How Can I Sometimes Still Forget?

I have been on insulin now for over 5 years. It has always been the same routine, a shot before breakfast, lunch and dinner, then my last shot before I go to sleep. 5 years! That is over 1825 days and 7300 shots. Yet there are times I still forget to do it. Now, I will cut myself a little bit of slack for my lantus shot at bedtime. Sometimes after falling asleep on the couch and Brent telling me to go to bed, "shooting up" just doesn't register. To be honest though, I forget less about this bedtime shot than I do the routine shot before meals.

It used to be if Brent asked me if I had taken my medicine I would be annoyed. I had this whole unhealthy, "I can take care of myself attitude." However over the years I have seen that 1) there are times I need reminding and 2) if I have already done it, then I am glad that he didn't notice, it tells me that taking care of myself isn't a big ruckus to our routine.

But still, how, after 7300+ shots, can a girl forget and mistakenly skip one. Like today for example, normal morning, not particularly rushed, I tested, 91-good, I went up and got Claire ready, came down stairs, I ate and didn't even think about it. . . until right before lunch when I was testing. Luckily my bs reading wasn't way out of whack, but it was just the testing and dialing up the insulin needed to cover my lunch that got me to think and to remember that I hadn't done what I always do.

It might just be one of those things like putting on deodorant (yes, I have walked out of the house without deodorant before) It becomes such a habit, such a small insignificant part of my day, that skipping can happen way too easily. I don't think I would have ever thought in October of 2004, that insulin shots would ever become habit or anything but a huge deal and copmlex part of my day. Good or bad? I don't know.