Yahoo! It's...International Diabetes Day!

Well, maybe not yahoo.
But happy International Diabetes Day anyway.
Downtown, people are getting together to make giant blue human circles - the international diabetes symbol.

Me, I'm getting ready to knit my piece of the world's largest knitted sculpture - a diabetes awareness ribbon. Yep, it's finally happening. Michaels is donating a whack of grey yarn, and the word is starting to spread. I'm even getting email from people I don't know!

This should be fun. I think that when it's done - all 200 and some-odd feet of it - we'll wrap it as far as it will go around the library. Now that's a yahoo!

To celebrate diabetes day, my body and my pump alarms kept me up until 3 am last night with lowish blood sugar. Thank goodness for my sensor. I did go rather low at one point, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I tend to wake from a strange dream to discover myself shaking, but I get afraid that one day my overnight low WON'T wake me up.

This PMS thing is killing me. Now that my periods are back, and irregular at that, I never know when I'm going to hit a period of PMS-y high blood sugar or plummet into a nasty low. It's a whole new roller coaster. How many years are there until they go away? Oh yeah, there's menopause to go through before that, and I hear that's a doozy too.

Ah, well.