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I went to get the mail today and found a package from Minimed. It wasn't the normal size box for Olivia's pump supplies and we've already received our Care Link doo-hickey (technical term, that - doohickey. The whatsit that you download pump info from. I think. I haven't actually used it yet. I keep forgetting....)
Anyway, inside the box was a brand new One Touch Ultra that beams blood sugar readings directly to Olivia's pump. Yay! I was all happy. I thought it would be great, that Olivia wouldn't forget about putting her blood sugars in, since the meter would do it for her.
Oh, how wrong I was. I gave it to her, all eager to see her reaction, since when the BD meter went away, she was very upset. But no.
"It's not green!" she exclaimed. "And it's not tiny." And she sort of flung it aside, sighing in exasperation.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows
Tags: A1c results
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Anxious. Pissed off. Relieved. Lots of things.
This writing subject was a challenge issued by Kerri. It's certainly better than her last challenge. None of us wanted to eat a goat's heart at last year's Blogabetes retreat in Jacksonville. Poor little guy was still alive! But, that's just the way Kerri rolls.
And then there was the trust-building exercise in which you must fall back and trust that your partner will catch you. I don't want to mention any names (Kim Doty), but some people just can't be trusted.
Charlie's next A1c result will bring mixed emotions. I expect it will be his lowest A1c ever. This should make me happy, right?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: caffeine diet soda energy drinks high blood sugar
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Are you hooked on caffeine drinks? They are everywhere! Caffeine is littered throughout cups of coffee, doubled up in cans of energy drinks, and even spilling from D-friendly diet sodas, making it hard to get away from. Maybe this is why so many adults, and teenagers, consume the stuff at a heart-pounding rate. But have you noticed the impact on your blood glucose numbers like I have? It can spike my numbers wicked fast if I am not on top of things. Sure doesn't make my employment at Starbucks any easier, the stuff is diffused into my veins with every breath I take!
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: Teenagers
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On Thursday, Olivia asked me if she could spend Friday night at a friend's house. I said yes, but told her that she had to call home at some point on Friday evening and call again on Saturday morning to let us know when she wanted to be picked up.
I didn't get any phone call until noon on Saturday. I had gone out Friday night, but my husband was home with the two little ones. Normally, I would just get on her case a little bit about it and leave it alone. That was before I checked her meter and pump today.
She didn't check her blood sugar after 5 p.m. on Friday night and only checked THREE times on Saturday. Three. We typically check between 8 and 12 times a day, every day, depending on what's going on. I very nearly blew a gasket over that one.
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Categories: Real Life
Tags: fashion magazines Teenagers young adults
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I stare at the rack of magazines. The latest stars, the latest trends, the latest everything all stare back at me from glossy pages.
As a college student, I want to be in style. I want to have the latest fads and know the latest "body secrets." As a self proclaimed "fashionista", I want these magazines to tell me all that I need to dress with the world. As a diabetic, I just want a glossy paged magazine for diabetics!
A magazine that shows the latest gadgets, the latest research, the latest success stories. But I want all that to be catered towards me: the college student, the fashionista. I want hot trends in meters, new diet tips and expert advice on all my questions. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Fitness Real Life
Tags: exercise
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I haven't had much to write about lately, on any of the blogs I contribute to. I don't know if it's burn out or the winter that never ends or what, but I'm definitely feeling a lot of ennui. Malaise. A complete lack of ability to write anything resembling sense.
So I thought I'd open it up and see if there's anything you want to ask me or have questions about. I know, kind of lame, but I need a good, hard shove to get the ball rolling again.
I've been going to the Y for the last month or so. I do Nautilus weights and cardio stuff for about an hour and half, five days a week. I haven't lost any weight, which is kind of depressing, but I feel better. Stronger. It's good. Olivia's been wanting to take swimming lessons, so when those open again, I'm going to sign her up. She really needs to do some sort of exercise. Right now, all she does is walk the dog.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood sugar monitoring diabetes testing kit
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After a conversation with Olivia about checking, how it's important, how I can't make changes to her insulin regimen without knowing her numbers, she's still not checking. Worse, I think she's starting to just put numbers in her pump without having checked first.
I log her numbers a few times a week. Tonight when I did it, I noticed there were a couple of reading in her pump that weren't on her meter. I asked her about it and she denied it, so I let it go, but I'm starting to worry. I really need to figure out why she's doing this, have a long talk with her about it.
Is this a common thing for teenagers to do? Those of you that grew up with type 1, did you do this? How did your parents handle it? Because it's really pissing me off. I yelled at Olivia about it tonight but once I calm down, I plan on talking to her about it, see if she has a reason or if she's just legitimately forgetting. She is a forgetful kid. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Food Emotions Real Life
Tags: budget community food choices outreach poverty religion support groups
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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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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
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Just because I haven’t blogged in a while doesn’t mean that everything is peachy. Charlie had ketones this morning and almost missed school. Blood sugars remain unpredictable. Life as a parent of an 8-year-old with diabetes remains as nutty as ever.
After three days in Florida attending my grandmother’s funeral, it was right back to the routine when I got home and walked up the stairs at 12:30 am. I woke up Susanne and greeted her and then asked if Charlie needed to be checked.
Susanne thinks that maybe I’ve been a little off lately because I will soon be turning a certain age. I never thought it bothered me, but maybe it does. I was around a lot of old people last week. It’s pretty depressing. One man who came to the house to offer his condolences, spoke of the loneliness.
"The four walls don’t talk to you," he said.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Food Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: children with diabetes fire fundraising Halloween halloween candy religion trick or treat walk to cure diabetes
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Hallowe'en is a time of transformations.
In the ancient Celtic traditions (and the modern Wiccan ones), Samhain is the time at which the Goddess — old, and lonely, and missing her lover — goes to the Summerland to be with him. With her goes light and warmth, fertility, and life. The Samhain Sabbat denotes the end of summer/fall and the beginning of the winter seasons, a time when the last harvest has come in and when the herds are pared down to what the community can feed through the winter, and what will be able to reproduce in the spring.
It is a time of plenty, preceding a known time of famine.
It is also the start of the new year.
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