Finding the chase and cutting to it

As a type 1 diabetic, on many levels I have it all.  A reasonable Hb1Ac, good clothes, a smart house, a fascinating job and some great friends. I do mean great because, often, I’m shattered, mentally exhausted as my blood sugar levels are managed by me. I test and analyse everything and mark it against […]

No, I am not writing a thriller here, but more chat about basals, like the last post. My pump allows me to programme five different basals.  In practice, I only use four and then use a temporary adjustment if something completely unplanned is happening. Four? I use the same ones working day or weekend as […]

As I come to the end of my sabatical, I’ve had an infection that drove up my glucose rates and plumented them just as quickly at the end.  The past three days have seen me hypo from 2am in the morning. Which makes it a good time to review Basal Rate 2. Hit me one […]

JDRF are doing some pages to allow people to produce their diabetic statistics, how many blood tests they’ve done etc. Being “an old diabetic”, mine is a little unconventional: Item Per day Period Total Insulin Injections 1 1 yr      365 Insulin Injections 2 8 yrs   5,840 Insulin Injections 4 14 yrs 20,440 […]

Back in 2000, I met someone with an insulin pump.  I’d had difficulties controlling my blood sugar with long acting insulin since I was a teenager and I didn’t have the tools to be able to tune my background insulin levels by using long acting insulin. Unfortunately, I was “too well controlled” to gain pump […]

Food is something I care about.  I have to, not understanding how food works in the body is not possible for a type 1 diabetic. I do not diet per se.  I do count my carbs, that is the foundation of my bolusing decisions: if I am not aware of what sugar, protein and fat […]

I love when people talk about things that have happened to them.  My mum was telling me how she had been driving for a long time and got dehydrated and made a mistake in a parking lot and reversed into a car. Being tired and dehydrated affected her ability to react to her surroundings.  It […]

Now some DIY is out of the way, I am catching up on my blogging. One of my dreams for 2019, apart from my son getting a university place, is to achieve two long distance cycle rides. The first is 100 miles for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.  The Prudential Ride London, 3-4 August 2019, […]

There’s a meme going round showing a young girl with a syringe in her body representing each of the injections she does a month.  She’s on multiple daily injections a month and conservatively the photo represents 120 syringes. I am on a pump and this is what it is doing for me. I have a […]

I’ve been using tools and mathematical models to establish my insulin requirements for a while.  I keep the links to these calculators on my pump pages and thank my lucky stars for first wifi and then 3 and then 4G mobile networks. Most of them I have produced myself while allowing them to be tailored […]