Saturday 6th August 2016.
Well, I’m finally here in the Eggyg household in Carlisle, Cumbria. I can’t believe there wasn’t anyone to greet me on Friday. I had to go back to the GPO with Mr Eggy’s new toy. BT superfast broadband box. They picked me up this morning thank goodness. Although another parcel came today which Eggy was more excited about opening. It was a sensor for her Freestyle Libre, I know all about it ‘cos Matt Cycle has one as well, so I wasn’t quite as impressed when she was extolling it’s virtues. Although I was quite impressed when she told me how it had helped her DSN decide to change her insulin regime to MDI. It has showed how much she spikes after what I would consider quite normal healthy food. She said it’s a work in progress and I will get to see her results as the week goes on.
She didn’t make me sleep in the coal bunker as she threatened, she let me borrow her 3 year old granddaughter’s bunk bed. Do you like the princess bedcovers? I bet she got them in especially for me. (eggyg: I didn’t!)
Night DF x
Sunday 7th August 2016.
Eggy said we are having a quiet day today ‘cos she’s shattered! Last Monday she said she was on her daughter’s “Hen Do” at Ladies’ day at Carlisle Races. She showed me some photos, I couldn’t see any chickens and I defiantly didn’t see any ladies! She told me it was only the second time she had had to inject in public since starting MDI, and it wasn’t easy! She had to do it in a toilet cubicle! Yuk! She had on her posh frock and as she usually injects in her thighs she didn’t feel she could have lifted her dress up. But she has since learnt from the lovely forum members that she can inject in her upper arms, and Northerner kindly posted a picture to show her where.
While she was there she drank some devil’s juice, also known as Pinot Grigio, she was obviously allergic to it because it made her sick that night and all the next day. Poor Eggy! She said she doesn’t really drink much of this juice because she’s trying to look after the little bit of pancreas she has left. What? She’s only got a little bit of pancreas, so that’s why she’s diabetic, I see now, she‘s one of those weird diabetics, I mean people with weird diabetes!
She had to have a very serious operation in December 2007, she spent Christmas and New Year in a hospital a 120 mile round trip away from home. That’s awful, how would Santa know where to go? She told me Santa was the last thing on her mind. Her operation was a distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy, her scars are fab! Her children say her stomach looks like a hot cross bun, that’s because she had another ectomy a few years previous and they cross over!
Luckily the tumour they removed along with the body and tail of her pancreas was pre cancerous, she feels very lucky that all she has is diabetes resulting from that, oh and gastric dumping syndrome! That sounds revolting. So that’s why she tries to look after her pancreas by not drinking much devil’s juice and trying to keep her BGs at an acceptable level. She doesn’t know which is the hardest to do!
Sunday is cooked breakfast day. Cumberland sausage, the best sausage in the world apparently, bacon, egg and haggis. Haggis? I thought Carlisle was in England, Eggy explained it is, but only just, we could be in Scotland in 10 minutes whilst the nearest lake is 20 minutes away. We won’t have a chance to visit either this week because we will be too busy, oh dear!
PS. I think Eggy is fibbing about not being in Scotland, Mr Eggy has just gone into the garden wearing only his dressing gown, (he’s gone to talk to his grapes, don’t ask!) and when he came back in he said it was a bit breezy around the Trossachs! Night night! DF x
Monday 8th August 2016.
Today Eggy said we are walking into town because she’s having a “colour”. I must have looked a bit confused so she explained she was getting her hair coloured, I asked if she was getting it to match mine, the look on her face said it all.
Eggy has signed up to do One Million Steps for Diabetes UK. This entails walking at least 10,000 steps a day from 1st July to 30th September. You get people to sponsor you and all monies raised go to help research into diabetes. It also encourages you to walk more and go beyond your comfort zone. Eggy is doing really well, she is in credit with her steps as she quite often does much more than 10K a day. Two weeks ago she walked 60 miles in one week! Wow! That’s amazing. She unfortunately sustained an injury that week and hasn’t done quite as much. What was this injury? Ham string, cartilage gone in her knee, torn metatarsal? No….it was a blister on her left heel! What, is that all? Eggy explained that people with diabetes are more prone to foot problems and it’s very important to look after your feet and wear comfortable and well fitting shoes. Not doing so can lead to some nasty things, she told me to Google it, I see what she means, awful!
We got ready for our walk and Eggy comes down wearing some very professional looking walking shoes and a rucksack. Is this hairdressers on the top of Skiddaw? No she said, she had just explained about footwear and do I never listen? Well that was me told! And the rucksack was because we will be popping into Tesco for some “bits” as daughter number 1 is coming round with R and P for dinner, she means lunch! These northerners, apparently, dinner is tea!
Back from our walk, had her “colour”, just looks the same to me! (Oy I heard that!). Ooops! She has done 12.5k steps and it’s only 12.15! Well done Eggy.
Everyone arrives for lunch, I mean dinner! P, age 3, grabs me and exclaims “Peppa Pig!” Grrr!
R, age 9, wasn’t interested and went straight onto the computer to go on I Bay or e tunes or Facegram or whatever they do on those things. Eggy made a frittata as daughter is low carbing - she is getting married in just over 3 weeks and is trying to loose some weight and Eggy tries to keep her BGs down. The kids have a sandwich, made with white bread, sure I saw Eggy drooling, she doesn’t touch white bread once she found out how much sugar it has in, she has Burgen or Lidl, she’s used to it now.
We all sat at the table where Eggy proceeded to shovel down a LOT of tablets, hang on I know what they are, that’s Creon, I learnt about those when I visited pottersusan last year, Eggy said she’s the Creon princess to pottersusan’s Queen! Hey, I’m the only princess here! Your pancreas not only produces insulin it produces digestive enzymes, so because Eggy only has the head of her pancreas left and that’s nearly dead, she can’t digest her food properly, so she takes many, many Creon when she eats. They aren’t a drug, they are supplements made from pigs pancreas so you can’t overdose, but if you take too many they can bung you up. She said she’s a martyr to her bowels!
Everyone’s gone home so we are going for a nana/DF nap. DF xx
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