What Helps.

Being pregnant while trying to wrangle blood sugars, blood pressure levels, morning ketones, food, boluses that seem too huge to be right, and everything else that comes with diabetes-while-gestating can feel really overwhelming sometimes.

But you know what helps me a whole lot?

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My online friends who have either been down this road before, are going through it right now, or have supportive and wonderfully encouraging things to say (derived from compassion, not necessarily personal experience) when I post pictures like this.

They help the scary seem not quite so very.

(By the way, that bolus was for 64 carbs. Third trimester insulin requirements are no joke.)