By Adam Garcia
Well folks, we have picked a winner for the free monthly diabetic cookbook drawing for the month of June here at Diabetic Cookbook Blog. The winner has won “The 4-Ingredient Diabetes Cookbook: Simple, Quick, and Delicious Recipes Using Just 4 Ingredients or Less” by Nancy Hughes. If you want to read the review I wrote just click here.
So you’re probably saying, “Quit stalling and tell us who the winner is already…”
OK.
The winner is…drum roll please…
Lindsey O’Rourke from Santa Ana, California
CONGRATULATIONS LINDSEY!
Here is her story in her own words:
I started to notice feeling the lows when I was a freshman in high school. My mom was recently dx as T2, so we thought it would be good to test when I didn’t feel “right” – low 60’s-70’s. What we did was just go off of how I felt and I knew when I was playing softball that I needed to snack on something around the 5th inning or so. Going through high school and college being an athlete was tough. The coaches didn’t understand after trying to “educate” them on hypoglycemia – didn’t help. Fortunately the trainers were a little more aware and could start seeing when I was starting to get low – either through my speech or I wasn’t playing up to par. Which makes it tough for coaches because you might be having a “bad game”(as most athletes go through) = “your blood sugar isn’t good”… so they don’t play you. lame. oh well, God knows.
Fast-forward. I got married right after graduating from college and still had my lows but not as much because I was no longer playing softball and fast-forward another year and a half – Prego! I noticed that I wasn’t getting my lows and I was *stoaked*! I asked my doctor to be tested (glucose resistance test) around my 14th week into the pregnancy just to make sure nothing was wrong with my blood sugars. I have an extensive family history of T1 and T2. Sure enough – tests come back and my doctor asks “are you sure you fasted.” “yeah, why?” “Cause you tested in the 350’s” NO BUENO. Long story short…went on a stringent diet and insulin dosage for the rest of my pregnancy. My son was born (healthy weight and no complications) and according to gestational diabetes – it’s suppose to go away. Not for me – and didn’t find out for a few months afterwards (officially). However, since I wasn’t limited to eating certain foods after having my baby, all i wanted at a Pizooki. So I asked my friends to bring, as a gift to the hospital, a Pizooki (BJ’S FAMOUS PIZOOKIE® – A freshly baked, hot out of the oven, rich and delicious cookie topped with 2 scoops of vanilla bean ice cream and served in its own deep dish.) I love ice cream – and being basically deprived of ice cream throughout the rest of the 30 weeks, it was a slice of heaven. I survived by Carb Smart Vanilla Ice Cream with a tablespoon of peanut butter (it equaled my night snack as 1/2 cup milk and a protein 
) A few months after delivery and telling the doctor that the oral meds aren’t touching my blood sugars, we went to insulin again. Diagnosed April 2008 at 25 as T1. So learning to keep my blood sugars in control and taking care of our newborn (1st child) was *very* tough. I would often time over compensate when I would get lows (in fear of passing out or falling from dropping low and then they would skyrocket) – cause a newborn can’t call 911.
Right now my sugars are in control and just got back from my endocrinologist’s office today and my A1C is at 6.4!! 
I was way stoaked about that. I count carbs, have a ratio of 1 unit to 5 carbs, injections – Humalog and Lantus, I test 4 times (or more) a day – breakfast, lunch, dinner and before bed. Oh, and I still love my Carb Smart Vanilla Ice Cream. I input my carbs and my units into my iPhone – which I then put my meter numbers, carbs, and units into a spread sheet and email it to my doctor.
Having diabetes has now been integrated into my everyday life. Yeah, sometimes it can be scary and annoying, but it’s just like any other habit that I have – brushing my teeth, combing my hair, putting on makeup, and now adding testing and injections.
So all in all, I know that God is in control of my life and He’s not going to give me more than I can handle (1 Cor. 10:13). So, now I am carb countin’, finger pokin’, insulin givin’, irish-italian, softball lovin’, T1 girl.
And if you want to be our next winner in July 2009, just register for the drawing by entering in your information on our home page or you can enter by doing the same in our sidebar on most pages of the site. If you can’t wait to be our next winner and you wish to order “The 4-Ingredient Diabetes Cookbook: Simple, Quick, and Delicious Recipes Using Just 4 Ingredients or Less” by Nancy Hughes just click on the links above or go to our recommended products page for other cookbooks.
Once again, Congratulations Lindsey! If you would like to congratulate Lindsey leave a comment below or email us.
