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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
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What do you say to the person/people you haven't spoken to in four years? It wasn't a break up, it was just... distance and history.
You all know that I can talk/write up a storm. Especially about my life. But there's this letter I need to write that I can't figure out how to start. And I'm sure I've told you before that I'm the kind of writer who likes to start from the beginning. I've never been able to write the middle of a story first; I have to get the first paragraph down before anything else will fit.
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Women's Issues
Tags: Side effects
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At the end of this month, I'll see my endocrinologist for the first time since leaving the hospital with that adorable little bundle of joy. Prior to getting pregnant, I started taking insulin and I'm still on it. When I see the doctor again, I'll have the opportunity to change things up. Now that I'm done breastfeeding, I can go back on oral medications and put the insulin behind me.
Today, I started questioning if I really want to do that. What are the pros and cons of oral meds versus insulin? The obvious is a pill versus a shot, but after 15 months on insulin, I really don't have a problem with needles. Insulin is natural and the only real side effect is low blood sugar. Most oral meds have much worse side effects, like upset stomachs, headaches and rashes, in addition to hypoglycemia. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: education frustration hypoglycemia spouse
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: events fears life memories your thoughts
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Just the other day I was speaking with a group of co-workers about different life changing events in the life of someone with diabetes. As we sat there and talked about it I began to reflect on my own. I thought about the different times in my life such as diagnosis time, school, relationships, complications, and work. All things that every person living with diabetes can relate to, or will eventually deal with.
Where were you when you were diagnosed? What were you doing that day or at that particular time in your life? Were you at work? Were you at school? Did you go into a coma or diabetic ketoacidosis? Was your vision so blurry, that like me, you realized you couldn't see the picture on the t.v.?
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: diabetes in school
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Charlie's classmates grilled me and they grilled me good. After reading the book about diabetes, I was besieged with questions. I was amazed. Adults don't ask such good questions.
A lot of the questions were about the pump:
What happens if you lose the pump? What are all those buttons for? What do you do with the pump when you go to the beach? How long can he stay off the pump?
Charlie stood up beside me and demonstrated the pump like a flight attendant.
Batteries for the pump became the hottest topic of the day:
How do you know if the batteries are low? What do you do if he needs new batteries? How do you change the batteries? Where do you get batteries?
"Dudes, they're just triple As. You can get those just about anywhere."
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: diabulimia eating disorders
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"There’s a problem with Christmas," Charlie blurted out on Wednesday after dinner.
He looked troubled. His face was pink and he hid his eyes from Susanne’s with his forearm as if she was Medusa.
"What’s the problem with Christmas?" Susanne asked.
He shook his head.
"Charlie. Tell me. What’s the problem?"
"I can’t say it," he mumbled, his sleeve stuffed in his mouth like a gag.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: high blood sugar from adrenaline
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I've joked about adjusting Charlie's happiness levels due to the effect it has on his blood sugar. I'm finding now it's not so funny. The adrenalin that comes from excitement shoots Charlie's blood sugar up like a bottle rocket.
The latest culprit: summer street hockey.
Everything was fine on game day. We were at the pool having fun. Charlie clocked in at a lovely 132 just before I made the mistake of saying, "OK, let's go Charlie. We have to go home and get ready for hockey."
What a horrible dad I am to say such harmful words. In retrospect maybe I should have spoken with the enthusiasm of a corpse …
"You have that thing, Charlie. It's really nothing though."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: chinese food food boluses night lows success
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Considering the many battles that I fight with diabetes on any given day, I'm always pleased when things work out. I love success, in any shape or form. But especially in my diabetes world.
So Saturday night while I was visiting my dad, aunt and uncle, we decided to get Chinese food from a local restaurant (the best Chinese in all of Texas, I promise). I was definitely excited, but also silently stressing about how many carbs might be in my meal. Restaurant food is always hard to judge, but especially when it's something like Chinese at a small town joint that doesn't have carb counts available.
As I ordered my meal, I began to mentally guess the carbs. I'd splurged with my favorite: Sweet and Sour Chicken. It came with an eggroll and steamed rice. I was starting out my meal at 140, so whatever the carb count I'd need to add an extra unit to buffer the out of range blood sugar.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: carb counting cooking frustrations
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I was reading through the dLife Viewpoints section today and saw a post that really hit home.
It's called "Bested by a Can of Tomato Soup" by Scott Johnson and I think it should be required reading for type 3's and other people without diabetes.
Counting carbs can sometimes be a difficult and maddening situation.
And we do it for virtually every meal every day. I mean, we are supposed to.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: Logging
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Blah, blah, blah, here she goes again, pissing and moaning about logging.
Back when the year was shiny and new, as opposed to snow-covered and grubby (and enough with the snow already, ok? I'm SICK of it. Sick.) I resolved to be more diligent about logging Olivia's blood sugars. And for a few weeks I was. And then I forgot for a couple of days. And then it was Thursday and I thought, well, I'll just start over on Monday. And I forgot again.
I've logged in fits and starts over the last 2 months, but mostly, I haven't logged at all. And now she has an endo appointment tomorrow and I'm not going to have that much information to give her and I'm pissed at myself.
I just don't know how to make myself log. I forget. And if I'm forgetting to log, how am I supposed to teach Olivia? I'm not setting a good example at all and they always tell you (who are they anyway?) that you should lead by example when it comes to your kids.
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