Sunday morning my little brother Hunter boarded a flight home; well to Orlando. It was his very first flight ever. Did I mention that his flight left at 7-so we were at the Indianapolis airport at 6? Oh yes, we were! The airport is about 3 hours from our apartment and 2 hours from my in-law's house; so of course we stayed Saturday night at their house...making us get up around 3:45am instead of 2:45am. Good decision? YES!
After getting Hunter through security and giving him detailed directions on what to do next, The Mr. and I headed back to him parents house with dreams of climbing back into bed. I.WAS.EXHAUSTED! We were able to get back into bed around 9:30am, which was about the time his parents were leaving for church...I had set the alarm on my phone for noon thirty...
What happened next (that I remember) I blame on sheer exhaustion and maybe a little on a high blood sugar that I might have over corrected for. I did not wake up when the alarm went off once, or twice. I can imagine The Mr. reaching over me and hitting snooze just thinking that I was still passed out sleeping. That I was! What really was happening was an extreme low or hypoglycemia. It is a horrible feeling...I woke up not knowing where I was and completely helpless. Once The Mr. calmed me down enough to check my blood sugar he knew what he needed to do. The reading was 40 mg/dl. He ran downstairs to get some much needed juice and returned with a large glass of apple juice. This juice tasted SO good, possibly the best ever. Upon drinking guzzling the juice I started to feel better and recognize my surroundings and realized what had happened. I remember The Mr. asking me if I was okay and me responding with "I just returned from a parallel universe". He laughed, I laughed; all was well. Well, all with the exception of my sweat soaked pajamas. Yes folks, diabetes is sometimes not a pretty and glamorous disease. It is nasty and brutal...so I head to the shower.
Events like this do not happen often, that goodness. I really believe this episode was induces by over exhaustion and just plain being tired. I worked all week and stayed up late playing with Hunter and The Mr. They were able to sleep until 11am each morning while I rose for work around 6:45am. Thus my tiredness.
*Mom and Dad got me this book for Christmas and I was SO excited about it. I am on Chapter 8 now and am loving reading all about the history and how brutal diabetes was in the early 1900s. It really is inspiring and makes me think about how blessed I am to be living now, when diabetes is totally controllable and not a death sentence!
So what did I do on Sunday? After showering and getting ready we went to a yummy Mexican lunch with The Mr.'s parents then returned to their house to work on laundry...we had A LOT of it! I had good intentions on reading my new book I got for Christmas but fell asleep not far into the 3rd Chapter. So yes, I slept for most of the day on Sunday. It was glorious!
This week we have plans that include a little bit of relaxing, eating, movie watching and taking down the Christmas decorations. As sad as I am to take them down, I know in a blink of an eye it will be time to put them up next year and who knows what that will bring :) Hope everyone has a great day!
