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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: diabetes police obsession self-care
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Tick, tock, tick, tock.
Every one of us with diabetes hears that clock ticking away.
Glucose, insulin, ketones, tests.
The endless cycle never rests.
Fail once to heed the daily strife
And that day you may lose your life.
Alarmists are everywhere. Family, friends, strangers, all with the best of intentions.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: depression self sabotage weight loss
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"I don't care."
That has been a familiar phrase from my lips lately. My wife asks me how many Weight Watchers points a particular meal is when we go out to dinner and I will respond with "I don't care." That probably explains why I have gained two pounds over the past two weeks. I just do not care.
And with that I have not really calculated my carbs. I have been loosely guessing and then making major corrections 2 hours later. I am still checking my BG. I am not guessing on that. But I just feel so uninterested in my life right now. I know that makes no sense especially since I am writing about it now.
I guess I am looking for advice although I do not feel I am in a place to accept or follow any of it. Maybe I want to hear, "I've been there and its okay." Maybe that will make me feel better. I don't know. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: burnout
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Yesterday, George talked about not caring. Burnout is something I think we all go through in all parts of our lives, but perhaps especially when it comes to diabetes.
I can't think of another chronic illness where the victim is in almost complete control. What I mean is that in theory, if a person with diabetes does everything "right" then everything should be OK. I'll even go out on a limb and say that people addicted to alcohol or drugs don't have as much control over their disease as people with diabetes are lead to believe they have.
High post-prandial numbers? It's your fault.
High A1C? It's your fault.
Meds not working? It's your fault.
Complications? It must be your fault.
In contrast--in-range post prandials, an A1C lower than 7 and 20 years complication free equal a high-five and "Great job!" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: caring community depression
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Yesterday was just a crappy day in general. I think my brain was just working overtime which is never good for me. I try to keep the depression that comes with having diabetes at bay but sometimes it is overwhelming. Sometimes it seems nothing will get me out of it.
I have found the best way for me to get this junk out is to get it out literally literally! I write my blog here at dLife and my personal blog. I share the good times and bad. So many times I have thought, "no one wants to hear about my cruddy day" but whenever I have, someone else has commented on how they too feel that way now and then. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: Blog diagnosis story gum
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Can we be better caregivers? I guess. We can always be better. We were thrown into this diabetes life without much warning just like many of you. We were caregivers merely by having children, but care-giving on this level is a beast of another color.
On this day, six years ago, Charlie was diagnosed with diabetes. He was still slurping from a bottle. What is it about the fall? So many people are diagnosed this time of year.
The changing leaves. Halloween. Sunday football. Apple cider. Sweaters. Murder within the pancreas. All trademarks of autumn.
I was giving Maeve a bath when Susanne decided to take him to the hospital despite the pediatrician’s lackluster opinion on the matter.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions In the News Real Life
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I woke up this morning thinking of a friend, Jennifer Stowers-Quintal. Jen was a promising teacher, artist, musician and dancer from the Boston area. The light of so many lives, including her amazing parents, her fiancé and her students at the Blackstone Elementary School in the South End of Boston, Jen passed away in 2003 at the age of 23 just 3 months after surviving the Station Nightclub Fire and 6 weeks before her planned wedding.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: caregiver diabetes police empathy Type 3
Views: 784
Whether or not we recognize it explicitly, we are all caregivers (aka, T3s). Whether we serve a family member, someone in our neighborhood or church, or just others on the dLife forums and in the dLife community, we are each part of someone else's diabetes support team.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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I am at a loss for words lately. It's a prolonged case of writer's block. I just have nothing much to say about any of this. I mean, what else can I say?
Nothing changes, yet everything is so different. It's the same day in, day out. The routine goes on constantly. How can I keep repeating what this life is like when we've all heard it (and lived it) every day before?
I'm just not sure what to say about something that is sometimes so monotonous. I feel as if I'm writing the same words over and over, the same topics again and again. Every day is just a jumble of finger sticks, insulin injections, and ups and downs. Every day is just a day with or without pain, a fight against fatigue or a celebration of energy.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
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Views: 690
I believe that every single person makes mistakes. And I believe that every single person has at least one thing in their life that they feel they simply, absolutely CANNOT afford to make a mistake around.
Sometimes, it's related to caring for a child. Sometimes, it's related to caring for someone else. Sometimes, it's related to work. Sometimes, to finances. Always, there are things that people are particularly protective about and things they just beat themselves up over when they (often inevitably) make a mistake related to them.
For me, there is nothing I'm more self-critical about, more afraid of screwing up, than my diabetes. I guess it's pretty obvious why. Diabetes mistakes, when repeated too often, have some severe consequences. Diabetes mistakes can be dangerous. Not to be melodramatic, but in truth, diabetes mistakes can be fatal.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
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Today's DBlog Week Prompt: Living with diabetes (or caring for someone who lives with it) sure does take a lot of work, and it’s easy to be hard on ourselves if we aren’t “perfect”. But today it’s time to give ourselves some much deserved credit. Tell us about just one diabetes thing you (or your loved one) does spectacularly! Fasting blood sugar checks, oral meds sorted and ready, something always on hand to treat a low, or anything that you do for diabetes. Nothing is too big or too small to celebrate doing well!
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