Diabetes365 day 11 Thursday, October 18, 2007 - Fog
If you have Type 1 diabetes, you already know just how hard it is to control it. Every morning for breakfast you have the same things and you eat them at about the same time. When you test your blood sugar two hours later (a postprandial test) you get wildly different results.
And why is this? Well maybe you were stressed on one day and not on the other. Or you're coming down with a cold and that drives your blood sugar up. Or you ran for the bus and that made your blood sugar go down.
Managing diabetes is not a rigid, well-defined, set of instructions like a baking recipe. There are guidelines and lots of numbers and ratios. But a big dose of judgment is also needed.
When I see my endocrinologist (diabetes doctor) and they fill out that form with all the checkboxes afterwards, one of the boxes has the code 250.93 beside it. That's the one is normally marked for me.
It means "Type 1 diabetes - uncontrolled".
Well it's not that my diabetes is uncontrolled or out of control. It's just extremely hard to control it. The control is defined based on my blood sugar readings.
And what affects those readings? Food, exercise, sleep, illness, stress, menses. You know, the things of everyday life.
So I wander through a light fog trying to follow the markers and pretty much sticking to the path. And most days it's actually pretty good. As long as I don't think about it too much.
There's no cure for diabetes. And I really wish there was.
There's a great collection of photos that reflect life with diabetes at the diabetes365 project site.
You can see my diabetes365 photos here.
Labels: control, diabetes, diabetes365, exercise, expectations
posted by Bernard @ 12:48 PM
6 Comments:
Exactly. Great post!
the variablility of it all is something that so few people understand. it can really be crazy-making at times.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if all of our days with db were clear and bright so we could see exactly where we're going?
This is great. You really did a good job thanks.
Great post Bernard. Very well said.
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