In the words of the late Dr. Nick, “Hi, Everybody!” My computer crashed last week and I haven’t managed yet to resuscitate it, although something just occurred to me that may work. (It didn’t, I think the motherboard is fried. A fan over a chip half the size of the main processor wasn’t working, and it may have overheated.) In any case, I also had been given an IMac some time ago by an old friend, and I’m slowly becoming familiar with it. I want to catch up the daily log. Mostly it’s been OK, only 2 of the last 5 days have started with high sugars, the rest have all been normal. I intend to include more comments with the entries, explaining the motivation for various activities, but right now I’m just trying to get the record down. Mostly, I just want to illustrate that for those of us who react to Humulin ™ with erratic sugars and hypoglycemia unawareness, it’s imperative to constantly monitor your sugar and take appropriate action. Sticking to a preset insulin/food regimen doesn’t work, because your daily reactions to the standard amounts vary widely. Also it should be noted that most nights, at least 5 a week, in keeping with the vasodilation principles mentioned earlier, I lift weights, not too much, but at least one set of curls, standing presses, 50-60 (currently) push-ups, also usually, rows and a varying number of stomach crunches or other abdominal activities. I should incude these in the log, but it’s added space on the paper copy, but I suppose now I can take as much space as I need in the blog. Well, here’s the last week. Note also that most days my sugar rocketed up after the 1st light meal, but then, Tuesday and again Friday, it did the opposite, refusing to rise despite repeated food intake. Anyone suggesting I take more insulin to counter the high early blood sugars has to explain how this behavior will be accommodated. The same goes for using a pump.
SUNDAY 9/7/08
4:00pm CLEAR (Success!)
4:05pm 32u NPH Humulin ™
4:30pm 4 oz. pasta HH (would have waited for the insulin to take more effect, but had to drive.)
8:00m HIGH
8:45pm HIGH-
9:20 pm CLEAR
9:25pm 2 Famous Amos otameal mini-cookies (35 cals. 2.25 grams sugar). 1 banana.
10:15pm CLEAR
10:40 1 ham and cheese sandwich (2 breads, 1 slice pressed ham,1 slice Kraft Swiss)
12:00am HIGH
2:15am HIGH-
3:15am CLEAR
3:15am 3 F.A. oatmeal mini-cookies
3:55am 1/2 oz, ice cream. 2.5oz. Fritos.
4:30am CLEAR
5:00am 3 F.A. oatmeal mini-cookies
7:00am 2 F.A. oatmeal mini-cookies
8:00am CLEAR
8:20am 7oz. pasta HH
MONDAY 9/8/07
3:45pm CLEAR (Success!)
3:50pm 32uNPH Humulin(tm)
5;00pm 5oz. pasta HH
6:15pm CLEAR
7:40pm HIGH+
11:00pm 1oz. Fritos (suspected sugar had dropped, but in any case, corn chips wouldn’t raise my sugar quickly because of the fat, and I wanted something in my empty stomach.)
11:15pm CLEAR (Sure enough, it had been dropping, just took a while to show up in my pee)
12:10am 1 banana ( yeah, I waited a bit because I was online, but no worries)
1:15am 6oz. pasta HH
200am 2 F.A. oatmeal mini-cookies.
3:30am 1/4 cup ice cream (really, just nudging my sugar)
4:30am 3 F.A. oatmeal mini-cookies.
4:50 CLEAR
5:00am 1/2 ham and cheese sandwich.
5:30am 2oz. Fritos.
8:15am 7oz. pasta HH
TUESDAY 9/9/08
12:50pm 2 F.A. cookies, 2 teaspoons ice cream (felt a little uneasy while asleep)
4:10pm CLEAR (Success! and earlier suspicions confirmed)
4:15pm 32u.NPH Humulin(tm)
5:00pm 4oz. pasta HH
6:20pm CLEAR
6:45pm 10 grams chocolate (Hershey’s(tm) milk chocolate).
7:40pm CLEAR
7:45pm 10 grams chocolate.
8:15pm 1/2 ham and cheese sandwich
8:45pm CLEAR
8:50pm 10g chocolate.
10:00pm CLEAR
11:00pm 5 F.A. oatmeal mini-cookies
11:15pm (Brief sweating)
11:15pm 1 cup ice cream. (Wow! A whole cup! Good times…)
12:30am CLEAR
12:40am 1 banana
7:15am 3 F.A. cookies
9:15am CLEAR
9:30am 7oz. pasta HH
WEDNESDAY 9/10/08
4:00pm HIGH
4:05pm 32u. NPH Humulin(tm)
7:40pm HIGH
11:00pm (+) I din’t have to check sooner, I knew it was high.
12-12:30am ~1oz. Fritos
2:50am CLEAR (+)
2:15am 6oz. pasta HH
4:45am MED-HIGH
7:45am MED-HIGH
9:00am CLEAR
9:30am 7oz. pasta HH
THURSDAY 9/11/08
4:15pm HIGH
4:25pm 32u. NPH Humulin ™
7:00pm HIGH
10:30pm HIGH
12:45am HIGH
1:30pm 1oz. Fritos (wanted something slow to burn in my stomach but also suspected it was dropping–mostly because of the time)
2:50am CLEAR +
2:55am 3 Famous Amos oatmeal mini-cookies (2.25g) sugar each.
3:00am 6oz. pasta HH
7:00am CLEAR
8:10am 6oz. pasta HH (not 7oz.: still felt sugar was a little jumpy after yesterday’s high morning reading)
FRIDAY
4:35pm CLEAR (Success!)
4:55pm 3oz. pasta HH (Not 4-5oz,-Still being cautious)
7:40pm CLEAR
8:00pm 1/2 Ham & Cheese sandwich
10:00pm CLEAR
10:15pm 1 Ham & Cheese Sandwich (2 breads). 2 F.A. cookies (2.25g sugar ea.)
11:00pm 1oz. ice cream (low fat, but who cares?)
1:30~am LOW (nothing specific, just bad-tempered and confused)
1:40am 1/2 chocolate bar (20g), 6oz. pasta HH.
2:30am CLEAR
2:45am 1/2 chocolate bar.
3:10am 1 bread and cheese. 3 F.A. cookies.
9:30am CLEAR
10:00am 5 oz. pasta HH. 1 oz. Fritos (stayed up late working on computer unsuccessfully).
SATURDAY
5:00pm HIGH
6:25pm (+)
7:55pm HIGH
9:00pm 2 eggs, 1oz. chipped beef gravy (Stouffers).
10:30pm CLEAR
10:50pm 1 Ham & Cheese sandwich (2 breads)
3:00am CLEAR
3:30am 5 oz. pasta HH
5:30am CLEAR
5:40am ~2 oz. of rice and beef HH (nibbled while cooking)
10:00am CLEAR
10:15am 6oz. rice HH (after all, I had just eaten some earlier)
SUNDAY 9/14/08
5:35pm CLEAR (Success!)
5:45pm 32u. Humulin ™
6:50pm 5 oz. rice HH.
9:45pm 2 oz. Chex MIx (party mix–no nuts, unfortunately)
10:15pm CLEAR (+) HERE WE SEE A NICE, PREDICTABLE SEQUENCE OF CARB INGESTION,
11:15pm TRACE FOLLOWED BY A SLOW, EVEN RISE IN SUGAR, THEN A SLOW DROP.
12:55am HIGH IT REACHES A HIGH OF AROUND 160MG/DL,
2:30am Med-High THEN DROPS BACK TO ABOUT 130MG/DL,
2:35am 2 oz. ice cream (had to take a bath and knew it was dropping.)
5:00am CLEAR (see?) THEN BACK DOWN TO NORMAL (EXTENDED ABOUT 2 HOURS BY
THE ICE CREAM). (This is the way insulin should work and the way it always did with animal insulin)
5:15am 1 banana (See, I am eating fruit!) (and remember, there are at least 2 vegs in the HH)
7:10am 2 oz. chex mix
8:20am 7 oz. rice HH
