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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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This is hard. How do I say this?
After more than five years of blogging and more than 500 blog posts, it just feels like it's time. What else can I say about Charlie and diabetes that hasn't already been said? How many times can I tell you about a dreadful night of high blood sugars? How many times can I bitch and moan about the unpredictability of this disease? How many times will I attempt to use humor and satire to cope with this shitty situation?
I'm a broken record. It's time for it to stop.
I have met lots of great people along the way and have received so much wonderful support from so many of you. Thank you so much for following along with the blog and reading about our ridiculously dysfunctional life with diabetes. I hope we can keep in touch. It's been a blast.
Stop! No more tears! You promised!
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Categories: Complications
Tags: blogosphere complications dLife retinopathy
Views: 2030
One of our readers, Teresa, has some questions for the Blogabetes readers about diabetic retinopathy. Has anyone had retinopathy surgery and can share their experiences with Teresa?
"I have a question that I was unable to find an answer for, and couldn't figure out how to post a new blog. I have type 1 diabetes and have had it for over 30 years. I have retinopathy and have had many surgeries. I now have cataracts as a secondary problem of the surgeries and my doc wants to remove them, I have done some fairly extensive research on the two (retinopathy and cataracts) and have found that most articles agree that cataract surgery speeds up the process of retinopathy. Has anyone here had this surgery as a person also with retinopathy?
Does anyone know more about the complications?
- Teresa" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: Amazing Race
Views: 3868
Four continents, 30 cities and 32,000 miles. Adventure seeker Nat Strand and her teammate Kat Chang made history as the first all-female team to win CBS's The Amazing Race. Her accomplishment, however, doesn't stop there. Strand, a 32-year-old doctor from Scottsdale, Arizona, had an additional "road block" to contend with during her race around the world - she has type 1 diabetes.
Congratulations! The first all-female team and the first person with type 1 diabetes to win the Amazing Race. My 8-year-old son Charlie, who has diabetes, thinks you're pretty cool. Or was it cool and pretty. Something like that.
Thank you so much! Having type 1 diabetes, I was just happy to finish the race. Winning it and being the first female team to win it was the icing on the cake.
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| R.I.P. |
| Madeline "Kara" Neumann |
A lot of people in the blogosphere are posting about this poor young girl. I don't know that I can add much except my sorrow.
I just can't stop thinking about her. Since I became a mother these kinds of stories really impact me and stick in my head. Like the guy who microwaved his newborn daughter, or the 2 year old found in a plastic container in the Gulf of Mexico. Perhaps Madeline was not so blatantly abused, but she is dead never the less.
I'm very tolerant religously-speaking. Heck, I'm even a Unitarian. But I totally don't understand this. This girl had to be extremely ill for several days at a minimum. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Real Life
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Last week was Invisible Illness Week which I missed thanks to my crazy work schedule and inactivity here in the blogosphere. But there was a "30 Things About My Invisible Illness" meme floating around that I really wanted to get in on. So here it is:
1. The illness(es) I live with is/are: Type 1 Diabetes, PCOS, and endometriosis
2. I was diagnosed with it in the year: 1993 and 2009
3. But I had symptoms since: Two to three weeks before. I got sick very quickly with the D. The PCOS/endometriosis took several years to diagnosis.
4. The biggest adjustment I’ve had to make is: I have no idea considering that I don't remember what life was like before this. I'd say in recent years, the biggest thing has been bolusing for even the tiniest amount of carbs that go into my mouth.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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Views: 573
It's dblog day here in the diabetes blogosphere. The web is alive with exciting variations of "Six things you want people to know about diabetes." And I'm joining in this dblog day (it also happens to be my birthday) with my own variation of these six things. Six things I want you to know about MY diabetes.
I can talk all day about the facts of diabetes and overcome myths and point out the truth of this disease. But there's a big difference between telling you all the facts of diabetes (like the difference between type 1 and type 2) and telling you what my diabetes is actually like. My diabetes is not your diabetes or the diabetic sitting next to you at work. We are all different and each have our own things that pertain to our unique situations.
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Categories: Type 2 Food In the News
Tags: fructose hfcs High Fructose Corn Syrup
Views: 3694
I'm interested in the high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) debate, which has been in the news again. I believe it probably is a factor in the "epidemic" of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
I thought the Corn Refiners Association's ads this fall (here & here were a touch defensive. Can you say "the lady doth protest too much"?
What I missed until now was the hilarious YouTube backlash at these ads. Watch this, or this or search for HFCS and peruse dozens of videos.
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I got a link to an article from ABC News today about Halle Berry. I was encouraged to see that doctors are equally concerned with her claims that she's cured herself of type 1 diabetes.
"Diabetics quickly took to the blogosphere to condemn Berry for claiming that a change in diet could cure Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas permanently fails to produce insulin, the vital hormone that regulates sugar levels in the blood."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Food Complications Real Life
Tags: cures diabetes awareness month diabetes diet diabetes myths misconceptions about diabetes type 1 type2
Views: 1105
Last week, Kelly at Diabetesaliciousness blogged and tweeted about diabetes misconceptions she'd like the folk at Mythbusters to debunk. This past Tuesday, the theme for the sixth annual D-Blog Day was "Six things you'd like people to know about diabetes". Around the blogosphere we saw everything from "Don't tell me I can/can't eat that" to "don't pity me" and, most of all, "Don't assume that my diabetes is the same as your [cat's, aunt's, grandmother's, BFF's ex-lover's second-cousin's mother-in-law's] diabetes". (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: fighting with other diabetics
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What I really need is a good online diabetes-related battle. Nothing lights up the 'ole blog switchboard like a feud. I came across a rather heated one in the blogosphere recently. So lucky. All I ever get is nothing but stinkin' compassion and support. Anyone got a beef with me? Anyone? Come on, don't make me beg.
Type 2s? Come on, type 2s. When was the last time I addressed your concerns? How about like never. All I do is talk about my type 1 son. Booooring!
Type 1s? Come on, hit me!
I thought I had a real shot with the Sotomayor piece, but unfortunately most of those who commented, directed their anger not at me but instead at the fictional characters I created. Sigh.
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