For me, the biggest enemy of good diabetes management is denial. In my current situation, it's awfully easy to pretend my diabetes doesn't exist. I suspect I could go weeks at a time pretending that no action, no change, was required of me. Active participation in the online community of diabetics helps prevent that.
One day last week I had a meal that, while not ideal, I've had before without particular problems. (Can you say "five dollar footlong"? Can you avoid singing it?) Later in the evening, I found that I was thirsty. No surprise, everybody gets thirsty now and then. So I had a glass of water and went back to following the DOC on Twitter.
An hour or so later, I felt thirsty again. I think that it's only because I was thinking about diabetes that I got the suspicion that perhaps I should should test. I was 176 -- FIVE HOURS after eating, with nothing since. Heaven know what it had been earlier. After I tested, I tweeted what had happened, indicating my frustration. I was instantly reassured (thanks, Doug!) that bad BGs happen.
So, that night I learned that the five dollar footlongs need to be a part of my past -- unless maybe eaten at TWO meals. I also (re)learned that the support of the online community has become important to me.
We all gotta keep learning, right?
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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5. 5 Dollar. 5 Dollar Footlong.
ReplyDeleteno, I can't avoid it...
lol, but you are right. You learned something from a bad experience that will help your overall control. Two meals and add a salad?
You know, diet changes are the hardest things in the world to do. I've cut my carbs from over 200 a day to around 100 and it wasn't easy, but I learned that it helped level out my post meal spikes
Hang in the brother!
I hate when I find that something that was "safe" is no longer safe.
ReplyDelete(Although, ewww, Subway.)