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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: emotions pump Supplies Terminology
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I called my supply company today. A very good company that provides me with all of my pump supplies - including batteries and IV preps - thank you very much! Here's how the call went:
"Hello, this is Nicole Purcell calling, I'm due for my supplies so I'm just calling in."
"Oh, OK, hold on a second."
I hold on, hearing her type-type-typing.
"Oh, you're a pump."
"Excuse me?"
"You're a pump, just hold...o..."
"Excuse me, before you transfer me, I need to tell you that I am not, in fact, a pump. But I am a person that wears a pump..." Letting that little gem hang out there for an uncomfortably silent few seconds. "Hello, are you still there?" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: comments
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You've probably heard the phrase "seagull manager." A boss who comes in, craps all over the place, makes a big mess and then leaves. A recent blog post of mine seems to have brought in a seagull commenter. And, frankly, I'm quite angry about it.
The commenter accused me of being "selfish and neglectful and not a very good mother." That his/her "...biggest problem is that you complain about what an inconvenience it is for YOU." That I am "uninterested in Olivia's health." And finally, that I "didn't feel like being a mother."
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: children testing themselves endo visit
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At a recent family get-together, I gave a subtle "psssssst" to my mother and pointed over to the kitchen where Charlie was hunched over, lining up the pricker against his pinky. She had never seen him test himself.
She watched with a tear in her eye.
This brings up something I've been wondering about. Now that Charlie has decided to start testing himself, does that mean we just hand the responsibility over to him full bore? He is only 7. When is the right age to relinquish a task like this to a child? Different for everyone, I imagine. We have basically continued to test his blood sugar throughout the day and Charlie takes one or two if he's up to it.
I suppose the gradual approach is the right way to go about it with Charlie as he made it perfectly clear recently that he wasn't ready to prick his fingers on a full-time basis.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: diabetes in school
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What the hell just happened?
Remember me blabbing away about being so fortunate and grateful to the school for providing classroom aides for Charlie? Aides, who would blend into the background and seamlessly check Charlie's blood sugar, count out carbs and give him insulin? Remember how Susanne spent the first day of school training the aides in how to use the pump? Remember how we met with the school officials and how they all signed off on the 504 plan? Remember how it was the school's idea in the first place to hire these aides for the very purpose of testing blood sugar and administrating insulin?
Well, forget all that.
Oh, and remember the morning aide who has type 2 diabetes? She has really been working out great.
She's leaving. Found another job apparently. Leaving the glamorous life of pricking fingers and counting crackers.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Real Life
Tags: doctors
Views: 722
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Underspecified, Overwrought
What has been driving parents even crazier than the scavenger hunt for the impossible-to-find 1.5" gray binder is when The List states merely "blue pens" or "a flash drive, or a folder on another flash drive". Many parents lose all sense of equilibrium trying to figure out themselves how many blue pens their child will need, what size flash drive (or what is meant by a folder on another flash drive or a section in a binder), and just how big a binder should they buy?
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: diabetes in school
Views: 3063
Oh, hi. It's been a while, hasn't it? Yeah. Slacker central over here. I read and I think about things to write but the motivation just disappeared last month (and the month before that, if I'm being honest). I'm hoping the new year will kick my butt into action a little bit and have me posting here more often.
On to the latest:
Olivia has been going to the nurse too frequently to treat low blood sugars. She usually has stuff in her bag to treat, but the nurse has been insisting that Olivia go down there for every low. In O's IEP it states that she can treat in class and there's a doctor's note in place, so I don't quite get what the deal is with the nurse.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: Diabetes DOC friends hobbies Real Life
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The second annual "No-D Day" was Friday, 7 October. I missed it in preparation for Yom Kippur.
This is the second year that the diabetes online community has dedicated a day specifically to writing about things other than, um, diabetes. Let's face it: most of the time our posts are so full of highs, lows, food diaries, d-meetups, medication schedules, glucose tests, and so on that we tend to lose site that behind those walls of figures sit real people. People with parents, spouses or partners, sometimes children, sometimes furkids, jobs, homes (we hope!), and a whole range of interests beyond the latest FDA letter drive for an iPhone-mounted glucometer or a low-suspend pump.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: children testing themselves play dates
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It occurred to us that Charlie doesn't get many requests for play dates from his classmates. It's not like he doesn't have friends. He gets along with everyone in his class. He's actually fairly popular. Still, the invitations to come over houses are scarce.
It makes us wonder if the parents think it would just be too difficult. Or maybe they just assume we could never just leave him somewhere without someone trained in diabetes care keeping an eye on him. Well, they wouldn't be wrong if they thought that. We want to let him do things without us hovering over him like low-gliding seagulls, but how can we? He doesn't test himself yet.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: education insulin stereotypes
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Okay, I will warn you up front that this post is a total rant and has no other substance besides the fact that I need to let off some steam. I am also looking for some of you who have dealt with this annoying stereotype.
As I was minding my own business here at my desk the janitor comes up to me and asks me if I have to take shots everyday. I realize that he was listening to a conversation I was having with a co-worker about insulin and so on. A total eavesdropping moment right? So I answer, "nope." And totally leave it at that.
He says, "Oh you got off of insulin. That's good. Just a diet now or pills?"
"No I have an insulin pump."
"There is a gal in another office I clean that has to shoot up every day." Then he does it. He does this sort of motion with his right hand towards his left upturned arm. As if he is shooting up heroin or something right into his vein! (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: fighting with other diabetics
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What I really need is a good online diabetes-related battle. Nothing lights up the 'ole blog switchboard like a feud. I came across a rather heated one in the blogosphere recently. So lucky. All I ever get is nothing but stinkin' compassion and support. Anyone got a beef with me? Anyone? Come on, don't make me beg.
Type 2s? Come on, type 2s. When was the last time I addressed your concerns? How about like never. All I do is talk about my type 1 son. Booooring!
Type 1s? Come on, hit me!
I thought I had a real shot with the Sotomayor piece, but unfortunately most of those who commented, directed their anger not at me but instead at the fictional characters I created. Sigh.
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