So, I survived my Christmas in Northern Ireland! I'll blog about the TSA experience later. I visited my huge family, ran on the wrong side of the road, ate strange new foods like shortbread and christmas cake and had a fabulous time. No dancing but that will start up next week again! It was incredible getting in touch with my roots and experiencing a different way of life. Well actually it was more similar to Canada than you would think. I spent too much time running around the big supermarket Tesco recognizing all my favorite foods that I couldn’t get in The States. Oh the lovely UK junk food!
This was also my first Christmas with full blown diabetes and it wasn’t pretty. I really hope it get’s easier as it put a little rain cloud over my holiday (I tried to suppress it though) This Christmas was one of numbers, carb counts and math problems. I suppose you could say I had a Christmas by the mg/dl. In normal life I really do maintain steady sugars so don’t judge me, Christmas was crazy! I tried to stay at 100mg/dl but as you can see from my list there were a lot of pluses and minuses from that 100mg/dl. So, here it is... And if you stick through my list you get a prize! A brand spanking new video!
- 2.5hr plane ride to Newark- Steady at 100mg/dl fabulous!
- 5.5hr plane ride to Belfast- No clue what my BG’s were. I was a zombie.
- First day in Ireland- Plus 100mg/dl (I made friends with shortbread)
- First evening in Ireland- Minus 50mg/dl (realized I overbolused for shortbread, too much fat in shortbread)
- First run out by the countryside- Minus 20mg/dl (ahhh, that feels better)
- Discovered a big bag of Monster Munch- Plus 50mg/dl (still fine)
- Discovered Schoeler soda- Plus 50mg/dl (still ok)
- Discovered Walkers roast chicken chips- Plus 40mg/dl (hmmm)
- Discovered custard- Plus 60mg/dl (Uh oh, getting high)
- Subsequent rage bolusing- Minus 54mg/dl (pass the glucose tablets)
- Waking up early- Plus 40mg/dl- (whatever, I’ll take it)
- Staying up late- -Minus 25mg/dl (not sure why I dropped there)
- Christmas Day- Steady at 100mg/dl. I don’t know how I did it! I barely ate any carbs!!!
- Christmas Evening- Plus 123mg/dl (Scratch that! I drank a full bottle of Baileys)
- Boxing Day- Fasting 160mg/dl (Feeling horrible, hungover with the dreaded tooth sweaters)
- More running- Plus 30mg/dl (my infusion set fell out, so no drop from that)
- Wandering around the Giant’s Causeway- Minus 30mg/dl (Yes!)
- Bringing all my own dinners- Plus 5mg/dl (Yay! I’m in control again!)
- Guessing on bolusing for greek yogurt- Minus 59mg/dl (epic fail. I was a mess at the airport)
- 7.5 hr plane ride to Newark- Plus 115mg/dl (Ugh, feeling like I was going to die. Incredibly dehydrated to the point my lip split. Gross.)
- 2.5 hr plane ride to New Orleans- Plus 25mg/dl (not bad at all. Still feel crappy)
- Arrive home- steady at 100mg/dl Sigh, what a roller coaster
Now that I have bored you with my numbers here is Ireland in pictures and videos! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are ready to get back to our steady blood sugars! I know I am!
Click the link to get to the video. For some silly reason I can't get it to post. I'll fix it after dinner!
Click the link to get to the video. For some silly reason I can't get it to post. I'll fix it after dinner!
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That's so cool that you kept such great records while on vacation! It sounds like you had an amazing time! I hope to see some pictures!
ReplyDeleteThanks DL! It was a pain but it really helped. I have photos in a link at the end my blog. It's my new Vlog. Check it out :)
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