Ellie's Elephants

Today's Juvenation Blog Carnival Challenge topic: 

Day in a life. What is a normal day for you like? 

Wake up at 5:13a (yep, I'm one of those... can't set alarm for even or divisible by 5 number).   Then off to work.  Blood sugars (sometimes - I'm not the best at that, I know, I know).  Couple of cups of coffee, multiple computers problems fixed, and counting carbs and giving insulin for my fiberone bar breakfast.  Phew.  It's now about 8:30am and my coworkers are all arriving to work.

Somewhere in here, every single day, I'm doing something or other for JDRF.  Answering emails, checking Juvenation, conference calls, webex, etc.   Some days I'm moderating ODST, or PenPals too - that's a continuous check throughout those days.

Lunch around 11:30am - if a good day, I remember to check my BG before - that includes counting carbs for what I ate, and giving insulin.  Some days there's calls from Ellie's school about her forgotten Personal Diabetes Manager (PDM) or carbs/insulin or whatever - but thankfully, those are getting less often.    Leave work at 3p.  Girls off bus at 3:45p.  Check Ellie's meter to see what her BG day has been like.

Girls play, cook dinner, check blood sugars, eat while counting carbs and giving insulin to both Ellie & myself.

That's a good day - where nothing goes wrong. There's no insurance company to fight, or RX that needs a refill.  There's no tracking down which pharmacy has the flavor glucose tabs we like in stock.  There's no call from school that Ellie's pod is constantly beeping.  There's no doctor appointments (every three months for each of us) or blood draws.  No forgot PDM at home.  No calling and trying to track down the carbs in the lunch for the conference Ellie is attending the next weekend.  No extra physical activity.  No illness.  No frozen shoulders.  No yearly eye doctor appointments for both of us to get our eyes dilated.  The $3000 deductible was hit in February for our family so we are riding with 100% coverage for all of our medical and prescription needs.   There's no infection in a leg that requires lancing.  There's no too low blood sugars.  There's no too high blood sugars.  

Sometimes it seems like it's just bad day after bad day...   diabetes interrupts life.  Every day.  No day passes without diabetes being there.