Marching Band + Diabetes

Whenever I was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, i had already been in my high school marching band for over half a year.  I decided to stick with it though, and I'm glad I did.  I was pretty lucky that there was already annother type-1 kid in the band who has helped me out.  She informed me with many good tips.  For such exercise as marching around a football field while holding up a 2-pound horn for a straight 10 minutes, she told me I should be around or above 300 blood sugar.

Plus, to make things more complicated, just 3 months after my diagnosis was the band's trip to Florida for spring break.  Oh boy, away from all but 4 people (me, the other band kid, her mom, the nurse, none of which were near me at any point) who knew how to handle diabetes after having it for only 3 months was a shocking prospect, but I gave it my all, and never went too high or low during the whole trip.  I felt great knowing how well I can handle my disease with mainly just me.  Plus, it gave me the opportunity to educate my friends sharing a room with me and my group that I walked with on diabetes.  They had already asked some stuff about diabetes at school, but I never had the chance to tell them as much as I did on the trip.

All in all, I am glad that I took the risk of marching with diabetes and have had a good experience so far.   Here's to a great 3 more years of marching!!!