I wish that wasn't quite so high. Lunch: Eggs and soy chorizo 16c, rice and salsa 91c, beans 33c chips 20c = 160c. Had 2 Prandin and ate 15 minutes later.
6:19 -> 132 Pre-show number. Checked because I wanted to see if my new ratio for two pills worked. It did, dropping me ever so slightly. Took the rest of my vitamins with some peanuts 4c and chicken 1c.
12:19 -> 84 Nice! Love pre-meal 80s!! Supper: Salad w/avocado 30c, brussels sprouts and cauliflower 18c, mung beans w/ mustard greens 48c = 96c. Had 1 Prandin and took 5 units of Lantus. Starting in the 80s and using a lower pill to carb ratio than usual. Will I avoid my bedtime spike??
2:55 -> 177 Well... it's still a spike, but it's under 180 so I'll consider that a victory. And since this is a full 2.5 hours after I took the pill and started eating I'm pretty sure I'm not going any higher. For whatever reason (circadian hormone activity?) I always seem to go high at night. Maybe it's just that the previous day's Lantus has already worn off and the new day's Lantus hasn't begun to work yet. At any rate, considering two days ago I went to sleep at 380 and woke at 114, and yesterday i went to sleep at 218 and woke at 100, since I'm going to sleep tonight at 177 what will my morning number be? Fingers crossed for 80s.


So here's a Valentine's Day present to all of you!

Day 56