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Spending Time with my Diabetes

Thursday, September 24, 2009

On a day like this when there are a thousand things to do and a looming deadline for school, I guess I really shouldn't be doing this. But when I turned on my computer to attempt to complete an assignment that's due next week, I spent a good half an hour (and counting as I'm typing this...) with my diabetes.

It's all too easy to get caught up with everything else, like dinner appointments, meetings in church and rushing to meet my assignment deadline. Making sure my blood sugars are in good range really shouldn't be any less important than any of the abovementioned.

In fact, how my blood sugars are at the start of the day usually determines how productive my day would be. On days that I wake up lethargic because of the high reading on my meter, I know I'm off to a bad start because my body hasn't really rested the whole night. On days when I wake up low, it's almost impossible to get out of bed because my body automatically tries to conserve whatever energy's left and makes it impossible to even get my eyes open.

After some 13 hour days shuffling between home, school, church and dinner appointments, it's time to stop and take a breath and get reconnected with my diabetes. Reading patient blogs have become some sort of therapy. I feel rejuvenated, motivated and ready to take on the tasks at hand. It's good to know I'm not the only one with diabetes that's been trying to get through a rough week. :)

Rachel wrote in the pages of her life at 3:30 PM

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