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Mommy's Hypo

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Today marks the start of Lent. As most Catholics probably did as well, Mom fasted for the occassion.

She came home telling me about how she couldn't keep herself awake during the day and that she was so tired that she knocked out on the company bus on the way home. She ate bread almost as soon as she got home because she was absolutely famished.

Famished, tired and sleepy from not enough food. Sounds a little too familiar doesn't it? I told her, maybe you were experiencing a hypo. It's not abnormal that people without diabetes experience symptoms of having low blood sugar. It's just that their body reacts accordingly to ensure that it doesn't result in a dramatic ending and raises the blood sugar by using the reserves stored up in the liver.

So if you did a fast today and felt like how Mom felt, you pretty much had yourself a small experience of a hypo.

I do hope your start to Lent was great!

I'm a little excited yet nervous about the whole season of Lent. This is one of the reasons why. Sign up today!

Rachel wrote in the pages of her life at 10:25 PM

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