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Just the other day I was speaking with a group of co-workers about different life changing events in the life of someone with diabetes. As we sat there and talked about it I began to reflect on my own. I thought about the different times in my life such as diagnosis time, school, relationships, complications, and work. All things that every person living with diabetes can relate to, or will eventually deal with.

Where were you when you were diagnosed? What were you doing that day or at that particular time in your life? Were you at work? Were you at school? Did you go into a coma or diabetic ketoacidosis? Was your vision so blurry, that like me, you realized you couldn't see the picture on the t.v.?
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The past week has been intense, to say the least. I had three midterms, two of which I didn't feel prepared for up until about 5 minutes before the exam. And one of those was canceled so now I'm looking at three this week despite doing all the work for three last week. On top of that, I have homework assignments and meetings and bills due.

 

But the topper is that my leg infection from last week is no where near better. It actually got much worse Wednesday through Thursday. It finally started healing a little on Friday, but turned into an incredibly painful sore over the weekend. So now, I'm heading to the doctor bright and early in the morning hoping that isn't as serious as it feels.

 

Between the busy schedule and the infection, my blood sugars have been way too high. I even raised my Lantus today to combat the elevated glucose. Unfortunately, the crash that I was expecting didn't come in the form of blood sugars.

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Weight: 210
Fasting: 95.
I ate a lot today. I'm dealing with tons of financial stress and a potential life change, which, of course, adds stress. When I'm stressed, I eat. That's not entirely true. I like to eat. I eat all the time. I wish I didn't.
This evening, I am finally able to start Byetta. Just like the nurse told me in my endo's office, I prime the Byetta pen by "wasting" one dose. Even though I don't like using the shorter pen needles, I decide to give it a go since that's what came with the Byetta starter kit. I pinch the skin on my tummy and squeeze in the medicine. (READ MORE)

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world – the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -- George Bernard Shaw

 

A high school friend wrote this in my yearbook, with the exhortation to "be reasonably unreasonable". I've often said that one of my particular, err, talents is to see things from a perspective that is markedly different from everyone else's -- "to turn things on their ear", as it were. While I often gain perverse pleasure from finding a previously-unexplored viewpoint and making it public -- very public -- this trait often allows me to see important truths that may have been hidden to others, and to present them in a relatively reasoned manner.

 

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"Do you still have that on?" No. 2 asked this morning as I was working on the laundry.
"Yep," I said, cheerfully.
I introduced the kids yesterday to my new medical accessory. I explained it the best way they would understand: Mommy doesn't have to take shots anymore because my medicine is in this.
"How long do you have to wear it?" she wanted to know.
"All the time."
My official pump training is Monday at 1 p.m. But I still strapped the pump on nearly as soon as I got it on Friday. I figured why not go ahead and get used to wearing it all the time.
I wore it around Friday without an infusion set, just hanging out in my pocket or on the outside of my pocket, dodging door frames and brushing the inside of my arm when I walked. (READ MORE)

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I usually research every prescription I get (minus typical decongestants, cold medicine, antibiotics, etc) before I even think of filling them. I've never been one to trust that the doctor knows everything. Too many years of the doctor knowing just too little of everything. Plus a strong sense of taking care of my body in a more natural way...all leave me wary of conventional medicine.

 

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Tonight, I will be ringing in the New Year with Marvin. We still have no definite plans...maybe going to dinner...maybe going out to a pub with some of his college friends...maybe both. We're just spending it together, which honestly is more important than whatever plans we come up with at this point.

 

Last year, I made one of his favorite meals and we stayed in on New Year's Eve. The next day, I went to my dad's house for cabbage, ham, and black eyed peas with my family like I've done for the past several years. This year, I won't be making the four hour drive home for that. I wish that I was, but my family is in very different places this year.

 

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I feel a shift taking place in the world today.  Its happening as we speak, and I feel it happening within me, on this site and others, before the world.  Slowly, more and more people are realizing the power of their minds.  The power to be at peace with life and whatever happens in it, the power of the ability to watch our thoughts and to not be affected by them completely.  I watched another documentary recently called, “The New Medicine”.  It touches on this very point.  More and more, people who fall ill to various things are finding the healing benefits of their own thoughts and states of consciousness while enduring the sicknesses their experiencing. 

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I'm trying, trying really hard to figure out how this Glyburide stuff works. I understand that it works to stimulate my pancreatic beta cells so the lazy buggers produce insulin that binds with the glucose floating around in my blood, allowing the pair to waltz into my cells and be used for energy. I get that part.
What I don't get is how does it work. Because frankly, it's working too well.
A few weeks ago, my doctor put me on 5 mg of Glyburide twice a day. One pill later I came crashing down from somewhere around 200 to the 60s. The next day, he said wait until your blood sugar goes back up and take one-quarter of a pill twice a day. He later called in a prescription for the 1.25 mg tablets, but I'm only taking them once a day. I've since had to break the 1.25 mg in half and I'm still going low at least once a day. (READ MORE)

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There's something to be said about the monotony of this disease. The day in and day out of it all is fairly predictable. Every day, I wake up and check my blood sugar. Every day, I am annoyed by the number on the screen. Every day, I celebrate anything under 150. Every day, I inject more insulin.

 

Each and every day is generally the same. There may be a nasty high or a horrific low mixed into the regularity, but overall diabetes does the same thing every minute of every day. It's a constant battle, a constant threat, a constant reminder.

 

When you're a writer, diabetes seems especially monotonous. One blog turns into ten blogs about the same topic. Fear. Highs. Stress. Working out. Food choices. Complications. Sometimes it feels like you're constantly writing the same words over and over.

 

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