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Categories: Type 2 Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: fellow blogger new friends other health conditions schedules travel
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We hear it over and over again: delays in seeking medical treatment are responsible for huge numbers of preventable deaths each year. Sometimes the delays are financial: not having the money to pay the doctor, buy the medication, schedule the procedure. Sometimes they are logistical: unable to get time off work, car isn't working (or a driver isn't available), or there isn't an available doctor or treatment facility space within the necessary timeframe. Then there are the diagnostic delays -- often because life-threatening medical conditions don't show symptoms until they reach emergency status, but sometimes because the condition is difficult for one's healthcare team to diagnose.
In this case, though, the expression is idiomatic, and the cause, meteorological. At least, that's what I'm going with.
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I’m going back to New York City this week for a meeting with my JDRF co-workers. I will be there, at the National Office on Wall Street, for Thursday and Friday. I always enjoy going to NYC. NYC is all that people say it is and more. It is, from what I’ve gathered and experienced, an unbelievable experience for any human being.
One of the reasons why I am so blown away by NYC is that it is COMPLETELY opposite of what my regular lifestyle and routine represent here at home.
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Categories: Highs & Lows Relationships Real Life
Tags: blood glucose testing Family holidays hypertension Logging NYC self-care
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"Three-ring circus" doesn't begin to describe last week, and this.
After three months of waiting for insurance, trying to coordinate things, and trying to discard or sell a lot of stuff, we finally got my sister moved in with us on Saturday.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: A1c levels blogging support
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Three years ago today I started blogging.
It all started with a post about wanting to lose weight and how I wanted to write about my journey. Soon after that first post I started getting comments from a few people who had diabetes and who wanted to cheer me on.
I wrote more. I read more. I found a large network of people with and affected by diabetes and it made me feel so much less alone than I ever did.
In that time I have met 3 of my fellow bloggers, talked on the phone with some, and I am even making plans to have one come over to our home and stay with us for a visit!
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I've been a very good girl this year and my wants are few. But, Santa, you know my fondness for things that go beep, bing and buzz, the little frisson of excitement I get at the thought of an LCD or a digital readout. With that in mind, here are a few diabetes-related gadgets I would love to have under the tree this year:
A Salter Travel Scale. It's a snip at $30 and sure would come in handy when we're out and about. And it would slip into my pocketbook quite easily. And it's really freakin' cool.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: food Highs lows
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It's soft like velvet, it's sweet and buttery and melty, it's just a touch crisp on the outside, and salty. And after dipping a Wetzel's Pretzel into cream cheese I feel as if I've died and gone to heaven.
OK, not really, but Wetzel's Pretzels are one of those foods that I hate to love. I crave bread and have since forever. I also crave textures. Yes, really. There are times when I want something smooth like yogurt, or something thin like water, or something heavy like ice cream. So yeah, I crave textures.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Relationships Real Life
Tags: Public Shot Taking Traveling
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It’s been quite an afternoon. Everything was going well and on schedule until I flew through Chicago. O’Hare never fails. Every flight I take through there seems to somehow always find a way to be delayed or cancelled.
After all the “groups” had boarded and we had pulled out onto the runway, sure enough “Captain Bad News” comes over the airplane speakers, “uhh.., hi folks, Captain Poo Poo Head here, (that’s not really what he said..) it looks as though LaGuardia is in a hold pattern until further notice”.
DARN’T! I thought to myself, I had stuff I wanted to do when I landed in the city.
Oh well. I just ended up getting some work done.
Basically, our plane ended up sitting out on the tarmac for two hours until we got the go-ahead to depart.
It’s a good thing I had my insulin and glucose and stuff with me.
Nothing bad happened. But it does kind of make you wonder.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: emotional eating insulin
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I've been thinking more about the possibility of adding insulin to my Type 2 treatment. My last post about it raised some interesting comments. I have a bunch of blood test results due in this week that will help make the decision too.
I do know that insulin is just a medication like my thyroid pills or the metformin I take. The only difference is the method of delivery. Since insulin is destroyed by stomach acids, it has to be injected to do any good.
I also know that it really does carry a stigma that other medications do not. For me, it seems an admission that I am not holding up my end of the bargain treating my diabetes. I should be losing more weight, exercising and eating better. I think just about everyone can agree with that statement - with Type 1, Type 2 or no diabetes at all. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
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It's not often that Susanne and I get out. It's hard to do so with three kids; even harder when one of ‘em has type 1 diabetes. When we do go out, it's usually to see one of our favorite bands playing in Philadelphia. We love music.
We were very excited to have tickets to see one of our favorite musicians - Matt Pond. The weather was great. I was coming home early from work. We'd head into the city a little early - find a place where I could eat and Susanne could watch me eat with mad envy as she slurped her chalky nutrition shake ... It would be perfect!
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: emotions Highs type 1
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Logging. It is something every diabetic should do. It is important in terms of identifying patterns and making decisions about dosing - and it is vital to figuring out when you need to be paying more attention and where your problem areas are in the course of a day. I remember the bad old days of handwritten logbooks. They were cumbersome and not at all useful, even when they were kept up and brought to the doctor. Technology has come a long way and there are many great tools available for logging everything we need to be tracking. But, for me at least, logging is still an excruciating task. (READ MORE)
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