Just a few of my daily diabetic devices... My meter, showing a terribly high 308 blood sugar, my little finger sticking device, and my pump in it’s fancy pink skin. Yes, even insulin pumps like to accessorize. I realized after seeing that 308 that I need to change my pump site and of course I’m at work without all of the things I need. However, this does explain the rough time the last day or two. I hope I can get this number down before I get home or I won’t be able to do Insanity tonight. Over 300 is considered the danger zone for diabetic workouts. I’m trying to fix this body not break it even more!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Babies and wine are sweet...but not when you're doing Insanity!
I learned a few things with yesterday’s workout and because I love lists, I thought I’d share them in list form. So here you go, in no particular order.
1. I love doing Wine & Palette. My friends and I painted a wine glass at sunset-pictured above. If you’ve never done one, it’s this great new craze where people get together and drink and paint. This can be dangerous, but it’s so much fun!
2. Remember to put your wine/drink glass away from your water cup so that you don’t accidentally dip your brush in your drink…it happens.
3. Drinking prior to doing Insanity is not a great idea. Although it sounded good at the time, I’m not sure I’d choose to do it again…damn near lost some wine last night on my floor…
4. My baby girl hates Shaun T. I’m sorry Shaun, I don’t know what it is, but she was not as enthusiastic about watching Mommy and Daddy work out as the kid pictured above…no, that’s not my child, just some stranger from the internet. I’m not into baby body building, but if they keep staying up to watch us they might be in this shape before long.
5. It’s just about impossible to do Insanity while your daughter is crying and wants you to hold her.
6. Insanity was not made for fat girls and boys. I’m pretty sure I’m doing less than half of the videos so far and feel like I’m dying, but I’m still doing it!
7. I need new tennis shoes. My feet were killing me midway through…worse than my screaming muscles and the sweat dripping into my eyes! I did find on Shaun T’s blog that he prefers doing this barefoot, so I might try that tonight. We’ll see…
8. This is going to be a really rough 2 months. I’m not sure yet how this is going to go because today I can barely walk.
9. When your hamstrings are sore it’s damn near impossible to lower and raise yourself from a chair or toilet…beware!
10. Extra workouts are not making perfect blood sugars like they have in the past. I’m struggling right now with a lot more highs than lows, which has been my past experience. I’m not sure what’s going on with that. Stupid diabetes.
11. Diabetes is like Big Brother I’ve learned to, “expect the unexpected"!
That’s all for today, I’m too sore to type anything more witty! Oh and if you know how to get pictures to upload on here from the phone app help me out lol!
Sweet Insanity-Day 1
Tonight the hubby and I started Insanity. I know I know, it’s been done a million times and I’m sure there are a bloggers everywhere talking about their experience, but like most, I’m pretty sure I was more traumatized and it is necessary to share this story.
It starts nice, ShaunT is all encouraging and motivational and you start thinking yeah I can do this. I’ll have a body like Tonya in no time. About 2 minutes in the warm up was getting intense and I thought maybe this was going to be rough…5 minutes in I was certain we should have gotten our affairs in order before starting this…at least signed up for more life insurance or something! 10 minutes in and we’re like two flopping fish trying not to power kick each other in the face…or maybe in the knee because neither of our overweight selves can really kick face high! And by 18 minutes I wished horrible things would happen to Tonya like she’d trip on her own legs and fall doing a suicide jump. I may have blacked out for a minute so I’m not sure what happened, but she was still standing at the end of the video, so I guess we weren’t so lucky.
Our 8 year old loves our enthusiasm for bettering our health and bodies so she helped out by writing down our counts. Lucky for her she didn’t have to count very high for this. Fit test my sweet ass! I can say with great confidence we have left much room for improvement!
My blood sugar was 230 at the end which made the pounding in my head that much more noticeable. Day 1 down…and I’m afraid to go to sleep for fear I may not be able to stand when I wake up tomorrow!
Simple and Sweet
I logged on here and realized I haven't written in forever! So it's like starting all over again!
Hello, my name is Shannon. I am a wife, a mom, and an insulin dependent diabetic, and I am simply me. I wear an insulin pump and check my blood sugar multiple times a day and I have highs and lows (thank you Steel Magnolias for shedding light on what that means), but it’s all just part of my sweet life. I have 3 kids (the one I was pregnant with is a girl and almost 2!) and a dog and live in your typical middle class suburban neighborhood. I married a guy I graduated from high school with even though we didn’t start dating until we were 20. Our 10 year wedding anniversary is this year and I can’t imagine my life anywhere else.
I work full time and I work part time and I’m a mom all of the time. I have 3 beautiful kids who are totally perfect…except when they aren’t. I love Big Brother, Survivor, and True Blood and yes, if Alexander Skarsgard came to my door I’d definitely invite him in. My family and I love to try new things and eat great things and somehow over the last few years I’ve eaten my way right up to almost 200 lbs. I work, I live, I love, I’m a diabetic, and I need to lose weight…so here I am, writing about all of the above.
I’ve decided 2013 is the year of the better me. My husband and I are dumping debt aka. We’re on a budget and paying it off…thank you Dave Ramsey. I am dumping stuff aka. I’ve made many trips to the local Goodwill in the last few weeks to get rid of anything we don’t need or love…it’s a work in progress. And I’m dumping fat aka. Get off your ass and do something Shannon! So, I’ve downloaded Myfitnesspal and been tracking away, I’ve taken before pictures (that was painful) and tomorrow we started Insanity 3 days ago…and by we I mean, I somehow convinced my husband that this journey is not one I should take alone. We are celebrating our 10 year anniversary on the beach of Mexico in 9 weeks so here we go!
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
33 weeks and counting
Well, we're hanging in there...so far so good. My blood pressure has been maintaining and even lower than it was for a while most of the time. I feel pregnant and puffy and pretty miserable most of the time. Not to mention we're having the hottest summer in recorded history. It's been unbelievably hot here which isn't helping anything! I swear I might spontaneously combust somedays. I've been working from home when I can, which helps. We're so busy right now there is a ton to do and a lot of it I can do remotely luckily. I would not recommend having a baby a few months before you launch an electronic health record to anyone, it's hard work!
The baby looked great at our last ultrasound. It was measuring a week ahead already, but that's to be expected with as much trouble as I've had with the blood sugar. I have another this Thursday, so we're hoping there hasn't been a big jump. I feel the baby moving all of the time and know that it's doing well, and that's the most important thing! We'll know more tomorrow.
My doctor has assured me that we won't be forced to do a c-section because of size, although we have talked about it because of blood pressure. She said if my pressure is high we can't put my body through a marathon like labor. At this point I think it's maintaining enough that we are okay, but I know a lot can change in a few weeks. I think she's just trying to prepare me because surgery is really not something I want to do. I'm trying to stay positive and take it easy as much as I can without being completely immobile and it seems to be working. I've been limiting my sodium a ton and that's really helped too, plus it's just better for me and the baby.
We started trying to prepare for the little one, which is a lot harder than I thought it would be because we don't know the gender! I've washed the few gender neutral clothes we have and I'm going to make bows to match in case it's a girl. We put the crib together and just went ahead and put the boy bedding on it because it's in my son's room. I have the girl stuff at the top of the attic stairs and it can be changed before we come home if it's a girl. The boy stuff just matched his room and was already out so I just went with it rather than leaving an empty crib set up. I have 2 outfits for the hospital that are gender specific that I bought and will pack. It's just funny to plan for what you might want either way! I guess it only matters for those days in the hospital because as soon as we come home we'll wash the boy or girl stuff and it won't matter.
It is interesting how different things are the third time around. I have barely shopped for this one. With the first two I had everything set up and ready. We had everything you could possibly need or want...I guess the older you get the more you realize what really matters. We have what we need and we will be ready, whether we have a swing set up or not and whether or not we have a million clothes washed and folded in the drawers. Somehow it all works out...or so I hope!
The baby looked great at our last ultrasound. It was measuring a week ahead already, but that's to be expected with as much trouble as I've had with the blood sugar. I have another this Thursday, so we're hoping there hasn't been a big jump. I feel the baby moving all of the time and know that it's doing well, and that's the most important thing! We'll know more tomorrow.
My doctor has assured me that we won't be forced to do a c-section because of size, although we have talked about it because of blood pressure. She said if my pressure is high we can't put my body through a marathon like labor. At this point I think it's maintaining enough that we are okay, but I know a lot can change in a few weeks. I think she's just trying to prepare me because surgery is really not something I want to do. I'm trying to stay positive and take it easy as much as I can without being completely immobile and it seems to be working. I've been limiting my sodium a ton and that's really helped too, plus it's just better for me and the baby.
We started trying to prepare for the little one, which is a lot harder than I thought it would be because we don't know the gender! I've washed the few gender neutral clothes we have and I'm going to make bows to match in case it's a girl. We put the crib together and just went ahead and put the boy bedding on it because it's in my son's room. I have the girl stuff at the top of the attic stairs and it can be changed before we come home if it's a girl. The boy stuff just matched his room and was already out so I just went with it rather than leaving an empty crib set up. I have 2 outfits for the hospital that are gender specific that I bought and will pack. It's just funny to plan for what you might want either way! I guess it only matters for those days in the hospital because as soon as we come home we'll wash the boy or girl stuff and it won't matter.
It is interesting how different things are the third time around. I have barely shopped for this one. With the first two I had everything set up and ready. We had everything you could possibly need or want...I guess the older you get the more you realize what really matters. We have what we need and we will be ready, whether we have a swing set up or not and whether or not we have a million clothes washed and folded in the drawers. Somehow it all works out...or so I hope!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Well, I'm over 29 weeks now and heading into the home stretch...more like being drug into the home stretch with my kicking baby and wonky blood glucose numbers. The past week or two have been rough. My numbers are climbing like crazy and although I feel like I'm adjusting and compensating like I should be I'm still seeing days in the 250's and then over correcting and ending up in the 40's. I think (hope) I've gotten it into a good place, but it's seriously a day by day trial and error...and sometimes D wins. I see the perinatologist again tomorrow and then in 2 weeks the craziness starts. I'll be heading to the OB weekly for biophysical profiles and the hospital weekly for non stress test. Then I'll see the perinatologist every 4 weeks for full measurement ultrasounds...oh and I continue to see my endocronologist at least once a month. Thank goodness I have some flexibility to make this work with home, 2 kids, and 2 jobs!
My husband is a godsend. I swear he helps so much and is so sweet and supportive with all of this. He's starting back to school this week and I'm so excited for him! I just hope we can hold it all together. Nothing like throwing a little more into the mix, but we can handle it! It's going to be interesting...but always fun!
My husband is a godsend. I swear he helps so much and is so sweet and supportive with all of this. He's starting back to school this week and I'm so excited for him! I just hope we can hold it all together. Nothing like throwing a little more into the mix, but we can handle it! It's going to be interesting...but always fun!
Monday, June 6, 2011
Unexpected Surprises!
My mom asked me last night why I hadn't written on here in so long...and I'm not sure why other than my time is so limited right now and my life is completely crazy! I have so many great things going on though. Little Baby G is doing great. We had our last ultrasound at 23 weeks and baby was measuring right where it should be. We still don't know the gender and although it's hard, I do think we'll be able to stay strong! The perinatologist commented about how surprising it is that a diabetic like me has had 2 deliveries with no c-section. I'm hoping to make it 3! I have a hard time with them scheduling c-sections based on the idea that the baby might be too big. I know measurements are good and they are trying to keep track of where we are, but it really bothers me because they aren't perfect and many of our bodies can easily deliver a baby over 8lbs with no problems. My kids were 6lb. 11oz. and 8lb. 13oz. We did great with both, and I was a type 1 diabetic both times (obviously). My daughter was tiny for a diabetic and I'm really glad my doctor didn't try to force me to do a c-section and then her turn out so small, I would have been really disappointed. Now, that being said, I'm completely in support of a c-section when it's necessary, I just don't think diabetes should determine that it has to occur.
I have a few pictures of the little one I was trying to email to myself. I will load them if I can. I love going to the perinatologist. They always do the 4D and they have a big flat screen tv on the wall to watch. It's the most amazing thing ever!
So, on the diabetes front I had a strange thing happen. I have wanted to get more involved in things and been blogging and reading and trying my hand at some advocating and kept saying I needed some diabetic friends. All of a sudden a few weeks ago I get this Facebook friend request from the JDRF of Oklahoma. I thought it was a little odd, I don't know that there is anything on my Facebook distinguishing me by my disease, but I gladly accepted. Then almost immediately I get this invite and message from the leader of the group about a Type 1 Women's group starting up. He said I should go, I'd have a really great time, etc. So, I did ask him how he knew I was a type 1 and he said he got my name off of an advocacy list, so I guess the things I'm doing are going somewhere! He told me his name and his role with the organization, etc. Then he mentions the group again and says that there is another pregnant girl, a doctor who is a type 1 with a type 1 child, and a Minimed rep that will be attending. The doctor is my doctor, and the Minimed rep and I are friends and our kids played t-ball together...this day was getting more and more weird! So, the next time I saw my doctor she also mentioned the group and I told her about my funny experience and that I plan to be there. I'm really excited. I think it's great to be able to share things with other people in your situation, bounce ideas around, and just support one another. I'm excited to meet the other pregnant girl too! I'm sure we see the same perinatologist, or at least one of the 3 in that group, I think they're the only ones in the area.
It's funny how you think of things and then they just happen. My life has always sort of been that way. My mom says it's God answering my silent prayers, Oprah says it's The Secret, and I say no matter what it is, I sure do like it! It's nice to know that when you think good things, good things happen to you. I'm very thankful for this chance to meet more women like me. I will definitely update after!
I have a few pictures of the little one I was trying to email to myself. I will load them if I can. I love going to the perinatologist. They always do the 4D and they have a big flat screen tv on the wall to watch. It's the most amazing thing ever!
So, on the diabetes front I had a strange thing happen. I have wanted to get more involved in things and been blogging and reading and trying my hand at some advocating and kept saying I needed some diabetic friends. All of a sudden a few weeks ago I get this Facebook friend request from the JDRF of Oklahoma. I thought it was a little odd, I don't know that there is anything on my Facebook distinguishing me by my disease, but I gladly accepted. Then almost immediately I get this invite and message from the leader of the group about a Type 1 Women's group starting up. He said I should go, I'd have a really great time, etc. So, I did ask him how he knew I was a type 1 and he said he got my name off of an advocacy list, so I guess the things I'm doing are going somewhere! He told me his name and his role with the organization, etc. Then he mentions the group again and says that there is another pregnant girl, a doctor who is a type 1 with a type 1 child, and a Minimed rep that will be attending. The doctor is my doctor, and the Minimed rep and I are friends and our kids played t-ball together...this day was getting more and more weird! So, the next time I saw my doctor she also mentioned the group and I told her about my funny experience and that I plan to be there. I'm really excited. I think it's great to be able to share things with other people in your situation, bounce ideas around, and just support one another. I'm excited to meet the other pregnant girl too! I'm sure we see the same perinatologist, or at least one of the 3 in that group, I think they're the only ones in the area.
It's funny how you think of things and then they just happen. My life has always sort of been that way. My mom says it's God answering my silent prayers, Oprah says it's The Secret, and I say no matter what it is, I sure do like it! It's nice to know that when you think good things, good things happen to you. I'm very thankful for this chance to meet more women like me. I will definitely update after!
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