Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Splitting the Difference

I have a very close friend who is a type 2 diabetic. Monday night we had our first Community Choir practice and she said to me, "My blood sugar was 137 this morning when I woke up. It's too high." Now most of you that are type 1 would LOVE to wake up with that number, but she's used to having numbers more in the 70s or 80s upon waking.
I had one right back for her. "I woke up 65 this morning. My empty juice box is still in my bed." I grinned at her.
Her reply: "Can we just split the difference? Cause then we'd both be happy."
And I couldn't help but think how true that was. And how great it is to have people with whom to share silly diabetic humor.

3 comments:

Katie from SF said...

So true... in so many ways! :)

Karen said...

That's exactly what I say all the time too! Last week I missed the #dsma chat because I was too low - and K2 missed it because she was too high. If only we could have split the difference, we could've both been on Twitter. :)

Today's Triumph said...

Have to find humor wherever we can!