Happy days

Let’s start the new year in a cheery fashion. The marvellous thing about being pancreatically challenged is that it gives you little pleasures that those with a working pancreas will never experience. The little things in life that make you smile…

• The satisfying feel of having a fresh infusion set in, a fully loaded reservoir, a new sensor and a full battery. With that I can take on the world
• Realising as I reread the first point that I am a true bionic woman and fully functioning member of the Borg
• Opening a new box of test strips or a new bottle of insulin
• Meeting strange men on the internet, writing a blog and becoming friends with them (please note, I don’t make a habit of meeting strange men on the internet, this was a one off and my husband has been very understanding about the whole thing!)
• A flat line on the CGM graph
• A post-meal reading of 9 that tells me I am a carb counting goddess
• A post-curry recovery where the carb counting goddess got her sums wrong initially but the insulin guru eventually woke up and you’re now back down from the heights of the high teens
• Seeing 5.0 on the meter when I wake up. I like being a 5, it feels like a very happy medium
• A surprisingly low HbA1c result
• A properly naked bath. No infusion set, no sensor, nothing
• Building diabetic snowmen
• Being medically obliged to eat Fruit Pastilles
• Realising that someone actually reads this stuff when people leave entertaining comments about the little pancreas related things that make them smile…cue you lot  🙂