A Day in the Life of a Diabetic

I wasn’t aware I was sitting on a sugar bomb till I was diagnosed for diabetes. This is when my insurance application was returned without sighting an accurate reason. Although, I was not incensed, it perhaps speeded up my journey towards discovering the secret enemy inside.

By the time I could get over the initial shock, I had encountered so many free suggestions from all those who have rights to claim friendship and relation; there were almost an equal number of tests in as many hospitals. And now I am more or less settled to somewhat stable life style. I couldn’t accustom to discipline, timetables, exercises and all those things easily.

Now I am here and this is my routine. The sole reason for trying to keep up with the routine is to maintain my glucose levels as Normal glucose levels in non-diabetic individuals.

Till 7:00
I get up always before dawn. So, by the time the first ray breaks out I am out walking by a lakeside. I reach back home after 35-40 minutes of walking and this is when I have my first cup of coffee (Sugar free). I am comfortable with drinking sugar free coffee or tea. I don’t like other sweeteners either. I always make it a point to just drink a big glass of water before leaving for walking.

7:00 to 9:00
I am a netizen of serious kind. I spend these two hours checking e-mails and replying wherever necessary. My daughter gets up somewhere in between and I give her 10-15 minutes helping her get ready for the school. I enjoy helping her a lot although she can do almost without me.

The time for the tablet is between 7:45 and 8:00 and thirty minutes later- breakfast and then- bath and I am ready for the daily chores.

9:00 to 14:00
No I don’t spend this long time without eating anything. I have a small snack or a couple of diet biscuits with a small tea at around 10:30. This helps keep me up till lunch which I have with family. I have understood that rigors of working non-stop don’t do any good in the long run. Eyes have begun to strain a lot, of late, so I take a few short rest pauses. I know, because I am told that, it is common place with those working on computers. Surgeon has advised to use synthetic tears to substitute for the dried up natural tears! This could happen to anyone, you need not be a diabetic for this. Even those of men who are working near furnaces develop a similar problem later in their lives.

14:00 to 17:00
This stretch passes without many activities unless there is some urgent submission lined up. You know, I outsource work from publishers who can’t re-adjust their dates frequently for me. Since I work from home, I take a break or a little nap. If I am not sleeping, I watch some news shows and jump channels endlessly only to get fed up.

Once it is 16:00, it is waiting time for my little angel. Daughter comes back from school. She takes away an entire hour (if I am fortunate). I make her a snack, a good big cup of milk and she settles down to her plays or watch POGO on the tube.

17:00 to 22:00
My supper is always at 21:30 when my favorite show begins on the tube. It doesn’t make me loose my attention however gripping or not it is I watch my food/menu as much as I do with TV.

Out of these five hours, I make it a point to work seriously for at least 3 hours. I don’t want to make a rigid sub-timetable here within the main. Sometimes it is the friends that come calling or it is the wife that wants me help with her groceries shopping. This is also the time to get my daughter to understand that it is time for her to get going with her home works and studies. I have a couple of small teas in between 16:00 and 19:00.

22:00 to 24:00
Nothing but serious work at here, unless it is Sunday. There will be emails to check, articles to complete, my team members sometimes need to chat (They are also up and working.) The ending is a bit relaxed one. I may stretch it by a few minutes to half an hour, but in any case it depends. I can sum it up as- time till going to bed. There is one more tablet to take before I resign to bed.

Three years down the line, I still can’t say I have succeeded in diffusing the bomb; perhaps no one can. But I know that I have at least got the bomb to stop ticking. It is thanks to stable glucose levels. If nothing else, I am at least able to peacefully plan the day ahead when I go to bed.

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Alevoor Rajagopal advises on issues that concern us all. He is an expert in matters of health care whcih he writes on. He raises his voice for fair practices in car insurance deals.

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