So with only two finals to go, a little interuption has taken place.  I’m sure a lot of you have already heard on the news about the shooting that occurred last night at my college, Florida Atlantic University in south Florida.  Campus is still on lock down and that means no classes, which means no finals.  What a way to add to the stress I am under already.  Luckily, nobody was injured and good thing I decided not to try and pull an all nighter at the library last night because it was locked down until 5 a.m.  I feel bad for the students who are scheduled to graduate on this Friday, because they may have finals today and tomorrow and who knows when those will be rescheduled for.

I know this isn’t too much of a “diabetic blog”, but I just wanted to talk about the new emergency alert system that our school, FAU, has put into place.  After the Va Tech shootings they were designing a new alert system, and I would say it was successful. Within 2 minutes police were on the scene, a campus wide siren was sounding, along with a PA announcement throughout the whole campus alerting students to stay indoors.  E-mails and posts on the website were sent right away.  Good thing for Facebook also, because it was all over there within minutes.  I may have harsh feelings against FAU right now for cancelling the summer class I needed because of budget cuts, but if this is where the money went, then it was money well spent in my eyes.

A1C test  tomorrow morning, 11 a.m.  My guess is a little higher then last time, right around…. 7.8 I am going to say.  Mainly because of all the high mornings that I have had.  I am starting today, to see how long I can go without getting a reading of over 200, and then if I do go over, I want to minimize them and see if I can get less then 3 for the whole week.  I don’t see it happening though, because I’m lucky to get less then 2 a day.

I’m starting to realize that Olive Garden messes with my blood sugars a lot like pizza does almost.  Maybe it’s because I eat about 4 large bowls of salad just by myself.  Sometimes I order pasta, but sometimes it is just soup, but this past time I went, it was pasta also.  It doesn’t spike until about an hour or so later.

I have a new stressful part of my life, I need only one class to graduate, and I signed up for it to be online, well they cancelled that one.  Next, I signed up for another one and then I receive an e-mail today that the class is two students short of the minimum summer requirement, so now I have to stress and worry if that class is going to get cancelled also.  What a stressful event.

First, thank you to Kathy and George for your thoughts on the new tv show I would like to develop.  I honestly think there could be some sort of show made like this, and then profits go to a charitable organization.  It would raise a lot of money and spread a lot of awareness about Diabetes and some myths that go along with it.

Next, I’m sorry to say but no more bowling and blogging Friday’s, at least not for now, I think the summer league starts up in about 3-4 weeks, but I don’t know if I am joining it.  It is $1 Miller Lite drafts during the league, which thats worth the money by itself.  This week, I am choosing to call it, Studying and Blogging Friday…and Saturday and Sunday.  It is all I will be doing all weekend long.

Also, it is time to do my diabetes inventory.  My parents are coming down in a week, and a lot of my extra supplies get shipped up there still, so I need to do a nice count to see what I need them to bring down to me.  This is always fun (sarcasm) counting how many strips, lancets, pen needles, infusion sets, reservoirs, insulin, insulin pens, and also their expiration dates.

See you all on Monday, have a great weekend!

After the past couple days of seeing the weird movie about the diabetic girl, watching some of Big Brother last night, and remembering my post a while back about a diabetic survivor show.  So, mixing them all together, I really want a diabetic reality tv series.  It will be a mix of them all.  Let me know if you all like this idea.  It would be, lets say 8-10 diabetics in a house, kind of like Big Brother, and they would have to survive, but it would be different challenges, like whoever had the highest week average of their blood sugars gets kicked off.  It would be fun to watch other diabetics on t.v. survive in a house, and not Brett Michaels and Rock of Live (shoot me if I ever have to watch that again!)

If there were such a show, I would be on it in a second.  I’ve been saying, I would try to get on Real World because there hasn’t been a diabetic on there.  I don’t think my relationship with my girlfriend would ever last if I went on there.  When was the last time you saw a couple stay together after being on the Real World?

Maybe I am just tired and thinking crazy ideas, or do others like this idea of a show?

Once again, another night of reaching the 400 level.  This is two nights in a row.  I don’t know why either.  The first night it was because the infusion set was leaking.  Right where it connects to the pump, it was leaking, this is about the 4-5 time this has happened in the past couple months.  I went to the movies last night to watch the free preview of the “Young at Heart”  I don’t want to give my opinion because I do not like to talk bad about many things.

I had my Sour Patch Kids like usual, but thats not the reason why the sugar went high, because I always splurge on them when I go to the movies.  I don’t know what it was, but I used my insulin pen to cover the high because it seems like the pump takes a very long time to correct.  My sleeping patterns have been thrown off big time because I have an exam tonight, if I do bad, I will not pass the class and I will have to retake it in the summer in order to graduate.  I am very nervous, and have been up all night the past few days.  I am at work, trying to study during my breaks.

Wish me luck!!

My diet has started again today, because its Monday.  But seriously, this time, I am sticking to it.  At least hardcore for two weeks before my parents come to visit me for vacation, then it will not be as serious.  Even when they come down, I can still eat healthier and get a salad here and there when we go out to dinner instead of fast food all the time.  Yesterday I made my lunches for the whole week that way I won’t go out and buy lunch, even though I will still be tempted to because my co-workers are very tempting when lunch time comes around.

To update you all on the bowling situation, we finished 1 point behind the first place team, which really irritated me.  We were tied for second going into the night, and the other second place team had the tie breaker against us, so they bowled the 1st placed and we bowled the 3rd place.  So we had to rely on the other team to beat the 1st place team, and they didn’t.  We did our part by winning all 3 games, not just winning, humiliating them.  Each game we won by over 150 pins!!!

There was also a lot of catered food because it was the final night.  So guess who just kept on eating and eating and eating all night long.  Pasta, chicken fingers, salad, wings, and 2 pitchers of Miller Lite.  I did not have my meter (what a surprise!) and took a guess on how much insulin I would need.  At the end of the night when I went to the car and found my meter in there,  I tested and I was around 98.  I was shocked, especially since I was really pissed off.

Over the weekend, I was flipping through the channels and came across this movie that was about these aliens that needed a lot of sugar to reproduce and they were nurses in a hospital.  These nurses would seduce men and, even women, and suck the glucose out of their body.  Well, what do you know there was a diabetic in the movie and as she was running from the aliens, she lost her insulin.  Later in the movie her sugar was really high and the aliens could sense it.  She went on a mission to find more insulin in the hospital and she came up with the bright idea of shooting the aliens with the insulin to kill them.  By this time, I am feeling like I am in a bad crazy dream, but I wasn’t, this was really a movie.  A weird, unique one, that made the diabetic the hero in the end.

Tonight is the final night of bowling.  Last week since I went camping we bowled on Sunday, and we weren’t bowling against anybody so we did bad, and I think the best that we can finish is 2nd place.  Which may sound good, but anything less then first is not good enough.  In my eyes, 2nd is just the same as 3rd.  2nd and 3rd place teams lose the same amount of games.

Anyway, back to the diabetes.  My girlfriend and I had a talk the other night about diabetes complications.  She gets very upset when she hears something about someone dying from diabetes or some type of complication involved in it.  It is tough to explain to her the different complications and see the look on her face during the whole thing.  This conversation made me say to myself, ok you need to get more serious about losing weight, managing your diabetes, and eating correctly again.  Then, I test my blood sugar last night before bed and it is 376.  So I correct, and then wake up at 5:30 in the morning, sweating, shaking, and dizzy with a blood sugar of 50.  All over the map.

Well on the brighter side of things, its the weekend!!!!  Oh wait, whats so bright about that, its not the weekend to me, it’s “lets spend all weekend reading and studying because finals start in a week and I need to pass so I can graduate”

I have been lucky to not have any problems with my feet at all yet.  However, whenever I go to the beach they become a lot more dry then I can ever remember them getting.  This does provide me the opportunity to ask my girlfriend to rub them with some lotion.  I’m not just doing it for the free foot massage, which does feel great, but she also knows the complications of diabetes and how it is good for me.

I previously just read something, I can’t remember where, but that wearing sandals, flip flops, whatever you want to call them, is not good for diabetics.  Is this true, or has anybody else heard the samething?  I don’t wear them that often anyway, only when I go to the beach or don’t have any clean socks .   

It seems like everyday I hear or see something new about a complication, or something I should be doing, or something that I shouldn’t be doing.  Any suggestions from anybody?

I have survived my first camping trip since being diagnosed 4 years ago.  I wasn’t really concerned at all about the diabetes issue while I was camping, because like I talked about in my last post, it was not true outdoor camping.  We had huge meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  I had a big bag of skittles on me almost 24/7.  I didn’t experience any lows at all, and didn’t really have any issues with morning highs either.  Maybe it was because I was not snacking all night long like I usually do when I am at home.

However, I did have two slight problems that worked themselves out very easily.  While I was in the pool, my infusion set decided it wanted to peel off my skin and float around the pool for a little swim, but we were almost done anyway, so I only went about 25-30 minutes without it.  Later that day I went to test my sugar and I couldn’t find my meter.  After searching for about 20 minutes, I found it in the backseat of the car, with all the windows up.  So the meter didn’t work for about an hour because the strips were almost melted, luckily I had that other vial of strips chillen next to the cooler.

It was not the campsite that I thought it was, this was a cowboy ranch.  It had a lot of free range animals, wild horses, cows, and bulls.  There was also a rodeo with bull riding and all that was pretty fun to watch.  I am glad to be back home though in my air conditioned office right now, but the vacation was fun to do.

Ouch!  Sunburn, but I like the way it looks.  Finally, this past Saturday it was actually nice and I got to go to the beach.  Then yesterday I had a half day of work to catch up on school work, so I took my book out by the pool and took advantage of the weather.  I hope this weekend it is cold at night because I am going “camping.”  I put the word in quotes because it’s not like some real nature trail camping, its sleeping in a tent, but cooking with a grill, and having a real bathroom, and all the good things of being at home.

The diet is done already, I made it to Tuesday night, not bad, 2 days this week.  I will have some time to work out starting next week.  My parents are visiting in less then a month, so I know I will be eating very unhealthy while they are here.  I’m very excited for them to come, plus I finish up my finals a few days before that, and the summer class I am taking is online, so I never have to go back to a classroom again!!!

And sorry, but no bowling and blogging Friday tomorrow.  Maybe a camping and blogging.