Author name: Katie

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone – also known as one month ’til my birthday day! Just saying that makes me smile; I love birthdays. It doesn’t matter how old I get, or how many shocking greys I’ve spotted in the last few months (yes, I’ve spotted a few), or how many permanent smile lines form around my eyes, it’s my birthday – I’ve always loved my birthday! And almost as much, I love the countdown to my birthday, which was started this afternoon in a most glorious way. When I opened up my Betty Boop lunchbox,  I found a surprise note from Mario inside telling me to have a super amazing day. Well, now, that helped 😀 So I’ve started reading a book about diabetes, Cheating Destiny by James S. Hirsch, that was loaned to me by Rosedale Annie, whose teenaged daughter was recently diagnosed with Type 1. I’m only on […]

Drama on the insulin front last night. About an hour and a half after dinner I noticed that my mouth was all cottony and that I’d been going to the washroom quite frequently, which are both signs of high blood sugars. And sure enough, after pricking my finger and waiting for the bing of the glucometre, they were high – 17.3 high!!! But it didn’t make sense. I didn’t eat anything out of the ordinary, I counted my carbs to a tee. Sure I had a glass and a half of wine, but the wine shouldn’t have shot them up like that. So I started looking at the pump. Did something go wrong with it? I checked to see how much insulin I had on board, nothing. What? There so should have been a couple of units still sticking around in my body from dinner. So I checked my bolus

Did I happen to mention how directionally challenged I am? North, east, south, west, what’s that? I could get lost in my own backyard. I’m not kidding, I actually did! But in my defense that was when we Iived on five acres and I was just a kid and … oh shoot, I’ve run out of excuses. I’ve been teased about it for as long as I can remember. I’ve made left turns when I was supposed to make rights, gone east when I was supposed to go west, gone towards the water when I was supposed to go towards the mountains. And let me just say, it can be frustrating – and dizzy – living in my spinny world. But with the advanced technology of GPS systems and Google Maps and Mapquest and Mapmyrun.com, I’ve thankfully been getting lost less and less frequently. Until today, that is. I’ve lived

Yoga, Cycling, Canucks, oh my! It was one of those amazing kind of days. From practically the moment I got up to the moment I went to bed I was decked out in exercise gear (aside from my pajamas of course). It wasn’t supposed to be an athleticism all day kind of day, but the sun came out and we just couldn’t pass up the opportunity for a ride, especially given that we didn’t ride yesterday. First things first though. TODAY’S YOGA: 9 a.m. BG before 6.0 75 minutes: felt awesome. I was holding my poses, my balance, for me, was good, my legs weren’t seizing up from too much tightness, and my abs were throbbing when she added in some ab work, which I much appreciated given that I never have the motivation to do abs on my own. But when she introduced the “crow” position (seriously, who came

Note to self: Never leave home without a spare AA. Today I discovered, that not only do I have to remember to have enough test strips in my purse, and sugar tablets in my purse, and backup insulin when I leave the house, I also have to have a fully juiced up AA battery. So yesterday morning, when I was at an interview, the alarm bells on my pump went off, and I had no idea what the heck it was, I thought it was someone’s annoying cell phone ring tone, you know, the chiming sing song kind of ring tone. And it wasn’t until I got in my car, and felt my pump vibrating against my waist along with the chiming bells that I realized, oh, the battery’s low. But I figured it would have enough juice to get me to Saturday morning when I had to change my