Today’s Topic is this: “Living with diabetes (or caring for someone who lives with it) sure does take a lot of work, and it’s easy to be hard on ourselves if we aren’t “perfect”. But today it’s time to give ourselves some much deserved credit. Tell us about just one diabetes thing you (or your loved one) does spectacularly! Fasting blood sugar checks, oral meds sorted and ready, something always on hand to treat a low, or anything that you do for diabetes. Nothing is too big or too small to celebrate doing well!”

So we have to pick just one great thing we do.  Well, it is really hard for me to pick only one great thing that I do spectacularly.  I do everything related to diabetes spectacularly!  I am thee perfect diabetes patient! 

Okay, let’s get serious.  If only the above were true, I’d be walking around with an A1c of 6% all the time and my Dexcom graphs would be flat lines constantly.  A girl can dream 😉 

With that being said, I do have to give myself credit for knowing what my blood sugar is.  I went from a period where I probably only checked about once a day, to testing (on average) a minimum of 8 times daily.  It may help just a little that I tend to have my hands on the latest, cool, glucose meter.  Hey whatever helps right?  But not only that, it has been over 2 years since I let a day go by without using my Dexcom.  And I act on those readings too.  If I’m high, I correct until I’m in a better range.  If I’m dropping, I try to head off a low by lowering basal insulin or having a small snack.  Knowing what your BG is, is a crucial piece of managing one’s diabetes.  I certainly don’t have anything perfected, even after 30+ years but I do try.  And I try hard.

I like this topic a lot.  Living with diabetes can seem so daunting and difficult and scary most of the time.  And there are so many moments potentially leading us to feel like we don’t do things well enough.  But we do many things well and focusing on the positive is something we should all do more often.  Thanks for this Karen!