Saturday was pretty much a relaxing day. I did some work on the computer. I don’t think I will ever catch up on all the email accounts. I have my email filters adjusted so I don’t receive so much junk mail. Sometimes a few Nigerian emails do get through the Inbox. These spamming emails offer money to help some poor widow who has no children and is left supposedly lot of money in their bank accounts to get it back to the United States. I will never believe someone is going to give me millions of dollars and not know me. They just want your personal information and banking information to transfer the funds. I will not be a sucker to these scams.

I went to see Jane at the nursing home and spent time chatting with her so she would not be down in the dumps about missing the wedding that was taking place that Saturday. Different family members called to give Jane details of the day and the reception party the night before. She looked happy to have got the phone calls and to have my company for the part of the afternoon.

I had to hurry back home so the family member could take our vehicle to work. I had invited Betty as my guest to go as my substitute mom to the Mother Daughter Banquet. Her son brought her and dropped her off to the banquet. I had been calling around to see if one of our church ladies could take Betty home. I got a half dozen “I can’t do it” before the banquet. I asked several ladies at the banquet would they mind taking Betty home since Betty only lived the most 5 minutes away. I couldn’t get a commitment from any of the church ladies. I was truly disappointed that no one would help me in this situation. We had a guest speaker that was not from my church that came and knew Betty. She was more than glad to assist in taking Betty home. It is a shame when your own church ladies are not willing to be a good servant of Christ and assist another sister in Christ. I am still shaking my head even today about that. I have been praying about it since last night and asking for forgiveness of these ladies.

I had a hard time getting to sleep last night after helping a friend with her website after returning from the banquet. I was on the computer till 1 AM finishing my post as well. I had a lot on my mind when I lay down on my bed. First between two banquet/luncheons in two days, my diabetes had sky rocketed again. Both meals consisted of sugary sweet salads or mostly carbohydrates. The banquet was breaded chicken breast, mashed potatoes and gravy, bread stuffing, corn casserole and a large dinner roll with butter. For dessert, there was a 3 layer type cake with chocolate cake with a mocha filling on top and on top on that was chocolate icing. I tried not to eat the cake. Betty kept insisting that I eat the cake. People whom are not diabetics do not understand the consequences of too many carbohydrates, including sweets in one meal. I paid the price when I took my blood sugar when I returned home after the program in the main church. I was not feeling very well. My blood sugar was 267. I took a 6 unit shot of Novolog to decrease my blood sugar.

I thought I would get a post done before preparing for bed and taking my final blood sugar reading for the night and taking my Lantus shot and medications. My friend, Connie, was online. She wanted help with one of her websites, Shawnbidness. I have been working with her for a while in maintaining her website when she needs changes made. So we worked for 2 hours on her website making necessary changes. I still have a list to continue to work on for her. Connie is a wonderful friend who writes on her blogs about being an advocate of chronic and invisible illness. She recently posted on her My Chronic Life blog about helping Disabled Online Users Association (DOUA.org) raise money. Please stop by her blog and vote for DOUA. She and I are both mentors for this wonderful organization that helps disabled people has a “Hand Up, Not a Hand Out” through teaching students to sell online through eBay or through their own website or other selling venues. We both would appreciate a vote for DOUA. Thank you!

I will continue to work on controlling my blood sugar readings. I was so proud of myself for not having to take Novolog for 4 days, because I was keeping my blood sugar more manageable. I took my night shot of Lantus and took 42 units and my medications before going to bed. I finally fell asleep at 5 AM and had to get up at 8:30, but finally got out of bed at 9:10 AM. I skipped Sunday School, but made it to church. I am amazed at the energy I have right now and not getting a nap this afternoon. Going to Club Jesus with Betty and Garnet tonight. Praying the meal doesn’t have too many carbohydrates or else I will have to start packing a meal for myself.