One of the great parts about coming home? Having access to my doctors again, including the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. I was pretty grateful to walk back into that building and have my normal checkups that I have been missing for the last year. I did plan heavily for the diabetes aspect of this
Category: Blood Sugars
Managing my A1C during Long-Term Travel
Managing my blood sugars this year has been an adventure, in and of itself. This is partly because keeping my numbers in range felt like a new and different challenge than during any previous travel. During a previous one- or two-week vacation, I wouldn’t worry so much about higher numbers, because it would be “averaged
Celebrating small successes
We’re currently in Madrid, Spain and spent yesterday walking a bajillion miles around the city. We ran some errands, we saw both botanical gardens and non-botanical gardens, and we attended our very first opera. The plus side of all the walking was a great day of blood sugars, plus very-little-to-no-bolusing for some gelato and a croissant throughout
Reincorporating Exercise on the Road
Throughout my 20’s, I became increasingly interested in running, yoga and body weight exercises. Along the way, I even did some half-marathons and two full ones, and I saw huge benefits to my blood sugars. My daily insulin dose decreased from 55 – 60 units/day to 30 – 35 units/day over several years. I lost
Adjusting my basals
You see that spike in my CGM around the 4 am mark? I’ve seen this spike overnight since we arrived in Africa. I have no idea what changed, but my blood sugars have been consistently rising from 2 to 4 am, and then coming back down by 6 am. My blood sugar does not go ridiculously high at
Our Amazon Trip through Manú National Park
To be fair, we did this Amazon trip back in the beginning of May. But it’s incredible how quickly the time has passed since then! Here’s my belated summary of our Amazon tour. Peter and I knew we wanted to do the a trip to the Amazon during our time in South America. We just weren’t
Night Hiking in the Amazon
“We’ll eat dinner here, and when it’s dark, we’ll hike to the treehouse to sleep. It’s about an hour hike, so make sure to pack whatever you need for the night,” our guide announced. We were on our second day of a four-day Amazon tour in Manú National Park, Peru. After driving as far into
Seeking glucose tabs in South America.
Cusco, Peru is covered with pharmacies and drugstores, none of which seem to have heard of a glucose tab. I’ve stopped in a handful of pharmacies to ask, and have been offered artificial sweeteners and daily vitamins instead. As an alternative, I’ve tried juice boxes (each with 16g of carbs) and packs of crackers (each with
My Blood Sugars in Ecuador…
….have not been the greatest. I saw a lot of numbers that I would hate to write down in a logbook for my endocrinologist. My OmniPod says I averaged about 200 mg/dl between all my blood sugar checks over the first two weeks, which is higher than I’m used to, and more importantly, not where