Blood sugar update

I took my sugar level reading at 12:30 and just now, almost 1 am. The first one was 9.7 (after I ate the sweet bread with jam), and this one is 12.5. Normal is 5.1-7.1. After a meal (especially one with sugar in it), you'd expect that kind of steep rise, so I think I'll be ok. So I'm off to bed: HWMBO has just come down to enquire about how I feel so I think I'll be safe enough in bed.

I have transferred tomorrow morning's diabetes pills to tomorrow evening's pill box. I shall try to dream up a good labelling system.

Oh, PS, I hate sticking myself to take the blood sugar reading. It sucks, big time. I feel like a penny-ante Dracula.

Well, I've survived the night

and seem to be relatively OK. I do not feel shaky or anything and, although I haven't checked my blood sugar yet, I'm sure it's within acceptable levels.

As for pill boxes, although I don't have time now, nor will I have time tonight, tomorrow I shall take a picture of the pill boxes I use, which come from Muji, the Japanese chain store, and post the picture here to illustrate my description below. They are little round stackable barrels which are threaded and thus can be stacked on top of each other. There is a threaded lid for the top barrel and the borrom barrel does not have threads on the bottom. I have stacked them in a pile of seven, one for each day. There are three different stacks: a morning stack, a dinner stack, and a night stack. I confused the dinner stack for the night stack last night.

The solution I have come to is this: I shall put the dinner stack on the kitchen table rather than next to the night stack. The morning stack is already there, and I have not recently forgotten to take my morning pills as I see the morning stack when I sit down for breakfast. This way, when I go for the cholesterol pills, there will be only the night stack over there and I won't accidentally pick up the dinner stack.

I need a personal assistant, like Prince Charles has.