Blog about diabetes

Good morning. Well, things are going so so. Bill is doing better. Less
talking about the accident, not as obsessed with it. So he is calming down
some from it. That is a good sign, that he is starting to adjust to it. (I
say “adjust” and get over it, cause you never really “get over”
something like that) But when he starts talking more about normal things
instead of accident, that is a good sign. I am glad he is getting better. I
let him talk as much as he needed or wanted, about it, cause that is the
only way you start to heal. I also encouraged him to talk to Vickie
about it. I am sure that helped him. And the support of friends and what
little family we still have helped him too. It seemed like the getting the
photos of the car and showing them to everyone and talking about it when he
showed them helped him a lot. Also getting the truck seemed to really make a
big difference. I am thankful the car salesman we work with was able to
locate him a pickup and get it so fast for him. I think getting it also
helped him a lot. Seems like he got much less nervous when he finally had it

and also I could see he was getting less nervous the more he showed the
pictures and got to tell other people about it. I am so glad it helped him.
I was sure worried. Of course I am still saying prayers of thank you’s, that
he came through it alive. (I mean that literally, too) I am up early this
morning from being hot and cold. If I don’t have the fan on me, I am so hot
I am miserable and when I do have the fan on, I am chilled a bit too much.
But that is from the sugar I had last night. But I didn’t have a choice
about the sugar. I had my first bad diabetic reaction last night. I had
eaten my evening meal and taken my byetta (it has to be taken *before* a
meal) and had taken my one insulin after the meal (as supposed to) and it
was about 2 hours later that I started shaking. The shaking was getting
worse very fast and I figured I should check my glucose, it was 61. The
shaking was getting worse and worse by the second (it was going that
fast) and I managed to get to the kitchen. Now, I knew we had no orange
juice, nor candy with sugar in it, so grabbed the bag of real sugar (we keep
on hand for making the humming bird food) and took a couple spoons full of
it. The shaking got really severe, and managed to call my doctor’s exchange.
Could barely hang onto the phone. They put me on hold while they contacted
him and put us him through straight away (usually they just take your phone
number and the doctor calls you back). By the time he was put on the sugar
was starting to help, and I was only shaking a whole lot and was starting to
be able to talk plainly again. But not normal yet. He had me check my
glucose and if it was not over 100, then I was to take another spoon of
sugar and also some cheese (for the protein in it). My glucose was up to
just over 70, so ate the other spoon of sugar and since Bill had eaten the
last piece of cheese, I saw a package of cream cheese. I don’t know if that
counted the same as the sliced cheese, but it did have the name cheese in
it, so ate some of that. By an hour after it all started, I was finally up
to a little over 100. The shakes had gone away, and was able to talk ok
again. But still the terrible thirst hung on and also one whopper of a
headache set in. And the exhausted feeling. Now today I am paying for the
sugar, by the hot/cold thing. Sweet stuff always makes me feel hotter. We
do, both, have an appointment today with that doctor for our regular
diabetic check ups. So will be able to talk to him about it more today. I
imagine he is going to reduce the insulins. I had been expecting him to do
that at this appointment anyway. The byetta has been helping so much and
also the being more active and what bit of exercising I have been doing. I
am able to do four of the five minute walks a day and also one of the 5
minutes on the exercycle. After a few weeks of that, then I will increase
the time a bit for each walk and on the exercycle. Gradually build up to
longer and longer a period of doing them. Gosh, I am sure ready for it to
“quiet” down here. No more dog attacks, no more car accidents, no more
“excitement” of these kind of things. LOL