What a Week!

What a week! Not only did we seem to (rather wonderfully) celebrate my birthday for most of the week, I started back at the gym, and we had a sell out performance season open! As much as i tired for stability, with the mix of activities and coming off the back of a turbulent few weeks, there were a definite couple of highs and lows. It all came to a head by Thursday morning, when I suddenly felt really ill, checking my blood sugar every five seconds only seemed to give me sore fingers, and make me feel stupid as my blood sugar was a cool 6 every time. Then all of a sudden, at a big work morning tea event, I totally crashed. You know one of those lows where the jellybeans just don’t seem to be kicking in? I couldn’t focus on anything anyone was saying and I tried desperately just to sit calmly, waiting for it to go back up. 15minutes later it was still 3.1. I thought some orange juice might help but on first attempt to get up, my legs turned to jelly and I flopped back down in the chair. To my amazement, no one seemed to notice, or offer to help, and here I was, feeling like I was making a scene and mildly hyperventilating.  In fact, this really was one of the rare occasions where I had felt like just saying ‘Alright I give up, take me to the hospital’. After hazily walking to the bar and freaking the bar staff out, a sucked down a glass of orange juice in what I can only assume was a Guinness world record.

Our performance season opened that night which meant a looooog day (9am – 8pm) By Thursday night, my body was in complete protest which resulted in my meter simply saying ‘Hi’! After injecting and downing a bucket of water, I basically passed out on impact with the bed. Why did that have to happen in my first week back? On our Opening Night? AND make me exhausted for my birthday celebrations the next night!?!? Diabetes can be so inconvenient sometimes!

As you can imagine, I spent most of the weekend recovering, and sleeping. Monday was tough this week and my blood sugars were slightly elevated, but at least they were stable. Today I’m doing something different again, we’re cleaning the house and garages out – a massive massive spring clean...in the winter...we’d die in pools of sweat if we were cleaning out houses in spring/summer here!

Here’s to hoping there’s no lows today and I get through the day like a diabetes champion!