New Runners!

Here they are: my new runners! I'm currently trying them out a bit in the hopes that I can avoid getting blisters when I go on actual walks tomorrow night and on Saturday.

23 Years

So once again, I seem to have forgotten about this blog.  I apologize; I'll try to post more often!

Anyway, yesterday was another anniversary - I've had diabetes for 23 years!  and more importantly, I am still complication free!  I was going to go and celebrate with my parents yesterday, but ended up heading out to visit a friend at his camp instead.  So we're saving the festivities for tonight.

While I'm excited to be complication free, I really feel like I need to be doing better.  My A1C, which has been hovering around 7.4-7.6 recently went up to 8.1.  That felt like a bit of a wake-up call.  I've been seeing and staying in contact with my diabetes nursing care team since then.  Hopefully we can bring my A1C back down a bit.  It's going to entail a lot of work, particularly on my end, but we're also hoping to test all my basals to see if they're in need of any changes.  From there we're going to look at the other pieces of the puzzle (namely insulin sensitivity and insulin to carb ratios).  I've never made it past the initial basal tests with a care team before, so hopefully we will this time around.  

I also feel like I need to be more active.  One thing that's sort of become a problem for my activity levels is that I need a new pair of runners.  So for this 23rd anniversary, I'm going to make a point of getting a new pair of runners so it won't hurt to walk (walking being my go-to activity, it really sucks that I'm not wanting to go mainly thanks to my shoes).

The other thing I want to do for myself is make a point of going swimming, hopefully once a week.  I was going weekly during the fall, which was fantastic.  But just before Christmas, I stopped going and just never got back into it.  But yesterday I was hanging out in a pool and having so much fun just being in the water that I want to make it a point to go more often.  

So yeah, that's a bit of a summary of what's been happening for me, diabetes-wise.  Like I said, I am going to make a point of posting more often, especially as I'm trying to bring my glucose levels back down and get back into being more active!