Today I googled for information about how to exercise in small pools. I like my apartment pool but it really is small, and kind of boring after a while when all I can do is kick back and forth or tread water. So I found a link to this:
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B001Q3LT8M/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A19H5K8SRO4F40
and some of my co-workers thought I was kind of weird, but I am going to buy it!! If it actually works (and it seems to based on reviews I have looked up) then I will be able to actually swim every day in my apartment pool! I also found this
which I really want. I have actually been thinking of a waterproof MP3 player for over a year now but never took the plunge, but I think I might save up and buy it. I like that you can wear it without covering your ears, since I wouldn't want to plug my hearing while I swim.
In other news ...
For about two days my blood sugars ran high, mostly in the 12-14 range with a few in-range readings. Today I was all ready to bump my pump settings back up, which I had lowered due to running low constantly from swimming. At lunch I was 12.4 and for whatever reason I was like, "Hmmm, I'll give it one more chance to come down ..." Well, after lunch and for the rest of the afternoon I totally crashed! My blood sugar has not been above 4.0 for over four hours now! (Well it may be now because I just ate dinner, but you get the idea.) After lunch I was kind of nasty to one of my co-workers and later felt bad, and think it was partly that I was low, but of course it's awkward explaining that. She didn't seem to take offense, but still! I was 3.3 at around 2:30 and ate three glucose tablets, ate another at around 3:30 without testing because I felt low, tested again at 4:30 because I felt low and was 3.1 and ate four glucose tablets, and then at 6:00 I tested before dinner and was 4.0. Crazy! I don't understand sometimes why I can run high for two days, change nothing (I have literally eaten the same meals, done the same exercise, etc.) and then all of a sudden run low for hours?
Tonight I may go swimming but I'm also a bit sick of swimming plus hate swimming when I'm running low because I'm always paranoid since I find it very hard to feel lows while in the water. So instead I may take my DSLR camera to the park across the street and walk around and see what interesting photos I can get. I was telling a friend I went to coffee with today that I still marvel at the fact I can walk home from Tim Horton's in five minutes, or walk to the library in two minutes (it's a block away), have a park right across the street, and just generally love living in the city. I would never move back to the suburbs!