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It's unusual for me to have nightmares — especially nightmares about flying. Mine are usually about family relationships gone completely awry. But facing a World Diabetes Day on which I am working at a place whose uniform does not allow even a touch of blue, having given Nick Jonas my last World Diabetes Day pin (and not having had the money to replenish my stash), and having failed to have the presence of mind to do the Big Blue Test at least once (even though I am bicycling to and from work at least half the time), I feel a bit like a diabetes failure. (READ MORE)

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[This post follows "A Day At the Races (I) — Before the Event", where I discussed some of the work that goes into setting up a fundraising walk, run, or ride.]

 

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Today is the 6th Annual D-Blog Day and in some ways, I'm stymied by the topic: Gina has proposed we all do a 12" x 12" scrapbook page. Growing up, a scrapbook was a shoelace-tied book of heavy vellum-colored Manilla paper to which one pasted telegrams, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, and the like. In theory, one scrapbook could last a lifetime; in reality, the pages started falling out about five years in, and we always had to be careful not to lose either the pages or the stuff glued on to them. My mother's scrapbook has telegrams of congratulations from relatives who couldn't make her wedding and a guest-card with the lyrics to "Bei Mir Bist Du Shane", telegrams of congratulations when my sister and I were born, and newspaper clippings from every time one or another of us was mentioned in the local newspaper. (READ MORE)

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It weighs heavy on me, this damn disease.  Some days are especially long and challenging. I'm reminded of a song called "Four Seasons in One Day." In just one day, diabetes can throw so much at us.

 

Blistering hot highs. Blustery lows. Raging tempers like an April thunderstorm and even beautiful numbers as cool and still as autumn.

 

This was Sunday.

 

The day started off promising. Charlie woke up with a good blood sugar. He hit the ice at 8 am for hockey practice with a blood sugar of 203 - a number I'm comfortable with when he's out there on the other side of the glass. After hockey, Charlie tested himself while we drove to my soccer game.

 

"I'm 98."

 

"Nice!"

 

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There's no such thing as a single "diabetes diet". -- Diabetes proverb.

 

One of the challenges in preparing food -- or treats -- for a group of people is accommodating everyone's likes, dislikes, and dietary restrictions. Sometimes this is straightforward -- a packaged salad with OU (U in a circle) markings will be acceptable to most observant Jews; similarly, a vegan-certified product will work for most types of vegetarians. Preparing the same food from scratch poses other issues. If all my ingredients are kosher pareve (non-dairy, non-meat) but I cook those ingredients in a pot that once held pork roast, that food is no longer acceptable as kosher -- it has been "contaminated" by whatever molecules of pork that might have remained in that pot (even after a thorough washing).

 

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Happy Diabetes Blogging Day. Thank you all for the lovely cards you sent. Who knew Peanuts had a line of Diabetes Blogging Day cards.

 

So, six things I would want people to know about diabetes?

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Well, the test strip canisters have been polished, the needles have been sharpened, the sensor has been freshly inserted and calibrated and the meter has been waxed and detailed.

 

It’s the first day of school.

 

Despite the great blog material it generates, we have decided that it would be in Charlie’s best interest if we ended my traditional first day of school diabetes discussion and book reading to the class. We feel we need to salvage what little street cred Charlie has left.

 

I will miss some of the wonderful questions from Charlie’s classmates.

 

"Can Charlie drink beer?" was a classic last year.

 

Of course he can!

 

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Have you ever found yourself thinking that it'd be cool to create a piece of artwork completely inspired by your life with diabetes? If so, this is your chance to create that piece of art, and share it with the world. And if not, this is your chance to step out of your comfort zone, and release your inner artist.

 

Lee Ann Thill, Art Therapist and host of the diabetes blog, The Butter Compartment, has declared September 1, 2010 as Diabetes Art Day. The idea is that between now and September 1st, participants will create a piece of diabetes themed art, be it a drawing, painting, sculpture, etc..., and then post pictures of their work on a blog, twitter, facebook, a diabetes social network, or any other website they may have access to on September 1st. See Lee Ann's website for more details.

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Sunday, 10:30 p.m.: I'd just finished eating some cottage cheese and fresh pineapple thinking I was too low to go to bed. I had been 116 mg/dL after dinner and was around 110 mg/dL at bedtime. I had taken off Dexcom Saturday morning because the edges of the tape were getting frayed and the internal sensor was actually poking me funny. I decided to have a weekend without the extra equipment. But as I went to bed, I was really wishing I could see a trend line, especially since my finger sticks all weekend had been mostly lower than I expected.

 

Monday, 5 a.m.: I tested prior to getting out of bed and was not happy to see 322 mg/dL. It's kind of hard at 5 a.m. to figure out why you're that high, but I tried. The only thing I could come up with was that I was too aggressive with my bedtime snack. Also, I had momentarily gone back to using my lower abdomen for an infusion site and I thought it was possible that my site had gone bad.

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Many of us have been a-twitter about World Diabetes Day, bringing attention to the epidemic proportions of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and the Big Blue Test. Seattle had a bike ride as did Victoria, BC. Philadelphia had an event at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. Those of us in the New York City area celebrated with a huge D-Meetup and pizza party. The indefatiguable Allison set things up in a Midtown office building. At its peak, over 20 Type 1s, Type 2s, and Type 3s gathered to enjoy each other's company and take part in the Big Blue Test.

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