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Today is the sixteenth anniversary of my diabetes diagnosis. And I'm not sure that I know what I feel, or if I'm feeling anything at all. Should I celebrate? Should I reflect? Should I move on and never recognize the day at all?

 

I definitely believe that it's a day worth recognizing. Sixteen years with this disease is a lifetime, a major feat, a true achievement. But I guess I just don't know how to feel on the actual anniversary.

 

For me, diabetes is a daily walk. It's a constant celebration. I'm always cursing it. Not a second of my life goes by without considering the consequences of diabetes, both in the present and in the future.

 

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He doesn’t say "if there’s a cure." He says, "When there’s a cure."

 

We are on our way to Carlucci’s, a restaurant that will donate 15% of one night’s dinner sales to JDRF.

 

I glance at Charlie in the rear-view mirror.

 

"When there’s a cure, I’m going to take my pump, jump up in the air and smash it down on the ground like football players do when they score a touchdown."

 

"You mean you’re going to spike it?" I ask.

 

"Mmhmm."

 

"And I’m going to throw all of my diabetes supplies in the garbage."

 

He stares through the car window at used car dealerships and strip malls, thinking longer about it.

 

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Hallowe'en is a time of transformations.

 

In the ancient Celtic traditions (and the modern Wiccan ones), Samhain is the time at which the Goddess — old, and lonely, and missing her lover — goes to the Summerland to be with him. With her goes light and warmth, fertility, and life. The Samhain Sabbat denotes the end of summer/fall and the beginning of the winter seasons, a time when the last harvest has come in and when the herds are pared down to what the community can feed through the winter, and what will be able to reproduce in the spring.

 

It is a time of plenty, preceding a known time of famine.

 

It is also the start of the new year.

 

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This year’s JDRF annual conference has asked those involved with JDRF to compose a “Commitment to a Cure” piece. They will be using these commitment items to display on the Commitment Wall in hopes of increasing interest, passion and the volume of responses at the conference. 

 

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October has proven to be a pretty busy month so far, and there still 11 days to go.

 

April & I celebrated 8 years together on Oct. 8th; most of our 4 day celebration weekend was spent driving around northeast Indiana, visiting little towns and taking pictures of the fall leaves. I’ve uploaded some of the photos to Flickr gallery; check them out and let me know which ones you like the most.

 

This past weekend, April managed to win tickets to a monster truck rally. So, we spent the majority of Saturday afternoon and evening in Auburn, watching big trucks smash little cars. Pictures of those will be available as soon as I find the time. I’ve been dealing with an injured hand this week, and just haven’t gotten around to dumping the camera yet.

 

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Happy Halloween! I suspect it is only in the USA that Halloween has taken on such huge proportions. It's the number two holiday for decoration sales. There are probably a lot of interesting psychological reasons why Americans are drawn to a holiday all about appearing to be someone else; but that's a post for a different forum.
As a person with type 2 diabetes, I really dislike the candy aspect of the celebration. In all honesty, I really LIKE the candy aspect, but dislike having to try and restrain myself. It didn't used to be ALL candy. Remember apples? But then the urban myth of the razor blade in the apple started and that was the end of apples for trick or treat.
Remember "Trick or Treat for UNICEF"? I haven't see that for several years. (READ MORE)

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It's a milestone - but not one worthy of celebration.

Charlie is approaching five years with this despicable disease.

We can't remember Charlie without diabetes. Charlie can't either. His earliest memories will contain images of blood being taken from his fingertips constantly, being poked with sharp objects and juice being forced down his throat in the middle of the night.

Soon we won't be able to remember a time when Charlie wasn't attached to an insulin pump; a time when tape and tubing and needle wasn't fastened to his body 24 hours a day like some sort of medieval torture device.

I want this to all be a dream that seemed so real.

I want diabetes to be forgotten. Gone so long, the word escapes me.

Gone so long, the word is mispronounced.

We need a cure. We need a cure now. 

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After my work function last week, my mom and I met at a resort to spend some quality girl time together. It was much needed for both of us as we haven't been able to spend a lot of time just the two of us doing the things we love to do since I moved four hours away. We went shopping, ate a lot of good food, got massages, and talked non-stop over the weekend.

 

We also had a few drinks in celebration of our vacation. Neither my mother or I drink to get drunk. We like to enjoy a glass of wine or a margarita socially, which is what we did. The first night, I had a glass of white wine with my salmon salad. It was delicious and my mother didn't say much.

 

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There is a lot on my mind and a lot on my to do list these days. I've got 36 days of school left (including weekends)! Which means I've got about 38 days until I'm on my way to Europe for my lovely graduation celebration!

 

In between now and then...I've got so much to do between school, work, and those pesky life events. So right now, I just want to "veg" out and not think about any of it. To just take a break. And this is how I'm spending that veggie moment.

 

What are your current obsessions?
I tend to go bonkers for people. I really like spending time with my close friends. But obsessions with people sounds a bit psycho...so we'll go with organizing and slowly packing my apartment. Do you know how much one person can accumulate in three years?!?

 

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In an exclusive interview with Glamour magazine, Academy Award-nominated actress Salma Hayek admitted that she suffered from diabetes during her pregnancy. The news of her temporary bout with diabetes has the entertainment industry shocked and wanting answers.
In what has already been a turbulent year for Hollywood following the Halle Berry public relations disaster, another mega-celebrity has come forward to reveal her struggles with the disease.
Avon, for which Hayek has served as spokesperson since 2004, announced that it has begun an internal investigation into whether or not Hayek had diabetes while representing the cosmetics giant. (READ MORE)

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