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Throughout the years, I've met dozens of diabetics. We're all different. We each have our own stories to tell. Some of us were diagnosed at such a young age that we don't even remember what being "normal" is. Some of us made it into high school or college before receiving the diagnosis.

 

Some are well controlled and some are not. Some of us struggle with getting our numbers down, while others seem to wish it into place. Some follow every rule, some don't follow any.

 

Each of our stories and our unique personalities make us into the kind of diabetic that we are. Each of our bodies takes on a different role in our management from one person to the next. Each of us reacts differently to the world.

 

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Yesterday when I left work I was ready to rip through the computer because I was so annoyed with a certain medical supply company.
 

I have taken a backseat to figuring out if my insurance company will cover my Dexcom sensors since I got involved with a company (paid for by my employer) who helps patients sort through these types of situations. I believe my rep is also a nurse, because she is quite often out of the office. So when I'd send casual emails if I hadn't heard from her, I frequently got an auto response saying she was out of the office. This kind of annoyed me, actually.

 

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I've gone back and forth about whether to wear a medical ID bracelet. Part of me says I shouldn't bother because once a paramedic friend of mine told me one of the first things they do to a person who has passed out is to check their blood sugar. Part of me says I should wear one as an extra measure of caution.

 

I wore a medical ID bracelet throughout my third pregnancy. I don't think I ever took it off -- not in the shower, not for exercise, nothing. I don't remember why I stopped wearing it. Perhaps I lost it. In fact, now that I think about it, I think that's exactly what happened. I had removed the ugly silver chain and replaced it with strands of colorful beads to match whatever I was wearing. Well, the chains and clasps were cheap and ...

 

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SLED DOGS MAY HOLD KEY TO DIABETES – USA Today

(But until scientists can teach them to speak to humans, the key to diabetes remains a mystery)

 

BIRD STUDY AIDS DIABETES – Telegram Gazette

(What the flock?)

 

WHIP YOUR DIABETES INTO SHAPE – Readers Digest Canada

 

(Summer is right around the corner and your diabetes wants to look hot in its two-piece bikini!)

 

 

DIABETES, YOGA, DIET AND HALLE BERRY – WebWire

 

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I feel like a complete dipsh*t.

 

I was so hung up on finding the best care for myself that instead of taking the time to investigate my options (as I have been doing today) I quickly went for an option that was out of my price range.

 

While the roughly $800 I owe Mayo is inconsequential compared to what I may be faced with if I didn't have insurance or what other people may face, it's still a blow to my pocketbook right now.

 

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I have to be honest in that I had no clue that there was a Diabetes Alert Day until hearing about it over the weekend. So for 20 years (18 in which I actually had diabetes) the American Diabetes Association has made this a day to alert people about the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Now it all makes sense. It is about type 2 and I am a type 1.
I do recognize that the diabetes epidemic is truly a type 2 issue but all of us are affected and now people that type 2 diabetes affects. This day should matter and be on the minds of everyone. I will say that for many years, just hearing "type 2" instantly made me check out of the conversation. (READ MORE)

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I should have known. I should have known it wouldn't have been as easy as "Now your sensors are covered. Call XX Medical Supply company to order. Call me with questions."
 

So, last time I wrote about this, I was getting some much loved satisfaction regarding finally thinking my insurance company had come to its senses about this disposable coverage crap. I mean, really, they'll pay for the machine but not the parts that make it work? Ugh!
 

So the last email I got from my health advocate, L, said the Medical Supply company had called her and said the disposable sensors were covered under the plan. She broke down the costs based on my deductible and 20% responsibility after the deductible was met. And then basically left it at that, thinking her job was done. And for all I knew it was.
 

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What the hell just happened?

 

Remember me blabbing away about being so fortunate and grateful to the school for providing classroom aides for Charlie? Aides, who would blend into the background and seamlessly check Charlie's blood sugar, count out carbs and give him insulin? Remember how Susanne spent the first day of school training the aides in how to use the pump? Remember how we met with the school officials and how they all signed off on the 504 plan? Remember how it was the school's idea in the first place to hire these aides for the very purpose of testing blood sugar and administrating insulin?

Well, forget all that.

Oh, and remember the morning aide who has type 2 diabetes? She has really been working out great.

She's leaving. Found another job apparently. Leaving the glamorous life of pricking fingers and counting crackers.

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I've always been blessed with fairly amazing insurance. My dad worked for the city of Houston for several decades, so our family has always had the group policy with a large subscriber base and it's stayed the same since I was born.

 

After he retired, we kept the same insurance as part of his pension plan. Our co-pays rarely change for either doctors or prescriptions. They pay roughly eighty percent of most procedures and devices. And since I was blessed with a stable income family, I'm able to afford the $45 copays and twenty percent of the pump.

 

But in the last few years and with the new health issues, my health bills seem to be piling up. And with the economy the way it is, I'm starting to stress about how to pay for some of the necessary (and probably not so necessary) items.

 

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I generally consider myself to be fairly mature for my age. I've attributed my maturity to the experiences I've been through, mostly from dealing with a chronic illness from such a young age. It definitely puts a different spin on your whole life. You consider life as temporary, something to be cherished. You know you don't have all the time in the world.

 

Despite the maturity, I've still got growing up to do. There are things that diabetes and all my other experiences haven't taught me. I still have the passion and will of my youth to contend against on a regular basis. I'm holding on to pieces of that youth for good reason, seeing where maturity can change life for the worse in some ways.

 

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