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As college life is coming to a close for me, I've been facing a lot of the "future." I'm constantly asked where I'm headed after this, which is promptly followed with "I have no idea!" There has been tons of ideas thrown at me, tons more that I've toyed with in my head, and tons that I've committed to then changed my mind.

 

Back in 2007, I started college as an English major. I registered for the basics, which included one intro English class and one sociology class among others. I enjoyed the English class, but I still had no idea what I was doing. Sociology made me ecstatic (one part being the professor I had, the other that it was exactly the way I seem to operate). The next semester, I did the same thing (one creative writing class and one "Psychology of Women" which focused a lot on the social aspects of women).

 

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Wow, what a storm that was started recently on my co-bloggers page. I have the utmost respect for you Michelle and your passion, writing ability, your life and even your disgust with diabetes when you wrote that blog. Please know this. I HAVE WRITTEN these types in the past too (when I was off). But you, and all the people that commented on your blog who, too, agree’d with your sentiment of “hating diabetes”, could not have proved a point with any clearer of an example of how out of touch we get with ourselves and life from time to time. This is ok, this is normal. It happens. But what you do with it when your faced with it, is what makes the difference and what can take you from a life of peace, or heaven, and true existence - to a place of hell, or unbalance, or non-peace.

 

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R.I.P.

Madeline "Kara" Neumann

A lot of people in the blogosphere are posting about this poor young girl. I don't know that I can add much except my sorrow.
I just can't stop thinking about her. Since I became a mother these kinds of stories really impact me and stick in my head. Like the guy who microwaved his newborn daughter, or the 2 year old found in a plastic container in the Gulf of Mexico. Perhaps Madeline was not so blatantly abused, but she is dead never the less.
I'm very tolerant religously-speaking. Heck, I'm even a Unitarian. But I totally don't understand this. This girl had to be extremely ill for several days at a minimum. (READ MORE)

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Maybe I can clear this up; maybe not everyone will understand exactly what I am trying to say.  In writing about something, or your feelings, sometimes it is very hard to convey a message.  You can have the truest intentions, and still, the precise message in which you wish to share can be misconstrued or lost completely. 

 

Where you’re at or how you feel about something when you read it can be absolutely different than another person sees it or what the original writer was attempting to say in the first place. 

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As I type this, I am in a very humbled and still space. My mind is at ease and peace with all that is in my life right now, the only time there is. I’m sitting outside in the warm Florida night air. The sounds of the crickets by the water nearby is heavenly, their song a familiar and calming chorus. The air is pure and clean and healthy to breathe deep into my lungs. I sit here by a candle I have lit and I work from its light. Other beautiful sounds are mixed into the night’s choir like the distant rumbling of a jet-engine in the beautiful moon-light-filled sky. The random ticking of various animals and nature keeps me in this meditative state. It’s so beautiful. Life is precious and I am so thankful for each moment that I have here.
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Today: Today I watched a few eye-opening documentaries. The first one I watched is called, "Bigger, Faster, Stronger". Bigger, Faster, Stronger is about how American society has become so obsessed with being just like the title says. It talks about steroid use and gives a unique perspective into the lives of the many different people who use them or who have used them.

 

I liked it because I could relate it to what I have been reading about from Eckhart Tolle.

 

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At some time during our diabetic self-discovery, we are told that diabetes -- like most chronic illnesses -- is often accompanied by a second "D": depression. Considering the amount of time we need to put into consideration of our diets, exercise, drugs, and doctor visits -- and how much that takes out of what would otherwise be disposable income -- it's hardly surprising. Nor should it come to anyone's surprise that this level of attention to detail often smacks of another mental-health issue: obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. It is considered "normal" -- even encouraged -- for people with diabetes to arrange our lives around our blood glucose levels, logging every single reading, every single milligram of metformin or subunit of insulin, weighing and logging every single morsel of food or fluid that passes our lips, every step of exercise, every moment of every day of our lives. (READ MORE)

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On Wednesday evening, I checked Facebook from the hotel. I try to take time away from the internet every once and awhile, but this vacation felt different and I felt obliged to stay on top of things. Sometimes, we just wish we could take those things back though.

 

As I scrolled through my newsfeed, I saw a few blue candles. Then I saw the posts from other members of the diabetes online community. The minute I read the words, my heart broke. The depth of them hit me and I struggled for air.

 

My heart was breaking for two families in the diabetes community. Two families who lost lives to type 1 diabetes too soon. One was a 14 year old girl who died of a stroke. Another was an 18 year old girl who'd recently moved out on her own, had multiple lows the day before, and died unexpectedly in her sleep.

 

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I am finally fully moved in to my new place in Providence on Federal Hill. Much to my surprise, the changes in my life over the past 6 months have left me feeling one thing. Peace.

 

I really am happier than I have been in a very long time. More than that, I’m learning and relearning many things about myself, others, and the way I navigate the world.

 

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Some days, I feel like I am in a war against my body.  The body zigs, I zag.  It comes with a sword, slashing at the order I'm trying to create and I succumb to its chaos, slashing right back.   It lays in wait, in a foxhole in a ditch, I get comfortable with its hiding and then it blitzes - ambush. 

 

I've been dealing with overnight lows of late again.  In spite of major basal rate adjustments, diabetes (and in my mind, my own body) keeps charging at me like a bull.  

 

I've realized of late that waging war against my body is probably not at all the best course of action.  Maybe this is a realization that I have on an occasional basis, and then forget (as people sometimes do) when I'm in the thick of a particularly difficult diabetes time.  

 

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