Tuesday 9th August 2016.
Morning! Eggy not at work today or babysitting or having a colour, so she has decided she will do housework! Yawn! But first, breakfast, 2 slices of Burgen, toasted with Whole Earth Crunchy Peanut Butter and a cup of tea of course! She checks her BGs on the Libre and then checks on her standard meter. That’s because Mr Eggy just plugged her into a new sensor last night and she wants to check that they read the same or as near as dammit. Well, what do you know, exactly spot on. That makes her feel reassured as some folks do seem to have big discrepancies between the Libre and their blood readings. She is on the Freestyle Libre Facebook page and it gives her good tips and shares other diabetics experiences. She has nothing but praise for her Libre, she is on her fourth sensor and they have all lasted the full two weeks, in fact she finds it hard to remove them!
Later on today she is going to download the information off the Libre onto the computer and print off the charts because tomorrow we are going to the hospital to see the Diabetes Specialist Dietician. This is to assess if Eggy is suitable to go on some sort of carb counting/insulin course. Since she started on insulin 2 years ago she has just been left to her own devices, given a kwik pen some needles and off you go. Now she is on MDI she feels she needs some sort of guidance. Hopefully, I will report back tomorrow on a positive result. In the 6 years she had been diagnosed she has never once been to the Diabetes Clinic or even seen a GP about her condition, she just sees a DSN, who really doesn’t know how to deal with her weird diabetes!
Later on today she is going to download the information off the Libre onto the computer and print off the charts because tomorrow we are going to the hospital to see the Diabetes Specialist Dietician. This is to assess if Eggy is suitable to go on some sort of carb counting/insulin course. Since she started on insulin 2 years ago she has just been left to her own devices, given a kwik pen some needles and off you go. Now she is on MDI she feels she needs some sort of guidance. Hopefully, I will report back tomorrow on a positive result. In the 6 years she had been diagnosed she has never once been to the Diabetes Clinic or even seen a GP about her condition, she just sees a DSN, who really doesn’t know how to deal with her weird diabetes!
Right breakfast over, quick tidy up…..whoo Eggy, she’s just flown up the stairs faster than Usain Bolt (see what I did there? Topical as well as being funny) She is away for a while, when she emerges she looks quite pale and muttering something about Daddy’s ear and not enough ruddy Creon! Eh? Me neither! Well, it turns out the peanut butter triggered a gastric dumping, this makes her quite exhausted and sometimes she has to lie down for 10 minutes, luckily it doesn’t happen too often. Mr Eggy calls them “ her funny turns”. Eggy said there’s nothing remotely funny about them and can be damned embarrassing if she’s not at home. She has been known to pass out, not pleasant for anyone with her, she had a “funny turn ”at work a few weeks ago and her colleague Donna thought she had had a heart attack as she was so pale and her lips were blue. She’s had cameras, up and down, MRI scans, CT scans, ultrasound scans, endoscopic ultrasound scans. You name a scan and she’s had it! Because she’s had a lot of surgery and has a knackered (her words, not mine, far too refined for that sort of language) pancreas, her digestive system will never be normal, just like her! Who wants to be normal? That’s so passé.
She’s ok now and has set up the ironing board in front of the telly. Can of diet coke and two squares of 85% chocolate. It’s the law she said, when you iron you must consume these items and watch something you recorded that Mr Eggy won’t watch. Must be some sort of Cumbrian bylaw, strange, but hey I’m happy to watch the TV. What? No TV for me she said, she’s watching some drama set in the eighties about naughty lingerie parties and she thinks I’m far too young to watch. She says she only watches because of the sound track and she likes to see the clothes and hairstyles because it reminds her of the time she was carefree and not bogged down with children, grandchildren and diabetes! Oh dear, I’m going for a nap! (She asked me to say she loves her kids and grandkids and doesn’t regret having them one bit! Although she regrets having diabetes!)
After dinner, Eggy decides it’s time to go for a walk, she needs to keep her steps up. This woman is relentless! She shoves me in that bloomin’ rucksack again!
Phew! Back home at last, she’s had me everywhere, down rivers, through parks, although we did stop for a cuppa at her sister-in –laws which was a nice break from the relentless street pounding! No pain, no gain, she says. It’s all pain if you ask me!
She starts to prepare the tea when we get in, chicken casserole and creamy, buttery mash potatoes, oh I am drooling already. Normally, Eggy avoids mash potato like the plague as it is the worst thing in the world (she says) for spiking her, but she misses them so much, but now she’s on NovoRapid she’s going to have a go! BGs pre mash 6.4, perfect, 1hour 20 mins later 15.7 and rising. Boy was I in trouble! She was livid, thought she was going to blow a gasket. She went to bed without tucking me in! Night, DF xx
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