My first birthday (with Ms Insulin)

My first birthday with insulin hasn't been that bad. Honestly, my birthday was just the right excuse to indulge on something I usually don't eat everyday, that is homemade cake but more importantly marmelade on toast!!! If I had to choose something to eat for breakfast, well that would be marmelade and jam on toast. No butter please. Just the bitter sweet taste on  nice homemade bread. 

On monday night I baked one of my favourite sponge cake -- just realising how fatty and how sugary that recipe is. I think it's around 80 CHO (8 CP) per 100g, and 50g was a tiny piece, as the cake didn't rise properly. 

So finally after more than 2 years I ate cake and marmalade on toast. That was awesome. I should mention that in Italy breakfast always involves sweet cakes. And moka coffee of course! I also attempted a quick carb count of about 80CHO covered with 5u of Apidra. And it went well too. 

Maybe I shold try a bit more often than once a year? 

As a birthday treat I also went to see the DNS nurses to have an opinion on my new insulin medication. Apparently they agreed on my 3u of Lantus by looking at my BG records. As usual, they are very happy with my measurements, if it wasn't for those pre-meal hypos that since I am on 3u of Lantus I only get before lunch ( at least, I'm not getting them before dinner anymore). I came home with the suggestion of covering my breakfast with 1u of insulin rather than 2. If last week I had only 2 very mild hypos, this week I have already had 2 proper hypos around 3 (2 out of 2 days). The weird thing is that I am not feeling them, so I am very surprised when I measure them.  I really hope these are going to stop at some point. 

This evening I am off to Cambridge for our house hunting. If everything goes well we should be back on friday night with a house booked. Wish me luck!