Gold Star

Written by Lesley.

As much as I hate my Diabetes, sometimes I feel like praising it. The logic behind that is totally illogical. I’d be praising an inanimate “thing” for behaving, when its very essence is to “misbehave,” if you’re following me.

You see, the past month or so has been very stressful. Wedding planning has been insane and is quickly losing its fun and pleasure and is instead becoming very upsetting. There is so much to be done and because Matt and I live in a different city from where we’re getting married, we are left feeling very helpless and guilty. Work has also been stressful as I’m a one-woman show and the accomplishments and failures of the school all fall on my shoulders. On top of that, I was also sick all of last week with an awful cold and just wasn’t feeling like myself. I wasn’t sleeping well at night and was miserable during the day both from being sick and from my lack of sleep. Furthermore, three of my best friends from growing up all had babies within a one week stretch. I of course stress when I don’t hear from them, so waiting to hear that their labor was successful and that their respective babies were healthy was like waiting on pins and needles. One of my friends in particular had a rather rough labor and ended up having an emergency C-section. Thankfully, all of them gave birth to very healthy baby boys and are all doing well themselves.

All of these things combined should probably lead to very high blood sugars, maybe a few unexpected lows and lots of frustration, but for some reason, my sugars have been great. My meter still says my blood sugar average is in the 150′s which I am happy with. I also haven’t gotten that many lows which is wonderful. I am a big believer in everything happening for a reason; I can’t explain why, but I just strongly believe this. I’m just wondering why now my blood sugars and Diabetes are behaving so nicely. I almost wish that as Diabetics, we could pick particular times in our lives when our Diabetes behaves and we can focus on other, more important things. I guess that’s not the way life works.

So for now, I’ll just give my Diabetes a gold star and be on my way!