Don't forget to eat!

When I left home more than 20 years ago to live on my own, one of the pieces of advice my mother gave me was "Don't forget to eat!" I didn't say anything to my mother, but at the time I thought that was pretty silly advice. Who forgets to eat?

Apparently I do.

This morning I got out of bed around 9:00 a.m. and sat down at the computer. I started eating an orange, and I figured I'd better take my insulin to cover the orange as well as the bowl of oatmeal I planned to eat after I'd finished eating the orange. So I calculated my dose, and I did the injection.

Now, it just so happens that there are these games I like to play on the internet. They're on Facebook. They're called Farmtown and Farmville. They are highly addictive little games. I play both of them first thing every morning, and can easily spend an hour between the two of them. This is what I was doing while I was eating my orange and injecting my insulin. This could have had something to do with what happened.

About an hour and a half to two hours after I injected the insulin, I noticed that I was feeling a little bit lightheaded. At first I shook it off; I figured I was just expecting to have low blood sugar because I'd had it the day before between breakfast and lunch, but today I'd lowered the dose of insulin to make sure that didn't happen again.

But I still felt lightheaded and a little dizzy. I was just about to go find my blood glucose monitor when something occurred to me.

What happened to that bowl of oatmeal I bolused for?

I looked in the sink. No dirty bowl in the sink.

I thought back. Did I remember boiling the water? Did I remember mixing the oatmeal in the the bowl?

I did not.

Yes, somehow I managed to forget to eat my breakfast. When the little blotches of light started appearing in front of my eyes, I grabbed a can of Coke and gulped it down.

Then I prepared and ate my overdue bowl of oatmeal.

Sorry, Mum. Guess you had good advice for me after all!

Su