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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: education insulin stereotypes
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Okay, I will warn you up front that this post is a total rant and has no other substance besides the fact that I need to let off some steam. I am also looking for some of you who have dealt with this annoying stereotype.
As I was minding my own business here at my desk the janitor comes up to me and asks me if I have to take shots everyday. I realize that he was listening to a conversation I was having with a co-worker about insulin and so on. A total eavesdropping moment right? So I answer, "nope." And totally leave it at that.
He says, "Oh you got off of insulin. That's good. Just a diet now or pills?"
"No I have an insulin pump."
"There is a gal in another office I clean that has to shoot up every day." Then he does it. He does this sort of motion with his right hand towards his left upturned arm. As if he is shooting up heroin or something right into his vein! (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: flu flu shot h1n1
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Despite the fact that temperatures here in the Valley of the Sun (or as my brother likes to call it The Actual Sun) continue to hover around 100 degrees, it's technically fall, which means that flu season is upon us.
I don't think I ever got a flu shot prior to getting diabetes. I was healthy for the most part and likely didn't understand what the flu really is. And even four years into the disease, last fall was the first time I got the shot since being diagnosed.
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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 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: hiding insulin
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I don't think I've ever hidden my diabetes from anyone in my life. In fact, shortly after I got the call that I was pre-diabetic I was standing in my boss's office telling her.
I've never hidden it in public, either. When I was pregnant with No. 3, a friend of mine and I went to a restaurant for lunch. We were at a restaurant/bar type of place and sitting pretty much in the back. I think there was another table of people around us, but, frankly, they weren't paying attention to us. And why should they? We ordered, I checked my sugar and then prepared to shoot up. Now, this was several years ago, but I distinctly remember her saying, "Are you going to just do that here?"
With the pen needle cap in the corner of my mouth and the skin on my right love handle pinched, I said, "Yea-uh. It's not like anyone can see me." I would have done it right there even if someone was watching. (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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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: fighting with other diabetics
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What I really need is a good online diabetes-related battle. Nothing lights up the 'ole blog switchboard like a feud. I came across a rather heated one in the blogosphere recently. So lucky. All I ever get is nothing but stinkin' compassion and support. Anyone got a beef with me? Anyone? Come on, don't make me beg.
Type 2s? Come on, type 2s. When was the last time I addressed your concerns? How about like never. All I do is talk about my type 1 son. Booooring!
Type 1s? Come on, hit me!
I thought I had a real shot with the Sotomayor piece, but unfortunately most of those who commented, directed their anger not at me but instead at the fictional characters I created. Sigh.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: control switching from the pump to MDI's
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I was really hoping for magic when I started this new routine. I wanted an easy transition from the pump to MDI's. I wanted an "out" from the pump...a way to say that it really isn't working and it's all the pump's fault. I really don't even want to be putting these words to paper.
But I am. I'm confessing. Lantus and Humalog are not working out any better than the pump. The week before I went off the pump, my averages were at 140 (and that was with pizza on two occasions). I wasn't having as many lows as before, although I was still having them.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children In the News Real Life
Tags: Causes children diagnosis flu gestational diabetes illness
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I don't believe in vaccines. Perhaps it was the family that I grew up in. Or the disease that I've lived with every day since a series of regular, routine vaccines when I was 4 years old. Maybe it's just my own understanding of health and traditional thinking.
But I don't believe in them. However controversial that might be and however many of you might hate/ban/harass me for it, I cannot bring myself to believe in them. And trust me, I have done my research.
When I was 4 years old, my mother took me in for all the regular vaccines. The most memorable for both of us is the MMR because it has since been linked to autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes. Almost immediately, my mom noticed a change in me. I was sick, unlike myself, and in ill health.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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When I was four years old, I wondered why the doctors never made me better. Why did I have to go four times a year yet still get my finger checked, take shots, and miss out on half the fun of being a kid? I couldn't understand why seeing the doctor didn't make it all go away...everything was always better if you went to the doctor.
I was an angry four year old. I went to a psychologist for a time and my parents bought plenty of books (by plenty, I mean the two that were available at the time) about being a kid with type 1 diabetes in 1993. My parents treated me like a normal little girl, except that I couldn't have birthday cake or go to school without a lot of stress.
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