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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.


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Sunday 31 January 2010

Kayak session

Paddled out today did a couple of hours of continuous paddling, nice and calm, sun shining on the water, with a slight swell. Experiencing some spring and neap tides this week so further to pull the kayak, not a problem something I'll have to get used to with this leg.
Started to alter the insulin this week dropped the lantus last night to 16 which is only 2 units to start with; bit by bit.
Changed breakfast slightly, from eating weetabix to 100gms of Oatmeal along with the usual. I gave myself 5 units of Humolog which brought my BS to 9 from 6.8 2 hours later just before going into the water, I ate a flapjack and drank 200mls of lucoszade sport during session.
My hands were to cold to test my BS and would of been difficult to get any blood from my fingers.
Once I got back in my BS was 18 so this was obviously to much intake of food and not due to the liver pushing out Glycogen although it may of done if there was not enough insulin in my system. As the day went on I corrected this by injections.

One of the Beach huts was open when I got back to shore, with the smell of sausages and beefburgers cooking, that was welcoming on a cold day, but I didn't get any because I had no cash on me so had to settle for what I had in the car which was the healthy version, (dam).