A while back I wrote a post about the hazards of not having cruise control on a cross-country drive. I wanted to follow up and explain that when I got home from that trip my car battery died. Once I replaced the battery, the cruise control worked just fine!
To back up a little, I will explain that when I was back east, I got the oil changed in my car and was told that my car’s battery needed to be replaced. I consulted with my husband, and we decided to wait until we got back to Colorado to deal with that. As a result of not dealing with the battery issue right away, we had no cruise control for our 2000-mile drive.
Sometimes in our diabetes lives, little (or big) things go wrong, and we ignore them for a while. Perhaps we have a tendency to run high (blood glucose) at a certain time every day, or maybe there’s a pattern of low blood glucose. We might go for weeks with very little energy. If we ignore things like these, or decide to “deal with them later,” we can lose productivity among other things.
By looking into the matter – whatever it is – we might discover that it’s something we’re eating, the timing of exercise, sleep problems, or the need for a medication change/adjustment. All of these things can be addressed, and we can be back on track, feeling like ourselves and enjoying life in no time.
Diabetes works better when we pay attention. Sometimes it’s easier to ignore it, but paying attention has a better payoff. When was the last time you benefitted from paying attention?