So Friday I ventured off to Orlando with my girlfriend for her birthday (yes we found silver heels!)  First thing of the night was going to Downtown Disney and visiting Cirque Du Soleil.  If you have not witnessed this event live, you MUST!  It was the most incredible, shocking, speechless thing on earth.  I want to go back again already.  At times there is so much going on that you don’t know what to look at.  But overall, it was magical.

After that, we headed over to Pleasure Island because my girlfriend would be 21 in 15 minutes, so we stand in line to get into a club and at 11:54 exactly they say “I’m sorry but you have to wait 6 minutes”  I was furiated because I timed the line wrong and figured it would be midnight by the time we got up there.  So we went back in line and made it right at midnight.  We had a lot of fun in the “Motions” nightclub, and then headed over to the “BET Soundstage” for about 15 minutes.  I was pretty disappointed in the fact it only stayed open until 2 a.m., I would have figured at least 4.

Saturday morning came and we spent all day (10:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m.) at Magic Kingdom.  We were able to accomplish every single ride and attraction to see.  We watched the fireworks, which are just magical and worth the price of a ticket by themselves.  They give you a little button that says “Today is my birthday” and when I went in March with my aunt, they gave her free water, ice cream, and etc. at every place we went, my girlfriend did not get a single thing free i was mad.  Well, she did get happy birthday sang to her at the Noodle Station (in Tomorrowland) and they gave her a little dessert!

One of the things that made my day had nothing to do with Magic Kingdom.  We asked a gentleman to take our picture and he did and as I was walking away I heard him say, “Hey, are you diabetic?”  And I turned around and proudly said, “Yes, I am for almost 5 years now.”  He pointed to his daughter, about 7-8 years old, and says, “she is too, she’s had it since she was 8, show him her pump honey”  She showed me her pump, same one I had.  Then came the cutest thing I ever heard in my life (I can’t believe I just said cute), she looked at me and said, “My last number was 104, what was yours?”  I responded with, “I haven’t tested for a few hours, but it was 180″, and the best advice I ever had followed, “Well, thats a little high, you should probably test again!”

Like I said, a magical experience!

So far after 2 weeks of dieting I have kept off most of the weight, and I haven’t really gone over 225 in those 2 weeks.  I am still not excercising as much as I would like to be, but I am getting there, baby steps.  I am running on Tuesday and Thursdays, playing tennis on Wednesday’s and attempting to play a round of golf every weekend.  I am pretty ashamed of myself that I can’t even run a full mile anymore without taking a break, talk about being out of shape.

So, that is why I say it has been semi-successful, because the weight hasn’t been pouring off because of not exercising.  I have cut down my calorie intake to about 1,200, slowly I will get it down to 1,000 and then burn off 300 excercising.  Right now the late night snacking is what is hurting me, literally, because I am waking up with 400 blood sugars because it seems that my body can’t break down sugar while I am sleeping, even with a 2.0 basal on the pump.

Sorry so short on the post today, but lots of things to get done today.

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!!

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.

Getting back to my bowling and blogging Friday’s, I  believe this is number 3.  I have missed 2 out of the last 4 Friday’s because I was out of town, but yet I still have to pay for my bowling.  So last night, I ate chinese food for lunch and dinner and tested my sugar at midnight and it was 300, what a surprise. I corrected and woke up in the morning and my level was at 212, a little better then the last few days.  I guess I just have to start waking up in the middle of the night again and test my sugar to see where the highs are starting or coming from.

Tomorrow is the local JDRF walk and after that, a day of nothing but school work.  It has been beautiful all week long and then the weekend comes and it is rainy all weekend, isn’t that great?  I don’t mind this weekend, because like I said I have a lot of schoolwork that I have to do.

Michigan State plays tonight, hopefully Monday’s blog title will read “Michigan State Spartans to the Final Four!”

I just have one question, how do you all find time to blog everyday?  I know I’m not the only one who is extremely busy and doesn’t even have time to eat some days, but how do you manage to do it.  I try to because it does calm the nerves and relieves the stress in the middle of the day.  I’ve been a little worried about my blood sugar levels throughout the night because I just keep waking up with like 300 levels.  I have tried so many damn things.  Eating Taco Bell last night I know didn’t help.

Also, yesterday I was so busy at work that I totally forgot to eat lunch.  I ate at 8:30, testing throughout the day.  At about noon my level was 123, and then I didn’t test again until about 5, and without eating all day, my sugar went up to 230.  I don’t know why my sugar goes up when I don’t eat, I always expect it to go the opposite way.

Our local JDRF walk is coming up this Saturday.  It’s at the beautiful Mizner Park in Boca Raton, FL.  If you’re in the area, please come out and join us, it should be fun!  Please, you can support the fight for the cure!

I still have not fully corrected my high blood sugar numbers in the morning.  I do not know what else to do.  I have taken everybody’s suggestions.  I guess I will just continue to increase my basal throughout the night.  Then today I had pancakes and sausage, and my sugar didn’t come down from 300 until around noon. In fact, I just reminded myself to test right now, please hold….124, not bad.

Anyway, I have been dieting a little bit, well eating less.  I haven’t gone full blown into the excercising part of it yet. I do a little push ups and sit ups at night when I finally get home at 10 at night.  I’m trying to get myself to start running in the morning, but its tough when I go to bed at 1:00 a.m. and get up at 6:30 a.m.  I know I need to get more sleep, but I honestly don’t have time to.  By the time I get home, I eat something, relax for a little, and then start my homework.  Can’t wait to be done with school, it will make my health a lot better.

Last night I was having a high blood sugar experiment.  It had went up to around 400.  Whenever I have one like that I feel around my infusion set to see if it is moist and then smell for insulin.  Usually if I smell insulin, my infusion set is leaking or not working correctly, and that was the case last night.  So I put in a new one, and then this morning I woke up at around 500.

I quickly corrected and then tested again at work and was down to about 300 an hour later.  I checked again around noon and it was down to 180.  It’s getting better, but then I realize I just used my last testing strip.  So now I’m just going to have to wait until I get out of work, get home quickly so I can stop home and then get more strips before I go to class.

I was very stressed yesterday because I was trying to complete all of my work, but I don’t think that had to do with the high numbers.   I made homemade mac and cheese and if the insulin had just leaked out, then that is the perfect explanation of it.  Good thing I was home and had a chance to change it!