Four thirty something on Friday. I’m at work. I rotate in my chair slightly to the left and do a test. I have the result in a few short seconds. I rotate back to center, move my mouse pointer on the computer into the appropriate cell in my logbook, and then … nothing!
I could not remember what my blood sugar was! In the fraction of a second that it took me to read the result and position my mouse pointer on the computer, the number was gone. Vanished. Nowhere to be found in the vast space of empty that is sometimes called my brain.
I paused, thinking to myself “I couldn’t possibly have forgotten that number so quickly”. I was kind of disturbed and worried.
I actually had to turn back to the meter and pull the number out of the memory!
149 mg/dl.
Our lives are so full of numbers that sometimes a few of them fall through the cracks I guess.
Have a diet cherry pepsi. That always makes me able to concentrate more. Promise. It’s the stimulants.
Yep. Have done that often. Thank goodness for meter memory.
i do not have diabetes bu i do forget stuff most of the time. yeah i guess it is “old age”.
by the way i put you in my blog roll at daily-diabetic.comgtq
I do this with my insulin. I test. Count the carbs. Divide by 7. Write the number in my log book. At this point, I’ve spent so much time thinking about bolusing that I forget to do it.
I hate it even more when I can’t remember if I bolused or not – much easier to figure out now that I’m on the pump but I used to sweat bullets for 2 hours (until my next test) when on shots and couldn’t recall if I stabbed myself some 30 seconds before I ate!