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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: emotions pump Supplies Terminology
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I called my supply company today. A very good company that provides me with all of my pump supplies - including batteries and IV preps - thank you very much! Here's how the call went:
"Hello, this is Nicole Purcell calling, I'm due for my supplies so I'm just calling in."
"Oh, OK, hold on a second."
I hold on, hearing her type-type-typing.
"Oh, you're a pump."
"Excuse me?"
"You're a pump, just hold...o..."
"Excuse me, before you transfer me, I need to tell you that I am not, in fact, a pump. But I am a person that wears a pump..." Letting that little gem hang out there for an uncomfortably silent few seconds. "Hello, are you still there?" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: Christmas holiday lights insulin
Views: 2686
Julia
I've often thought about making some sort of subtle statement around the holidays regarding diabetes. It's a tough time of the year when you have diabetes - there are so many sugar-laden treats around and your schedule is usually out of whack so blood sugars and testing can fall by the wayside in the whirl of activities.
So for the last few months, I've been saving Olivia's insulin bottles. I planned on putting them on a string of lights once I had enough and then putting them on the tree.
Last night, I happened to be in CVS, getting my thyroid medication (and gummy bears, as you do) and I saw these Tiny Lights and I thought "Perfect!" I grabbed a box and was on my way.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: diabetes gadgets paraphernalia
Views: 2350
Diabetes has always entailed a lot of paraphernalia. Back in the day, meters were three times the size they are now. Bottles of strips weighed a ton. And syringes came with much longer needles. Plus there were juice boxes, snack packs, and rolls of candy. But even now, with all the advances in this modern day and age, diabetes comes with baggage (and I'm not talking the emotional kind).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children In the News Real Life
Tags: batteries Earth Day OmniPod recycling waste
Views: 2292
Today is Earth Day and having grown up in an environmentally responsible household, I consciously make green decisions throughout my day. Turning off lights here, not wasting water there, paper over plastic… any little thing that I know eventually adds up in a big way. A difficult part of deciding on a pump, however, was the green impact it carried along with it. The OmniPod was designed to be worn for three days and then hucked in the trash… really? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: fatigue fear of lows night lows seizures
Views: 2099
I didn't sleep enough Wednesday night, so by Thursday afternoon my eyelids were heavy and my body was screaming out "Sleep! Sleep!" So a little after five in the afternoon, I decided to take a quick nap. A little power nap to recharge my batteries before diving into study and cleaning mode to prepare for the coming weekend.
My blood sugar was at 222 with only a little active insulin. I'd been high in the early afternoon and hadn't accurately bolused for a late lunch. I decided to leave it alone until after my nap though...giving my body an hour or two to use that remaining insulin and peak out.
I curled up in bed with my cat and a good book...falling asleep within a few minutes. It was a dreamless sleep...too deep to notice the world around me or the world inside me. A limitless fatigue overwhelming every inch of my body and soul. The effects of ineffective sleeping and the recent change in medications.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: infusion sets insulin pump Supplies
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This morning I woke up to my pump alarm yelling at me. I turned over and looked at the clock. Having over an hour before I needed to wake up I grabbed my pump and pressed the ESC and ACT buttons to kill the alarm and fell quickly back to sleep. I knew this morning was going to be an infusion set change day so I was not surprised, just annoyed.
No sooner did I go back to sleep that I heard the alarm again. Not normally when you clear the low reservoir alarm you have another 10 units of insulin worth before the alarm goes off again. I reached under the blankets and cleared the alarm again. I don't think I even achieved REM state before my alarm went off and I was up for good. Bummer. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: Stomach Issues
Views: 1440
I had to pick Olivia up from school again today because her stomach was nauseous again. She's been on a course of Zantac for a couple of weeks now and it seemed to work for a while. This is the first time she's felt this bad. She told me last night that her stomach was a little sore, but not queasy.
So, I'm off to the store to get more Zantac (and pump batteries, which seem to have disappeared - I'm blaming my husband and all of his electronic gadgets) and I'm logging (I know!!!) all of her food. I haven't logged actual food in a while - just carbs. Thank goodness I have a good spreadsheet for all this. I'm just going to leave it open on the computer all day. Hopefully that will prompt me to get the stuff in there on a daily basis rather than slacking and then playing catch up. She's never going to remember what she ate yesterday and I certainly don't expect her to.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: diabetes in school
Views: 1344
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 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: diagnosis emergency preparedness motivation spring
Views: 917
Après moi, le déluge.
In Genesis Chapter 9, G-d commands Noach to build a watertight vessel and to stock it with all species of life known to man. Following this interchange, the earth was subjected to forty days and forty nights of rain, sufficient to wash all living things -- except for those ensconced in the ark -- from the earth.
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: cold diet food choices hyperglycemia hypertension hypoglycemia night time lows
Views: 628
If my online presence has seemed a bit sparse this week, it's because most of my time has been "off the grid".
Without going into the sordid details, we have been without gas and electric for the better part of the past week, and will probably remain so for the next two or three days.
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