bigpurpleduck
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Apologies in advance!
As you guys know, I suffered a very early miscarriage about 3 weeks ago. Emotionally I think I'm okay - just trying to focus on other things & not wallow. But the symptoms have still not left me. Tired, mild cramps, sore boobs, and my BG is much lower than normal. I'm now on 70% TBR from 7am 'til 1pm, and 50% TBR from 1pm 'til 10pm.
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There seems to be no end to my BG problems right now. Yesterday was the first day I'd tried 50% TBR all afternoon & evening, and BG was 13.1 at 10pm. However, this was post-set change so it may have been due to this. So I corrected, and 1 hour later was 6.5! Far too quick a drop. 2 jelly babies and bed, with alarm set for 2am. At 2am, BG was 3.8. Treated with Lucozade & a custard cream. BG on rising this morning 14.6! I suspect liver games here. So I felt royally poo this morning, & have been in a bad mood all day.
On top of all of this, work has erupted into insanity. One of my colleagues has been off for 2 weeks because her dad is dying. I feel awful for her - we're quite close - & wish there was something I could do. But it does mean that my life from 9am - 5pm is a nightmare (obviously I'd rather be at work running around like a headless chicken than at my dad's bedside, but it doesn't change the fact that work is difficult at the moment). I'm the junior secretary, and the absent colleague is more senior. However, her workload falls on me for a number of reasons - the office manager is part-time, and the other members of staff are fairly new. It's just crazy. The academics expect everything to be just the same as normal, but being one full-time member of staff down when there are only 3 full-time makes a huge difference.
What bugs me most about work is that the exact same thing happened last year, but with the absence of a different colleague. I took the whole lot on & everything went pretty smoothly considering the situation. That colleague then left, & I applied for her job - but didn't get it, I suspect for political reasons. I'm now seething mad that I'm expected to do all this work again, when I know I won't get any thanks for it 😡
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So I'm just stressed stressed stressed at the moment. I really think I needed a bit more breathing space to deal with the loss and am slightly worried that it will hit me all at once when my colleague returns & my workload goes back to normal.
Anyway. Roll on hometime tomorrow!
As you guys know, I suffered a very early miscarriage about 3 weeks ago. Emotionally I think I'm okay - just trying to focus on other things & not wallow. But the symptoms have still not left me. Tired, mild cramps, sore boobs, and my BG is much lower than normal. I'm now on 70% TBR from 7am 'til 1pm, and 50% TBR from 1pm 'til 10pm.
[rant]
There seems to be no end to my BG problems right now. Yesterday was the first day I'd tried 50% TBR all afternoon & evening, and BG was 13.1 at 10pm. However, this was post-set change so it may have been due to this. So I corrected, and 1 hour later was 6.5! Far too quick a drop. 2 jelly babies and bed, with alarm set for 2am. At 2am, BG was 3.8. Treated with Lucozade & a custard cream. BG on rising this morning 14.6! I suspect liver games here. So I felt royally poo this morning, & have been in a bad mood all day.
On top of all of this, work has erupted into insanity. One of my colleagues has been off for 2 weeks because her dad is dying. I feel awful for her - we're quite close - & wish there was something I could do. But it does mean that my life from 9am - 5pm is a nightmare (obviously I'd rather be at work running around like a headless chicken than at my dad's bedside, but it doesn't change the fact that work is difficult at the moment). I'm the junior secretary, and the absent colleague is more senior. However, her workload falls on me for a number of reasons - the office manager is part-time, and the other members of staff are fairly new. It's just crazy. The academics expect everything to be just the same as normal, but being one full-time member of staff down when there are only 3 full-time makes a huge difference.
What bugs me most about work is that the exact same thing happened last year, but with the absence of a different colleague. I took the whole lot on & everything went pretty smoothly considering the situation. That colleague then left, & I applied for her job - but didn't get it, I suspect for political reasons. I'm now seething mad that I'm expected to do all this work again, when I know I won't get any thanks for it 😡
[/rant]
So I'm just stressed stressed stressed at the moment. I really think I needed a bit more breathing space to deal with the loss and am slightly worried that it will hit me all at once when my colleague returns & my workload goes back to normal.
Anyway. Roll on hometime tomorrow!
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I had no idea you'd gone through that (sorry I've not had a chance to come on much recently). I am sending out to you all the love, hugs and sympathy in the world. And don't feel like you don't have a right to 'recover' properly.