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One of Those Weeks
Posted on June 5th, 2009 5 comments
While I’m usually chipper about living with two autoimmune diseases (what other way is there to be?), it doesn’t mean I like living with two autoimmune diseases. It’s true, there are days when celiac is hardly a consideration and my blood sugar cooperates by staying right where it should - in that lovely window between 5 and 10mmol/L. But there are also the days when this is definitely not the case. Despite my to-the-gram carb counting and 12+ finger pokes a day, there are times when, no matter how much effort I seem to put forth, I get bounced around like a human yo-yo. The soundtrack to these days plays in the background like the audio to some sort of bizarro workout video:
“And Plummet to 3.8. And up to 14.7. And plunge to 3.4. And breathe. And breathe. And up to 15.8. Do you feel the burn?”No, I do not feel the burn! But I do feel exhausted and cranky!
Frustration and discouragement often come hand-in-hand with diabetes. I know we’re often told that, “numbers are just numbers” and I try to take this to heart but those silly numbers really can (and do) make me angry sometimes. There are those days – weeks even – when, no matter how hard I try, my numbers just won’t reflect the effort or time or thought or care that I put into daily living with diabetes. I find it so hard to not feel annoyed and defeated when I work so hard at something but fail to see positive results.
This has been one of those weeks…
5 responses to “One of Those Weeks”
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[...] you for the emails/instant messages of encouragement after my frustrating week with that relentless diaerobics instructor…they [...]
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[...] but sometimes it just happens! Yes, I have been known to throw my meter across the room when my sugars aren’t cooperating but we always make up in the [...]
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I certainly hear you on that, and I commend you for working so hard at it. There have been so many days when I’ll just give up… well, not ‘give up’, but stop trying because it doesn’t seem to matter WHAT I do, I can’t get them on target… yayyyyyyy autoimmune diseases.
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[...] am so easily affected by the barrage of numbers that fill my day-to-day life. Instead of simply taking a correction [...]
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[...] it but, lately, I can’t seem to shake the presence of that maddening diaerobics instructor (remember her?). Wake at 2.4! And jump to 14.7! Back down to 4.0! C’mon, keep up! Now rise to 12.3! And [...]
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