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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Highs & Lows Relationships In the News Real Life
Tags: Avandia caretaker patient advocate
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As a person with diabetes, I find myself constantly informing others.
As a person with diabetes, who also has a 90-year-old grandmother with type 2 diabetes, I find that I am a springboard for "real world" information for my mom and aunts who have to sift through what Bami's doctors tell them, what they hear on the news and what they read. It wasn't long after the oral diabetes drug Avandia made headlines in regard to worsening heart conditions that I got calls and emails from Mom and my two aunts. Bami has a history of heart trouble (runs in the family) and had a severe heart attack roughly 20 years ago. They wanted to know if she should stay on the drug. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
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In DIABETES, "A" is another one of those letters that could stand for quite a few things. Appointments, anger, Apidra, Animas, amputation, and plenty more. There's plenty that I could say on all that (except Apidra because I don't know much about it). All that is so overdone though. So I'm picking a topic that I too often overlook on a daily basis when it comes to diabetes.
A: Appreciation is sometimes really difficult when it comes to chronic illness. Who wants to appreciate portions of this disease? Who wants to talk about gratitude when there's so much to hate? I definitely don't. So this appreciation isn't for diabetes. I'm not talking about how diabetes has changed me for the better, made me more responsible, opened my heart to so many amazing people. I'm not talking about that because even with that I have hate.
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Categories: Type 1 In the News Real Life
Tags: 25 random things about diabetes
Views: 1365
As a young twenty-something, I'm very in tune with my inner Facebook(er). So I've noticed the trend of posting 25 random things about yourself, although I haven't quite given into it yet. However, I decided after this 25 random things post to create my own 25 random diabetes things.
So here's my 25 Random Things About My Life With Diabetes:
1. Diabetes is sometimes the best thing that's happened to me.
2. It's also often the worst.
3. I rarely follow any type of diabetes diet, although I'm sure it'd help my control.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Views: 1328
I went to pick up a basketball hoop I found on craigslist. It was in pretty good shape. The couple, maybe in their mid-40s, only used it when their niece and nephew visited. We spent about an hour and a half trying to get that behemoth into my car. Not fun.
As I was tying down the base of the hoop, which stuck out the back of the car slightly, the woman approached me, asking how long I've had diabetes.
"Sorry?"
I had no idea where was she getting this from.
"Oh, the decal?" I asked.
It being my wife's car, I forgot she had an "I Love a Child with Juvenile Diabetes" magnet stuck to the back of the car. A much more heartfelt message than the one on my car that says "I'd Love my Child more if He Didn't Have Diabetes."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management low
Views: 1322
When I look back on my blood sugars today all I can think is WTF?
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