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Today would have been my father's 59th birthday and as I was thinking about him I started thinking about all the people who have been important in my life and especially in my diabetes life.
My band director in high school was the one who asked the now fateful question, "Are you feeling okay?" It was drum rehearsal on Monday October 2nd 1990. I told him I was feeling a little light headed but that was it. He said that I looked pale and that was something I don't think I had ever heard before in my life. I have very dark skin since I am both Puerto Rican and Cuban so pale was not a norm for me. (READ MORE)

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Several prominent dBloggers have posted this week about issues related to Driving While Low (DWL) and premature death. The subjects of these posts were people with Type 1 diabetes, which is the group with which we normally associate rapid-onset dissociative hypoglycemia. While this sort of hypoglycemia is certainly most common in Type 1 diabetes, it is occasionally seen in insulin-dependent Type 2. Most of the time, these lows would seem to be related to insulin activity peaking early or late -- or at least not in synch with one's food and drink.

 

Unfortunately, insulin is not always the culprit.

 

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A man is not dead until he is forgotten. -- African proverb

 

Saturday night, the vice-president of our Friends of Faire group delivered a well-worded "toast to the immortal memory", in which he named Robert Burns "the Bard of Scotland"  in the way that Shakespeare is "the Bard of England" (not to mention most of the rest of the English-speaking world!). As our festivities were dedicated to a member who had recently and unexpectedly died, her life was also celebrated in this toast, and her passing, mourned.

 

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The photo below was taken as part of a project called Revealed.  Revealed is a unique photo project from East Greenwich, RI photographer Scott Indermaur.  Scott describes the process as “presenting subjects with a small wooden box and asking them in advance of the photography session to bring items that represent their spiritual experience in which to fill the space. The concept of identity and the awareness of a higher existence quickly evolve into a vessel of self-exploration and quiet confession.”

 

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Remember how I had this brilliant idea to get Olivia a cell phone for Christmas? How I thought it would be a fantastic way to keep in touch when she was out with friends or doing after school stuff?

Yeah. Not so much. She ran thru $25 in FOUR days. Doing what, you may ask? Well, not texting me. No, no, no. Texting her friends. Because even though she has use of the computer AND the phone, she still felt it necessary to sit up in her bedroom and send 200+/- text messages. In four days.

She is now under strict instructions that the phone is to be used to call or text only me or Mark, her step-dad. I hope she sticks to this or she's going to be doing a lot of babysitting to pay for those text messages.
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Lately, I've really been annoyed by the daily math that goes into this disease. Maybe it's just because my mind is on other things at the moment so I'm just sick of calculating and remembering. Especially since I'm supposed to be switching my carb ratio from 1:10 to 1:8. It's made the math a lot harder for me...even with a college degree.

 

I really want a meter that calculates for me. Perhaps there is a meter out there like this and I'm unaware (if there is, please enlighten me!). But my ideal gadget would include all my meter capabilities as well as the pump capabilites (minus the insulin giving part).

 

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Because of my recent tummy troubles, I've decided to put off the Metformin start for at least another week. So instead of starting Metformin today, I've decided to get back into the groove of the need for insulin. Instead of purposefully skipping Lantus doses and fudging my boluses, I'm going to get into the routine of doing these things right.

 

My current Lantus doses are split at midnight (16 units) and noon (18 units). However, I've had a lot of trouble remembering them or getting them on time lately without a schedule. So I think I need to try a one dose Lantus shot for awhile. I've done it before and it just doesn't give me as tight of control as I like, but it's better than no insulin at all.

 

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Think Hank Azaria. Not Hank from Mad About You. Hank as a gay latino in Birdcage. You have that image, right? Can you hear his voice? Oh, man is he a riot. And as long as he’s not acting like a gay latino, he’s quite the looker, too.

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Tonight, I wanted to attend a local diabetes support group. I know I'm almost 18 years in the game so it seems a bit weird to be getting into a support group, but I've found myself really struggling with things lately. I feel like sitting with other diabetics, remembering what those initial times were like, might help me get through this rough patch that I'm facing.

 

Unfortunately, today didn't go as planned so I'm not going to make it tonight. Today was frustrating, but it's nothing like yesterday. And I'm finding myself very overwhelmed tonight.

 

It has been a week that I wasn't home much. Between spending a lot of time in class and at work, I also worked a lot at Marvin's house. I've also spent my time attempting to decide on my current living situation.

 

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