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Categories: Relationships Real Life
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I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’ve once again been missing in action lately. Life, as it sometimes does, has been happening to me and my family quite a bit the last month, and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.
My mother-in-law was rushed to the hospital on November 4th, after experiencing what can only be described as excruciating pain in the left side of her abdomen. Initial diagnostic imaging revealed several masses of varying size all around her abdomen and into her chest.
Initially, they thought she might have had some form of lymphoma, but without a biopsy and further examination, they couldn’t tell us for sure. So, a week later, my mother-in-law was still in the hospital and underwent surgery to remove a large mass from around her heart. The surgeon also did a biopsy of a nodule on her lung while he was at it.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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I’m thankful it’s just diabetes.
Was just watching a news story about a cute little girl. Her mother applied a numbing cream to her skin. It reminded of what we do for Charlie before we insert his sensor. There was an injection but it wasn’t insulin. It was chemotherapy. She grimaced ever so slightly as it went into her chest.
I’m thankful it’s just diabetes.
I’m thankful for my family.
I’m thankful that my grandmother is not in pain as she gets ready to leave us.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Women's Issues Real Life
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I’m generally not a jealous person (at least I don’t think so), but “jealousy” is the only way I think I can describe what I’m going through right now.
Every time I see an ad for the breast cancer three-day walk — which is about every 30 seconds these days — I want to hurl the TV across the room. Why? Because why can’t that much attention be paid to people with diabetes?
Yes, I know there are walks for diabetes. But are there commercials with people dressed in blue saying “Save the ta-tas”… er, “Save the pancreases of the world” and “If I can walk 20 miles a day in support of my mother/sister/aunt/uncle/son/daughter then anyone can?” No, there aren’t.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: blood infusion set changes
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I typically bleed easily. I’ve been that way for awhile. My body just doesn’t want to clot very quickly. Unfortunately, as a diabetic, I bleed more often than I don’t. Between finger pricks and infusion set changes, there’s always blood. Sometimes, there’s very little. My fingers will refuse to bleed no matter how much I try to get them to. The infusion set won’t bleed at all when I pull the old one off.
Other times, I’m Old Faithful gushing out the bright red mix. Sometimes the stories are funny. Sometimes they are annoying. Mostly, they are life.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
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If everyone threw their problems in the air, would you reach out and grab someone else's problem or would you look around and decide to pull your own back down and reclaim it? Depends on the problem, I suppose. The popular option might be to let them all just hit the ground and splatter like water balloons.
But, that's not an option.
Susanne and I had a very nice and extremely rare night out alone on Saturday. We had dinner and saw some great live music at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia. My mother and step-father, the angels that they are, agreed to mind the animals at home - checking Charlie's blood sugar every seven-and-a-half seconds. By the time we got home, the piece of paper with numerous blood sugar numbers looked like a page ripped out of a fifth-grade mathematics text book. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: chemotherapy lymphoma
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A friend of mine died last night, following a battle with lymphoma. The disease came back last summer after he had been in remission about a year. It was discovered about a week after my daughter was born. The prognosis was not good with a recurrence within a year at mid-life. He was only 45 and left two teenage children.
We had fallen out of touch in recent years, but I knew through his sister that he had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. (READ MORE)
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