022226, Sunday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 228.3

BP and Pulse: 114/67, 84

Current Glucose Level: 170 @ 0410

Reported Sleep: 5:02

Yesterday's Steps: 5,526

Journal Entry

This has been an interesting weekend. I am diabetic (type 2) and have been monitoring my blood glucose level by using a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system where I attach a small monitor to the back of one of my arms and it is supposed to send a continuous blood glucose level to an app on my iPhone. Two nights ago on Friday night the app showed a dangerously low blood glucose level and I got up and Cathy gave me some honey and a banana and we went back to bed. The app gave pretty normal readings throughout yesterday and I was more careful than usual in my eating throughout the day.

Then last night the same problem occurred twice where my blood glucose showed dangerously low. Finally I got my old fashioned blood glucose monitoring system out and pricked my finger. Everything was normal. I checked it twice more and my glucose level was fine. By then it was nearly for AM and I was wide awake. Poor Cathy was suffering with me as well. I got up and she is trying to sleep. We're both relieved that my blood glucose levels are fine. I'm just going to go back to the old method of finger pricking until I can come up with a more reliable system that I can rely on.

My glucose level was at 170 at 4:10 this morning but that was after our efforts to raise my glucose level. I'm confident that it will come down to more normal levels as time goes by.

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 17: 19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

"Important components of faith are patience, long-suffering, and enduring to the end. The Apostle Paul recounts the faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Sara, concluding that “these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth”. These faithful Saints knew that this earth life was a journey, not their final destination.

When Abram was 75 years old, the Lord promised him, “I will make of thee a great nation”—this at a time when he and Sarai as yet had no children. He was 86 when Sarai’s handmaiden Hagar “bare Ishmael to Abram”.

And the Lord changed Abram’s name to Abraham and Sarai’s name to Sarah, and when he was nearly a hundred and she was 90 they were promised that Sarah would bear a son to be named Isaac. Amidst their disbelief the Lord asked: “Is any thing too hard for the Lord?” And “Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age”, and the Lord promised: “I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore."

Elder Spencer J. Condie of The Seventy