7:00am – Mr T’s alarm wakes me up. Wait until he gets up
then stretch out in bed.
8:00am – Get out of bed as Mr T leaves for work. Test blood
sugars (4.1). Drink a little Lucozade.
8:10am – Get degus out of cage. Feed overexcited, squeaky
degus. Leave degus eating and make a cup of tea.
8:30am – Play with degus whilst doing hair and make-up. Gambit
degu eats my mascara.
9:00am – Check blood sugars (on Dexcom) 5.0. Make poached
eggs and toast. Count carbs (22 grams) and take insulin (extended bolus 30
minutes).
10:30am – Leave for work training session. Make mental note
to get petrol and order more glucose test strips. Test glucose before driving.
11:00am – Arrive at training session. Check glucose (7.5). Regret
not bringing a travel mug of tea. Turn off alarms on Dexcom but keep within
reach.
11:30am – Really regret not bring tea. Stomach starts to
make strange “gastroparesis” noises. Pray that I’m not going to start feeling
nauseous.
12:00pm – Test glucose. Drive to Asda. Spend money that I
don’t have on beauty products that I don’t need. Debate in head whether or not
to buy more salad. Decide not to as stomach can’t digest salad. Realise I forgot carrier bags.
1pm – Count carbs in soup (12 grams of carbs). Soup tastes cheap and nasty
because it’s cheap and nasty. Take insulin (standard bolus). Drink tea. Make
more tea.
2pm – Reply to lots of emails. Drink tea. Realise I didn’t
turn Dexcom alerts back on.
4pm – Study, study, facebook, study, twitter, study. Quickly check Dexcom.
6:30pm – Tidy bathroom cupboard. Throw away all beauty
products that have been covered in sticky goo. Check on degus and feed them.
Check glucose is still in range.
7:30pm – Tidy clothes (get all tidying done before starting
placement next week). Realise that 46 t-shirts may be excessive. Throw no t-shirts
away. Make more tea.
8:00 – Have a hypo before dinner. Eat jelly babies then
remember that they don’t work anymore. Drink Lucozade.
8:20pm – Count carbs for dinner (70 grams of carbs). Extend insulin by 1
hour. Watch Archer with Mr T.
9:00pm - Study a bit more.
9:30 – Get degus out of cage for exercise. Reply to more
emails whilst stopping degus from eating the walls.
10:00 – Wake up on degus floor after “shutting my eyes for a
minute”. Degus have gone back into cage on their own.
11:00 - Change insulin in pump. Remember that I shouldn’t do
that before bed. Test glucose (8.2). Get into bed.
11:10 Have chat with Mr T. Decide to keep alarms on Dexcom
during the night after Mr T confirms that they don’t wake him. Check glucose on
Dexcom one more time.
11:30 Remember that Lucozade is in kitchen. Go to find it
and put it near bed.