Albert Einstein is a fraud. He may have worked out that E=mc2 thing and received a Noble Prize in Physics, but he got it all wrong when he defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Because anyone who has ever had to pretend to be a pancreas, (which, when working, is a magical, perfect organ), will know that the monotony of diabetes, which involves repeating the same things day in, day out, ALWAYS yields different results!
For people with diabetes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results. Just doesn’t happen.
This week, I had the same lunch on two consecutive days. Both days, my pre-meal BGL was in the mid 6s, I bolused the same amount of insulin and then sat at my desk for pretty much the next two hours writing and reading. How do you think that turned out?
DAY 1 – 5.6mmol/l (two hours after eating)
DAY 2 – 16.5mmol/l (two hours after eating)
Insanity would have been trying to work out why the hell that happened. Or being surprised at the difference. Sanity is saying ‘that’s diabetes’.
UPDATE
So, within 2 minutes of posting this on Facebook, a deluge of similar posts were listed. Here they are:
Glucolift (makers of the BESTEST glucose tabs in all the lands) have this brilliant infographic (about to be stuck up on my office pinboard)
Kerri at Six Until Me suggests that it’s perhaps diabetes that is the definition of insanity (she might be onto something)
And Sara from Moments of Wonderful wrote this as part of this year’s Diabetes Blog Week.
Great minds think alike?
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June 12, 2014 at 2:32 pm
Sara
Great minds?! Einstein-level minds!! 😛
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June 12, 2014 at 2:33 pm
RenzaS
But of course….
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June 12, 2014 at 2:33 pm
Tony
So true Renza,
I’m struggling with porridges atm. Different readings everyday and the type of oats that should be best for me seem to be the worst.
Back to bacon I think 🙂
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June 12, 2014 at 2:34 pm
RenzaS
Bacon? Yes!
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June 12, 2014 at 8:07 pm
Jo
Thanks Renza, I love the encouragement I get from reading your posts and it’s nice to know I’m not the only one dealing with the insanity of it all! So easy to assign blame and feel guilt or just want to throw my hands up in the air with the madness of it all sometimes so it’s always great to read that “nonsense” is actually normal! 🙂
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June 13, 2014 at 2:32 am
Karen
Could not agree more – on both the sanity / insanity thing and the great minds thing!!
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