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Finish this sentence, I was asked. "My Diabetes..." It is a playoff inspired by an NPR blogger, who was covered by his friend, Ted Koppel, in a documentary that focuses on his "My Cancer" blog. Leroy Sievers was a Peabody Award-winning journalist who detailed his inward thoughts about colon cancer in a personal online journal of sorts, helping himself and others find some comfort and knowledge while living with cancer. He aimed for everyone to learn from one another by finishing one sentence. By scouring his readers' answers, it allowed him to see if he had "missed something", and determine if there was a "lesson the disease was trying to pass on". (READ MORE)

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This is a bit of a rant. I get on this horse periodically, ride it around, waving my flags and guns, foaming at the mouth a bit, going slightly nutty. You'll get used to it. Or ignore it.

What is the deal with lumping both types of diabetes together? Seriously. If I have to read one more freakin' article about how high fructose corn syrup causes diabetes or get one more stupid email from some clueless acquaintance, telling me that if I just put my kid on the Atkins diet, she'll be cured, I'm going to go to the top of the water tower and start picking people off. OK, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but holy cow, does it make my blood boil.
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I have many routines each day.
I check my BG as soon as I wake up. I make sure I always weigh myself before the shower (you know for that EXACT body weight). I listen to NPR on my way into work. I am a total creature of habit.
One habit I have, or routine, is identifying myself. I do this every morning and it is always a choice I make. Every time I make this choice, I am reminded of why I have made it and what it means to me. (READ MORE)

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This time of year always reminds me of the many gifts life has brought me.

 

Sure, things are difficult at times.  But we simply can't let those difficult times be our focus.  This realization is a gift from my mother. 

At the time of my diagnosis, and in the many years since, she has again and again (sometimes with just a knowing glance or a soft smile), let me know that I can do the difficult things.  She has told me, with confidence, that I am strong, smart, capable.  And she has reminded me that the thing that says the most about a person is how they behave or react when things are challenging.

 

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Dear NPR Pledge Drive,

 

Not only are you a burden, causing 12 and 13 hour days for staff, understandable listener complaints, and  interruptions in fantastic programming, you come with all sorts of diabetes implications.  You are not nice.  I do not like you very much.

 

Sure, you raise the majority of my funds that keep programming on the air and you are a necessary evil, I get it.  

 

Sure, you give us a chance to tell the stories behind the programming, I get that too.

 

But you get me up at 4:45 AM several days in a week and keep me on the clock through 7:00 PM.  This seriously screws with my body's schedule and sends my bloodsugars into overdrive rollercoaster mode.  It also makes it nearly impossible to exercise without falling over and hurting myself. 

 

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