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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: community Diabetes diabetes care diabetes supplies fantasy fiction school type 1
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Several of the posts coming back from the Children With Diabetes annual Friends for Life conference (FFL) have likened this gathering of beta-less buddies to a traveling circus, a family reunion, and the sitcom Cheers, in whose eponymous bar "everybody knows your name" -- except that in the case of FFL, "everybody knows what it's like to live with type 1 diabetes". The effect, even without the Disneyification (FFL is always held at Disney World), is a Magic Kingdom of Diabetes. It makes sense: the event promoters are (and need to be) familiar with the condition, and the property managers need to be aware of -- and capable of handling -- a large, temporary influx of people who all have the same, or similar, "special needs". (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: choosing a doctor Health Insurance jobs self-care water
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Somewhere between work and sewing the overgown for my most recent renaissance-faire visit, I managed to miss Friday's Blog Action Day. It's not something I feel I must participate in, but it's an occasional source of inspiration -- especially when it's a topic that can be turned on its ear.
This year the topic was water -- in particular, access to clean drinking water. Washing water. Safe, parasite-free water. Something that is lacking in many parts of the world. (At least one episode of Bobby G, Adventure Capitalist showed the eponymous individual playing a major role in bringing safe drinking water to a Nicaraguan community.)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management food Logging People poverty
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Last week's #dsma (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy) twitter chat topic was the delivery of diabetes education, medication, supplies, and support to others -- both in the US (and other "First World" nations) and emerging ("Third World") nations. I've blogged before about the logistical and political issues organizations such as the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF -- Médecins Sans Frontières) have in delivering medical care and medications to those in need. But while we often talk as if everyone in the United States had fingertip access to smartphones (with unlimited data plans), cable TV, and the Internet, that certainly is not the case.
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Categories: Type 1 Relationships Emotions
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I am so very fortunate.
I am surrounded by people who care about me, and who understand my diabetes. I have family, friends, co-workers, and online cheerleaders (like you!) who "get" diabetes, who understand the physical and emotional challenges, and who are willing to help me manage under what are often difficult circumstances.
This is no small thing.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: access to care blood glucose testing diabetes awareness Dreams poverty team type 1 Test Strips World Diabetes Day
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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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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar testing weight loss surgery
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There was a time when The Mr. and I could wear the same size pants. In fact, he put on a pair of my jeans one day and though they fit it didn't take him long to realize why they didn't feel right.
I thought we were heavy then. I'd love to be back in that size jeans. That was before kids. That was before 12 years of marriage. That was a long time ago.
When I look back 15 years ago at pictures of us I think about how skinny we looked. And though I didn't see it then, we were; especially compared to how we look now.
The Mr. has been contemplating weight loss surgery for years. We talked about it casually. We knew people who went through it. We knew the fantastic results. We knew it was a tough road.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: access to care diabetes management type 1 Type 2
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When one of us succeeds, we all succeed. When one of us is hurt, we all feel pain. And when one of us is belittled at the expense of another, we all lose.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Emotions
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My father’s sister Margaret died of complications from diabetes at the age of 51. It was an awful thing to watch. The years between her fortieth birthday and her dying day were overfilled with pain. She had issues with her toes, issues with her eyes, she had multiple strokes. My father, a decorated Marine and police officer, held his little sister’s hand through too much heartache. When she died, in a nursing home, too young and too sick for words, he cried.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: complications cure diabetes management diet fear food food addiction Obesity Politics
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Earlier this week, it was announced that the focus of national anger for most of this century had met his Maker, courtesy of the United States military. The TV news showed people reacting by dancing in the streets.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows
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It was a diabetes on TV sort of weekend. Did you guys see that one of the contestants on The Amazing Race has type 1 diabetes? She and her teammate are doctors from Arizona. She was shown testing her blood sugar in the car while in the thick of the race. She was 332, I think. I would think the adrenalin of a race around the world would wreak havoc on her blood sugars. Should be interesting to see how she adjusts to that and how much of the diabetes-related footage the producers decide to show.
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