Vigilance

Wow.  I never thought that I would ever need to write this post, but the events of the last week have - shall we say - opened my eyes to a problem I have.

 

As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently had knee surgery.  To complicate this, my wife had surgery to remove a bone spur on her heal and stretch her achilles tendon.  To quote her Doctor, "Your toes need to be elevated above your nose for the next two weeks."  So, short of trips to the powder room (does anyone really call it that anymore?), she is flat on her back in bed.

 

What does this have to do with vigilance?  Let me start by saying that I have no clue how my beloved wife is able to accomplish everything she does in a day.  Having dealt with everything she does for the better part of a week now, I'm at a loss to explain how she has the time to do it short of magic (time-turner anyone?).

 

This morning while sitting in physical therapy with my knee wrapped in a pile of heat wraps I realized that I hadn't checked my blood glucose in almost two days.  Oops...  I also realized that I didn't take my meds yesterday.  Double oops... Would being on insulin make these "oops'" fewer and farther between? Definitely, as I'm sure having to put a needle into my body EVERY meal would be a constant reminder to do what is right... But for now I'm not on insulin and have got to figure out a better way of managing my diabetes (any and all suggestions are currently being solicited - leave a comment if you want to help this silly man out).