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Categories: Type 2 In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling Tour de Cure Training
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I consider myself a relatively slow cyclist.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Real Life
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A day at the Make-A-Wish Foundation picnic will give you some of that.
Maeve and I volunteered for the event which was sponsored by my company. We worked the cupcake decorating station for half the day and a frog launch carnival game for the second half. We saw some difficult things, for sure, but we also saw some priceless smiles. Especially when they thought it would be much more fun to launch the greasy rubber frogs at my head rather than the lily pads.
While promoting the “Make Your Own Cupcake” activity to families passing by, most came right over.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Cookies Etiquette lows
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Is there specific etiquette for thanking someone whose quick thinking and kindness kept you from falling flat on your face during a low? Are there any written, or unwritten, rules for this? Should I send flowers or a note? Maybe baked goods are appropriate, since that's what really saved me. I guess I should ask my ever proper Great Aunt Lyn for suggestions. She's better with social graces than Peggy Post and Miss Manners combined.
As a type 2 diabetic, I never had to worry about lows until I started insulin last year. Then, when they hit, it wasn't anything too bad or too low, and I always enjoyed the excuse for eating candy. Besides, they always seemed to strike in a controlled setting, like my office or living room, just steps away from a handy juice box. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Real Life
Tags: fashion magazines Teenagers young adults
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I stare at the rack of magazines. The latest stars, the latest trends, the latest everything all stare back at me from glossy pages.
As a college student, I want to be in style. I want to have the latest fads and know the latest "body secrets." As a self proclaimed "fashionista", I want these magazines to tell me all that I need to dress with the world. As a diabetic, I just want a glossy paged magazine for diabetics!
A magazine that shows the latest gadgets, the latest research, the latest success stories. But I want all that to be catered towards me: the college student, the fashionista. I want hot trends in meters, new diet tips and expert advice on all my questions. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Real Life
Tags: humor ridiculous diabetes comments
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Congratulations to Mark G. for winning the first-ever 2007/2008 Fantasy Diabetes League. Mark won with a staggering score of 46 points for enduring a down-right spattering of ridiculous comments related to his daughter's diabetes.
In his own words, following his wife's trepidation in ratting out the numerous offenders of diabetes etiquette (that seem to be growing on trees in Texas), Mark says:
"Damn her social graces, the FDL won't win itself."
We at the FDL applaud Mark's competitive spirit.
What makes Mark's victory even more impressive is that he's been in the diabetes game for only about six months. As a mere rookie, he and his family have amassed more diabetes drivel than most would in a lifetime. Well done!
The final standings are as follows: (READ MORE)
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I recently started working a part time job at a big box store (you know the one - red, bullseye, waaaaay nicer than Wally World). The job is OK - not challenging at all, but it's extra money and we need it. And until I can make the big bucks from sitting on my couch reading books, this will do.
C. is one of the girls I work with. She's very nice; friendly and helpful to the newbie (that'd be me). I noticed she had a Medic Alert bracelet on but I didn't want to ask what it was for. I'm never sure what the proper etiquette is with that - do you ask and embarrass the other person? Do you not ask and run the risk of missing some vital sign that the person is getting ill? Anyone know?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood glucose testing blood sugar testing diabetes in public employment insurance sharing twitter
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On Tuesday, Brian Bosh (@bosh) tweeted, "Do you (as a #diabetic) avoid publicly announcing extreme blood sugars for fear of discrimination regarding future coverage? #bgnow private."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Complications
Tags: CGMS hypoglycemia insulin pump
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Last night, me and the family went out for a Mexican dinner. There is a little place not too far from our house that I like to go to. Not quite a restaurant but not really fast food.
Anyhow, I ordered what I always have and bolused accordingly. As of late I have started using the Dual Wave option on my pump to get a percentage of my bolus immediately and the rest over time.
For this particular meal I dialed in the carbs, with 30% now and the rest over the next 30 minutes. As we sat down at the table I saw a large crowd of people enter the place.
With all those orders it seemed our order took forever to come out. I was not in a hurry, didn’t feel low but I did need to refill me drink before the food showed up!
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood sugar control blood sugar management celiac CGMS cooking diets disclosure errors Etiquette friends glucometers gluten-free religion
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To everything there is a level of precision, a degree of reliability, or a standard beyond which improvement is either unachievable, or requires huge investments of time and money well beyond the benefit of that improvement. Companies may refer to this point as "zero return on investment". Most of us just call it "good enough for jazz", "good enough for government work", or simply, "good enough".
It has been said that our ideal blood glucose levels "should" never vary outside the range of 80-126, ever -- but most of us don't have CGMs, none of us have glucose measurement technology with accuracy of greater than 5% (expanding that range out to 76-132) and even if we had them, we'd need infinitesimally-small amounts of ultra-fast acting insulin to keep it there every time it budged a point or two. For most of us, a two-hour postprandial reading of 140 is "good enough".
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: bio-identical hormones PCOS
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It's been a little over three weeks since I started tapering off the medications I've been on for the past 18 months. If you're new to my health world, I was on bio-identical hormones for a multitude of health conditions (PCOS, hypothyroidism, adrenal fatigue). Quite a few of my major symptoms disappeared or eased while I was on them (joint pain, mood swings, more regular periods, fatigue, and so on), but a few in particular were only making my life worse. Much worse.
My acne (one of the main symptoms I'd originally gone in with) had not only persisted but gotten 100x worse going from moderate to severe. And even though my periods were much more regular, I was still experiencing terrible headaches and cramping several weeks out of the month.
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