Last full day in Florida until after Christmas.  I can’t believe that I am already going back home tomorrow.  I haven’t backed, I haven’t done laundry, I haven’t cleaned, I haven’t done a single thing that I need to do in order to be ready to go home.  I finished up all of my Christmas shopping yesterday, and then by the way, my car wouldn’t start.  That was really great for my blood sugar.  I popped the hood and my battery was like disintegrated.  There was so much battery acid on there, it looked like blue whipped cream on top of there.  So I cleaned it off and had to jump it.  Oh, great, I’m not able to jump it because there are cars near me and I can’t reach my girlfriend’s car, so I have to go to Sear’s and get a longer cable.  Finally I get it to start and I cleaned it out with baking soda and water then and let it run for about 20-30 minutes and try to charge it up a bit, no luck.

I need to take the battery out and charge it, but there is a problem on that also, I can’t get the bolt off!  So after all that, I test my sugar and I was at about 325.  So I go to correct and I realize, oh crap I was out of insulin before all this started and I had to reload my pump and I totally forgot because of this whole ordeal.  So I fly home for a week tomorrow, so I will let the battery charge for a while since I will be gone and hopefully I come back and it is all ok.

Anyway, I received an e-mail with my A1C yesterday and I was highly disappointed.  It was exactly 7.0%.  My educator suggested that the reason could be elevations right after meals because I tend to not bolus until about 5 minutes before my meal or maybe in the middle of it.  So I need to start bolusing about 20 minutes before hand.  When I go out to eat, I usually do because after I decide on what I am going to eat, I will bolus and then by the time the food gets there, it has been a good 10 minutes or so.  I will continue to work on that, so my next goal is to be at about 6.5%, or at least between 6.5% – 7.0%

I probably won’t post again until after Christmas, so…. to all a good night