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Are you ready for some football? I know I am! If you're expecting a child with diabetes at your Super Bowl party this year, you've come to the right place. You don't have to "fumble" with recipe ideas just because a diabetic is coming over. You'll score a touchdown with these quick and easy Super Bowl Bites that are delicious and more importantly, sugar free!
To throw a successful Super Bowl party that is fun for everyone (including the diabetic), you don't have to have candy and pie. There are tons and tons of other none-sugar options. When I think Super Bowl, I immediately think of the iconic sub sandwich. Call it a hoagie or a grinder or whatever you like, but nothing says Super Bowl like this traditional sandwich. Best part about it. No sugar. Just bread and cold cuts. Let your little diabetic go back for seconds. Heck! Why not thirds?
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Last week, Kelly at Diabetesaliciousness blogged and tweeted about diabetes misconceptions she'd like the folk at Mythbusters to debunk. This past Tuesday, the theme for the sixth annual D-Blog Day was "Six things you'd like people to know about diabetes". Around the blogosphere we saw everything from "Don't tell me I can/can't eat that" to "don't pity me" and, most of all, "Don't assume that my diabetes is the same as your [cat's, aunt's, grandmother's, BFF's ex-lover's second-cousin's mother-in-law's] diabetes". (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
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My numbers have been a horrid mess lately. I keep complaining about them, blogging about it, and staring at them on the meter screen. But nothing seems to change.
I'm not talking about the kind of mess that's like "Oh yea I'm waking up high or man those 200s won't come down." I'm talking about easily sliding into the high 200, 300 and even 400 range. I'm talking about my body just being riddled with the after effects of all these highs. I'm talking about a constant battle with torrential numbers.
I just can't seem to find the middle ground with my diabetes lately. Well, to be honest, with my entire life. I still haven't found a job. I haven't made any new best friends. More often than not, I am sitting in my apartment reading or watching TV with the cat. More often than not, I'm distracting my loneliness and my stress with food, inactivity, and general bad habits.
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Diatribe recently ran an interview with the JDRF's new President and CEO Jeffrey Brewer. In the interview, as do most new Presidents, Mr. Brewer outlined his vision for the organization. It includes "moving away from the over reliance on the cure as the central part of our message and funding" and a new focus on improvements in day to day living for people with type 1 and seeking means of prevention for those at risk for type 1.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
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It's been an odd few weeks here on the Beedies front. When my doctor sent me to see the endocrinologist a few weeks ago, it was with the grim admonishment that I was most likely going to have to go on insulin. My comfortable little world of better living through pharmaceuticals was going to be swept away, and in its place I would find myself trudging through a grim dystopia of syringes in my bathroom, sad little bottles in the butter tray of my fridge and a pocketful of Jolly Ranchers to fend off hypoglycemic death.
I am perhaps overstating the possible state of affairs.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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"I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more. All along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more." ~ "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri
When I hear this song, I don't think Twilight's Breaking Dawn (part of the soundtrack). I don't even think of marriage. I do think of falling in love and watching the love of my life though. When I hear this song, I think of my child.
A child that doesn't even exist on this world yet. A child that is years down the road. A child that I cannot see or feel or hug at this moment. But a child that exists for me, none the less.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
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I've been doing some reading on diabulimia. It's not a recognized eating disorder, but it certainly sounds like it should be.
Diabulimia is a means of weight loss, primarily suffered by young women. In order to lose weight, they use far less, sometimes even no insulin and let their blood sugars run very high. It means they can eat whatever they want without it having any repercussions on their weight. I remember how skinny Olivia was when she was diagnosed, just before her 3rd birthday. She only weighed 24 lbs. Her body was eating itself.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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When Charlie and I arrived at the Walk to Cure Diabetes on Sunday it was a little chilly. Charlie had his sweatshirt zipped up high, covering his Charlie's Angels team T-shirt.
I unzipped my hoodie and urged Charlie to do the same.
"C'mon! You gotta wear that Charlie's Angels shirt with pride!"
Charlie shuffled beside me, his eyes pointed toward the pavement.
"I'm not proud to have diabetes."
I think I said something dumb in response like, "What do you mean?"
Of course I knew what he meant. He meant exactly what he said.
"Diabetes is stupid," he added. "I can't eat whatever I want whenever I want to."
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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My daughter Maeve says that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition should come to our house.
"I mean look at this place, "she said, kicking the baseboard.
"The heat doesn’t work good."
"There’s a hole in the wall."
(Editor’s note: For the record, the hole in the wall she’s referring to is from a picture frame and is no bigger than a pupil in a guppy’s eye.)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships In the News
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Have diabetes? Get married.
This headline out of Mumbai caught my eye. I've been urging Charlie to get married for years.
The article is about an online matchmaking service in India called diabeticmatrimony.com.
Looking for your diabetic soul mate? Looking for that certain special diabetic someone? Want to trade in your spouse for one who gets it? Someone who really understands what it's like to have diabetes? Diabeticmatrimony.com might be for you.
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