It's my second day at home sick. Being sick with diabetes is a bit more challenging for me. Being sick puts my body under stress. To deal with this stress, my body releases hormones that help it fight off the illness. But these hormones raise blood glucose levels and interfere with the blood glucose-lowering effects of insulin. As a result, when I'm sick, it is harder to keep my blood glucose in my target range -- between 70 and 140.…
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It's probably too late for this. I've got a low grade fever and aches and pains. My wife's advice is that I should drink plenty of fluids. But I have type 1 diabetes. Juices aren't for me. Plain water is boring. So … carbonated water with a pack of Immune+. Published via Pressgram…
A Month of Site Changes - Diabetes 365 Day 62 - Dec 6, 2007, originally uploaded by travelingthoughts. I test my blood glucose about 5 - 7 times daily. Each one of those tests requires a lancet and a test strip. I take insulin 5 times a day ( 3 Novolog, 2 Levemir ). Each one of those shots requires a needle. That's 35-49 test strips and 35 needles in one week. Or looking at it another way; I punch…
diabetes 365 - day 93 - 02/06/08, originally uploaded by landileigh. I'm home today. Wore me out and got sick. So what does a sick technophile with diabetes do to recover? Start a new project. A post a day ( I know, a little ambitious aren't I ) of my favourite stuff; bloggers, photos, posts etc. from TuDiabetes and Diabetes 365 and other web properties related to diabetes. Here's landileigh to kick it off. Technorati Tags: diabetes, health…
Hey. I'm famous. 🙂 Not really. Got a note from the Wall Street Journal that they used my photo in a story on diabetes. The photo was one of many that I submitted to the Diebetes 365 project on Flickr. Technorati Tags: diabetes, health…
