At a loss for words about hA1c

That was a rough weekend.

Stress and diabetes do not work so well together; first having the extreme low on Saturday then getting myself all worked up about an appointment to have my blood drawn on Tuesday morning. A diabetic should have their blood drawn on a regular basis(minimum every 6 months but preferably every 3) to make sure the HA1c is within normal range. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycated_hemoglobin

Only after living with diabetes for over 20 years; I get a little(okay a lot) of anxiety over a little needle in the(my) arm. Ive had some "bad experiences" but we wont dwell on that, at least not today. I get anxious just going into a hospital. So on Sunday, my voice decided to go out on me!!!!!!

First dealing with the low sugar, then I lose my voice for the rest of the weekend!!! I pinned it down again to the cold I had last week but after thinking about it today I realized I lost my words due to stress. Stress does strange things to a body, even more so for us who have to care for our diabetes.

So here's a deep breath, and a look forward to a calm week ahead, and the sugars are behaving better for the moment.

Oh and p.s. the blood draw went really well :)

Low blood sugar reaction 2/19/2011

Wow. Dont you hate it when you wake up on a Saturday morning with a thousand things to do and the only thing you get accomplished that day is scaring a friend half to death by her having to force feed you pineapple juice, bread with peanut butter and honey, a corndog, some coffee and all she recieves out of the deal is stress and some silly responses?

Yeah you wake up at some point of this low blood sugar episode bathed in a cold sweat and your friend fluttering about your kitchen attempting to locate the juice you have so neatly stashed out of the way for episodes similar to this one.

Stay away low bloodsugars, Im pretty sure this reaction is an after effect of having a cold last week and my sugars were much much higher than usual, and Im more tired than usual- so I take a nap, only I dont check the bloodsugar before hand because I assume its high..... which is a possibility but should never never NEVER be assumed.

Its near impossible to make up the wasted time in dealing with a serious low, in fact you already know you are going to be feeling a bit out of it for the next couple of days. But one way to make up for it is to take this special friend out for a burger and a beer. Always need a reason to cherish friends right?

I have good people watching out for me, I thank you my friend!!!