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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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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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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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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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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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It's New Year's Day and I'm contentedly sitting at home in my pajamas and watching I Love Lucy reruns. Last night was splendid and today, I just want to relish in gratitude for all that I've been given this year. 2010 was amazing and I'm so ready for the blessings of 2011.

 

Last night, Marvin and I went to see a comedy then went to a late dinner at a new local restaurant. The conversation was good, the company amazing, and the food was pretty good as well. I had redfish and potatoes with a glass of white wine. We went home and watched the disaster that is the New Year's Eve news coverage. Then at midnight, we popped the champagne and ate chocolate cake.

 

I slept in a little late this morning, did the dishes, and attempted to keep warm in the freezing temperatures of Texas (doesn't that seem hysterical?). Then I checked emails and read all the latest online posts. Next I booked a ticket for Las Vegas.

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With a new year come new ideas, new resolutions, new solutions to old problems, and of course new problems needing solutions.

 

Among the last is, once again, need for a full-time job. Cell phone sales were not high enough to keep me on until Christmas, so I am once again navigating the waters of unemployment and job-search.

 

For now, enough of that. The meme going around the Diabetes Online Community has been that of "spreading the word" -- both telling people with diabetes of the online resources available to us, and bringing our online activism out to the world in which we live, visit our doctors, purchase our food and medications, and educate our children. While most of us talk about outreach in terms of getting our real-life neighbors to hook up with our online resources, I see a different reality.

 

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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:

 

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Happy New Year Everyone!

 

Today is the first day of 2011, and as such, it is a day when many people are thinking about their New Year’s Resolutions. I’m one of those people.

 

There are many things on my list for 2011, from better diabetes management and losing weight to getting more involved in diabetes advocacy. As far as Blogabetes is concerned, I have but one goal, and it is to get my act together and try to write more often.

 

A lot of things have been going on in my life the last several months that have prevented me from being able to devote much time or energy to writing. Simply put, I couldn’t give what I didn’t have.

 

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 Like a fever, it just breaks. It finally did for us, today. Thank God. Five days of runaway high blood sugars. Now that the dust has settled, it appears as if we've just emerged from a growth spurt. Gives "growing pains" a whole new meaning.

 

If daily life with diabetes is a battle, then this occasional week of hell is a bloody battle along the lines of Braveheart. It's a drunk and belligerent Mel Gibson in blue-painted face slinging swords and anti-Semitic remarks at us for a full week.

 

The fact that we have weeks like this from time to time does not make it any easier. It's not even that Charlie's blood sugars were super high. It's that they stayed in the 230 to 310 range for so long. Full days where we couldn't get his blood sugar below 200 no matter how many basal adjustments and site changes. Happy New Year, diabetes!

 

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