My nan is back in the hospital

My nan woke up today saying she was seeing "red dots". She had a doctors appointment at 10:10 this morning. Well my sister called me around noon time saying that she was taking my nan to the hospital again, they thought she was having a stroke. I really cannot believe that this is happening. Again. So please, once again, keep my family in your thoughts and prayers, especially my nan. I really appreciate it :)

I don't feel any better!!!

In fact I feel a whole lot worse! My throat is soar, I've been exhausted all day, I woke up with a headache and i've had it on and off all day. I just want to go to bed, and I'm going soon, going to make it an early night. I just hope that I don't feel like this when I go back to school next week.
Oh and The Jonas brothers concert was AMAZING last night. it was so much fun. My niece LOVED the shirt I made for her. And....I screamed like crazy....but we had a blast....and I definitely would love to see them in concert again....hopefull....

I'm going to the Jonas Brothers Concert Tomorrow

I'm so excited! I made me and my niece T-shirts! Hers says "I LOVE NICK JONAS" and mine says "I'M BURNING UP FOR NICK JONAS" This is going to be mine and my niece's (aged 9) third Jonas Brothers Concert since December. It is something that we both enjoy and something we can do together. Of coarse, I couldn't do it without my older sister. She bought the tickets and she's driving. So,I'm super lucky to have her.
Here is what I do at the concerts. I check my sugars right before the concert starts, during the intermission part, and after the concert, when we get back to the car. So far, I have never had a low at a concert. I make sure that I keep glucose tabs on me and I'm going to also take liquid glucose tomorrow, just in case. Hopefully I won't need it. Their concerts are the best I've ever been to and I've been to a few. So, wish me luck, that I don't go low or too high, and that we have TONS of fun!

I don't feel good again!

My throat has hurt all day today. It's not sore, but it HURTS! I'm going to take some tylonal right now. I just hope that it doesn't hurt on Wed. I go to see the Jonas Brothers in concert for the 3rd time. I even made my niece and I t-shirts, that I am going to surprise her with! So, I just jope that I'm not getting sick! I also don't want to be sick for the first day of school next week. Wish me luck :D

hmmm.. that's a little weird

Today for lunch I had Hawaiian chicken on a roll. The roll was about 25g carbs. I also had a glass of milk. Thats another 13 g. ok not a big deal. Add a little potaotoe salad to it. Still, thats fine. I give myself 4 units( i think) and am ok. Two Hours later I checked, because i always check at the 2 hour mark. I was 64. A little on the low side. But the weird thing is that i didn't even feel low. I ALWAYS feel my lows. I usually feel low anything under 85.
This is pretty random I know, but I always set my alarm for 8am and give my lantus then go back to bed until 10am. So this morning I was getting everything ready and about to draw up the Lantus when I realized that I almost gave myself 20 units of HUMALOG. oh man that would've been so bad. Thank God that I happened to look down at the vial in my hand and realize I had the wrong one. So, always be careful of what you are doing when you are giving yourself insulin. I hope that everyone had a good weekend and that your week goes well. I go back to school next week so i know how you feel. My vacation is almost over. But again, have a great week :)

How many carbs in a cheesesteak?

For dinner tonight we had cheeseseaks and I have no idea how many carbs. SO once again I had to guesstimate. So, I decided to give myself 4 units figuring that it was enough and also not too little. Well two hours later I was 175. Not as bad as I though I would be but also not where I would have like to have been. And I know I probably shouldn't have done this, but i also had a vanilla milk shake. I didn't know how many carbs were in that so I didn't take any insulin. I thoought that if I was high later I will just take insulin to correct it.
Anyways my nan is home from the hospital. She is doing alot better. But she has to go in next week and have stents put in kidneys. Apparently her kidneys are not filtering the blood correctly. She had surgery about 2 or 4 years ago because her arteries were clogged, and I guess they "unclogged" them. My sister said it is somehow related to that, although I don't know how.
And I just checked my sugars, since it has been two hours since my milk shake, and Iam 204. Not that bad. I don't think that i will take insulin right now, becasue I always come down at night. Anyways, I hope that you all have a good night and when you do go to bed i hope that yopu sleep well. Sweet Dreams!

I'm getting good at this guessing stuff

For dinner tonight I had a bowl of homeade chicken noodle soup. It has two different kinds of noodles/pasta. I had NO idea how many carbs it had, so i thought to myself, "well pasta is usually high in carbs. I'll start out with 3 units because i know it has atleast has 36 g of carbs. I'll have a cup of milk, so add 13g of carbs. 36 plus 13 equals 49g of carbs. So I'll give myself 4 units of humalog" Well i'm either a genius or just getting really good at guessing becasue 2 hours later I was 110. I was SOO proud of myself. And my dinner was quite good. Very tasty!!!

My lastest A1C...

is 8.2 That is my highest yet. Previously my highest was 7.0 But it was not unexpected, not with all the high's I've been having. They also checked my C-peptide and it is 3.1 I have no idea what that means. Anyone know? I'm a little confused too, just because, well I've never had mine checked before.
I went to the zoo again today. I know 2 times in 3 days? It's alot. But we had a good time. We brought our lunches with us. We had lunchables by Oscar Mayer. They were 62g of carbs. I had a pizza one. It was good. It came with3 "pizzas", cheese, 2 starburst, and a juice. before lunch i was 117. two hours later I was 80. Not to bad, if i do say so myself!
Oh and my nan is still in the hospital. Please continue praying for her!

Update on my nan

They took her to the hospital at about 5:00 pm and it is now 9:30. My mom called me a little while ago and said that they are not sure what is wrong with nan but they are going to keep her overnight. They thought it may have been a UTI but i think that they've ruled that out, i'm not 100% sure though. When I do find out what is wrong with nan, I will post again! So,please continue to pray for her and my family! Thank you.

They took my nan to the hospital

My older sister took my nan to the hospital about a half hour ago. She may have had a stroke. I'm so upset. I was down the shore(on vocation) a couple of weeks ago with her and she was acting really strange, getting confused. My nan is old. She just turned 78 last week. I live with her, i don't know what i'd do without her. Please keep my family in your thoughts and prayers. I'm so upset! I feel shaky, but i know that it's just nerves and not me being low. I didn't eat much for dinner, I just can't eat! I can barely hold the tears back, and in another minute I'm going to start bawling. Please pray for my nan, that she is ok, that she didn't have a stroke, and that she will be ok.

I feel horrible today

I think that I am sick or I have major allergies going on right now. i feel so bad. My nose is all stuffed up, but everytime I go to blow my nose nothing comes out. My eyes are dry. I'm so tired. Hopefully it is just allergies. So far today it hasn't done anything to my blood sugars, thank god. I do have Allegra (allergie midicine) but for some reason I'm hesitant to take it. When I talk, I sound sick. I just don't feel good. It's not that bad, it's not like I feel like I'm dying or anything. I just feel Blah. I'll probably wind up having one of those days where I lay around the house doing nothing.
Oh and on a really side note my nan (grandmother) had to go to the hospital yesterday. She cut her fingers whith a knife while she was trying to cut a watermellon. She was bleeding for 3 hours. My nan is 78 years old and she is on blood thinners so my mom was afraid she would "bleed out". All this happened while we were at the zoo. They gave her stiches and she has to keep them in for I think they said 12 weeks. It sounds as though that's a while, especially just for stiches. Thankfully she is fine now, but boy that was kind of scary!

my talents as a "Super Cool Pump Namer"

we, my CWD buddies and I, have decided that i have the amazing abilities to come up with super cool pump names. Right, Malyssa? But...it all goes back to her sister, to be honest. Well sort of. Malyssa wanted to come up with a name for her TROPICAL GREEN pump. ok. Me being me, said to name it a weird color, that is totally oppisite or different than green. So her sister came up with Nemo and I came up with Fuschia. So i said, why don't you name it....ARE YOU READY FOR THIS ONE?.......FUSCHIA NEMO is the new name. Isn't it cool? SO, if you need a cool pump name, you can just come to me. It's my new hobbie. And I'm so good at it that we decided to write a book on pump names "Super Cool Pump/Meter Names that have disney characters and/or colors with weird names" or something to that effect. So, anybody need a pump name, well me door is always open. PLEASE COME AGAIN lol

uh oh

for dinner tonight i took 7 units of Humalog. I have never taken that much Humalog before. I had A roastbeef and cheese sandwich and french fries from arby's. I thought i had the beef and chedder sandwich, which has 44 g of carbs. Insted i had an Arby melt, which has 35 g carbs. That is a 9 "point" difference. I did not realize that until i was almost done eating and i happened to be looking through my calorie king book. Which means almost a whole unit. So I may have injected myself with too much insulin. I'm going to wait it out, because i check myself at 2 hrs. post meals anyway. Hopefully the fries should do it. And if I do go low, it's not the end of the world. It's not like i did it intentionally. I knew after having good numbers all day today, that something was bound to happen. Can you say "Murphy's Law?"

i went to the zoo today...

and i had perfect numbers! When i got up i was 81. So i took my 20 units of Lantus and made my breakfast. I had a frozen bagel. Took 3 units of my Humalog (need new pen needles, had to use a syringe :( ) I check two hours after a meal so two hours after breakfast i was 139. a whole LOT better than the 300 and 400's I've been seeing. so about 45 minutes later we decide to eat lunch. Didn't know if i should check or not, becuase i checked not long before. I decided to anyway and i was 109. I had 1 cheese hoagie (sorry, sub, whatever you want to call it) and the half of another. but since i ran out of pen needles, didn't know how to keep my humalog cold (i keep mine cold) and still new to carb counting, i left my humalog at home and decided to skip it at lunch, since i knew i would be walking. Two hours after lunch i was 136. Again. not too bad. Infact, pretty damn good. For dinner tonight we are having pizza, so i know that i will probably be high after dinner.
But back to the original topic...we all had a really good time. I'm just glad that it wasn't spoiled by high and/or blood sugars. My nieces and nephew got their faces painted. G. was a piggy, T was spiderman and K. had hers as a cheetah. They all looked sooo cute. They have alot of animals. I'm not really an animal person, but they were all really cute. Some more than others, but still, they were ALL really cute. I hade a great day and I hope that you did too.

school starts soon

My senior year starts soon! I think that is so exiting! But i'm a little bit nervous too. This is my first year where i will have to take insulin in school. I'm going to use a pen (the Kwikpen for Humalog) so it's not that bad. I don't want to go low, and my endo wants me to carry glucagon with me, and keep one in school. I always have something on me, such as glucose tabs (well almost always). I know that i will be fine, and i absolutely love my school nurse, so i'm not really worried. Like i said before, just nervous. I really can't believe i'm going to be a senior. I mean, i was diagnosed as a freshman, so it being my senior year already? all i can say is WOW. It seems as if yesterday was my first day of high school. I didn't want to go. I even begged my mom to let me stay home. But i've had alot of fun in school, made some really great friends. SO even though being diagnosed with diabetes during high school i've still managed to make the most of it. I mean i went to my junior prom (thank god for the ultra mini, is all i can say) and i have every intention of going to my senior prom. I have not let diabetes keep me back, and i never will. Sure i know there are things that diabetics can't do (ie: be a pilot, in the services etc.) but i had never planned on doing that stuff anyway. The stuff that really counts, well diabetes is NOT going to hold me back, not as far as I'm concerned.

You know how i skipped insulin at dinner?

well 2 hours later i was 177. Not too bad! i also had a bananna right before my dinner! But i know that i'm going to need a snack tonight before bedtime. I only eat a snack if i was on the low side after dinner or if i'm hungry. Usually though i cover my snacks with insulin. but i don't think that tonight i will! i know my body and what if feels like right now, and right now my body is telling my that my blood sugar is coming down and that i need a snack. it is also telling me that if i DO take insulin with my snack, i would probably end up dropping, or going low,or having a hypo, or whatever else you want to call it...so i'm going to eat a snack and i'm going to enjoy it, and i'm going to just be glad that right now i don't have to take another shot, because i just don't feel like it! so happy eating to you!

Hello...

ok so this is my first post. How exciting! ok so somethings about me: Iam 17 years old. I have had diabetes for almost 3 years. I was diagnosed when I was 14 and a freshman in High School. I either have Type 1 or MODY, i will let you know. I try not to let my Diabetes get me down. I try to stay positive. My favorite quote, and i believe it can really pertain to Diabetes , is "What doesn't kill us, only makes us stronger" by Friedrich Nietzsche. I believe that having diabetes has made me a stronger person. Without diabetes I wouldn't have made some of the friendships that i have (even if we haven't actually met). I will be honest, the word "diabetic" does not bother me. I AM diabetic. But i'm so much more than that. I'm funny (to some people) I'm a student, an aunt, sister, daughter. I;m also an amazing Pump Namer. Need a name for your pump? you can come to me,and you will get a 'Super Cool Pump Name". So while i do have diabetes, it's not who I am. It''s just "what i have". It's just something that i happened to have. It is NOT contagious. I did NOT cause this by eating too much sugar. and YES i can eat that (whatever "that" may be), so please don't ask me that question. Mucho Gracias!

so i realized today...

that i cannot skip meals. No, my blood sugars did not drop. But i started to feel really bad. I got a really bad headache, got really lighheaded. I DID check myself at that time and i was 107, but i also did not eat lunch today. I know. NOT the smartest thing to do. So I will remember in the future that i can not skip a meal, or i will feel horrible! I thought for a while there that i was actually getting sick. Boy, what a relief! I also skipped my dinner time insulin, for fear of dropping, but i didn''t eat much, so I don't think I will go high! Anyway, i learned a lesson today! And you know what they say--you learn something new every day!
ciao!