Biscuit - [Dry cake] Lets make it!

I love baking. The baking was placed with a little bit in the cradle. Family heritage, so to speak. Unfortunately, I often miss the time and so confined the cookies bakery with me mainly on Christmas. What a pity, because cookies taste in every season and home baking beats just about any dröge, precisely shaped industrial goods. I also find baking extremely relaxing. Well, a few days ago I finally found time again and swirled with blender and flour through the kitchen and baked some wonderful chocolate shortbreads (ie butter biscuits). 

And who now expects, I post here a sugar-free biscuit recipe, which can stop here at this point to read on (and maybe herealternatively read on). This recipe is neither sugar-, lactose- or gluten-free and is not low carb (apart from the fact that my grandfather would probably have hewn the rolling pin around my ears, if I had come with a sugar-free variant or even dry yeast around the corner.) And no, this article is also not about whether sugar and cookies are very bad and unhealthy and can make awfully thick. It's all about a recipe for stink-normal cookies. By the way, as a type 1 diabetic I am allowed to eat (before the alarm is sounded again). Yeah, that's the way the cookie crumbles! Attention, it starts...

You need:

• 200g chocolate (I personally prefer Marabou or Tony's )
• 100g sugar
• 50g brown sugar
• 260g cold butter diced
• 300g of flour

Also:

• 1 egg, whisked
• brown sugar for rolling

Stir the sugar with the cold, diced butter until foamy. About 5 minutes. Then add the flour, just knead until the flour is no longer visible. Chop the chocolate in rough pieces (that is, really rough) and add to it. Then make 2 dough rolls from the dough, about 4cm thick. Wrap in foil and cool for 2 hours. After cooling, brush with the beaten ice and tumble in the sugar. Then pull the knife and cut the rolls into 1-1.5 cm thick biscuit slices. Attention, leave enough space on the baking sheet between the biscuits.

The whole recipe has grossed 465 grams of carbs, say 38.75 BE or 46.5 KE. Depending on how many cookies you cut from the rolls, you have to calculate the BE or KE then on a cookie down. Simple rule of three.

And do not worry, you will not overeat the cookies. After 1-2 you are cardboard-sat. As is the case with shortbread. I can promise you, the cookies are really good. Almost "Piet approved".😉

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Eversense - Ooooops i did it again

Explantation Eversense sensor

The first three months with the Everense sensor really went by and now it was already time to "dig up" the first fellow. Excavation is actually quite good in this case, because the little beast was somehow harder to find than planned.

I almost suspected a bit in advance, because in conversations with other Eversense users, I was always a bit surprised that everyone reported that they could feel the sensor clearly with their finger. However, I have never been able to feel my sensor and during the night, when I slept on the appropriate arm, I often had disconnects and also rarely full rash in the sensor search. All an indication that the sensor is a bit too low. Well, from the announced 5 minutes of the explantation was then just under half an hour.

HOW DOES THE EXPLANTATION WORK?

In principle, the procedure is similar to the implantation. The relevant site is first stunned locally. The injected lidocaine "puffs" the tissue a little. After that, the scar is opened (by the way, I have hardly found it, because superduper heals well) and with a pair of pliers (imagine this roughly like ne big tweezers) the sensor is pulled out. That is ratzfatz. Actually.  As I said, my sensor was apparently still a little stay in my body and so the whole thing was a little hide and seek.

Shortly thought about X-raying in order to better locate the idiosyncratic nerd, but then he decided to stop by himself with the whole "Hide & Seek" and came to his feet after more than half an hour's dud. For me personally, everything is not wild. Something can happen.

NEW SENSOR - NEW LOCATION

For me was not at all a question of whether I would like to have the follow sensor in the same place, because I had chosen the place for the first sensor, unfortunately, a little too far back on the arm, so I wanted to have him this time in any case forward. Easier to reach without larger dislocations. Even if this means a new cut and thus a second scar.

The implantation was in contrast to the removal completely fix and was done almost in a jiffy. After the arm was already stunned anyway, it was just a cut and flupp in with the thing. And: this time I can feel it clearly. As always, I am absolutely convinced of the accuracy, also have some criticisms about which I will write as promised.

Disclaimer: Roche Diabetes Care Deutschland GmbH has provided the Eversense CGM system free of charge. As always, the content of the article is my own experience and opinion and is not influenced by Roche.

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Diabetes - Living with an invisible disease

I write this in clear text. In general I find that one can live with diabetes today quite well. There are meanwhile all sorts of technical possibilities, which allow us to make everyday life with the illness more pleasant and more easy peasy. But we all know, and I have already written about it, diabetes goes far beyond blood glucose meters and insulin syringes.

Sometimes, when I walk through the streets, I wonder how many diabetics are likely to move around in my environment (I admit, sometimes I catch people just gagging their ass, just to see if there is an insulin pump In the bag, but in most cases it is cigarette packs, not much better). Or I wonder how many people are on the road with diseases you do not see. Just like diabetes. Diabetes is invisible. And that makes it so difficult for the outside world to understand what it really means to live with diabetes on the cheek.

LOOK GOOD, BUT FEEL SHIT

High blood glucose values ​​make me feel like pissed. This inner exhaustion, hammering in the head, unbearable thirst, laziness, just a crappy feeling and a situation in which I often just want to sleep for my bed and a cap.

On the outside, I do not even notice it, or hardly at all. Except maybe people who know me well. Perhaps also a little, because I have learned over the years to overshoot everything. Diabetics are masters. In such a moment to say, one does not feel well, or could not do this & That just because one is not doing well, often meets incomprehension. You see, finally, blindingly. In the worst case you are also accused, you would not tell the truth. Everything already experienced.

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

Much blood glucose levels, especially hypoglycemias, it is quite no matter when they skim. Apart from the fact that they can not be used at any time, they like to pass by at night. Nocturnal hypotension is like a 10km run with final sprint for my body. Feasible, but untrained quite strenuous and hard-working. An unpleasant body feeling and having to eat in the middle of the night, even though you are not hungry.

Corrosive! Falling asleep is then difficult for me and the night is traversed by sleep and wax phases and sometimes also nausea and stomach pain. The morning after such a hypo-night I can mostly kink. Often it is hard for me to describe this feeling for people with still functioning pancreas. It's kind of like being sick. A mixture of a light flu, with a shooting circuit and a splash kater. So roughly. Even if the blood sugar is already in the normal range. Externally, I can not be seen this night.

AGAIN THE ASS TORN OPEN

Diabetes never goes according to plan and there are good and bad days. Just like Bad Hair Days. Only Bad D-Days. The bad ones are particularly frustrating for me when I simply do not have a solution for the problem, or have a solution, but this does not show any effect. Having diabetes is one thing to understand it is quite another. And even after more than 25 years, he is often an inscrutable something for me. To constantly break your head and probably still have the feeling to be wrong or to be stupid or simply a bad diabetic , can often go quite well to the substance .

THINK ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE COMPLETELY NORMAL FOR OTHER PEOPLE

This is especially about eating and drinking. Not whether I may or may not. Because diabetics are allowed to eat everything. It's about headwork. While it is completely normal for metabolic-healthy people to use themselves at the buffet, to snap at times here and there what to snacks, easy to eat when and how much you have Bock, begins in my head the large calculation. How many carbohydrates does this and that have? Do I still have active insulin intus? Did I do sports or still have physical activity in the next few hours? Will I eat anything now or in stages? What type of bolus is the right one? Normal, dual or delayed? Do I need extra insulin for fat and proteins? And and and and then you also have crooked BE-factors, Prost meal! Diabetes is headwork. Every day and every bite.

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Why I chose Ypsopump

After nearly 5 years with the Animas Vibe, I received a few days ago my new YpsoPump from Ypsomed from the postman in receipt. I had already posted some photos on our Facebook fanpage and there came immediately the question, why just the YpsoPump? The question is certainly right at first sight, because what do you want nowadays with a pump, which has no CGM connection and where the bolus calculator is missing. I will explain it to you all!

To one there is the emotional side. As we have already reported here several times, we have been involved in the development of the pump for over 4 years and therefore it was clear that I would like to wear the pump some time. But of course this has not been decisive. Here are my reasons for choosing the YpsoPump:

• The size! This pump is small and is well in the hand.
• The menu is 100% icon based and comes without font. 
• Touch screen
• Pre-filled ampoules
• Future-oriented: I am a fan of the fact that I can control everything in the future in my iPhone. Already, I have my Dexcom G5 CGM data on the iPhone and I think of Ypsomed that they see the same. I am 100% sure that I can use the pump at any time via an app. When this is going to happen, I can not say I hope as soon as possible. So I then have everything on the iPhone, pump control, CGM data, mySugr, Diasend as evaluation tool. If everything is still linked together, perfect. 
• The clear and straightforward design, almost a little Swedish. 

Some will now say, "You can do almost everything with other pump manufacturers such as Medtronic or Animas?" That is true and if the YpsoPump was not on the market, I would definitely choose one of the other pumps. But I find it simply good and remarkable and gladly supports a manufacturer of us diabetics cooperates and that our opinion also finds hearing. There was no such thing as Dato yet.

What do you think about it? Can you understand my reasons? Finally, a few photos of the unpacking of the pump below.

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