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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
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To describe diabetes in three words is very difficult. That's because at any given time, your thoughts and feelings about this disease are changing. So I guess one word that comes to mind is unpredictable . It is important to note, however, that with better control comes more predictability. I think I view my diabetes as little bit more unpredictable because I have trouble keeping my sugars regulated. I feel a person who can maintain an A1C of 6 can predict their blood sugar a lot more accurate than a person with hemoglobin of 8. Maybe I'm wrong though. Another word that I would use to describe my diabetes is unfair.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Real Life
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If you weren't aware, Oprah did an entire episode today on diabetes. The silent killer, the demise of America. People are dropping like flies!!! Haven't you heard?
Okay, maybe I should give Ms. Oprah a little credit for putting this out there. It IS an epidemic. But she owes me a correction. Type 2 is an epidemic! Yes, more and more type 1s are popping up. For goodness sake, I know so many people who were diagnosed in the last 5 years...it's kind of insane. But type 1 is not the focus of Oprah's show.
Although she didn't exactly point that out. The show opens with diabetes being this silent killer, the demise of the population. She actually says that people are dropping like flies. Yep. Like flies. Dr. Oz helps her out with some tricky animation that shows insulin rejecting sugar and the pancreas secreting yellow goo and all sorts of lovely images.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2
Tags: diabetes humor
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Gene Rayburn with his long 1970s microphone and his swank three-piece suits. I imagine he stunk of cigarettes and scotch as he'd lean into the contestants, awaiting their dirty answers. Raunchy double-entendres from Charles Nelson Reilly and an irresistibly funky theme song. It was smutty stuff for sure, but I loved Match Game back in the day.
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It's been a while since we've played some diabetes fun 'n games. Last year's Fantasy Diabetes League (FDL) brought out the competitive spirit of the online diabetes community and the diabetes version of Mad Libs was a lot of fun.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: children low support
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Diabetes shows up in the most awful places. Take yesterday for example.
A little background first. Saturday night I was two hours away from home with my kids celebrating Hanukkah with old family friends. The Mr. was on call, so he stayed home. As we were preparing to leave and head to my parents' condo, No. 3 fell down a flight of stairs. No one saw her go, but No. 2 saw her at the bottom of the stairs. Actually, No. 2 saw No. 3's light-up shoes at the bottom of the stairs. This was a full flight of 10 to 12 stairs from a first floor to a basement. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Food Emotions Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: fast food hyperglycemia mad
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I was in my truck today picking up some fast food from Mickey D's. I typically don't eat fast food. Actually, I never do- but today I was in a hurry and I just wanted to get something fast and not have to put to much thought into it. As I was ordering, I realized that with diabetes there is no such thing as just a "quick little meal". Any time I eat something, I have to put some serious thought and effort into it. Everyday, I put serious energy and brain power towards calculating things in my head.
My life revolves around eating and calculating.
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Categories: Type 2 Children Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: birth c-section
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Part 4 of a 4 part series. See part 1, part 2 and part 3.
In the operating room, I was laid on my back and the world started to spin again. I didn't know what was wrong. I had a shooting pain in my shoulder blade and could barely breathe. I was dizzy and nauseous. I felt something was horribly wrong. Was my blood sugar low? No. Was my blood pressure low? No. I was flailing my arms and legs, I could not lay still. The doctors had to sedate me. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
Tags: halloween candy
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Quick, top five Halloween candies.
Fine, I'll go first.
5. Baby Ruth 4. Whatchamacallit 3. Twix 2. Kit-Kat 1. Reeses Peanut Butter Cup
And just stop it Cadbury or Mars Inc. or any other bogus chocolate maker trying to come out with your own peanut butter and chocolate treat. Stop it! You're embarrassing yourself. None of you come even remotely close to the brilliance of the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup formula. When the kids get such wannabe candy dropped in their Halloween bags, I instruct them to throw it back from whence it came, like a home run ball to center field from the opposing team. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
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Last Thursday, I checked the mail to find my latest test strip order in my box. At first, I wasn't even sure what the package was as it was more an envelope and felt extremely light. When I usually get strips, I receive a pretty good sized box.
As I opened it, I saw three OneTouch boxes smushed and open. Good thing that strips aren't fragile. Three boxes shocked me. Generally, I get six to eight boxes for my three month supply. I thought that the prescription was for one month at first.
Then I looked at it more closely and noticed that it'd been filled for "3 blood sugar checks per day" and I could reorder on March 16 (meaning I'd get the order early April). I couldn't believe it. I still can't really even though I've been dealing with it for a week now.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
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Testing is a difficult thing for me. I don't really know why because I've been doing it almost all my life and it doesn't really bother me to do it. I just can't seem to make it a habit to check more than a few times per day. I keep getting distracted or busy when I should be checking.
I know all the tips and tricks to make blood sugar checks happen. Check in the morning, check before meals, check before bed, check when feeling off. Sure, I know all about it. But putting it into practice has been a completely different thing for me lately. And I didn't always struggle with this.
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When it comes to diabetes, mistakes are a given. They are going to happen. Being human and having a chronic disease that can impact memory, mood, and cognitive aptitude make mistake-making a given. But mistakes don't have to rule our existence. They don't have to be the thing we focus on. And when they are the thing we focus on, that often leads to more mistakes.Â
So, rule #3: make your mistake, learn, forgive, let go, move on. Good lord, is that difficult to do sometimes. On Tuesday this week, I forgot to bolus for lunch. It wasn't a big lunch and forgotten boluses don't happen that often, particularly now that I'm on injections. Thing is, my ghost pump reminds me. I eat or have an elevated sugar and I naturally go looking for my pump, when it's not there - it reminds me to give an injection.Â
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