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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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Free Balls
At least with lows, you can get a heads up when your child comes to you and says, "I think I’m low." It’s a quick fix. At my 4-year-old’s first soccer practice on Sunday, the coach asked the group how many balls are used in a soccer game. Ben popped up like a Ben-in-the-Box and shouted out the answer triumphantly, adjusting his fingers accordingly to support his response.
"Freeeeeeeee!!!! (3)"
How’s that for the son of a soccer player.
Meanwhile, Charlie sat quietly behind one of the goals. Maybe too quiet. Maybe we should have been intuitive enough to know that he was sitting there very high and possibly had been for a few hours. It makes me sick knowing it after the fact. Continuous glucose monitoring is entering our conversations more and more these days.
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Emotions
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My pump and gravity are having a close and stormy relationship of late. That terrible clack against the bathroom floor tiles has been an all too common sound in the past several weeks.
I wear my pump inside of my clothing, tucked into my underwear. Some of my underwear have a little pocket sewn in, care of my mother. When I'm wearing those pocketed panties, the pump's tendency to hit the floor lessens, but it still happens now and again. I believe my pump replacement needs exceed those of the average diabetic, and it's probably my fault.
I should be more careful. My inclination to be in a bit of a rush and to be a little carefree has resulted in at least two cracked pumps over the years and once, even though there were no visible damages, a pump I sent back was noted as "dropped or jostled" when it failed and I had to return it for another.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
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Recent happenings on the baseball field:
Charlie says he feels low just as he is about to bat. "Next batter!" the opposing coach yells. I grab the testing supplies and Charlie sticks his finger through the backstop fence. "Next batter!" the opposing coach yells again. Charlie’s coach sees me rushing and says that someone else can switch turns with Charlie. Charlie seems a little thrown off when he reaches the plate and doesn’t take his usual practice swings. He strikes out in three pitches.
A large boy spits sunflower seeds and watches casually as I test Charlie.
"Why do you have to do that?" he asks.
I tell him Charlie has diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: foot pain neuropathy Type 3
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I have had neuropathy in my both of my feet for a while now. I have almost gotten used to the tingling and burning pains that come now and then.
Almost.
The tingling is not nearly as bad as the feeling as if a lighted match is being held under your foot and it can be on the heel, at the arch or near my toes. Anywhere is free game and at any time. I hate it.
Lately I have noticed something different. My feet are cold, ice cold. I check for color to make sure blood is present and my pulse is there which is seems to be good but this temperature change freaks me out.
As I was going to bed I started to grunt in pain. My wife asked what was wrong and I told her how just the blankets rubbing on my feet hurt. And how no matter what I did, my feet felt like they were cold.
I lifted my right foot and pushed it up against my left shin to feel the cold and felt nothing.
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