Thanks For The Welcoming Committee

So here I am, starting a new blog focused on type one diabetes and my...we'll say "adventure", with it. What the heck am I getting myself into here? I don't know. I guess that's half the fun of an adventure though, right?

I got the idea to do this from Victoria Cumbow (go check out her blog at victoriacumbow.com). She always tweeted about something called DOC, and for a long time, I couldn't figure out what it stood for -- just that it was a bunch of people talking about diabetes...online...on community sites...OH. Got it. Diabetes Online Community. Duh. Anyway, I saw how her DOC friends interacted and I thought "you know, that might be good for me."

My problem is, I love to have fun and I love to always be doing something...but that something is rarely paying attention to my diabetes. I have a tendency to think along the lines of "I feel fine, so my blood sugar must be okay." Unfortunately for me, I've had high blood sugar for so long that now it feels normal. I feel low when I hit about 120 sometimes. Ouch!

I figure if I spend so much time on twitter, facebook, tumblr, etc., then why shouldn't I use that to make me pay more attention to my diabetes? My goal here is to have diabetes -- not let it have me. Who knows if this will work wonders or be a spectacular flop. We'll just have to find out, won't we? But if Victoria and this DOC thing are any previous indication, I think it will.

[[That's where the title for this post came from -- immediately after I started this blog and twitter, Victoria had a welcoming committee ready to wave me into the DOC. It was awesome -- I was at work trying to fix a high (370;; shame on me!) when I got a flood of tweets saying hi. Put a smile on my face, anyway (: I already love you people!]]

Who wants to only read about diabetes and the boring logistics all the time? Not me, that's for certain. So my goal here, lovely fellow bloggers, is to keep it interesting. So enough about why I started this blog. Here's a little bit about the [dysfunctional] pancreas (and the human it belongs to) behind the pump.

My name is Jordan, but I have a ridiculous amount of nicknames. Most commonly I've been going by JJ lately, but a few choice ones include Josie, J-Metal, and Sarah Jo (for the record, my first name is Sarah.) Pick one, any one...I promise I'll answer!

Typical Facts In Short-Answer Form (a.k.a. "I'm Sure If I Wrote This As A Paragraph, You'd Skim It")
Age: 20 (21 on November 1st, baby! That should be an interesting night out with the pump...)

School: I'm currently at UAH[untsville], studying English, or Communications, or...something Liberal Arts-y. I haven't decided yet!

Things That Are Rad: horses (specifically mine, Noel), photography, writing, reading, my webshow (the J-Metal Show -- look it up on youtube!), music (concerts especially), when I don't have high A1Cs, cheesecake, designing t-shirts // apparel

Things That Suck: My current A1C, crickets, gas prices, vacuums (get it?!), my sense of humor (I apologize for all the lame jokes...), MATH

Food I Could Eat For the Rest of Forever: Peanut Butter and Nutella sandwiches, sushi, mac n' cheese, whipped cream (not together!)

D-Facts!
Dia-versary: February 10, 2003 (Which means I was 12 years old and have therefore had the T1D for 8-ish years.)

Meter: FreeStyle Lite. LOVE IT. Teeny tiny and I can test on my arm. I might have d-freckles from using the same spot so many times, but hey. My fingers are not to be poked!

Insulin: Novolog...hence the reason for the blog title! Although of course, we've always got that back up Lantus in the fridge...(in case your "waterproof" pump becomes "un-waterproof" in the middle of Lake City, FL on your way to vacation at nine p.m. when the pharmacies are closing.)

Low BG Fix of Choice: Juicy Juice

Pump: Animas IR 2020, recentely re-named the OneTouch Ping. I named mine "Pong". (I have the Ping "Pong". More lame jokes!)

I reckon that's about it for now. Be sure to follow me on twitter @novologninja for more lame humor, among other things. Thanks for reading, y'all (can you tell I'm southern?) and I hope I wasn't boring!

<3 Jordan