Off to go to sleep for a few hours but wanted to let everyone know that my blood sugar has been staying between 120 and 180 so it's just about perfect.
The part I really dislike about not having the pump is the math. It's funny, because when I checked groceries, I couldn't help it but add the numbers up in my head. But this is, if you don't do it right you could die, or at the very least feel miserable for hours. So I second guess everyone.
Plus I'm out of practice.
Okay, I have a confession to make, and I don't know if other diabetes alert dogs work this way or not. It's not so much that Dulce has a physical alert — I have tried to teach one but she doesn't work that way. It's more that, she gets very hyper when my blood sugar is high, and very calm when it's right. She does get very scared when it gets low. So using her is more like having a very accurate continuous blood sugar monitor that doesn't have to be calibrated or have numbers.
A couple of people at Planet Fitness have noticed, and they have been able to predict when I am going to leave. It's actually MUCH better than alerts, but it takes a very talented dog listenering for it to work.
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