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A month into the new year. And a number of new things to report:
A new job. An amazing new job. I took a position in early January with Rhode Island Public Radio. I am the organization's very first Development Director. It's challenging, it's interesting, it's fun. My goals are aggressive. My new boss is an Emmy Award winning producer who's smart and driven. Rhode Island Public Radio has just gone independent from its parent station at Boston University and is in the midst of wrapping up a Capital Campaign. We're essentially building our programs and our membership and fundraising bases from the ground up. Mostly exciting - a little scary.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Fitness Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: 2008 Blogabetes Diabetes New Year wrap up
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Happy New Year, dLifers! The Blogabetes bloggers have been saying their fond farewells to 2007 and welcoming the clean slate of 2008 - here are the highlights!
Julia admits that she doesn't normally make resolutions, but she is making one this year to log O's blood sugars.
Kim offers up her resolutions for 2008, which include blogging five times a week!
Scott reflects on a year of connecting with diabetes and highlights some of the diabetes hot-points in his 2007. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Fitness
Tags: disease management Gym Resolutions
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When the new year started, I made a promise to myself that I'd get my butt moving again.
I had, toward the end of 2009, not been to the gym nearly as often as I'd wanted to and I wasn't eating as well as I should have been.
So much had changed in my life between summer and the holidays. I ended a long-term relationship, started seeing someone new, moved into a new house, and thew myself into the job I'd started last January. It was overwhelming and the routine I'd been in of gym visits four times a week and watchful, healthy eating took a backseat to all of the changes.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: diabetes year in review
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In February and March we sought the guidance of diabetes author and coach Gary Scheiner to see if we too could "Think Like a Pancreas." Our few meetings energized us briefly, but soon enough, we were back to feeling lost and utterly confused. After about five months, the pump wasn't working out as we hoped it would.
In April we decided to throw out all carb ratios and basal levels and begin with a clean slate, following more pump frustrations and a disappointing A1c of 9.6. We felt we hit rock bottom. We worked daily with the pump educator, tweaking and tweaking and tweaking and scratching our heads until we could tweak and scratch no more. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: 2007 highlights learning New Year
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2007 is behind us now. It blurred by and stamped in key moments that will surely be remembered. My past year with diabetes stacks upon only a few others since I was diagnosed. 2008 will mark four years since that day in the hospital and it seems like I'm always learning something new. Each highlighted moment in this year taught me a little more about how I successfully live with diabetes. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: bloggers JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes meetups new friends outreach World Diabetes Day
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I guess technically, I joined the diabetes online community back in October, 2005 when I joined dLife, and I became active in the overall DOC some time in 2008 -- but it wasn't until this year that I, and others, had the opportunity to "eyeball" the folk we'd been e-mailing, blogging to, commenting blog posts from, tweeting, and otherwise conversing with on various diabetes-related forums and social networks. 2009 is also the year dLife launched the dLife Community, and the year I started blogging here at Blogabetes.
Some of my year's highlights include:
March
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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I really cannot believe that the year is already coming to a close. When I look back, I feel so old...wondering where the time has gone and knowing that I'll never get it back. It seems like just yesterday I was enjoying the feel of the summer months with its easy going and warm nights. Now, 2009 is at its end and we're starting an entirely new decade. So where did 2009 go?
In January, I got my wisdom teeth removed and learned that letting go of my diabetes wasn't the end of the world. at least when into the hands of trusted doctors with type 1 themselves. Little did I know that having my wisdom teeth removed and undergoing that sedative would prepare me for what would come in November.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Fitness Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: A1C diagnosis exercvise motivation weight loss
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I am going to begin this, my very first blog post here, with a confession.
I have fallen off the wagon.
Not the booze wagon; even before my type 2 diagnosis in February 2006, my drinky drink days were mostly behind me. (College was fun, from what I remember.) No, the wagon I have fallen off of is the healthy living, weight-losing, diabetic-under-control wagon.
When I was diagnosed last year, my a1c was hovering above 10, and I was about 35 pounds overweight. I was also terrified. I was 38 years old, with that big number (let's call it "thirty-ten") lurking in the near future. My own father died at the age of fifty-one after about twenty years of poorly managed diabetes. I was determined that this wouldn't be me. (READ MORE)
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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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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions
Tags: depression Diabetes emotions
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Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year but for so many it is not. The holidays tend to be a time that people reflect on the past year and sometimes that can be a real downer.
This Christmas will not be so “Holly Jolly” for me.
My health was pretty good as far as my diabetes goes. I had no major incidents like DKA or hospitalization of any kind so that front has been pretty good. In fact, I may have some really good news to share soon but I will wait for the official word on that.
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