In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Over 17 hours into the day and I've been within range the entire time. After eating what amounts to a second dinner last night when I was trying to claw myself out of dangerously low territory, I skipped breakfast today.
I haven't taken any Rapid insulin. I was getting toward 80 around noon and had a 1/2 cup of peanuts. A few hours later I was back down to 80 and I had a LARGE banana that was likely 35 grams of carbs. That did bump me up to 131 at one point, but I'm sinking again.
I will be taking the smallest amount of insulin before I eat rice with my meal tonight, but if I play my cards right it will be my first day where I'm within target 100% for the full 24 hours and I'm going to use less than 5 units of Rapid insulin.
Wish me luck! 
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Good luck! Fingers crossed!
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Good luck! Fingers crossed!
I DID IT!!!!!
And what's even better, I didn't take that insulin I said I'd take with dinner. I decided to forgo the rice altogether and just have my vegetables in olive oil with two burger patties. Shortly after that I realized that I should have had SOME rice, because I had to eat a 1/2 cup of peanuts to bring me back up to the 110s from 90 right before I left to go over to my friend's house.
Brought one of the LARGE bananas with me because I knew at some point I would be low again and didn't want to eat any glucose tabs, and at this point I know roughly how many carbs are in a banana just by looking at it and I wouldn't have to eat something less healthy from their pantry and try to figure out how much I should eat.
I also set my monitor now to alert me for LOW levels at a higher 90 than the 80 I used to have it set at. This gives me time to eat something and for it to process before I dip too low. It worked twice today. I ate that last banana at 11:09PM. By 11:33 I was down to 80. By 11:48 I was back up to 110. Based off of previous results, I fully expect this to bring me to around the mid 130s for a while and get me through the night.
So a full day 100% in range*, with zero units of Rapid insulin taken and no glucose tabs needed to save me from any lows.
Now all I've got to do is make that happen another 10,000 or so days straight.
*70 to 180 is "range", but I never went below 80 and the only reason I was ever at 171 was very early in the morning when I was "fixing" that glucose roller coaster I went on last night. Otherwise my high for the day was in the 140s and my average glucose for the day was 126, which is 28 points below what I am supposed to be aiming for.
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I also set my monitor now to alert me for LOW levels at a higher 90 than the 80 I used to have it set at. This gives me time to eat something and for it to process before I dip too low. It worked twice today. I ate that last banana at 11:09PM. By 11:33 I was down to 80. By 11:48 I was back up to 110. Based off of previous results, I fully expect this to bring me to around the mid 130s for a while and get me through the night.
Surprisingly, it made me spike momentarily to the low 160s this time. But only for one reading. It went down to the 150s five minute later and then gradually decreased as the night went on. When I woke up at 8:00 the number was at 115 and had been pretty stable around there for the previous 3-4 hours. These bananas I'd gotten were pretty huge... I will be making sure to get more medium sized ones in the future to prevent any spikes like that.
It's been 10 days already, so I'm going to have to change to a new sensor today. My first thought was that I'd use them a few extra days above the allotted 10 days, but I got warnings at both 23 hours and 4 hours from ten days after I installed the first one, and I fully expect this system to prevent me from using it for one single minute past when it wants me to change them.
Two complaints.... It will take roughly 2.5 hours from installation for the new one to work, so I will be in the dark for that time and need to plan accordingly. The bigger complaint that I have though is that they count those 2.5 hours as part of the 10 days. That's bullshit. I should be able to collect those 2.5 hours every use to prolong the device and give me wiggle room for the future.
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Just another sunday around me. Nothing happening.
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Two hours seems like a long time when you're waiting on something...
Finally got the new sensor up and running. Strange, but my numbers are higher than they were before I changed them. Usually my numbers dip around that time of day. I did test my sugar with my finger prick monitor halfway through and when the new sensor was up and running and this tracks.
After I was up for a while and took my daily (18 units today instead of 20), I actually went up from the mid 120s to the mid 130s for a few hours, and now I'm at the mid 150s. Maybe those two units of Long-Active I didn't take really do make a big difference. I won't be altering that any lower for quite a while unless I see different behavior patterns making me think it's a good idea to.
I was hungry since I hadn't eaten anything yet today so I did take 2 units of Rapid and had 10 grams of carbs.
Still well within range today, even if I am a bit higher. Its nice that I didn't have any early morning high spikes and haven't had any mid-afternoon dips. I'd like that number to be about 30 points lower than it's been most of the day today though.
Still a work in progress.
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6PM and so far so good. 6 hours away from day number two while 100% in target.
Cooking a chicken breast right now for dinner 1 out of 2. 
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Out for my walk soon. Just the usual. Groceries and maybe a couple of other things to do.
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I hope things are going well for you both!
Meanwhile, I've been attempting to fulfil everyone else's priorities and soothe their anxieties w/o making much progress on my own projects, and spoke rather sharply to the family about being burdened with all of their priorities but being left high and dry on mine. I wonder if the message "took" or if it will need to be repeated.
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I hope things are going well for you both!
Meanwhile, I've been attempting to fulfil everyone else's priorities and soothe their anxieties w/o making much progress on my own projects, and spoke rather sharply to the family about being burdened with all of their priorities but being left high and dry on mine. I wonder if the message "took" or if it will need to be repeated.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Well, I am almost finished with my medical stuff. Just have to get my thyroid test done.
Got a notification from the publisher that they received my stuff and now I wait and look for someone else to send too.
So far where I am the heat hasn't been too bad.
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