Hello, Stress Sugars. Didn't See You There

'Ello Internet. I apologize in advance for the scatter brained post.

It's almost Friday. Can I get an amen? This week was very...interesting for me. I had a few successes and a few defeats in the world, and it was interesting to see how those affected my blood sugar.

Let's start with the good news. I had callbacks earlier in the week for my school's production of MR. BURNS. This is a weird little play, and I recommend checking out some clips online. The entire audition process threw me off. I was up worrying about cold readings initially. I myself am a creature of habit, and since I have moved into college my habits have been thrown off their groove. Up late most nights studying or doing homework has caused my blood sugars to start going all over the place. Trust me when I say testing at 1:30am is way less fun after doing homework for 4 hours straight.

But homework and theatre aren't the only stress blood sugars I'm dealing with. Oh no. When you leave home to start school in another state, you would think that you would leave the drama from home..at..well..home right? Just because you are in a new place, doesn't mean you are only limited to new drama. And, just because you are the moral compass of your circle of friends, doesn't mean you always have to help everyone. Without going into detail, these issues made me physically ill to the point where I had to make friends with Learning Services at my school. I'm not even sick, but I was dropping low all night, and some days you just wake up and can't do it. And today was that day. So shout out to the MSM Learning Service team.

Moral of the story, check your blood sugars.

Diabetes in College 101 Homework for this week:
To new students looking at schools, and to students just starting out - find learning services. They will be your new best friends.

Try not to always be the anchor for everyone. You may be drowning yourself in the process of keeping everyone else afloat (S/O to my dear friend David for that advice).

So, lessons learned this week:
-Do homework BEFORE 9pm
-Don't audition for the play the same night you have a paper due
-But you should probably still audition
-Breathe
-Believe you can do this
-And of course, leave the drama at the door


Much Love,
-H

Diabetes 101: An Introduction

Heyyyyy Internet. 

So as I'm starting my second week of college, I'm realizing how incredibly hard diabetes is to manage. For myself and many of my other T1 friends, this is a new experience. Sure, we've been away for a week here, and did a diabetes camp there. So what now? We've graduated on from having parents texting and calling every twenty minutes to tell us to test our blood sugars (hi Mom). 

So this is me. I'm Hannah, and I blog now. Well again. But more now. This is starting off as a creative outlet for me dealing with Type 1 Diabetes on the college level. I've been a T1 now for about 15, going on 16 years. I was diagnosed when I was three years old. To some that doesn't seem fair, but I honestly prefer that it happened that way. I'm so inspired by people who were diagnosed at a later age, because they still have the will to keep going even after they remember what it was like to not have to deal with diabetes. I don't remember a time without it. Life with diabetes is all I've ever known. I couldn't tell you how to begin living without diabetes. 

So that's my diabetes story! My goal here is to have a creative outlet or public burn book for my diabetes while I'm living at college. I'm a Freshman studying Political Science and Theatre. At this point, I'm planning on weekly updates with diabetes stories, struggles, and advice. Hope to see you around! 

Much love, 

-H