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They say a war is being waged inside the bodies of type 1 diabetics. Hell, I've even said it a bunch of times. But is it war when only one side is attacking?

 

Based on the footage I just watched, I wouldn't call it a war at all. It's a freakin' massacre. Cellular images from the La Jolla Institute show how type 1 diabetes occurs in real time.  Jesus! It's jarring. My son's beta cells never had a chance. It's the Battle of Little Bighorn. It's Beta's Last Stand.

 

"Objects resembling ants can be seen furiously scampering  about looking for their prey," the researchers said. The beta cells within the pancreas are absolutely besieged by the Killer Ts in a ruthless and seemingly focused attack.

 

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I am still struggling with the Symlin. At 30 mcg for a week and a half, I'm experiencing nausea after almost every use. It doesn't last more than an hour, but it's still a major inconvenience that I expected to be gone by now. And because I can't raise it from 30 mcg, I am seeing more harm than good in my blood sugars. My averages are now over 215 and my post-meal numbers are sticking in the high 200s.

 

I've promised myself that I will give it at least one full use though so I will stick it out until the Symlin pen is empty. I have started raising my mealtime insulin from 50% to 65% to combat some of the highs and I've noticed slight improvements. I don't expect my next A1c to be at all improved though.

 

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Once you get past the congestion of sheer numbers and the mix of colors, designs, and graphic techniques, there's one thing that stands out on every team shirt at the Seaside Heights, NJ JDRF Walk: cure. It's not just because the event is called the Walk to Cure Diabetes (emphasis mine), or because insulin is "not a cure" for autoimmune diabetes. It's not because parents are struggling to pay for their children's pumps and CGMs, or because adversity breeds strength.

 

 

The reason we see the word cure is same reason we see another word on team names and slogans, and that word is hope.

 

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I’ve had a really hard time with my writing/not writing lately. In December I blogged only once, and so far this month I’ve blogged twice.

 

This is kind of weird for me because I’m so used to writing so often. It hurts, actually, that I haven’t been doing more of it. It’s not for lack of trying, though. I’ve written countless Post-It notes to myself with blog topics and have every intention of writing when I get home and then I don’t.

 

And it’s not like I’m forgetting to do it, I just don’t do it. Or I decide that I’d rather do something else. I think about the Post-It note stuck to my calendar and about all the things I would say in the blog and how wonderfully eloquent I would be. And then I just don’t do it.

 

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*sigh* My endo/nurse practitioner wants me to log blood sugars. Grrrroan. She said she wants random numbers, which I can't see how in the world would actually be useful to someone. (That drives me nuts, by the way, when a doctor tells a patient to log randomly. How can you get the whole picture if the patient gives you a breakfast reading one day, a bedtime reading the next? But I digress.)

 

So I printed out more of my home-made log sheets, three-hold punched them and put them with my other half-filled out log sheets in the pretty pink three-ring binder I bought probably close to two years ago during my last I'm-serious-about-logging attempt.

 

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"Do you see symptoms of low blood glucose? Shakiness, sweating or disorientation?"

"Well, sure, of course. My son has type 1 diabetes. I'm sorry, who are you again?"

"This is a free service from your insurance provider. We'll be calling occasionally to check in with you to see how things are going."

"Oh."

"How often do you see low blood sugars?"

"I'd say we see at least one low almost every day."

"Whoa! Every day???"

"Well it's a long day."

"Do you see elevated blood glucose levels?"

"Well, yeah. I did mention my son has diabetes, right?"

"Yes. How often do you see high blood glucose?"

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Imagine it's the end of the world.

 

There's a flu pandemic. Or The Plague. Or the sun is burning a hole in the atmosphere and we all have to be herded into caves. There's mass panic and people need medical treatment.

 

Imagine having to decide who is worth saving and who isn't. That was the task of an "influential group of physicians" who drew up a "grim" list of patients who simply wouldn't be treated, according to this story.

 

The idea is to try to make sure that scarce resources--including ventilators, medicine and doctors and nurses--are used in a uniform, objective way, task force members said.

 

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It's been awhile. The whirlwind that is life took over for a spell. To avoid another takeover, I'm committing to twenty-six letters. A through Z. One letter at least every other day - each representing a word that relates to living with diabetes or being touched by diabetes.
You might think that A, naturally, would be A1C. You know? That number that supposedly gives you an idea of you how you're managing. But A won't be A1C today. Because, although I believe it's important to know your A1C and keep your number in order, there is, I believe, a more important A. And that's accountability.
Sometimes diabetes throws a curve-ball. Sometimes, it seems, no matter what we do, our blood sugar has a mind of its own. It swoops or peaks for no apparent reason. (READ MORE)

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I have had some major hurdles in my life and recently have been jumping over them one by one. Not with ease or speed but with planning, determination, and most of all accountability.
The hurdle I have now is weight loss. I have been fat all of my life (except right before I was diagnosed) and now it is time to shed those pounds. I joined weight watchers a while ago which I know I have mentioned here but I was just recently away for three weeks due to three things. One weigh in I skipped because I was just tired and slept in, another when I was sick, and the last was when we went out of town.
This last weekend I finally went back to weigh in for the first time in 2008. It was not pretty. I had gained 7 pounds in 3 weeks! I knew I had gained so it was not a total shock but there is a part of me that hopes for some sort of gravitational miracle as soon as I step on the scale. That did not happen of course. (READ MORE)

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I spend a lot of time thinking about if I will ever have complications from my diabetes. The very thought of diabetes problems scares the crap out of me. My determination to ward of complications has a direct correlation with how I control my sugars on a daily basis. In other words, every time I treat a low or a high, thoughts of amputations or blindness are running through my head. Those fears are some BIG MOTIVATORS. I don't want to come across as the guy who just sits around and waits for something bad to happen. I am not the type of person who just mopes around hopelessly or just sits around thinking of nothing else but diabetes issues. I try to stay positive most of the time. My glass is usually "half full" rarely "half empty." (READ MORE)

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