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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows
Tags: high blood sugar from adrenaline
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Charlie got happy on Saturday. Happy to the tune of 520 mg/dl.
For several reasons, if we have something fun planned for the kids, we don't divulge the news until the very last moment. This is because A. – it's really annoying to hear "is it time to go yet?" over and over again for weeks because they can't comprehend the concept of time or understand the complexities of calendars, B. – we don't want them to be disappointed if for some reason we can't go, and 3. – it's really annoying to hear "is it time to go yet" over and over again for weeks.
When we went to Disney, we kept that secret for months. They found out we were going to Disney about three hours before our flight to Orlando was to depart.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management Diabetes Education
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I like to think I'm a pretty easy going person. There's not much that rattles my cage. Well, you might check with The Mr. on that one. I guess what I'm getting at is that up until recently, I haven't really had any diabetes-related pet peeves. Especially not in the realm of Did you actually just say that to me?
There was that one time when a friend of mine forgot I had diabetes and apologized several days later for setting a plate of (burned) cookies (which I didn't eat because they were BURNED) in front of me during a meeting. I sort of laughed that one off. I mean, saying you're sorry for encouraging someone to eat burned cookies is actually a little comical. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: adjusting for emotions lows nervous
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The first time I knew “it” was in ninth grade. My class had to lead a chapel session at my private school. I was in charge of reading a passage of scriptures and leading music with some of the other kids. It was the first chapel my class had done. We’d be in front of a hundred of our peers and a dozen of our teachers.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: sports and diabetes
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He lunges from left to right, securing his black Pumas against the goal post and suffocates the bright-orange hockey ball before the marauding yellow team can squeak it past him.
When the whistle stops play, he glances over to make sure we're watching. Happy as a clam behind his helmet's cage and bopping his head up and down like a parrot.
"Way to go, Cholly!" one of the fathers yells, slouching comfortably in his folding chair.
"His name is Charlie," his son says, stressing the "arlie."
"Well here in Philadelphia, we say Cholly," he says proudly, adjusting his thick gold chain around his deeply tanned neck.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management exercise weight loss
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I really tried to work exercise into my evening routine. I really, really did. But my evenings just don’t work for exercise. There’s laundry, dinner, getting kids ready for the next day and a host of other things that just don’t jive with exercise.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: adjusting averages logbook
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Ever since I got my pump, I stopped logging my blood sugars. Typically, I kept a running chart of every blood sugar categorized by time of day and weekly averages. But since the pump stores all of my information and produces such wonderful graphs, I stopped logging.
However, those graphs do not show specific blood sugar trends on a weekly basis and the numbers are never directly in front of me (haunting me at times). So I decided that I would get back on the logbook wagon.
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Greetings everyone!
My name is Mike Durbin, and I am excited to be joining the team of writers here at Blogabetes. I've been living with type 2 diabetes and congestive heart failure (CHF) since I was diagnosed on December 29, 2008. I was 24 at the time.
Notice that I said living with type 2 diabetes and CHF. Despite how difficult and scary the last year and a half has been, with adjusting to a new way of living and the near death experiences I've faced, I’ve not stopped living. If anything, there's more liveliness in me now than there ever was before. It's amazing how it takes a near death experience to make you realize just how precious life is and how important it is to live each day to the fullest. We never know when we might reach out last.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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Views: 591
It seems that I've been a bit MIA over the past week. Honestly, until I sat down today I hadn't even thought about the blog other than reading you guys' encouraging comments over the week. Blogging, diabetes, all this is just far from my mind these days.
My last blog talked about how I was struggling with some severe loneliness and still very much adjusting to life and its changes. Well, I'm still struggling although I've made some lists, set some goals, and got my head back on my shoulders straight. My stress level hasn't quite caught up yet though.
Today, I went through my graduate program's new student orientation. As I listened to professors and other students, I realized that I was actually concerned that I'd taken on too much. I know that I'm a strong student, but so are a lot of those admitted to the program. And if they were saying working and taking 12 hours was tough, well I didn't want to risk it.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
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This week is my first week at the new job without 12 hour training days and mental overload on the learning end. I'm struggling to find balance between a typical 40 hour work week at a high intensity job and keeping on top of everything else in my life. Like relationships, food choices, diabetes, yoga, the cat, and doing the things I love to do (i.e. reading, watching crime shows, blogging). Life seems too hectic right now.
My normal day starts around 7am. I get ready for work, test my blood sugar for the only confirmed "this is happening" time of day, eat, and make the drive to work. Work varies greatly by day. Sometimes I'm sitting in the courthouse for hours learning cases or working with volunteers. Sometimes I'm in the office picking up on the last training tidbits and beginning the transition from the former Supervisor to me. I never eat lunch at the same time. I never leave work at the same time.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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It has been one busy and hectic week. Adjusting to the new work schedule has still been rough, but throwing in the holidays made everything ten thousand times more rushed and stressful. I'm glad that it's all over for the time being.
I spent the last five days with my family which was pretty great. Since I moved, I don't get to see them nearly as often. And I had a lot built up that I wanted to talk over with my mom. And a need to see my cousin and brothers and get a million hugs. I am definitely family-oriented.
But now that I'm back in my little apartment, I can feel the weight lifting. I got so much accomplished last week, it doesn't seem real. I bought a new car...my very first that I'll be paying for completely. It's lovely and I'm overjoyed that I'm in a position to do that now. My mom and I prepped for Christmas in a matter of two days. Then we all did Christmas.
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