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Categories: Food Real Life
Tags: candy canes eggnog sugar free
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I modified a recipe from the Hungry Girl website for a low sugar eggnog and found it very acceptable. It has nearly the same taste and mouth feel as the lite eggnog I've been drinking. It may be a bit late for this year's holiday season, but there's still New Year's.
The original recipe is here. My version is below.
6 C 1% milk 1 Tbsp vanilla extract 1 small (4-serving) package Jell-O Sugar Free Fat Free Instant Pudding mix, Vanilla 6 no-calorie sweetener packets (like Splenda) 1 tsp Mace (or nutmeg) (optional) 6 oz dark rum or 1 tsp rum extract (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 In the News
Tags: Health Insurance Metformin Obesity type 2 diabetes
Views: 2626
My job will be ending sometime this summer. Consequently, I am investigating our health insurance options. Since hubby is self-employed, we have always covered the family under my work policy.
Now, I know that "health care in this country is in crisis"! I know this is a huge touchpoint for political candidates. Yes, I know all this intellectually.
Now it's PERSONAL. COBRA, offered by my employer by federal mandate, is more than a house note EVERY month. Private insurance is still pricey - more than what we paid on 2 car notes. And it carries a $2000 deductible per person. Some sloppy math later and it could be $15,000 a year before they pay any expenses for us.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: children low support
Views: 2031
Diabetes shows up in the most awful places. Take yesterday for example.
A little background first. Saturday night I was two hours away from home with my kids celebrating Hanukkah with old family friends. The Mr. was on call, so he stayed home. As we were preparing to leave and head to my parents' condo, No. 3 fell down a flight of stairs. No one saw her go, but No. 2 saw her at the bottom of the stairs. Actually, No. 2 saw No. 3's light-up shoes at the bottom of the stairs. This was a full flight of 10 to 12 stairs from a first floor to a basement. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: actos Avandia blood clot diagnosis stories pregnancy
Views: 2009
So, when I left you in my diabetes diagnosis debacle, we were all screaming at Harry and Ruth for not knowing more about diabetes (even though Harry was studying to be a diabetes educator. Yeah, seriously.). (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Highs & Lows Relationships In the News Real Life
Tags: Avandia caretaker patient advocate
Views: 1882
As a person with diabetes, I find myself constantly informing others.
As a person with diabetes, who also has a 90-year-old grandmother with type 2 diabetes, I find that I am a springboard for "real world" information for my mom and aunts who have to sift through what Bami's doctors tell them, what they hear on the news and what they read. It wasn't long after the oral diabetes drug Avandia made headlines in regard to worsening heart conditions that I got calls and emails from Mom and my two aunts. Bami has a history of heart trouble (runs in the family) and had a severe heart attack roughly 20 years ago. They wanted to know if she should stay on the drug. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Children Relationships Real Life
Tags: diagnosis Family kids World Diabetes Day
Views: 1465
Someone asked me a few weeks ago how my type 2 diagnosis affected my family. Honestly, I said, not very much. And I'm not sure if that's good or bad or a mix of both.
For one thing, I've always been the meal planner, grocery shopper, chef and chief bottle washer in our family. Furthermore, I always cooked fairly healthy for my family, tried to get a good mix of meats, veggies, starches and fruits. So adjusting our meal plan really didn't take much effort. (I know, you're wondering how I got to be so overweight if I cooked so healthy. Sweets have always been a big part of my life. The weight comes from not sharing, essentially. And I like to eat. A lot. And all the time.) (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News
Tags: cost of diabetes cure Diabetes in the Media diabetes management Health Insurance naming researching a cure stereotypes type 1 Type 2
Views: 1087
One of the more heated discussions going through the diabetes online community is whether or not type 1 diabetes should be renamed to avoid it being lumped in with the public perception of type 2 diabetes. "Don't blame me because my pancreas decided to crap out on me!" is the rallying call -- implying, rightly or wrongly, that type 2 diabetes is always caused by the person with diabetes, through a combination of poor diet choices and poor lifestyle choices. Many people with type 2 diabetes -- particularly the young, fit, and not-obese -- also take issue with that perception.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS connections insulin pump
Views: 813
Yesterday I posted a picture on Facebook of Dexcom with a flatline, showing 100 mg/dL and a trend arrow going nicely straight with a caption that said "Beyond cool."
I didn't expect many -- or any, really -- people to comment or "like" the picture considering I don't have that many D friends on Facebook and many of my non-D friends likely don't know what to say when I post diabetes-related stuff.
When I checked on the photo later in the day I was slightly surprised (which isn't even the right word, but will do for now) at the one person who did "like" the photo. I don't know why this caught me so off guard, but it did. I couldn't figure out how he would know this was significant.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Relationships Real Life
Tags: diabetes treatment elderly hospital insulin Lantus use medical treatment parents with diabetes
Views: 808
My sister got a call from the hospital at which Mom has been recovering after valve replacement surgery. After a couple of days of perfect sinus rhythm, her care team suddenly wanted consent to insert a permanent "on demand" pacemaker. The issue was a single episode of about eight seconds of no heartbeat. While the idea of a pacemaker had been broached before, it was earlier in Mom's recovery. Since then, as far as we all could tell, things had quieted back down to "normal".
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Real Life
Tags: elderly finances outlook on life parents with diabetes surgery
Views: 697
I don't like to post "downers" on Blogabetes unless I can turn them into cautionary morals, or calls to action (either on our own behalf, or on the behalf of all people with diabetes) -- most of us have too much negativity in our lives already. That said, life has been throwing me the sorts of curve balls that force me to think more of survival, mortality, and quality of life than I am comfortable dealing with.
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