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I confess: I’m doing something I swore I wouldn’t do.\u00a0 I’m eating carbs and not checking my blood sugar.\u00a0 But wait, before you judge and before you allow yourself to visualize me totally losing control and participating in a pie eating contest, or getting edible hair extensions made of Twizzlers, please give me the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 I’m not going all out on carbs.\u00a0 Just a few bites here and there.\u00a0 But I know those bites have a big impact on my blood sugar.\u00a0 I know that if I checked, there is a good chance I’d see\u00a0 numbers like 180, maybe 200.\u00a0 And I know that if I saw those numbers on the glucometer, I would panic, and stop the snacking.\u00a0 But I haven’t been checking.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Actually, this is a complex issue and since I’m confused, I will interview myself to try to find out what’s going on with me.<\/p>\n

JA: Why aren’t you checking your blood sugar?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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JA: The blood.\u00a0 The blood is driving me crazy.<\/p>\n

JA: Please explain.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JA: (whining) I don’t want to prick my fingers or my forearm.\u00a0 I just don’t.\u00a0 I don’t want to see blood.\u00a0 I don’t want to think about blood.\u00a0 It upsets me, it grosses me out, and it makes me anxious.<\/p>\n

JA: Jess, baby, blood sugar checks are where it’s at in diabetes care.\u00a0 Don’t let a little drop of blood freak you out.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JA: What if I get germs from an unclean lancet?<\/p>\n

JA: C’mon… most diabetics only change their lancets on the occasion of a total solar eclipse.\u00a0 You allow cats to sleep on your head.\u00a0 You have no right to worry about a little lancet bacteria.\u00a0 The question you should be asking now is, what’s up with the carbs? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JA: I don’t know.\u00a0 Ever since I started to make homemade granola for the kids, I’ve been craving cereal.<\/p>\n

JA: So make low-carb granola with nut flour and use no sugar added almond milk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JA: (growls) \u00a0And what should I use to hold it together, Silly Putty?\u00a0 The granola will taste like that anyway.\u00a0 By the way, weren’t you shocked that your friend from Austria didn’t know what Silly Putty was?<\/p>\n

JA: We’re getting nowhere.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JA: Oh, but the rest of the world is going places.\u00a0 Will and Kate are married.\u00a0 Bin Laden is dead. The universe is a better place.<\/p>\n

JA: And you can be a better diabetic.\u00a0 Be all you can be.\u00a0 Don’t let diabetes slow you down.\u00a0 Diabetes doesn’t have to stop you, you can stop diabetes. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JA: Slogans don’t work on me.<\/p>\n

JA: Maybe a good psychiatrist would.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To be continued…
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