Trunkles at Large

If you are a diabetic and haven’t looked at Diabetes Forums then please, take a few minutes and have a peruse. It’s an ideal place to ask questions, give answers and generally be a part of. The others on there are just like us, they are diabetics. They are there and are wearing the T-shirt - 24/7.

One of the regulars on there is in hospital right now. She hit 42.6 (767) despite having NINETY units of NovoRapid. Fortunately she got to hospital before DKA (wiki on Diabetic Ketoacidosis) got her. I’ve never been that high and I’ve certainly never taken that much NovoRapid. Having said that, Tuesday was a bitch. My waking test was 13.7(247) and it took forty units of NovoRapid to get back into the normal range.

There are days when diabetes confuses the hell out of me. There are days when it scares me badly. There are days when I scream “Why me?”. There are days when it makes me laugh. There are days when it exasperates me.

But, every single day of every single week of the rest of my life I will have diabetes and if I don’t cope with it then my life is going to suck, big time. I’ll either have horrible complications in my (shortened) old age or die if I miss a hypo and don’t get found. So, guess what, I do cope with it and I do control it. And, not surprisingly, I’m going to continue coping and cotrolling because…