How a Faulty Glucose Monitor, My Intuition, and a Trip to the ER Gave Ne the Answers I Needed

Yesterday didn’t turn out the way I planned.

Ended up in the ER. 

I thought I was having extreme low blood sugar episodes (scarily so) as I couldn’t seem to regulate my glucose and had been “crashing” all weekend.

I felt super fatigued since coming back from traveling just before the Memorial Day weekend, and truly felt like I picked up a head cold or something along the way. 

Got an Intuitive hit to test my blood sugar.

I got a Keto Mojo a few years back when I was really dialing into my fasting and ketobiotoc diet trying to better manage my menopause. 

So, I pulled It out to test. 

My blood sugar readings were low, and I was crashing lower every time I ate. So, was starting to think i was having reactive hypoglycemia or worse.

I had moments when I could actually feel myself crash. And, the numbers started to really freak me out. When I say low … I’m talking crazy (like coma state) low. 

So, after a call with a triage nurse when trying to get an appointment, per her direct insistence … I ended up in the emergency room at St. David’s.

Well … come to find out my Keto Mojo was faulty and not calibrating right. So, while I thought I was hypoglycemic and possibly pre-diabetic (it runs in my family), it turns out my device was firing off wrong readings.

Now, as I mentioned, I still was having symptoms. So, after being hooked up to monitors, stuck with an IV for blood to get drawn, swabs up my nose (not sure which was worse … the IV prick or the sticks shoved up my nose). and hooked up to a drip for fluids, I spent a few hours in the ER.

As we waited … the tests finally came back.

My blood sugar levels were fine, and I’m not at risk for diabetes, nor do I have the flu or COVID … all good! However, turns out I do have some kind of viral bug, my white blood cell count is a bit low, and I show a marker for chronic mono with high monocytes.

Explains why I’ve been so run down for so long, among a host of other symptoms I’ve been experiencing for a while now.

Fortunately, my holistic and functional chiropractor (and dear friend, and former nurse) was the one who took me to the ER … and, was a beautifully advocate both for my symptoms and in keeping me positive.

While I feel a little foolish that what got me to the ER was a bad glucose monitor, I am super grateful it was the trigger to get me there. Because now I got blood work done and some much needed answers.

I’m glad my intuitive hit had me using my Keto Mojo in the first place.

Otherwise, I would still be chalking up my extreme fatigue, muscle aches, and other symptoms to menopause.

These days it seems like everything going on with my body Is a result of menopause. However, It does seem that menopause could have been the catalyst to reactivate the virus and have my body fighting Itself.

So, while the symptoms themselves might not be a direct result of menopause … she’s not off the hook yet!

I mentioned a while ago that I’ve been tired (if not exhausted) on a cellular level. 100% true. I feel a sense of confirmation and validation, and peace.

My body knew. My intuition knew and got my attention. 

So thankful I listened. 

Now, I can put a plan together, with the help of support team, to really heal my body. If I’ve learned anything through this (or been reminded of what I already know), it’s this: my body and my intuition don’t lie and only serve to offer me truth. My only job is to trust, listen, and surrender.

Home now, resting, rescheduled all my client sessions, and laying on the couch watching baseball. Just need to let this viral bug ride its course.

And, for the long game … do the energy and holistic work to address the root cause for the rest of my healing.

Had I not thought my blood sugar levels were dangerously low … I never would have gone to the ER. I cannot stress the power of trusting your own intuition … and, in being an advocate for yourself (and, having advocates around you). We know our truth as we stand in our own sovereignty. 

With all that continues to be noise around us, we need to listen when our owen bodies whisper … or, in my case, scream at us to pay attention. 

It starts with tuning in. To bring yourself back home to you. To stand in your own soveignty and to be aligned AF. 

Because the answers we need truly live within you and your soul. 

The work I do leads you back to you. Alignment is an integrative process. And, it’s the true path to a new definition of leadership.

It’s an awakening, a reckoning, and a revolution already underway.

The journey starts in reclaiming your own sovereign power. Let me now when you’re ready … and, we can navigate this journey together.