I think every parent – heck, every adult in this overstimulated world of ours – has some level of adult ADD. “I’m just going to send one more message,” “I just have to check facebook one more time” and so on. And sometimes diabetes gets neglected in all the distraction.
Here’s an example: I took my lunchtime insulin and then sat down to “read one more post” on the discussion board of a course I’m teaching. Before I knew it, I had read five posts and responded to three. And I still hadn’t made my lunch.
I ran into the kitchen (I’m making this dramatic) and drank my fat-free milk first (fat-free milk works fast to raise the blood glucose and this way I didn’t consume extra calories that weren’t part of my lunch), while cooking up a nice combination-leftover-veggie-extravaganza . While my meal was cooking I even went back into the office and drafted this post! I have perfected distraction!
At any rate, lunch was magnificent, but the take home message is to slow down and watch out for excess distraction. And in an effort not to make everything about insulin – if you manage diabetes without insulin, it’s still an important message. Less distraction means more focus – on the things that matter at the time that they matter. Ok, now go back to whatever you were doing.