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In May of 2014, my body decided to hand over the responsibility of managing my blood sugar – exclusively to me, and with no prior notice. My life long assignment would be to keep my blood sugar (a bunch of temperamental little suckers) at a healthy, steady level to prevent unnecessary stress and irreversible damage to my body.
At first I felt a bit insecure and overwhelmed as I had no academic training, no experience on the subject, not even sufficient time to prepare myself. Why me?! Aren’t there candidates more fit for this role? What makes you think I can do this? Then I thought about it. I can win, or I can lose. I don’t know about you, but losing and giving up has never been my thing and the magnitude of the obvious consequences made me nauseous.
I realized that I was willing and able to support my body with one out of the plethora of complex and extremely advanced assignments I knew existed. After a few days of ‘training’ at the hospital, which in reality was nothing but a chaotic blur and information overload, I was left without supervision and with only a few tools at my disposal: my blood glucose meter which I would use as a way to confirm trial and error, insulin to save myself from dangerous highs and basic dietary guidelines to save myself from dangerous lows. Someone had a lot of faith in me…
Then there was the key. It took me some time to figure out what it was for and how it would help me. It was the key to my body’s OWN blood sugar ‘memory’ accessible through a blood test – a purely fascinating concept called the A1c.
There are 3 gazillion important things to be familiar with and to understand to be able to reach and exceed your blood sugar management goals, but let’s start with these 3:
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