As people with diabetes, we have to make choices about literally everything everyday. Much of diabetes management is trial and error, and many of those decisions and choices we make daily lead to error.

Christmas is a time of gifting, and in the magazine publishing world, we often get bombarded by gifts--quite often of the foody nature--from advertisers or other clients. Last year around this time, we received an enormous gift box of food from Harry & David. It was enough to feed our office of six for lunch one day and leave us drooling over leftovers for several days. So when the same box arrived today, we all went crazy over it.

The decision I had to make was one of those trial and error things. I had never done what I was going to do, but I wanted to give it a try. Let's just say I don't think I'll do this again. Since I didn't really know what I was going to eat, I decided that I would bolus for lunch after the fact. Actually, I had planned to inject a few units up front and then compensate afterwards. However, when I did a pre-meal check, I was 57. I didn't expect that, and wound up eating a lot to fend off the low. So I was a little leary of taking insulin up front. In hindsight, I should have. Also, while I'm not afraid to inject in front of others, we had a guest from Germany who works with a sister publication. I thought I'd spare the discussion, frankly.

So here it is roughly two hours after we started eating and approximately one hour since I injected and I'm horrendously lethargic (although not too much to write this post!!), my eyes are heavy, my mouth feels like a wet, wool rag and all I can think about is how high I must be.

So, lesson definitely learned...do it differently next time. And, yet another thing I can put on my "pro" list for the pump.