Major
development #1: Mastering Me is now on Instagram! Wooo. It has taken up a
ridiculous amount of my time in the last week though (borderline obsessive perhaps!) and while there are fellow
diabetics posting great pics, it has also shown me that there is a large part
of the world’s population who think that diabetes is just an awesome/smart/funny
term to attach to oversized sugar and fat laden food pictures. i.e
Here’s a glimpse
of what I posted instead...
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| Blood strips that get stuck to my feet |
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| Check my BG constantly while out drinking at the Races |
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| My morning kick starts |
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| and of course Blue Fridays |
Instagram can be quite random and its jammed packed with all sorts of moments and expressions of everyday life. Good and Bad. Either way I'm giving it a whirl, finally.
If you’re
on instagram please come check me out!
Major
development #2: I accidently partied too
hard mid-week with the CGM on… Doh! Major DOH! I’m confessing to this so that
you all continue to know that I am insanely human, making me very capable of
getting swept away in the moment, thinking that I can take it all on and dare I
say ‘make a slightly dumb choice’…. Why has Melbourne cup got to be on a
Tuesday??? This probably would have been ok any other week as I normally have
Wednesdays off but at short notice I had to stand in for my boss. But we’d
already booked the tickets AND we’d already organized to do an engagement
photoshoot at 5:45am. So what did I do? Typically tried to cram it all in.
3:30 Rise
(definitely no shine at this point)
5:30 depart
for Shoot
7:15 Get
back home, breakfast take two and head off to work
8:00am –
10:30am On site at work
10:45 –
11:15am Get dolled up for the races
12:00
Arrive at the races – proceed to drink, eat, be merry and still responsibly
check work emails while yelling at horses with strangers.
1:55pm I
turn to Fiancé and officially claim that I’m cutting myself off. No more
drinking. I’m happy with this as my blood sugars had been sailing between 9-12
since starting. I know this is a little high but when I’m drinking more than 3
standard drinks my BG often suddenly crashes, and crashes badly.
2:15pm A
lady at our table wins over $16,000 on a trifecta. She then yells ‘Drinks are on me, my new
friends!!!’. Instead of thinking ‘no thanks’, I thought ‘Why not? In the spirit
of things! It’s one day. We’re having fun’… ermmmm yeah… both fiancé and I got
way too 'into the spirit of things'. Three days later I was still
feeling it!
I did however meet a lovely couple who's son has type 1 diabetes and it was so nice to share stories and hear of a fellow Type 1 with an inspiring attitude to life. I am hoping to get in touch with them again soon - will keep you posted!
And on a really important note, while I do not endorse consuming too much alcohol I did find a sense of confidence in how I handled the situation, especially given that my fiancé had had more to drink than me. It reminded me that as diabetics, even when having a 'good time' we must always remain
very aware of our situation: our condition, the people we are with and the environment we are in. I plan to blog about alcohol and diabetes from a personal perspective soon, as it something that parents often ask me about. It can be a very tricky subject to talk about though!
Major Development 3: Oh, and of course! - I tried my first ever CGM! I don't have the reports back yet so I will leave that for another post!
HAPPY DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH :)
For the past two months I’ve been trailing three body care
products thanks to Plunkett Pharmaceuticals, who kindly offered me some of
their new ‘diabetic friendly’ range: NS-21 Skin Repair Treatment, NS-8 Heel
Balm Complex, & NS-3 Lip Complex. 
