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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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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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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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It's Turkey Day. A day full of family, gratitude, and carbs. From the sweet potato casserole to the pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving Day is filled with carb-laden goodies that can wreak havoc on blood sugars.

 

This year will be my second Thanksgiving with the pump. I don't even remember handling last year's Thanksgiving challenges. However, I do remember Christmas very vividly.

 

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Someone should have taken a picture: my dad and I checking our sugar roughly two hours after we ate Thanksgiving. He: 114. Me: 86.

 

"You must have overestimated your insulin," Mom said.

 

"Yes, but I'll spike later," I said.

 

Sure enough, an hour later I was 206. Would have been nice to have had a CGMS on my side for Thanksgiving. Between the smooth mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake Thursday was not only a carb fest but a complex-carb fest leaving me hanging out in the upper 200s for most of the Thanksgiving evening no matter how much insulin I doled out (actually, I listened to my pump's recommendations in an effort to avoid a low).

 

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I’m thankful it’s just diabetes.

 

Was just watching a news story about a cute little girl. Her mother applied a numbing cream to her skin. It reminded of what we do for Charlie before we insert his sensor. There was an injection but it wasn’t insulin. It was chemotherapy. She grimaced ever so slightly as it went into her chest.

 

I’m thankful it’s just diabetes.

 

I’m thankful for my family.

 

I’m thankful that my grandmother is not in pain as she gets ready to leave us.

 

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In response to Mike Durbin's Diabetes Blessings Week, I've put together some first "thanks" we might have given upon our diagnoses...

 

The DKA Survivor — Thank goodness I'm alive!

 

Symptomatic Solly — Thank goodness we know what it is!

 

The New Type 1 (adult) — Thank goodness there's insulin!

 

The New Type 2 — Thank goodness I don't need insulin!

Type 1 (at Thanksgiving dinner) — Thank goodness I have insulin, so I don't have to say "no" to anything!

 

Just a Touch of "The Sugar" — Thank goodness there's a pill for that!

 

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Literally

 

The misuse of the word "literally" is a pet peeve of mine. It's done all the time on TV and on the radio. The other day I heard a well-known radio host and political commentator say that the White House was literally throwing taxpayer money in the garbage.

 

Really?

 

Literally?

 

Michelle: Hey hon? Can you grab the bag under the kitchen sink filled with taxpayer money and bring it to the curb? Tomorrow is garbage pickup.

 

Barack:  Yes I can!

 

 

Alvin and the Chipmunks - Chipwrecked

 

I'm gonna pass.

 

 

Membership has its Privileges

 

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