And a very long day. But Thursday’s usually are. I call it my Girl Dogs’ Night Out.
I have dog agility with both Maggie and Marcie (photos are at http://www.kweaver.org/photos/) We drive over an hour to class, Maggie’s class starts at 7:30, and Marcie’s at 8:30. Then it’s about a 45 minute drive home, provided that TxDot or some idiot driver hasn’t fubarred the roads. For some reason, Dallas drivers HAVE to drive 20 mph over the speed limit at that time of night.
There are a couple of reasons we drive that far — it’s pretty hard to find enough land in the city of Dallas to do a proper dog agility class. Second, I’m pretty picky when it comes to instructors.
Anyway, after a full day of class, where I spent the day with my blood sugar cruising around 110 most of the day, and post pranial after lunch at 130, I went off with the dogs. After supper and getting ready, my blood sugar was at 95, so I grabbed Snicker’s minature and a couple of lifesavers. Was still at 95 a half hour later, so did a second dose.
Also hit the temporary basal at -20% at 5:30 and grabbed a hot dog right before class, so I would have a bit of sugar (from the bun, the hot dog is to slow things down) to keep from going low.
When I finished class, I was at 140, and was 125 when I got home, so I hit another Snickers Minature a few minutes ago, so I don’t have to worry about going low in the night.
I’m also going to up my boluses — I haven’t had to correct all day, and have been lower than I like postpranial.
That also means my TDD will go down (TDD = Total Daily Dose).
I’ve been under 65 units for the past 7 days! That’s not bad, considering in end of my crisis I was doing 120+ units.