Carbohydrate Dreaming

I haven’t posted all week because Baby Adam has had a nasty virus – high fever, vomiting, etc.  I’ve been holding him pretty much 24 hours a day, which doesn’t leave time for the many, many things diabetes in my life.  This morning I did finally check my fasting blood sugar and it was 86, which was a relief since I’d gone to bed at 180 the night before, too tired to care about being high.

But just because I haven’t been as diabetes-active as usual doesn’t mean diabetes hasn’t been on my mind.  In fact, during the one decent stretch of sleep I got last night (3 hours), I dreamed about pasta.  Not just any old bowl-of-spaghetti pasta or mac-and-cheese.  My dream was about giant pasta noodles the length of an 18-wheeler.  I won’t torture you by taking you through the maze of my dream.  I’ll just let you know that I had the self-control to resist the world’s biggest carb.  And speaking of carbs… have you ever thought about how difficult it would be to get the word carbohydrate into a song?  What?  Not something you wonder about all the time?  Thanks to my dream, I’ve come up with the perfect way to slip some carb into a song.  All you have to do is play the clip below and substitute carbohydrate for California.   Carbohydrate dreamin on such a winter’s day... (I’m currently suffering from SSHS).  Sing your hearts out, guys!

Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and has continued to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets).

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Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and continues to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets). Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, The Southern Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the diabetes correspondent for The Faster Times. In 2009 she and her husband, both type 1 diabetics, founded A Sweet Life, where she serves as editor-in-chief. Jessica loves spending time with her sons, cooking with her husband, playing with her cats, reading, biking, drinking coffee, and whenever possible, taking a nap. Follow Jessica on Twitter (@jessapple)