Usually when I am pissed or in a bad mood my sugar goes really high, but today it has been running a little low which isn’t a bad thing.  But what put me in this mood is.  I went to my car to go to work, it decided not to start.  Finally after about 30 minutes it started up, and I come to find out that my head gasket is blown!

This isn’t an easy fix for anybody who doesn’t know about cars, and it’s not very cheap either.  Especially when you want to buy a new car within the next 6 months anyway.  Like I need something else affecting my blood sugar levels!  Stress, stress, stress, you gotta love it.!

Well, just another day in the life of a diabetic!

Well, tonight begins the new season of the Monday Night Miller Lite League.  So my new blog title will be Bowling and Blogging Monday, instead of Friday’s as before.  My goal, other then winning and bowling well every week is to keep the blood sugars lower then my bowling average.  Also, with the diet I can not be snacking and picking at chips and salsa every week like I was before.  I cheated big time on my diet this weekend, but oh well.  I went to Smokey Bones, if you don’t know it, greatest ribs in the world!

So, I went to see the Indiana Jones movie on Friday also, screw what the critics say, that movie was great.  It was a little different then the other’s with the aliens and all, but it was great.  The movie theatre is actually the best place to get a low, because there is so much bad food you want to be eating anyway, so I just tear up all the candy and nachos and cheese, it’s not healthy, but it is great.

Not much new in the diabetes part of my life, same ole’ same ole’.

But life goes on, with the Life of a Diabetic!

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 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.

So yesterday I met with my advisor and filled out the paperwork for graduation.  I only have one more class left in the summer that I must take in order to graduate.  Which my advisor said I would probably need an A to make my chances easier to get into grad school.  Depending on my GMAT scores, if I dont’ get an A I can still get in.

I can’t imagine what my sugar levels are going to be like when I am studying for the GMAT.  Also, the day of the GMAT.  They will probably go really low, because they always do when I get nervous.  I doubt other students would like me to pull out a meter and test myself in the middle of one of the most important tests that they have ever taken in their life.

I will be going back up to Orlando for another 1 day trip to see my nieces who are going to DisneyWorld for the very first time.  I am very, very excited.  Next week is the big A1C test though, so starting to get a little nervous for that.

So later on today I will be heading out of town on a 4 hour drive up north towards Orlando for work. Packing has never been an issue with me nor has forgetting things while packing. However, ever since this diabetes thing came up, it made it a little more stressful. Maybe stressful isn’t the correct word to use, but it’s the best I can think of right now. Now I don’t really need to worry about how many pair of underwear, socks and jeans I have, I must worry about how many extra infusion sets and reservoirs I have.

When my girlfriend goes through and asks me different things that I may have packed and she asks if I’m sure I’m totally packed my answer always is, “I have my pump, my insulin, some infusion sets and reservoirs and my wallet, everything else I can buy.” Which, to an extent that is pretty much true. If I forgot shoes, no big deal I’ll buy a pair, but I don’t think I can just go to the infusion set store and pick out which ones look best on me.

Luckily, I don’t have to fly this time. Going through security never bothers me, even though my bagged is usually checked because they look at the infusion sets and the insulin, but I’m always early, so it does not affect me. However, once on the plane is when it gets nerve racking. Not including, the turbulence, and lifting off, and smashing against the ground while landing, it is the thought of getting a low blood sugar on the plane. I know there are plenty of treats and soda and juices to cure it, but then it draws unwanted attention, not to mention I will sweat tremendously and have to go the rest of the plane ride all sweaty.

No Blogging and Bowling Friday tomorrow either. I will attempt to, but for one, I will be at an event all day, plus I won’t be bowling being that I won’t be back in time to bowl.

So it’s Friday once again.  The weekend is almost here, and bowling tonight.  As I said yesterday we got beat last week, only 2 out of 3 games, but that’s still too much.  I think we are still in first, if not we probably dropped only to second.  My goal for tonight is to bring my average above 150.  As bad as this sounds, I just want to bowl a higher score than my blood sugar levels.

I forget half the time to test during the 3 hours that I am there bowling, drinking, and eating.  Last week I didn’t have any chips, but instead had boneless buffalo wings, which were amazing.  I overestimated the carbs and took too much insulin and then the run to the candy machine for Skittles followed.  To add to it, it was my turn to bowl, and I threw a strike even with a low blood sugar.

It’s going to be stressful tonight while bowling because I have to be doing homework along with bowling, so no drinking tonight, and who knows what I am going to eat, hopefully something good.

One last thing, hopefully some of you will give me feedback on.  I don’t eat fish, I know I need to, I eat a lot of canned tuna fish which does contain Omega 3, but this isn’t good enough, any suggestions on a good fish, that well, doesn’t taste like fish?