Sunrise High Glucose #s.
I woke up, drank water and coffee, said my prayers then went back to cleaning up my bedroom which I did not finish the day before. I started thinking about my energy. From the time I was a young child to a full grown mature adult I have always jumped up and started moving. I am sure it was the chaos in my family that would get me up and moving. Never was there a slow wake up day. No lingering in bed, no lingering in my P.J’s. not on weekend’s or summer’s.
When I started my diabetic journey it felt like I was on a roller coaster ride that I would never be able to get off. I don’t like rollers coaster’s, to me a roller coaster is dangerous and caused me to feel ill. A sure sign I should not ride roller coasters. My equilibrium did not like roller coasters. I hated it that my Father would make me ride roller coaster’s. Maybe he thought it was teaching me a lesson about fear. The truth is it didn’t help. Fast forward as a full grown adult who is responsible for my own self, I don’t ride roller coaster’s and I have learned to challenge Dr’s. I run from the short answers and drug pushers in the medical field until I land with a Doctor who listen’s and understands, I have a GREAT A.P.R.N now. I remember my second Endocrinologist who I thought would be knowledgeable about Diabetes because his Bio said he develop Diabetes when he was twelve years old. WOW he should be a good Doctor…. I had asked him one time, why is my Glucose so high in the mornings. His short answer was “It’s called the Dawn Phenomenon” That was it “Dawn Phenomenon” no other explanation. I began to research Dawn Phenomenon, which led me to the fight or flight hormone – Cortisol. I had to learn the best way for me to lower my HIGH CORTISOL to lower the “Dawn Phenomenon” I wanted to avoid high glucose spikes in the a.m. Slowly but surely I stopped eating after 7:p.m and I began deep breathing in the a.m. Deep breathing works, along with calm sounds coming from the internet in the a.m. My favorite sound is birds happily chirping while they wake up and talk to each other when the sun rises. My second favorite morning sound is soft calm music with no words. Any time I feel stressed, I deep breath and calm myself with soft soothing sound. Silence is always helpful.
When diabetes LADA reared it’s ugly head the best words I heard form a nurse was… “Diabetes, you need to research, read everything you can get your hands on. Read Diabetes For Dummies, read and research . RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH” and now this is what I do. I RESEARCH for my own health and other’s. Now my biggest fear in life is growing old and sick. I don’t mind being old but I don’t want to be sick for years before it’s my time to pass. We don’t know when we will pass, it could happen any time, any day, any where. I leave passing in Gods hands as my Mother said before she passed, “We are all born to die” Until then, I will keep myself as healthy as I can for as long as I can. The way I eat is because I have Diabetes. I don’t follow diets, I like to say “The Way I Eat” I beat my addiction to sugar. I am fortunate Diabetes held off until I was 66 years of age.
L latent A auto D diabetes in A adults. I am a rare Thin Type 1 insulin dependent, now 73 years of age who is in good health and on no prescription medicines other than prescribe insulin and proud of it.
“Here’s to our future, may our past be envious” Gwen Frostic