Cookies on Steroids

[pdub]

Yesterday evening the doorbell rang, and there's two of the neighbor's kids grinning and holding a couple of things, "Merry Christmas!"

What a great gesture. the neighbor's wife I think actually makes money on the side baking things, if I have the story right. Cookies and cakes and this year gobs of high octane things stuck to a plastic spoon. I mean pretty stuff. Like on TV.

I'm just not into sweets, but a day later, one of those cookies called my name. "peewee, eat me. I'm GOOD."

So yeah, but lemme tellya .. first, these were sugar cookies to begin with, and then with sky-blue frosting about a 16th of an inch thick and sprinkles, too.

My head just about exploded. I can drink enough beer to float a boat, but I'm just not into sweets, and that one cookie had me seeing my own pulse inside my eyeballs. Okay, Blur-blur-blur, that's a pulse rate of about 120, and I can HEAR my heart beating, let alone feel my head hurting with every heartbeat.

I'm about over that now. It didn't last real long. But here's to all the grandparents in the world who fill the grandkids up with sugar and then send them home with their parents....yeah, I can dig that. As long as they go home....good gosh, what a sugar jolt.

[studemax]

You sure that wasn't cocaine in the frosting?

[pdub]

You sure that wasn't cocaine in the frosting?

No, I'm not (sure).

[oldsman71]

crack cookies!! lol PW

[pdub]

crack cookies!! lol PW

Y'all want some? We got a couple left. We can overnight 'em. We sure ain't eating no more of em.

[fast Ed]

You're the opposite of me ... I'm not so great at holding my alcohol, but I have a definite sweet tooth. When I was growing up, my mother was a very good baker. For several years she actually had a business, first out of the basement, then a small store, baking and decorating wedding and birthday cakes, and also doing specialty chocolates too. Always lots of "samples" available, I could never get enough.


cheers
Ed N.

[pdub]

I'm not kidding, I don't want want any more sugar cookies this year. It's taken a few more beers to get my head back to right, and I'm certain that sounds a whole of lot of wrong to folks who don't drink at all, but...okay, I'm good. At least my head doesn't hurt anymore. That cookie....that ONE cookie....dang, nearly a hospital event. That was......dial 9-1 and have the finger on the other "1" kind of thing.

[DanStokes]

If I'd been there I would have whipped out my blood checker. Sounds like it drove your blood glucose over the top then your body had to kick in and make more insulin to process it (the Islets of Langerhans in your pancreas, to be exact. I KNOW you didn't need to know that but I'm showing off....). So anyhow, that's probably the deal and we could have found out for sure with my meter.

You probably followed this with a low blood sugar event (hypoglycemia) due to the intense rush of insulin that your body sent to control the sugar input. The beers then put your blood glucose back up and then you felt better.

See, it all makes sense. Not a doc here - just a lot of learning after nearly 30 years of messin' with diabetes. Hope this info helps down the road.

Dan

[pdub]

Dan you're forever the benevolent scientist.

I knew there was a measurable reason for such an actual event. The dang cookie. We don't have any history of diabetes anywhere in my family tree. What do you think...since I never eat sweets, is that it? I mean, I don't. I don't eat sweets, don't have a dessert after a meal, sweets are just not my thing.

[DanStokes]

You probably don't crave them because your body KNOWS how it'll react so it steers you away from them. Body Wisdom - pretty neat stuff. I say - carry on. But watch the beers - too many will likely have a similar result as they're condensed carbs which quickly turn into sugar once consumed. But you'll be drunk and may not notice. All things in moderation.

Dan