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Groundhog Day

And the film has constantly been shown on a lot of channels over the Christmas and New year period!

Good article, interesting!
 
Nice find, @DunePlodder !

I've got a copy of his Beyond Fingersticks book about cgm on my kindle. It was published about 10 yrs ago, didn't realise he was still writing.

His book was pretty darned useful for me when I started out with cgm, (along with Sugar Surfing), that idea of thinking about bg as a constantly moving, unpredictable thing and using cgm to make adjustments along the way on the fly, instead of DAFNE's emphasis on, "don't test between meals unless you feel hypo, and save correctioms till meals."

I totally get what he's saying about turning it into an art form. So many of us view T1 as a fight, a constant battle against an unrelenting enemy. That's always gonna wear a guy down.

I much prefer the idea of using cgm to gently nudge levels, the more I use cgm, the easier it gets to see patterns and say, ok, 2u for that.

If that pushes out a nice in range 24 hr graph, I'll screenshot it because I just like the aesthetics of a nice line.

If it doesn't and I go madly out of range, I'm not going to sweat it that much. I might see obvious after the event errors I've made (usually involving a few pints and a kebab..) and I'll file that away for reference, or I'll blame it on T1 randomness. But I'll not get het up about it. It is just a picture which didn't work out that well.

I remember reading a bit in Will's book where he said, 10 yrs ago, he predicts T1s seeing bg on their phones!
 
Although I still get frustrated by the vagaries of T1, I have mellowed somewhat & I'm much less hard on myself than I used to be. I definitely agree with your "gently nudge levels" @Scott-C.
Used well a CGM allows a whole different way of dealing with blood sugars.
I have "Beyond Finger Sticks" too.
 
I was trying to deal with a pizza last night & ended up bouncing around somewhat, but it's rare I have pizza & hey I didn't go "that" high & didn't (quite) hypo so I was pretty relaxed about it!
 

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Nice article.

A number of years ago. My downtime on the computor was spent. Blowing stuff up? Mainly "shot em up" platforms as a Storm trooper nailing Ewoks or in Area 51 tackling alien hordes..

Anyhow my partner (now wife.) gifted me a game called the Sims... She felt it more fun & less edgy. I gave it a go & for a while my wife & I played it together. Lol, she became addicted while I wained off PC gaming..

My thoughts? The "Sims" game highlighted that the premise was no more than a glorified "Tamagotchi."

Oddly, my recent trial of the Libre puts me in the same mind.. Only difference is as a diabetic, I can't "respawn" if I get it wrong..
 
Thank you @DunePlodder, There is something a bit depressing in the 'trappedness' of it all.
Yes, I like how he is suggesting not to sweat the small stuff and think about East philosophy.
Maybe eating in a more calming ritualistic manner, which the tea ceremony evokes in me, is part of it too.
The crux is probably how does one find meaning from the endless repetition of tasks which define our T1 lives?
That is what I think is missing from his article. Maybe that will be the subject of the next one.
? Is there hope and life without meaning ??
 
Great article, I’ll try to remember it each time I’m delayed because being below the magic 5 means I can’t drive, yet. Kitedoc, the meaning of the endless tasks, for me, is to try to feel as good as I can so I can do the things that make life worth living. Not sure if there’s a ‘meaning’ in life tho - now that I’m older I’ve chosen to judge stuff by the pleasure principle, how much pleasure is there in ‘things’ for me and others?
 
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I have thought further about things. A miracle I know!!
I am trying to remember everyday of the 52 years plus that I have given myself insulin.
If we take the article seriously each day has something similar, even though things like testing urine, boiling syringes and needles, changed to blood testing and disposables etc?
Can I honestly remember even 2 weeks ago when, how, what I did regarding insulin?
Maybe our minds choose not to remember the sameness of a repeated routine, just like I cannot remember brushing my teeth etc unless there was something different. memorable, unusual on that occasion.
So if I do not remember, I am cursed with the Groundhog thing?
Only if I choose to let it be. But I cannot change the past.
I could whinge about tomorrow being likely to be a repeat of today but what good does that do?
To me it is not meaningful to see the past as an iteration, nor the present or the future.
Enjoy the moment for it may not last, remember the memorable, different, unique things that happen.
You are not trapped if you do not remember the mundane.
 
I've also been giving this further too, @kitedoc .

At the risk of sounding like a verse from "that" song by Alanis Morissette.
Here is a very true non diabetic story.

Many years ago. I had two older colleagues who had struck up a relationship after a dance at a works do..
The guy confided in me on the matter. (We were good mates.)
The woman was married & in a loveless relationship & pretty much only hanging on till her remaining teenage son at home moved out (she had two kids, the eldest daughter had gone.) Then her marriage was over. (Pretty much separate lives under the same roof..)
"Groundhog Day" working so the bills get paid.. (Yeah, now it's getting a bit Bruce Springstien.)

Sounded like a sensible plan to me at the time I was 20?, my collegues were about the age I am now.
You can't help who ya love...
The woman suffered from debilitating migraines which brought her to tears sometimes. She was prescribed meds from her GP. But as far as I knew, no more tests were done.

How does the story end?
Well, her "migraines" were more than just that.

We attended her funeral & sat at the back with acquaintances & colleagues.
My workmate never recovered from the heartbreak... & locked himself into a "time vortex" of 1960s rock & roll music (which they both like to dance to.) blaring from the stereo & fueling the ongoing daily challenges with copious amounts of whiskey.
His health declined some years later.

It's all about perspective & having "the cup half full." Though I wouldn't advocate using alcohol...
 
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I love the film Groundhog day, Bill Murray is great in it, but haven't seen it for a while now. Isn't life 'a groundhog day', we get up, have breakfast of some sort, go to work or do the school run, have lunch, dinner later and fit it the daily diabetes regime. Chill out if possible, bed and the next morning...........get up and do it all over again.
This isn't negative by all means, it does mean to me, that I am alive, I have a life in 2019 and want it to continue for as long as possible, because I very nearly didn't have any 'groundhog day's'
To the future and beyond :)

Life is a one time offer, use it well.
 
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I love the film Groundhog day, Bill Murray is great in it, but haven't seen it for a while now. Isn't life 'a groundhog day', we get up, have breakfast of some sort, go to work or do the school run, have lunch, dinner later and fit it the daily diabetes regime. Chill out if possible, bed and the next morning...........get up and do it all over again.
This isn't negative by all means, it does mean to me, that I am alive, I have a life in 2019 and want it to continue for as long as possible, because I very nearly didn't have any 'groundhog day's'
To the future and beyond :)

Life is a one time offer, use it well.
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If you liked the original? You realy should check out Tom Cruise's "remake." ;)

 
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