Testing Blood Sugar On Finger Tips

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(Candy-Coated) Finger Things

Republished with permission of Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine.com

 

I neglected to mention that smack in the middle of our girls' big birthday bash last weekend, I tested my glucose and got a whopping 424 (!) - the highest BG result I've had since hospitalization at diagnosis. Yikes!! Wait just a minute... this can't be right. So I scrubbed my fingers with soap and hot water and tried again: 142. Can you believe it?

 

Well sure, there I was serving snickerdoodle birthday cakie (that's...

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