I was going to post “Diabetes Terminology Part 2”, but something else has come up tonight. I have a new laptop, and when I type it randomly moves the cursor to random places and continues typing there. Somewhat annoying and time-consuming, but I’m chalking it up to user error and figure I’ll get the hang of it at some point. (By the way, if anyone knows what I’m doing wrong, be sure to comment and let me know!!!)
So this random typing thing made me think about random diabetes things. For instance, “gushers”, which may be when you poke your finger and the blood squirts across the room, or when you remove a pump infusion set and blood gushes everywhere. Or perhaps a low blood glucose event that makes absolutely no sense (just ate, didn’t take too much medication/insulin, didn’t exercise). Maybe it’s high blood glucose readings after exercise (although that one can usually be explained, but in another post).
I’ve mentioned before that I once heard one out of four blood glucose readings are unexplainable. That goes into the random category for me. Unexplainable does not have to be unacceptable, however. These blood glucose readings actually give us something – the ability to be flexible and to move on without letting it get us down. Let’s face it, life as a human being is pretty random.
Ok, now for some more random diabetes things: how about all the random places we find blood glucose monitoring strips? Or the random bruises from injections (there was absolutely no pain or bleeding, yet a bruise shows up a day later)? Random food cravings? Random blog posts? Feel free to comment and add something random to this list.