I’ve actually had non-traditional ice creams before and they were surprisingly good once you got over the idea that ice cream only has certain ingredients. I don’t remember what they were; it’s been 17 years since I’ve eaten any ice cream at all! Bacon…nope, I don’t think so.
I’ve had ice cream with rosemary & basil (pre D days). Was delicious! Been tempted to make this myself since ice cream without sugar is fairly low carb. Not as easy to use substitute sweeteners in ice cream because sugar adds texture & prevents ice crystal from forming. Turns out not quite as creamy. Vodka can be added, but haven’t tried it.
Vodka/rosemary/basil ice cream…now there’s a creative dish…lol. No caffeine in there? When I ate ice cream (and lots of it!) coffee was one of my favorites; I always liked an opportunity to mix drugs…lol. Speaking of which, rainy weather here today seems like a good excuse for a cappuchino with brandy!
Coffee ice cream is my favorite. Ooo, want some now. Cappuccino & brandy sounds cozy for a rainy day.
I found out I had to change for winter… had to up my basal 20 to 30%… noone really warned me of this…
Wow this thread definitely drifted! I hijacked my own thread!
Back to the original question, I really appreciated all your input! I now have four different basal rates (very small variation) to cover the highs I was having in the morning and the lows in the afternoon. Since I started the pump I have had one or the other or both every day. Since I made the separate basal rates (with suggestions from everyone) I have not had either! It has only been a couple days but my numbers have been amazingly steady. Ok, I’m in, I’m a pump convert for real now!
That’s awesome, not that you are a convert but that you are getting good results!! The thing that amazed me was how a very small difference, either higher or lower, could make such a significant difference like 40 or 50 points in my BG at any given moment?
Yep, my basal variation is only from .425 to .525. When I had it all one I was getting highs from 150 to 178 and lows in the 50s nearly every day. Yesterday I ranged from 67-144 and today I’ve ranged so far from 89 to 103.
Before anybody says it, yeah, yeah, I know I could have a blood sugar of 38 or 300 tomorrow but I’m using the techniques you all are teaching me to have, overall better control. I even think I’m doing the whole insertion thing right finally!
Ah, some success with my new toy before tomorrow when I start learning new course management software and feeling like a brainless piece of chewing gum on someone’s shoe…sigh
For me, It only takes a small change in basal insulin to stabilize my blood glucose levels. Basal testing/re-evaluation is a constant in pump therapy. Your basals sometimes have to be changed according to an abundace of other factors, such as seasonal changes, more exercise, ( like when I enrolled a line dance class 2x weekly… I have 4 different basal rates per 24 hour period for the standard, and 5 basal rates for my weekend/active pattern. And it generally takes only a small adjustment unless I am sick, fighting an infection, or had other medical issues.
Glad you like the pump ZOE, YOu are NOT a brainless woman, U R VERY smart!!
God Bless,
Brunetta
Thank you, Brunetta! That’s very nice of you to say. But I’m sure we all know that feeling when we are on a steep learning curve and out of our comfort zone, like new technology! They do say it gets harder to learn new things as we get older and that may very well be the case, but the difference for me is now I know that I am not a brainless woman and am just on a learning curve and it will get easier soon…when I was younger…not so much!
I am familiar withthat 'baby boomer" long techno learning curve… I will put off buying and using a “smartphone” ,with all its supposed advantages, until the end of the school year and my intended retirement. I will then have the time to learn the new tech apps and to unlearn old cell phone habits. My little cheap flip phone will do until then…
Best wishes on your new software , your diabetes management, and to your life in general!!!
God Bless,
Brunetta
One of the reasons I went w/ a smartphone was b/c I was interested in seeing if it might motivate me to log more effectively. It didn’t. The log is neat and everything but what I really need is something like R2D2 to follow me around and write everything down. There’s an app thread and one person mentioned that it is bothersome to have all the “inputs” characterized as breakfast/lunch/ dinner (or “before breakfast” or whatever) but nothing like “before exercising” “before driving on vacation” and other things that might be useful? It occurred to me that I sort of argue with the logs before i write them.
OTOH, perhaps it will help my fantasy baseball team this year?
Thanks, the same back at you! You are going to love retirement! I still teach online but otherwise retired in 8/07, a month after my diabetes diagnosis. I don’t know how I would have managed to learn all that was needed, correctly diagnosis my type, start insulin, start the pump, etc when I was still working fulltime!
Oh, and I don’t even have a cell phone! I hate the things on general principal, and think the whole world has gone nuts chatting and texting 24/7. A friend was worried about me when I was teaching a class at night over a winding mountain road and so gave me his old cell phone “for an emergency”. I threw it in my pack and forgot it. Then when I had a serious car accident I remembered the phone in my purse and of course it was dead! Then in Guatemala I got a cell phone because I couldn’t get a line at home. I walked the streets of Antigua which are Latin America noisy with people, dogs, church bells, chickien buses and I would never hear it ringing in my purse until the call was gone into voicemail purgatory. Never bothered again.
Well, the key is that you’re in charge of the insulin now, rather than the other way around 
Also, remember that a 38 or a 300 doesn’t represent any kind of failure on your part - they are just numbers. It’s what you DO about them that matters!
Thanks, Sarah. I actually never do think of “bad numbers” as a failure, but the left brain logical part of me really likes when “action A” does in fact lead to “result B”!