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As is my way, I sat down to Thanksgiving yesterday with my insulin pen next to my plate. Just prior to sitting down, I was talking to a family friend, who happens to be a nurse.
"Will you inject before or after you eat?" she asked while also quizzing me about how I know how much insulin to take.
"I'll inject before I eat. And with a meal like this, I'll just have to guess how many carbs I'm going to have."
She nodded in understanding. She's a school nurse at a junior high and helps many students manage their diabetes. I suspect she was comparing management techniques. (READ MORE)

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Family. Health. Necessities.
We were all thankful for so much as we shared our turkey feast this year. We are spending the Thanksgiving weekend in Albuquerque New Mexico this year with my sisters and mother. Having to make a 13 hour drive made me thankful for low carb snacks and caffeine too.
The thing that stands out as I contemplate the meal last night was the laughter I heard and participated in. I laughed a lot. We brought up old memories of family events and funny stories. Joked about each others habits and quirks, and just laughed at my kids and my nieces being silly. It was a lot of fun and so comforting.
One of the few qualities I have is the ability to make people laugh. I love to poke fun at myself, the world, and pretty much everything! I am also good about not being mean but just funny. All and all it was a very good time. (READ MORE)

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To say June was a tough month for us financially is a huge understatement. I won't go into details, but suffice it to say, I found myself getting very creative with how to pay bills and continue to eat and get my meds. Oh, and pay for daycare so I could go to work.
Along the way, because we were living at the bottom of a pit, our life insurance policies lapsed. Naturally, the company sent us a letter, but I was avoiding all envelopes that I didn't believe had money in them. So I overlooked the notice. Furthermore, our insurance agent couldn't get to us until October to fix the problem. So we didn't know until about a month ago that we had been living without life insurance for several months. (READ MORE)

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Today we celebrate and thank all of the veterans who have stepped up to the plate to serve and protect our country's freedom. I have always been the guy who gets chills when I hear and sing the National Anthem. I was raised to be proud of my country and to love it.
All of those beliefs and feeling were solidified on a visit several years ago to DC. Seeing all the buildings I had only seen on TV and money we amazing. The sense of patriotism swam through my blood stream and gave me a lump in my throat through most of our trip. (READ MORE)

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It's interesting that thankfulness is in the news this month. I've seen mention of several studies and a couple books on the topic. Some religions, 12-step programs and therapies have long advocated gratitude as a means of feeling happier.
Today is the day we as a nation think more openly about the blessings in our life.
This year, the Dotys have Kate's arrival to count high on our list. She has already completed our family in ways I wouldn't have thought of a year ago. (READ MORE)

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·On walking: For the first time in five days, I took my daily morning walk. Saturday and Sunday. And man did it feel good. However, I'm going to have to fire Sarge. Despite the new "anti-pull leash" my walking partner still just doesn't seem to respond to it nor my constant pulling on him. He was doing OK on Saturday, but on Sunday I got so angry that I made the final decision. The Mr. keeps telling me to try certain things, different tricks. And all I can say is "Tried it." "Tried it." "Tried it." I want to be able to take Sarge with me. In fact, I feel like I'll be naked without him on my walk. Not to mention scared without my 90-lb. bodyguard. (Maybe I'll take his leash for moral support!) But like I told The Mr., the more I have to stop to teach Sarge, the less my walk becomes about me. (READ MORE)

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I'm thankful that Charlie has diabetes and not something devastatingly worse.
I'm thankful for the grungy little boys in Charlie's class that play with him and treat him no differently despite the fact that he's part machine. I'm thankful that for the moment, they think blood is cool.
I'm thankful for the absolutely massive amount of support we receive year after year as we desperately search for a cure.
I'm thankful for friends and family members who would drop the Earth for us in a New York minute.
I'm thankful for numbers like 98 and 102 that sometimes come as an unexpected gift from an unforgiving disease.
I'm thankful for this amazing diabetes community whose empathy and encouragement never tires.
I'm thankful for my wife, who has given up so much of herself to juggle the unrelenting demands of diabetes.
I'm thankful for my daughter who accepts the abundance of attention Charlie receives from us with compassion and grace. (READ MORE)

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With all the talk of New Year's Resolutions and dieting, I keep coming across advice to keep a food diary. The articles usually point out that research shows keeping a food diary "even for just one day" can aid your weight loss efforts. (I haven't been able to find these studies, but maybe I'm just using the wrong search engine or key words.)
Keeping a food journal has been part of my routine for a very long time now. In fact, I have several editions of notebooks dedicated to logging every morsel of food that goes into my mouth (along with blood sugar readings and insulin dosing, of course).
It's also a cornerstone to the Weight Watchers program. "If you bite it, write it" is a common phrase heard in meetings. My leader, Kim, started what we call "The Magic Traveling Journal." The 12-week planner gets passed around to a different group member each week. (READ MORE)

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With all the talk of New Year's Resolutions and dieting, I keep coming across advice to keep a food diary. The articles usually point out that research shows keeping a food diary "even for just one day" can aid your weight loss efforts. (I haven't been able to find these studies, but maybe I'm just using the wrong search engine or key words.)
Keeping a food journal has been part of my routine for a very long time now. In fact, I have several editions of notebooks dedicated to logging every morsel of food that goes into my mouth (along with blood sugar readings and insulin dosing, of course).
It's also a cornerstone to the Weight Watchers program. "If you bite it, write it" is a common phrase heard in meetings. My leader, Kim, started what we call "The Magic Traveling Journal." The 12-week planner gets passed around to a different group member each week. (READ MORE)

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Which would you like to hear first? I guess I'll start with the bad news and get my whining out of the way first. The scale is up this week. Granted it's only half a pound, but the frustrating part is I have been working so hard at this. I've been following Weight Watchers faithfully since Thanksgiving and I've only lost about 2 and a half pounds. What's worse is I'm starting to begrudge people at the meeting who lose more than that each week. Selfish, isn't it?
In reviewing my diet, exercise and lifestyle, I'm even more annoyed because I'm eating less food (and healthier food, at that), exercising more, drinking water and even getting more sleep than I had been. But I'm still not losing. What do I need to do? I'm open to all suggestions, except "be patient." I don't do well with patience. (READ MORE)

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