A Day in the Life

So this week I wanted to tell you about the average day in the life of a teenager diabetic. Now as my exams finish tomorrow (I'm writing this on a Thursday) I thought I would tell you about a day when I'm not in school . So here goes.
Anywhere between 8am and 10 I wake up. But I really hate waking up any later than 10, I feel like half the day has already gone so I'm really bad at lie ins. The next step is getting dressed, it's very exciting isn't it? So then I'll have breakfast and this varies depending on how I feel if I'm going out really soon I will just have cereal but if I'm staying in I'll have a cooked breakfast, usually eggs of some sort, and I will always have a cup of tea. This is a necessity I can't function without my cup of tea. Plus it has to be the right cup of tea: not too much milk, fairly strong and one sugar.

Okay then I will do my first blood test of the day, I know you're meant to do it before you eat but i forget in the mornings, (actually I can't remember if I've done one yet today, shoot!) and then I bolus accordingly. Then it really depends on what I'm doing that day for example if I'm not going out in the morning I will watch TV all morning but if I'm going out I'll have to go get ready. When I say going out it often isn't very exciting I'm probably be meeting a friend and then we will just watch films all morning. Then it's lunch, this can be anywhere from 12pm until 2pm as I tend to lose track of time especially if I just watched TV all morning. For lunch I tend to have a sort of snacky style lunch so usually a sandwich, which must have nutella in. I love the stuff, it's soooo good. Then it's a lazy afternoon fuelled by tea, of course.

Then around four I usually go out, to a club such as hockey/sailing/orchestra. Then I'm back home and it's dinner time! This time I'm much better with the diabetes and usually test and bolus before i eat, which mum cooks. If I were to cook dinner every night it would be variations along a theme: pasta. It's just so easy and quick to cook and you can plunk any sauce on it and it will taste so good. I don't tend to do anything in the evenings, well anything particularly interesting. I just while away the time in the Internet, and then it's a final blood test and bed. Before the whole cycle repeats again. Of course it's completely different when I'm in school but I've finished for summer, or will do in 24hours.

So that's a day in the life and I don't tend to test and bolus particularly regularly and it takes up so little time that I do forget about it sometimes.

Rhona x