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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Complications
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Summer. I really do love summer. I love being able to take off at will to the beach on a weekend night and spend time with people I adore. I love all that's happening in my city - arts fairs, outdoor gatherings, BBQs. I love taking off to camp nearby or afar or on the roof of a city building.
If there's one thing I'd change about summer it's the impact the searing heat always seems to have on my diabetes.
I've lost a bunch of weight this summer, primarily because I am never, ever hungry in the heat. Nothing seems to taste as good. Well, maybe watermelon, ice cream, and ribs - but who can live on those things alone? On top of that, it seems that my body is working so hard at trying to cool me down, it forgets the part it needs to play, in conjunction with my pump, in bloodsugar regulation.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: challenge exercise walk
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I had planned to walk my new walking route at least once this weekend so I'd know roughly how long it will take me. But, well that just didn't happen. With Saturday came a walk with the kids to the park and with Sunday came a well deserved three-hour nap.
I have to challenge myself with just about everything. And by challenge I mean I have to make it easy to succeed. So, I need a walking route that doesn't involve any shortcuts; nothing that will allow me to start out thinking I'll be walking for 2 miles and wind up going only 1.5.
For example, when I was a senior in college, I lived in an apartment with two friends. In an attempt to stretch my walk out, I included a small cul de sac. But, you guessed it, I often skipped it because it was easy to skip... just go straight instead of turning right.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Fitness Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: Blogabetes life reality TV
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Life is fascinating to me. I truly am blown away by it. I am amazed with this world, the people in it and everything about it. Tonight I was watching a show that was very real. The show was called "Intervention". I don't normally get too caught up in television. I don't find much on TV that I can learn from or that I find really enjoyable. I like seeing things that are as real as possible. I like learning from and being around different types of people and gaining knowledge from real experiences. That is why I enjoy this website that you're on right now- they are real stories from real people. When you have diabetes, I think you see life through a different lens. You learn to appreciate the "realness" in what and who is around you. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Fitness
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Views: 678
Around this time of year, the bad food choices flood home and office.
Yesterday, I managed to eat a smallish Thanksgiving Dinner, but in the end, I gave in to a piece of perfectly yummy cake. Having been sick with the flu, I haven't been to the gym in over a week, making poor food choices even more detrimental in terms of weight and overall health. I dosed appropriately, thus avoiding any major bloodsugar scandals (I had one low toward the end of the evening, which seemed flukish), but still I felt like I'd betrayed my body with overindulgence.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: parents with diabetes talking to children
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Being a dad has lots of challenges. Heck, being a parent is the best but scariest job you can have! But having diabetes and being a parent has its own unique challenges.
I find that when my kids witness a low or any complication with my disease I end up feeling guilty. Why should they have to worry about their father at such a young age? They have enough to worry about. I hate it.
One evening my kids started asking lots of questions about diabetes and of course, I am always willing to talk to them about anything they are questioning. My son asked, "Are we going to get diabetes?" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Relationships Emotions
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Views: 930
I am so very fortunate.
I am surrounded by people who care about me, and who understand my diabetes. I have family, friends, co-workers, and online cheerleaders (like you!) who "get" diabetes, who understand the physical and emotional challenges, and who are willing to help me manage under what are often difficult circumstances.
This is no small thing.
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Categories: Type 1 Relationships Real Life
Tags: diabetes at work disclosure to tell or not to tell
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Recently, a woman at work discovered I have diabetes. I don't hide the fact that I have it at work, but it's not readily apparent. In the interest of safety, I've told several key people outright - and the folks in the near vicinity of my work space know because I don't hide my testing, pumping, or other efforts toward good control. If someone asks, I am usually happy to answer questions, clear up misconceptions, or alleviate concerns.
L, who works on the other side of our fairly large office, and who I don't see that often, came to my desk the other day and rather unceremoniously started into a monologue about my diabetes, It went something like, "Oh, Nicole" Look of concern, "A just told me about your diabetes. You have the bad kind, don't you? You have to take shots and things. Oh it must be so hard with having it the way you do. You have to stay away from sweets and I bet the shots hurt a lot."
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Categories: Type 1 Relationships Emotions Real Life
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Views: 580
I have
struggled with depression for as long as I remember. At one point in time in my twenties, my
grandmother, my mother and I were all taking Prozac at the same time…. Is it
genetic, is it environmental, why is my family so prone to being depressed? Is it just a state of mind? Can I train myself to deal with it without
using medication? I was off meds for
years, until my LADA diagnosis, then my world fell apart and the depression
cloud parked itself on top of my head once again, and hasn’t budged since.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2
Tags: Spirituality and diabetes Sweat Lodge
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What types of spiritual practices or mental exercises do you use to help you cope with diabetes? For me, I like to mix things up and do whatever feels right at the time. Typically I use martial arts, exercise or various "mental exercises" like praying, meditation and reading spiritual books. I also love to listen to a variety of music and sit and relax around fires. This weekend will have me trying something that I have never attempted before but something that I have always been interested and curious about - a Native American sweat lodge.
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Today, at the grocery store, I spotted a pump.
On a woman at the deli, a black Deltec Cozmo.
Seeing a pump like that, I can’t help but ask about it.
Once, on a train, I saw a woman dosing herself, with what was obviously a pump. When I asked her about it, flashing her my own portable pancreas, she looked shocked and said “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I felt terribly for asking about something that clearly made her uncomfortable.
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