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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Strategy is the new 'in' word.

Other than the fact that I can spend up to 7 hours in school talking to my 4 groupmates about it for our Marketing Strategy assignment, it's been on my mind the remaining waking hours of my day.

Seems like I haven't been able to overcome the numerous hypos. I had low readings like 3 times yesterday! They were all 2-type numbers that left me agitated and really really tired at the end of the day. When I lit my praying candle, I was face down talking to God and practically whining throughout our conversation.

So I'm strategising on how to prevent lows and keep my BSLs in the normal range. Could have overdid it a little and starved my body of basal insulin before lunch time when I adjusted the reading down. Got a reading of 10.0mmol/L. Wow. Rare high number. Kinda reminds me that I'm still very diabetic. On the flip side, I did hypo once during project meeting (thank goodness for Quaker in the trustee Lifesaver) and another time before dinner. That's a double combo! Need to figure out this whole thing! It's really starting to get on my nerves.

In any case, Warren's still very much in the loop and giving me advice and the flexibility to figure things out on my own.

This is what he wrote in one of his email replies when I asked if I should lower my basal.

Yes, the gym programme is really working, so you can keep dropping the insulin dose.
Baseline is 0.5 x body wt in kg /24 hrs for total daily dose…call me first if you need to dip below that total
You know, pump patients have a really good insight into how insulin resistance falls with exercise
I would love to be able to plot your daily insulin requirement vs time and duration and weeks of exercise programme.
Dr Lee

Thank God, I've got an amazing doctor.

Rachel wrote in the pages of her life at 9:39 PM

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