I have read that it is important to have a sick plan as a diabetic.  I brushed it aside and chose not to focus on it because there was so much to focus on with the daily diabetic plan.  Well....sickness struck last Thursday and it was a bad attack!!  I was not able to keep any food in so my BS went crazy.  I called my Dr. and she did get me in that day.  I had contracted somonella  from some food I had eaten at a fast food place.  I thought OMG  that happens to other people not me....wrongo it was me and I had to deal with it.  My Dr. has placed me on antibiotics which can do things to my BS, the safe foods for me are carbs mostly at this point so I am not eating a lot and just being sick is doing things to my BS.  I am unable to exercise to bring my BS down.  I am drinking a lot of water though which is suppose to help lower BS.  This is only suppose to last 4 - 7 days so I am almost through it.  I will be stocking my pantry for sick day eating in the future and have a clearer idea of what I need to do from my Dr. so that next time I am attacked with illness I will be prepared to fight!

I should have seen that diabetes loomed in my future.  My grandparents both were type 2.  My mom is a type 1 that was misdiagnosed as a type 2 until she was 50.  Yet I remained blissfully unaware.  As a kid I knew about it but all I knew was that grandpa needed a low sugar pie at holidays and my mom exercised daily to control it and sorta watched what she ate.  My mom started with her complications at 50 and that was the first glance I had of seeing how ugly diabetes can get.  She started with kidney dialysis, lost her sight and her right leg.  She had a stroke and has a pacemaker.  Watching this I continued doing the same old things never thinking I could get this....not me I thought. 

Fast forward to 2003 and being pregnant with my first son.  I took the glucose test they give you during pregnancy and was a little high they said.  I went in for a glucose tolerance test and passed although not by much.  No one raised a red flag to me and I thought ahhh I do not have it so no worries.  I gained some weight that I was unable to shed by my second pregancy in 2004.  After my second son was born my weight was the highest it had ever been.  I was eating horribly.  I would go by whatever I craved just as I did while pregnant. 

I began to have bad headaches to the point I talked with the doctor and discovered I had high blood pressure.  Then the bathroom trips started and the other symptoms of diabetes....all of which I ignored or did not equate with that.  My once a year checkup came and my doctor said your fasting blood sugar is up you need a glucose tolerance test.  I thought ok I have already had one and I was fine.  I took it and got the CALL...come to the office for your results.  Boom that was it I had it...not even pre I had type 2. 
My first reaction was scared I would end up like my mom.  I felt overwhelmed, out of control of my own body and mad.  I am now into this journey with diabetes and am learning things about nutrition, exercise and glucose levels in the body that would help everyone live healthier not just people with diabetes.  I am striving to do all I can so that I feel well with diabetes every day.  I also am very aware now how important it is to educate children on what to eat and to move your body everyday to stay healthy. 

I see the next hurtle coming for me and it is how to keep my momentum going as I am 36 and have a long journey ahead.....ideas?