Well, it has been quite a while since I have posted.  Here I thought I would have all the time in the world while I was unemployed to work on my blog, but I was soooo wrong! 

This coming Monday I will be starting my new job, working with pulmonary research data at a children’s hospital.  I am moving, which is exciting, but moving has become a huuuuge pain in the patootie.  I am having to sell my condo in Northern Colorado which I am not too happy about since I loved that little place, but hopefully I can find something even better in my new town (If you know anyone who may be interested please let me know).  In the mean time I have moved in with my mother which is proving a huge challenge of it’s own.  No way I can afford two mortgages, so I must be patient.

The hardest part of living back at mom’s is food.  It is difficult living with someone who does not understand diabetes or even carbohydrates.  This house is filled with carb packed foods, bread, doughnuts, halloween candy…  high fructose corn syrup.  Every where I turn around I am stuffing my face with snacks, and not nutrition packed stuff like I had at my house.  The killer for me is the HFCS, for some reason it makes my glucose levels go crazy high then I have a low crash hours later.  But I can’t resist the stuff when it is right under my nose screaming EAT ME! EAT ME!!!  Before moving in with mom I had nearly eliminated HFCS from my diet, but now I am off the wagon and my BGs are going crazy again.

All the swings in my BG levels are taking a toll on me.  Not only am I exhausted from the wacky sugars, but my lungs seem to be taking a small down turn, my allergies are going completely crazy and my oxygen levels are starting to tank (running about 90% on room air).  This just sucks.

I have been seeing a lot of commercials on the tv saying that HFCS is natural and is just like sugar… ummmm… I would have to disagree when I look at how it affects my BG levels.  I can eat sugar, take a bolus of insulin and if I calculated the number of carbs correctly, my BG levels are right where they should be.  Set me down with some HFCS and my body goes crazy.

Anyway… I guess this is just a little update on the going’s on of Salty.  Hope all is well with you!