Diabetes & Being a Rockstar

B calls me a diabetes rockstar. Especially when I get news like the news I got today:

My Hemoglobin A1C (a picture of what my blood glucose levels have looked like for the past three months) is 5.7 percent. Below 7 is awesome for someone with insulin-dependent diabetes. Below 6 is what people without diabetes expect.

5.7 (with a 6.1 a few months ago and another 5.7 before that) is awesome. It's no small feat, though. I don't want to make this a diabetes blog, but I will say that we work really hard at this -- B and me.

B is my backup -- reminding me to take insulin 20-30 minutes before we eat, helping me respond to highs and lows reasonably (especially when I want to rage bolus), and being a good diabetes cheerleader.

Among the many things we've been doing to rock out the diabetes, just to prove this is worthwhile hard work:

• Eating a spoonful of peanut butter with breakfast to slow down notoriously spikey breakfasts like cereal.
• Using lots of whole grains like whole wheat pasta and whole wheat flour in zucchini muffins.
• Taking walks.
• Packing lunches (and sometimes dinners) so that I know what I'm eating, and so B also gets a hearty meal mid-day.
• Cooking more.
• Testing more.
• Waiting more.
  

Sorry to toot my own horn so much, but this is too awesome to be quiet about. Diabetes is a jerk sometimes, but my diabetes team and I aren't letting it get me down.

Pictured -- the starting lineup for my diabetes team. Go team!