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I keep saying that my new diagnosis doesn't change anything, but it does. It just does. I can't put my finger on it, and many of the things that are going through my mind as being "worse" than having type 2 are likely just unfounded fears. (READ MORE)

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I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes twenty-five years ago. Twenty-five years is a long time to live with something. It is an especially long time to live with something that requires tight control. Twenty-five years is enough time to have seen lots of bad days, lots of good days, and lots and lots of in betweens. And it is enough time for me to have had the good fortune of seeing vast improvements in access to information and treatment, developments and improvements in technology and even some improvements in (GASP!) what health insurers are willing to cover. (READ MORE)

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Since getting my hands on a review copy of Jenny Ruhl's new book, "Blood Sugar 101: What they don't tell you about diabetes" (Technion Books), I haven't been able to put it down.
Finally, an intellegent book about type 2 diabetes that tells it like it is and offers practical advice without talking down to me or engaging in quackery. Reading it, I feel like I did when met best friend Sue in middle school or when first found Diabetic Mommy. There's someone else who gets it! (READ MORE)

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Restless all night.

 

Keeping waking and look at the clock.

 

Saturday morning.

 

4:56 a.m. I need to go potty.

 

Sleep stupor wants me hold it several hours.

 

Don't want to be awake for the day at 5 a.m.

 

No, need to go now.

 

Reach for Toohey.

 

Hmmm, arm felt freakishly heavy and asleep.

 

I'm low.

 

No, can't be. Don't get overnight lows.

 

Don't feel lows until I stand.

 

Walk through fog and darkness to the bathroom.

 

Hit shoulder on door frame.

 

Sitting, I wake enough to convince myself to test.

 

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