Yesterday it rained.
It’s the time of the year where we should be stripping off, not layering on, but every rule has it’s exception. It’s the middle of November and it’s raining.
It reminds me of having diabetes, you get a streak of good BGL (Blood Glucose Level) readings then BAM out of nowhere and for no good reason a storm hits, sometimes it’s just a light drizzle in the morning or a few clouds in the afternoon yet others, as they say ‘when it rains, it pours’ and those sunny days seem long gone.
At least with the weather, it’s forecasted. There’s no such luck with having Diabetes, you can do everything right, administer the right amount of insulin that you worked out by doing the BGL:Carbohydrate ratio and still have a gust of wind blow you off track.
As much as Diabetes is about science, without being hooked up to a machine 24/7 there is no formula that can work every time – it’s forever changes and like science there are unaccounted factors that come in to play, except instead of being in a lab hovering over a microscope you’re at school, or your day job and have to juggle everything all at once.
Sometimes it feels like I’m working two jobs.
However you do get the opposite happen, and lately my days have been a bit cloudy – it’s the typical no matter how hard you try, everything and anything that can go wrong – will go wrong, good old Murphy and his laws!
At the moment, the sun is shining for me (not at the moment – I’m watching the rain drizzle down my window) but I’m having one of those lucky days, where my diabetes is cooperating with me.
Not many people understand the ongoing frustration of juggling everything to get your levels right – only those who share the pain (literally) of injection after injection and test after test. So when those sunny days come – embrace them. And when those rainy days come – dance in the rain because you are doing as much as you can do – before you know it a sunny day is just around the corner (well it’s stuck behind a cloud).
No matter what the weather, stand tall and we can get through this together!
Until next time
Georgia
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