WOW Days

What a day today is shaping up to be! (and it's only 7am here!) I can't sleep coz it feels like Christmas! Of course World Diabetes Day is here (and I've got my Type 1 tee ready to pop on thanks to Type 1 Diabetes Memes) BUT Bigger news than that is this is my first official day as a fiance!

Eeekkkk! Mike and I hiked around Cradle Mountain National Park yesterday when he got down on bended knee to pop the question! Of course I said yes! A total surprise and I'm still pinching myself as it doesn't feel real yet!

I'm so proud of our hiking efforts yesterday. I'm not nearly close to being in great shape at the moment but we wanted to achieve something on our two year anniversary - something we could accomplish.. conquer! It seemed fitting to travel to Tasmania to do this (despite missing the solar eclipse in my home town!!) as we'd first fell deeply, wholeheartedly in love in Tassie in January of 2011, when as part of our trip we'd hiked at Wineglass Bay (Amazing and highly recommended!). But as most diabetics have found out at some point, no matter how prepared you might be, there always seems to be some curve balls! The moment we got out of the car in the national park I went to check my blood sugar. My finger pricker wasn't working! Whaaa!?!? That has never happened to me before! It was so strange, the 'prick' just wouldn't go in...like the mechanism in the pen has somehow got damaged and slipped further down the barrel than it is supposed to be at... so weird, and quite alarming! We fiddled with it and got it working...sort of...I usually use it at 1-3, now I'm using it at 5-8. I also told myself that I had plenty of lancets so at worse I'd just have to do it manually (which isn't much fun but I've had to do before).

November is Here!

Diabetes awareness month is here and we're just two weeks away from World Diabetes Day!

I haven't been able to write these past few days, as not only am I a bit tired and renovating the bar area at work, I had my BIG once a year eye check up yesterday afternoon. I've been a complete bucket of nerves. It's the one appointment that really makes me anxious.

I've worn glasses since before I had diabetes and every year that appointment has been just as scary, as every year my eyes seemed to get worse. The long waiting times, flash light tests, reading tests, colour blindness tests, anaesthetic eye drops, dilation eye drops, more anaesthetic eye drops, numerous fandangled props being thrust at your head to measure this that and the other.... They say it's because you're still growing in to your twenties but that combined with the potential complications of diabetes gets me panicked! Majorly. This year even more so, as with everything that's been going on, I know when I see my GP on Monday, she is going to tell me my HbA1C is too high.

BUT! Would you believe it, my eyes are BETTER than they were 12 months ago! This doesn't mean they're amazing but I have no diabetes complications showing whatsoever...just a bit of hereditary dodgyness and annoyances associated with my astigmatism....

I feel like I've just been gifted a beautiful warm hug full of hope. A blessing. Perhaps I could even say 'another chance'. Most definitely a reminder that my health is largely in my own hands, and it is up to me to take ownership over it everyday. Back to putting diabetes first.