Been a while!

Apologies life has been flying by and just got back from a weeks holiday where I had more chance of seeing pigs fly then finding some reliable 3G! 

Despite only going to the Isle of Wight we were very lucky with the weather! I managed to keep my insulin cool by using a frio bag which I would highly recommend for anyone going abroad (or not) for high temperatures! 

So lots of things have happened since my last post including me passing my driving test at the end of May (third time lucky hurrah) So I am now enjoying my freedom of being able to go wherever and of course the extra expense of a car which more less empties my poor bank account every month! 

Next challenge is motorway driving! 

I also have met someone and we have been together for 2 and a half months and he is just amazing, in fact one of the first things he did when we got together was research diabetes and ask me questions to better understand it, people who aren't diabetic won't understand how important that is but it really is! I feel so much better know that he understands what I go through and my moods and what to do if there is an emergency.... 

My skin still isn't great but I had my consultation and turns out I am the perfect candidate for light treatment... Bad news is that I have to wait about three months for it to start, but I'm glad I'm making progress with it and hopefully when the treatment is done it won't be coming back! 

So yea life is actually good for a change and my happiness is starting to re appear altho I would be happier if I didn't have to deal with the pollen levels this year! Waking up not being able to breath isn't fun and hard to enjoy the summer when you look like Rudolph and blowing your brains out every ten seconds.... Oh well at least the weather is nice I suppose! :) 

For now I leave you with a picture of possibly the happiest iv been in a long time... You can see the sheer joy in my face! All those that visit the Isle of Wight I recommend going to Amazon world!! 

Slow and steady!

Whoops sorry not updated in a while life has been busy! 

Well since my last blog I have already seen a change in the way this month is going! I'm nearly back to full health at last and feeling a lot better about everything! My skin hasn't fully recovered which I am a little down about but I'm hoping this will improve when I see a specialist! 

booked my driving test (well rebooked it since the dvla decided to cancel it! Grr) so I have been trying to go out and practice in my car lots with friends which has helped and I need to pass this time! I need my freedom lol, 

anyway things are going pretty ok at the moment, including a recent visit to the dentist concluding that I do not have a tooth infection and it's just my wisdom teeth! I didn't think I was that wise to be honest ;) and didn't expect 3 of them to come through at the same bloody time 😤 Urgh! At least I have an answer tho...

We have also appeared to have an early summer here! The sun has been shining and we have had a lovely couple of weeks where it's been warm which has helped my skin a little and made me feel slightly better about it! Altho due to being in the garden at work and such I have developed some awful tan lines 🙈

Too many antibiotics??

Typically after being ill for a while And me starting to feel happy again, I was waiting for something else to go wrong which it did in the form of a horrible toothache running up to the weekend! Went to the dentist after the weekend to be told that my wisdom tooth was pushing through onto the tooth next to it which had an infection so I was thinking they will just give me some antibiotics right? 

Wrong!! Apparently because I have had so many antibiotics recently they didn't want to give me any more!!! So now I am just supposed to suffer with the pain until they can give me some......

*bangs head on iPad* 

Think positive.... Think positive..... Think positive.... Gahhhhhh! 😭

Another year older!

That's right I am now 21! Ok fine 27 :( 

Been a hectic weekend with birthday plans and seeing various family and friends :) luckily I was allowed to have a few drinks.. Ok so I had a lot haha but I had to celebrate getting old didn't i!? 

They are non alcoholic I swear...... ;) 

And the HBA1C is........

Drumroll.......

8.9% a lot of you may think that's a little high, and quite rightly so but I'm actually really happy with it! Considering all the shit I have been through the last couple years I think that's pretty good going :) it's lower than my last one and that's all that matters, progress means everything even if it's slow and steady! 

For all you non diabetics who are thinking "what the heck is a hba1c!?" It's a routine blood tests that diabetics have that measures the amount of glycated haemoglobin (hb) in the blood and gives an average based on the past 6 months or so.... Simplified even more it's basically testing how much sugar is in our blood over a short period so we keep it in check and make sure we are less prone to all those nasty complications! It then gives a result that is converted into a percentage. 

Apart from that everything else was fine thank god! Perfect blood pressure, feet check went alright and no other infections or anything :) 

Now I just have to make sure I go to all the other appointments, oh and I need to book my eye scan! 

"Your blood test results came back...."

Interesting phone call from the doctor this morning... " your blood test results came back positive for glandular fever" Oh! so it wasn't tonsillitis then!?

So turns out that it was a lot more than tonsillitis and signs of poor liver function showed up in my routine diabetic bloods! No wonder I was feeling so ill, altho maybe I was a lucky one as Iv heard of people being ill for months with glandular fever and for me it was only a couple of weeks...

So anyway now they want to do a liver function test to make sure that everything is back to normal as the glandular fever affected how it was working, they have also told me I cannot drink..... Not ideal considering it's my birthday weekend this week but I'm going to speak to the doctor about that! 

March is turning out to be a rather unhealthy month! Let's hope for better next month please :) 

I found the cure!

Today was the first time looking in the mirror and I thought I actually look like myself! 

after nearly 2 weeks of doctors, 111 calls and stupid antibiotics that didn't do anything, now I have some new antibiotics and I'm finally starting to feel like me again :) 

My throat swabs came back all clear and they are no longer concerned with me having glandular fever! Basically they said what happened was I started out with strep throat, which went untreated and so it escalated into tonsillitis, then the infection spread to my chest and got worse as the antibiotics they gave my first of all weren't doing anything.... So no wonder I was so poorly! 

What I have noticed however is that my blood sugars have been near perfect during the day and this morning was the 5th morning that I have woken up to a hypo! Upon noticing this the first couple times I started to eat extra carbs in the evenings to compensate and I still woke up low! 

I cannot explain it apart from the fact that these are miracle antibiotics and I may have found the cure to type one diabetes! Haha I only wish, altho I wonder if my doctor would let me take them for the rest of my life!? 😌