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Categories: Relationships
Tags: community Diabetes fitzcarraldo type 1
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With Carey and George writing about music that moves their diabetes lives, I wanted to add my two cents on this one.
For years now, the song Fitzcarraldo by The Frames has reminded me of the diabetes community and our lives with diabetes. The song Fitzcarraldo is based on a movie from 1982 about a man, Brian Fitzgerald, so enchanted with opera and the singer Enrico Caruso that he takes it upon himself to build an opera house right where he lives.
In the middle of the Peruvian jungle.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: death fundraising for a cure JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes Remembering
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Most of the teams who participate in our local JDRF Walk for a Cure are composed of friends and family walking for a child with diabetes. The child gets to be the focus of attention for a fun-filled day of raising awareness for that which normally separates him (or her) from his friends. There's also the smattering of company, corporate, and fraternal teams walking in the name of public service.
And then there's the third type of team: those who walk to honor the memory of a loved one killed by diabetes.
Memorial teams may be the fewest in number, but they serve as a poignant reminder of why we must walk - why we must continue to walk - and why insulin is not a cure.
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: Away from ABC Frames Privacy Tangent
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I may write more about this on my personal blog - do check it out if you haven't already.
I have been wanting for a couple of weeks to write a post about a play I had the pleasure of taking in with my blogger friends Kerri, Julia, and Shannon. So, rather than write about the letter H, I'm going to write about Some Things Are Private . The play is showing at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI, where I have the pleasure of being employed.
Live theater is a fantastic medium. What other opportunity do people have, in this day and age, to sit together in a room and watch a moment, a day, a lifetime unfold before their very eyes? I am fortunate to work for a theater that also offers the audience the opportunity to stay after the show and discuss and reflect upon what they've seen. The discussions are always interesting, funny, and thought-provoking. If you've never been and would like to go, leave me a comment, I can make it happen. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: insulin pump practice
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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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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Real Life
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Last night just as I was about to go to bed, I reached onto the top shelf of my bedroom closet and pulled down an old photo album. I had been thinking all day about looking at old pictures of the kids. Not sure why. Maybe it was thinking about how No. 1 will be in junior high next year and feeling a little nostalgic.
The album I thumbed through was mostly of No. 1. I laughed and smiled thinking about all those times. And thinking about how I used to practically wear my camera all the time. (The Mr. used to tease me that I should just put it around my neck as soon as I woke up in the morning.) There were so, so many pictures of No. 1 and No. 2. Which got me thinking about how really the only pictures I take of them anymore are when I’m trying to get a “nice” picture of them or the family.
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds In the News Real Life
Tags: allergies emergency rooms neuropathy personal experiences Real Life
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In a memorable sequence from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, new Ensign James Tiberius Kirk exhibits an allergic reaction to a drug, his hands and tongue immediately swelling to seemingly-ridiculous proportions in minutes. While the sequence is played comedically, the reality of the situation is anything but.
Local insects congregated in the early evening rains before Hurricane Irene passed through our local area, taking refuge in window frames, sneaking through decades-old screens, and so on. Since our air-conditioning is limited to the bedroom, I am loathe to close windows unless and until necessary -- when the temperature drops, or when the incoming rain becomes strong enough to threaten whatever I have sitting near them. This has the side effect of making me a "target of opportunity" on those occasions in which those windows must be closed. Unfortunately, I'm allergic to insect bites.
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