Thanksgiving for a JD

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  So, today is a day that comes every year when everyone stuffs their faces!  Well, what about the people who have JD?  Are they able to stuff their faces?  Well, I hope so, because I sure stuff my face, hehe!  As long as I make sure that I count the carbohydrates I eat for everything, which will be hard, I will be fine.  The reason why it is hard to count the carbohydrates for everything is because all of the food is mostly homemade, so I cannot just read the back of a food label and see how many carbohydrates there are under 'nutritional values'.  Turkey has no carbohydrates because it is protein.  Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, gravy, stuffing, apple and pumpkin pie, and everything else is loaded with carbohydrates, so I must be careful!  It seems that when I eat carbohydrates like potatoes, stuffing, pizza, bagels, etc., my sugar goes high hours later; I must check my sugar hourly today.

Have a great Thanksgiving, all!

Future offspring..

So many people think that my future children will have JD, but that is not true!  There is only less than a 3% chance that my offspring will have JD.  Diabetes Type 2 is a different story; that is hereditary.  What I have is not.  Like I said before in a previous post, the way I obtained JD was by CHICKEN POX attacking my pancreas.  Who would have know that CHICKEN POX would have affected me so greatly?!  NOT ME- or anybody around me.  My future offspring will only have a 3% chance of having JD.  This is a bit personal, but people who have JD and want to have children will have to be extra careful.  The first tirmester is the most critical because that is when the baby is developing what is most important.  Also, blood sugar readings must be *PERFECT* before and throughout the pregnancy.   If blood sugars are not *perfect*, the following can happen, miscarriage or an overweight baby with Diabates Type 2. 

Many JD's have healthy children, I will be one of those many woman. :)

Random thoughts!

Ya know, I have had JD for fifteen years and for the last fifteen years that I have gone to my Endocrinologist (JD doctor), they have been so nasty to me.  If I go three times a year to the doctor's for the last fifteen years, that is forty-five times!  Every single time, they give me an attitude as if I do not know what I am talking about with my JD.  Yes, they are the doctors, but I am the one who has been living with this disease for the last fifteen years-not them!  It just aggravates me that they think they know better than me.  Yes, they have had schooling but I have had first hand experience and hands on experience which teaches a person much more than schooling (IN MY OPINION).


If the doctors can just give me a little but more respect and credit, that would be great.  MAYBE I need to change doctors!

Blood Glucose Levels

I have not exactly gone into depth with blood glucose levels.  Now I will!  I have already covered what high and low blood sugar is called:  hyperglcemia which is when your blood sugar level is high and hypoglyciemia which is when your blood sugar is low. 


You might ask: How do you TEST your BLOOD sugar?  Well, I have something called a blood sugar kit that I use to read my blood glucose levels.  In the 'kit' comes a finger pricker, blood glucose strips, and a blood glucose meter.  The pricker is what you use to 'stab' your finger.  It is a small needle that pricks your finger so a droplet of blood can come out.  The blood glucose strips are stuck into the meter.  The strips literally suck the drop of blood off the tip of your finger and the meter reads the amount of glucose in your blood.  I have a blood sugar kit called One Touch Ultra.  This kit is linked with my insulin pump, so everytime I prick my blood sugar and the meter reads it, the number gets transmitted to my insulin pump.  This is great because I can automatically just program my insulin pump to do the amount of insulin for the correction of my high blood sugar level.  I do not have to program what my blood sugar is into the insulin pump.


If my blood sugar is say.... 214, my meter will read and it it ill be transmitted to my insulin pump.  All I have to do is press the ACT (enter) button on my insulin pump and it will pump insulin into me.