According to WebMD, these are the symptoms of moderate low blood sugar levels:
Symptoms of moderate low blood sugar
If your blood sugar continues to drop (below 40 mg/dL), your behavior may change. Symptoms may include:
- Inability to concentrate.
- Confusion and irritability.
- Slurred speech.
- Unsteadiness when standing or walking.
- Muscle twitching.
- Personality changes, such as anger or crying.
Sometimes, when someone you love is challenged by diabetes, it can be as confusing as dealing with the Hungry Thing. I only learned by much prayer, how important my assistance is in helping my husband to manage his diabetes. After I finally caught on to these symptoms (they are so subtle sometimes that you may think they are just personality quirks, and become offended by some of the characteristics) I sought Yehovah diligently to deliver my husband from this and He flat out told me no. Well, that was abrupt. He instructed me that my role as a wife of a now middle-aged man (Friend Hubby is in his 50s now) was to change into more that of caregiver. Of course the vivid imagination I have immediately pictured my husband in a full bodycast sipping soup through a bendy straw. Not quite what Abba had in mind!
He wants my husband to walk in health. Sure, He could miraculously take the diabetes away, and I would like Him to, but the discipline of learning what is proper nourishment for these walking tabernacles we walk around in is important to learn.
So let's start with breakfast. Most important meal of the day, right. Every Shabbat, Friend Hubby reads Proverbs 31 over me in blessing. I am constantly listening as he reads which verse is standing out to me to work on for the coming week. The verse that has been shouting at me (though my husband is not shouting when he reads it) is verse 15, "She rises while it is yet night and gets [spiritual] food for her household and assigns her maids their tasks."
SHE RISES WHILE IT IS YET NIGHT. How I hate those words! LOL To say that I am not a morning person is the grossest of understatements. However, since being led into our Hebrew roots, I am discovering so much about Yehovah's time clock and how we have tried to alter it in so many ways.
Over the past six months or so, I have begun setting the alarms on my phone to go off at dawn, sunrise, sunset, and dusk. You can find out what those are for your location here.
Now, I have not yet been successful it rising at those times, but I am closer than I was. Since that is such a challenge, I have been looking for other strategies. ENTER PINTEREST! :-)
I now have a board just for Slow Cooker Breakfasts. It only has 5 pins on it so far, but it's a start. I also have another Pinterest board called Breakfast and Brunch. It is a much larger board. Now that I look at it, it has some slow cooker breakfasts on it to. I will have to adjust it. On Sundays I don't have to go to work until 3 o'clock. Last week, I made a slow cooker breakfast for Shabbat morning. It was a hit! I like Friend Hubby to be well fed before he teaches our Shabbat services. I see a difference in his teaching when he has eaten well first.
My goal is to bake bread, and make breakfasts, at least for the start of the week. I like to make quiche recipes and put bake them in individual muffin cups (if you have teenagers, you know what portion control sometimes has to be like). I also bake my loaves of bread. Last week when I did my Sunday baking, a friend was visiting. My daughter came downstairs and helped (without being asked) and it became a "girls' time." That's something I would like to see continue. I have a friend who knows how to can. I can invite her and her daughters over on a Sunday morning (they are also Sabbath keepers) and we can can (no pun intended) together.
But I digress. This article discusses (more articulately than I) the benefits of a good breakfast for diabetics. Starting the day with a good breakfast leads to a sweet disposition throughout the day, not just for the one affected by diabetes, but for their loved ones as well.
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