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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: diabetic person with diabetes Terminology
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I've been reading "Psyching Out Diabetes" off and on. Each chapter is devoted to a different emotion that commonly affects diabetes management. So far, I haven't had an epiphany. But it is nice to hear what some diabetics struggle with in their diabetes growth and how those outside are affected.
One of the topics in the "Anger" chapter is about terminology and labels. What is right: diabetic or person with diabetes? The great debate!
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Categories: Real Life
Tags: Highs & Lows Terminology Wolleyball!
Views: 1215
I am still all over the place with my sugars. I know I have been griping a lot about them lately. It's just that now that I have this oppurtunity to speak with a bunch of other diabetics, I am loving every minute of it. Just knowing that all of you are out there reading this is making me to want to do better and talking about it everyday helps a ton. I find myself thinking about my diabetes more, which I didn't think was possible. But anyway, enough of that. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: emotions pump Supplies Terminology
Views: 2726
I called my supply company today. A very good company that provides me with all of my pump supplies - including batteries and IV preps - thank you very much! Here's how the call went:
"Hello, this is Nicole Purcell calling, I'm due for my supplies so I'm just calling in."
"Oh, OK, hold on a second."
I hold on, hearing her type-type-typing.
"Oh, you're a pump."
"Excuse me?"
"You're a pump, just hold...o..."
"Excuse me, before you transfer me, I need to tell you that I am not, in fact, a pump. But I am a person that wears a pump..." Letting that little gem hang out there for an uncomfortably silent few seconds. "Hello, are you still there?" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: Terminology
Views: 1200
Sometimes I'm glad we're not out in public when Olivia comes out with some of her statements. I do it too, for that matter.
She had a stomach bug for a couple of days and her blood sugars started creeping up higher and higher last night. Finally she said "Oh for heaven's sake. I'm just going to shoot up. Be right back." It didn't faze me in the slightest but I can only imagine the goggle-eyed stares she'd get if she said that at the mall or the grocery store.
When she was younger, highs would cause her to have massive temper tantrums. I can remember on many occasions muttering to myself "Girl, you'd better be high, behaving that way." More than once it got me the hairy eyeball from passersby.
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Categories: Emotions
Tags: frustrations Ignorance type 1
Views: 1829
I have yet to really "weigh-in" or write a specific blog on a topic that is regularly discussed among people with diabetes. This is something diabetics deal with on a daily basis. For lack of a better word, I am talking about ignorance. Basically, as diabetics we talk with people everyday who lack a BASIC understanding of what exactly diabetes is. Heck, even I, will be the first to admit to you that I couldn't tell you EXACTLY what it is. I don't know all the medical terminology or the exact biological process that I went through as I was becoming diabetic. NOR DO I EXPECT everyone else too. I am not saying that it's wrong that people don't understand what diabetes is, but what I am saying, is that if you don't know what a "low" is or what "insulin" does, or what it basically means to be diabetic, 'please', at least speaking for MYSELF, 'don't act like you do'. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Real Life
Tags: self-identification social attitudes
Views: 1052
Every so often, a discussion will pop up about how to refer to those of us with glucose metabolism issues. Whether it's "diabetic versus person with diabetes", "borderline versus prediabetes", or even the whole "Type 1 / Type 2 / Type 1.5 / Gestational / Other" schema, these discussions run very deep to the core of our sense of identity... perhaps just as deeply as skin tone, religion, or ethnicity.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: new endo
Views: 1462
The scheduling nurse from the Mayo Clinic called today and said the doctors have agreed to see me. And get this: I have an appointment in two weeks. Yep, two weeks! They're not squeezing me in, they're not making exceptions. I have a regular appointment.
So, I'm sort of stuck between really excited and fairly skeptical. I've made it pretty clear that I have high expectations for my endocrinologist. So on one hand I feel like the Mayo Clinic is the best of the best and my expectations will be met and on the other hand I feel like these people are still doctors in one of the largest cities in the country and likely see a ton of patients and why will they treat me any differently than Dr. S did?
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Categories: Type 2 Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: awareness cure frustrations history management
Views: 1014
Ring around a rosy, a pocket full of posies...
By the time we reach adulthood, most of us know that the seemingly-nonsensical nursery rhymes of youth were sharp political snipes and sarcastic observations at the time of their composition. We know, for example, that the "ring" or "rosy" was the distinct buboe of bubonic plague, that it was believed that carrying around fresh flowers would help ward off the Plague, that the belongings of a Plague victim would be burned to try to limit the spread of the disease, and that all too many people had succumbed -- and would succumb -- to its horrors.
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