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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: Courage in the moment life
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Wow. What an unbelievable adventure life is. I don't even know where to begin today. I guess one thing that I wanted to share is that I recently moved. Last weekend I was in a bad way. It's no secret - just look at my past entries - that I have struggled with bouts of hard times.
So Saturday, after a few longs nights and hours of heavy contemplation, I packed up my stuff and left. I needed to get out of my home town - away from some feelings that I've been struggling to overcome. I had made a call that day to a guy whose number and add I found on Craigslist. The add said that their was a room for rent near the beach in Florida. I was sold. I arrived on Sunday night after a total of about 18 hours of driving.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: emotional control telling people about diabetes
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Sometimes I think it's really hard to separate my life from my diabetes. I've been diabetic since before I can even remember so life has always involved this disease. Now that I'm over sixteen years in, it makes the separation even more difficult. How can I cut out the one part of my life that takes over every second of every day?
There was a time when that was easier. A time when I didn't follow every action or thought with something diabetes related. A time where most people didn't know that I was diabetic or see the results of my diabetes in my life. But sadly, that was a time with little control. It's a stage that I went through that I don't want to go back to.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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I am Charlie. I am 7 years old. I love hockey! I have one bruther and one sister. My sisters name is Maeve. My bruthers name is Ben. When I first got diabetes I was almost two years old.
I don’t remember how it felt when I was littil. one time I past out at a food stoor!I think I was four or five when I past out. I have a pump. When I go in the pool I have to take my pump off.
when I am really high I feel low. i like the pump beder then a shot because you have to take shots all day with a pump you get a bolus. the pump gives me insulin. my littil bruther is four and my sister is ten. diabetes can’t stop me from dowing anything. There are a lot of difrint kides of pumps. i have a minnimed. it is blue.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: living in the wild snacks and movies
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I went to a movie this past weekend and found myself cracking up as I walked in with all my pockets full of sugar and snacks. I thought "I just hope one of you little movie theatre employees says something to me". I had already thought about what I was going to say if one of them did. "Uh yeah, you see, I'm diabetic so I'm just going to ignore your little 'no outside food or drink policy!'" I'm kidding of course; I wouldn't get ugly with a theatre employee. But I had already decided that I was going to enjoy seeing how they would react or watch them try to muster up the courage to tell me "no"! As I sat down in the theater, I got tickled again. I love it when I start pulling snacks out of my pockets that people sitting around me clearly know I didn't buy there. Anyways, I really found myself loving every minute of the movie I watched called, "Into the Wild".
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: basal testing CGMS fear technology
Views: 367
Categories: Type 1
Tags: hypoglycemia stereotypes Symilin weight loss
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Yesterday I wrote about how my endocrinologist assumed I was a type 2 simply because of my current weight.
Today I want to tell you why this is such a problem.
When I went in to see my doctor I wanted to talk to him about using Symilin in my diabetes regimen.
He agreed that it may help with postprandial spikes and possibly some weight loss.
(See yesterday's post for the play by play)
He had his nurse bring in a Symilin pen for me to take home and also gave me a prescription for some more pens.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Fitness Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management exercise
Views: 446
You know that internal motivational speaker that I called on the other day? That guy is one mean motha... ahem.
Anyway. I have to endure a speech from that Hell Raiser just about every morning: No, you can't slow down yet... yes, you can make it to the next light pole... deal with the pain, it's good for you... that guy you see running every morning can do this, so can you.
So, the walking routine has been going good. I often really hate it while I'm doing it, which is a feeling I thought would have passed by now because for the most part I really do enjoy the walking. And I'm definitely enjoying what it's doing for my blood sugar management.
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: aloneness Others shared experience
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I saw him from across the room. And edged closer.
Tall, white-haired, horn-rimmed glasses, a blue and white seersucker suit. Yes, seersucker. What can I say? It was a summer event on the water for the theater where I work - seersucker is always "in" amongst theater folks. But none of that caught my eye as much as the clear Medtronic Pump clipped to his grosgrain belt. I had to get closer. The pump, like a magnet, drew me.
"I noticed you're wearing an insulin pump," I said brightly, "I wear one too!" Popping my hip so that the outline of my pump showed a bit through the fabric of my dress.
"Oh, I'll just move out of the way - you guys are like a club." Said his wife "And don't forget to show her that other thing you have, Stan."
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Categories: In the News
Tags: diabetes humor headlines
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The following are actual headlines published recently:
HOLLAND ON VERGE OF DIABETES EXPLOSION – Dutch News
"Synthia Van Vechten reporting live from Amsterdam where the region is bracing for a massive diabetes explosion. Businesses and residences have taken precaution, boarding up windows and relocating to more secure locations in the north. Others such as Joop Nederhorst, who I spoke to earlier, have ignored national warnings to evacuate, brazenly saying that he is not afraid of people with diabetes. That's right, you heard me correctly – 'not afraid of people with diabetes.' Just when I thought I've heard everything … Back to you in the studio Tabitha."
YOUTH DIABETES IN EUROPE SET TO EXPLODE – Sky News
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: endometriosis history PCOS rosacea Siblings
Views: 542
When you look at me, what do you see? Do you just see the physical girl standing in front of you? Or do the emotions, the spirituality, the thoughts creep through as well?
When I look in the mirror, I see that I'm tall for a girl. I see that I have my father's blue eyes and the Guerin nose. I also see that my mother's side of the family shows through with the curve of my hips. When I look at me, I see my family staring back at me. Each part of my body comes from the genetics behind me. The resemblance in facial structure to my middle brother...the same fair skin of my mom and oldest brother...the small wrists that are present in all three siblings.
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