"DON'T YOU QUIT"


This blog is a first for me, it describes part of my life before, sometimes during and after tranplant. working towards recovery, charity kayak (uk circumnavigation & Ireland) if humanly possible, and leg, and how I deal with my diabetes during training and expedition, maybe some inspiration along the way.


"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour."
William Blake

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Thursday 20 May 2010

Anastacia Defeated



Do you know what I mean. Music sometimes just does it, right?
Although the word fight may not be quite right, Fight conjures up a struggle, stress, a 50 50 chance of losing, I don't think you should feel like that, you will! because we've been brought up to believe that it's the only way to achieve something or win out........

Saturday 8 May 2010

The Blood Sugars are starting to settle down today, thank god. I haven't exercised in the last couple of days, purely because I needed to see what effect twice daily would do then get a base to train on, it looks like I may up from 9 to 10 in the morning to train in the gym I probably wouldn't do that if out on the water but then it may be better to do that combined with less to no humalog and the taking on of carbs

I'll be back in the gym tomorrow. I'm making steady progress, I should probably be pleased on what I have achieved so far, as I was 10 1/2 stone when leaving hospital and 5'11, I think I'm around 178 kilos now, but I'm always think I can do or be better lol.

Friday 7 May 2010

Felt a bit crap today, only because I've split my lantus dose to twice daily today, this should give me better control over my blood sugar especially during training both in the gym and on the water. Never done this before in the 30 years of being a diabetic, so looking forward in seeing the effect.

I'll through in the odd photo :-)
The Houses of Parliament

Sunday 2 May 2010

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/dorset/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8618000/8618075.stm

Spent a week away from the gym, and as always although it was a few days my blood sugars went silly and suffered nutrition wise just missed meals and had to use more insulin. I know it sounds obvious but it's a routine that seems to go out the window to.

I learnt allot from the kayakathon and roughly have an idea what my insulin dose should be.
The first half of the kayak my BS was 16 way to high and I suffered, before setting back I gave 2 units of Humalog and when I finished it had dropped to 8, so it dropped by 4 an hour.
I did drink water and sipped some lucozade sport through a camel pac but not much.

I intend to get out on the water and do some training similar to that of endurance paddlers....

It was my own fault that my blood sugar had risen that much, I did have an idea what my lantus dose should  be, I knew it wouldn't be far from what it is now because of the training I was doing already, but this is endurance, well to me it was; so i did over compensate with food at breakfast.
As this had never been done before on the Thames, Simon was concerned about it running smoothly and I didn't want me putting a spanner in the works. I think he was already concerned with the fact I had my leg in plaster below the knee and the fact I was a Diabetic. He did know about the transplants I had though.