My second Honeymoon

Yesterday I wrote about how I was not feeling well at all and how I couldn't keep my blood sugars up. Well I most definitely spoke WAY too soon. After dinner, I dropped so low I needed something sugary. So I ate a mini snickers bar and a fudgiscle. I tested my blood... I dropped a whole ten points! What the crap!? So I ate a piece of bread and two peanut butter ritz cracker sandwiches... I dropped another 10 points! I was freaking out! Why on earth could I not keep my blood sugars up!? I was almost to the point of going to the hospital until I realized that I needed something healthy yet packed with sugar.... FRUIT SMOOTHIE!!! Geez... took me long enough!

Anyway, I drank about 16 oz of the fruit smoothie and I finally was feeling better. I wasn't shaky anymore and I actually had some energy. Needless to say, last night was very scary and was NO fun whatsoever.

Fortunately, I had an appointment today with the diabetic dietitian. She was amazing! Answered my questions, gave me helpful tips and websites and apps, all to help me control and track my diabetes! AWESOME! However, the most important thing that I got out of my appointment today is that I am currently on my second honeymoon...

No not the kind of honeymoon you're thinking of. My pancreas is saying it's last hoorah, which is technically called the honeymoon period. Since I have been taking insulin to help my body out the last couple of weeks, my pancreas is finally getting a chance to take a breather. So once it's all rested it goes, "ok, let's do this!" and it produces insulin on it's own one last time. This period can last anywhere between 2 weeks and 3 months. There might actually come a time during the honeymoon phase that I won't have to take any insulin at meal times! That's exciting! I will only have to stab myself once a day... right before bed.

I'm thinking that I might want to have a last hoorah to my foods that I loved so much while I can. As Rob put it, I can have a proper goodbye to the foods that I love so much. I'm thinking that I might to get some friends together and cook a whole bunch of things, like cookies, brownies, cakes, etc. and have a little bit of everything. I don't want to use my hoorah day on just one thing. I need to get on this quick since I'm not sure how long this is going to last.

Also, there are going to be two posts tonight. I'm going to post about tonight's dinner. It was SUPER tasty.... stay tuned!