While recently reviewing past blog posts I'd written, I noticed that I often project the image of a perfectly controlled diabetic. This couldn't be farther from the truth! First of...
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Learning from mistakes
Bionic Diabetic
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 at 09:50 PMre: Learning from mistakes
Kelsey Bonilla
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 at 11:53 AMHi Beth,
In the case of not bolusing accurately for those delayed spikes, I don't think it's an issue of motivation as much as just remembering what happened before and applying that knowledge. Sometimes I tend to trust the number displayed on my meter a little too much. If it tells me I'm 112 mg/dl, I feel like everything's fine, while my blood sugar is slowly creeping up.
You're right, support from one another is critical! Good luck to you!
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Kelsey: when you figure out what motivates you to try harder to learn from your "mistakes," please let us all know! This is one of the hardest things for me too. You knew from past experience that those high-fat meals would cause a later spike, but still didn't correct the behavior on either night. I can't figure out why we do this. Do we want sympathy? Is it a little denial? Do we just get tired of all that managing?
I spend a fair amount of time kicking myself for not doing better at using my very good records to predict how a similar meal will affect my blood sugar, but so far the only conclusion has been that the motivation has to come from within. I'm glad you have your daughter for motivation. I'm glad we all have each other too.
Best to you.
Beth
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