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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Emotions In the News Real Life
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I received this news article by email a few weeks ago. I was actually sitting in the middle of the Mediterranean as I read it. I turned to my mom and said "Oh great, something else to worry about."
Diabetes complications are not news to me. My parents and doctors shielded me for many years thankfully. But when I hit the appropriate age, words like DCCT and kidney transplants became part of the diabetes lingo. Slowly, they infiltrated my diabetes lifestyle. The risks, the fears, it all slowly built up over the years.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: blood CBC clara barton camp diabetes awareness JDRF World Diabetes Day
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An old adage suggests there is strength in numbers.
Not the numbers of our ABCs -- although there is strength in that knowledge -- but the strength of many people, standing together, for the same cause.
Many people making the same choice made Jesse Ventura -- a third-party candidate -- governor of Minnesota, and Abraham Lincoln -- also a third-party candidate -- President of the United States.
Many people speaking out on television and in the media made everyone aware of AIDS and of Breast Cancer -- even though those two diseases kill and disable far fewer people than heart disease and diabetes.
Why is it, then, that hundreds (thousands?) of Twitter users turned their avatars red for World AIDS day, or green to support the protesters after the Iranian election, but not blue to support World Diabetes Day?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: diabetes awareness wish list
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Outsmarted
When I’m standing in the check-out line at the food store with ketone strips in my hand after a long night of high blood sugars, the very last thing I want to see amongst the Tic Tacs and tabloids, is a little magazine called Outsmart Diabetes.
Really now. Outsmart diabetes? If only I was just smarter. These last six-and-a-half years could have been so dramatically different. Reverse Diabetes with Food? Being that ninety percent of my son's diet has a negative effect on his blood sugar, reversing his disease with food is highly unlikely. When he eats a slice of watermelon, there's no reversing. Just fast-forwarding to ungodly highs. Yes, of course I know the magazine is referring to type 2 diabetes. Then why not say so? Outsmart Type 2 Diabetes. Would that be so difficult?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds In the News Women's Issues Men's Issues
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So I was at work the other day and one of my co-workers and I had the, "diabetes talk". Let's just say she acted as if she knew all about diabetes. I was sitting there humoring her as she dove into topics of nutrition, exercise, and stress. And right as I was about to completely tune her out and continue what I was doing, she caught my attention with a few words that I HAD NEVER heard associated with diabetes. Chromium Picolinate.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions In the News Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: advocacy awareness cure fundraising heart attack JDRF
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Today, the first Friday of February, is national "Wear Red" day in honor (or observance) of Women's Heart Health Awareness, as spearheaded by the "Go Red for Women" campaign. So of course I will be wearing red to work and I've been handing out Red Dress pins.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions In the News Real Life
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I know this is not a popular view, but I believe I will live a long life and all of it with diabetes. No, I do not believe there will be a cure in my lifetime. Yeah, that’s kind of crappy to say, but I just don’t see enough progress happening (of course I’m really an outsider when it comes to all things cure related) and there is so much money in the treatment of diabetes right now that I think the focus and priorities are not in a place to support a cure.
That’s not to say that I don’t think there will be significant progress on the cure front, I just don’t think I’ll live out my days as a non-diabetic. I believe I’ll be wearing my pancreas on my hip in some shape or another forever. And that’s a long forever, people.
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It should be abundantly clear to everyone by now that, when it comes diabetes and congestive heart failure, I am definitely "out". I mean, I write for two different blogs, and talk about it all the time, both online and off. And that openness has been a hallmark of mine since I was diagnosed.
A question that quickly came to light when I started this journey focused on what would happen if I found myself in a situation where I couldn't speak for myself. How would someone be able to find out that I had type 2 diabetes and CHF, and what to do for me, if I couldn't tell them?
The answer is quite simple: medical jewelry and emergency identification cards.
I have two pieces of jewelry that I wear any time that I leave home; a dog tag necklace and a custom made bracelet.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
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1. Well, my new physician’s assistant. I don’t actually see my endo, just the PA.
2. My old PA moved on to hospital management.
3. When my new PA made me wait 15 minutes before coming into the patient room I got pretty aggravated. My old PA was in the room within 5 minutes.
4. We talked for a long time. Actually, she talked and I listened and answered questions. Since we are new to each other she was information gathering, which is fine. But it can be kind of a pain in the ass to go through your medical history all the time.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Seeing the girl with diabetes at the Make-A-Wish picnic made we think. How does one measure who is worthy of a wish? Kids are afflicted with all sorts of conditions, obviously some more serious than others.
Granting wishes - what an incredible idea and an amazing organization. I was talking to a father of girl who had tumors in her head.
“They’re non-cancerous,” he said.
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As if diabetes weren't enough.
Lately, it seems like everything I eat sends my stomach into some weird, horrible feeling torrent of yuck. It turns and gurgles and hurts. It's particularly bad when I eat something higher in carbs.
And I won't share the other gastrointestinal issues that accompany the sick stomach. It's just plain gross.
So, after about a month and half of this, I called the endocrinologist. I know what the symptoms indicate. And I knew what he'd ask. And I knew what he'd probably say.
What kind of stomach issues?
Are you doing your business (read: more grossness not for print)?
Any history of Celiac in the family?
And there isn't any history of it. Not one, not even a far-distant relative.
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