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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: insulin pump type 1 Type 2
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Last week I was attending a 3 day Leadership Training course at a facility outside of Las Vegas. All 30 of the attendees were strangers to one another and all from different industries from all over the country! I was very nervous about how I was going to do after finding out so many of these people were owners, vice presidents, and upper management for their companies. I was not sure how I would hold up around all these professionals!
We got our room assignments and I knew we would be staying in small dorm rooms. They were more like hotel rooms with 2 bunk beds in them. I was lucky enough to get a bottom bunk so my night time visits to the rest room would not wake up my bunk partner as much as jumping down and climbing back up would have. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: coincidence interventions new friends Severe lows
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My girlfriend's calling me a diabetic angel, and not to brag, but I kind of feel like one. I experienced some kind of intervention yesterday, or at least something bigger than me, that connected me with a stranger.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions
Tags: coping parent's diagnosis purpose
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Many of us have wondered "Why me?" when confronting this disease. It’s easy to get caught up in pity when you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness. We want a reason for our diabetes. Not a medical cause, but a legitimate human reason. What did we do to bring this on ourselves? Is it some sort of punishment? Is it a test? Is it God’s/god’s/the universe’s doing?
The "Why me?" question seems to be a necessary phase in order to fully cope with diabetes. Granted, we may never find a true answer to why this happens to us, but processing the information and coming to terms with it helps us deal.
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Categories: Type 1 Children
Tags: humor walk to cure diabetes
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Championship teams begin with good scouting. You always have to look to the future of the organization.
It's no coincidence that Charlie's Angels has won the Mid-Jersey JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes three years consecutively, breaking all sorts of records along the way. Sure, we get some odd looks from people as we dart past them in full sprint in our matching black running shorts to the finish line, high-fiving each other and calculating our heart rates. We're so fast, it almost seems like everyone else is walking. Must be jealousy. We train year-round for this. They should be jealous.
But to remain an elite team year after year, you've got to bring in new blood and drop some dead weight. We've got a nice-looking team heading into the big race on Sunday. We've made a few changes - some very difficult - but all for the good of the team. (READ MORE)
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I recently "celebrated" my fourteenth anniversary with type 1 diabetes. I wasn't really sure how to celebrate it though. I actually didn't even tell anybody about it. It's not like I was trying to hide it from anyone or the opposite, make a big deal about it, I just didn't give it much thought. Now that I look back at it though, this anniversary actually marks my, "half of life" with diabetes day. I have had diabetes for 14 years now and it is hard to imagine. I look back and reflect on those years, and it blows me away that is has been that long. Time really does seem to fly by. What I find funny is that I really only consider my diabetic years as the ones that really count. In a way, my life got started the day I got the diagnosis.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: CGMS for children
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I’m sitting here in the waiting room while Charlie is in with the therapist talking about his obsessive compulsive behavior. I’m wondering if it’s a requirement for waiting rooms in doctors offices to have bad art on the walls and bad music playing.
We’ve seen some improvement with Charlie. Not sure if it’s a result of the therapy or that he’s back at school and keeping busy. It might not be a coincidence that his compulsions were at its worst during the summer break on days that he was sitting around the house bored and doing nothing.
As part of his therapy treatment, he has been trying to cut back on the blood sugar testing which had gotten out of control. It has only been one week of school, but he’s done real well with that. Again, I think the distraction of school is key. And the sensor.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Relationships Real Life
Tags: allergies celebrations celiac Cookies cooking diet Family friends gluten-free holidays
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It seems that everyone has some sort of allergy or food intolerance nowadays. Many of us with diabetes try to avoid sugars (or carbohydrates in general). Those of us with hypertension must restrict sodium intake; those with high cholesterol, saturated fats. The incidence of anaphylactic peanut allergy seems to be increasing so rapidly that restaurants are putting peanut warnings on the doors to their premises. And then there's the most prevalent food allergy of all, wheat.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships
Tags: diabetes awareness
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My dad. Two childhood friends. My best friend’s sister. My ex-boyfriend’s father. Even my aunt’s cat. It seems that everywhere I turn diabetes is following me. As I progress through life, one by one people along the way are being diagnosed with diabetes.
I understand that having any type of disease or syndrome causes you to become more aware when people mention that specific disease or syndrome. But sometimes, it seems that diabetes isn’t just on my mind. It’s literally following me, taking down people in its path (or in my path).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows
Tags: animals detecting lows night time lows
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My night basals are a little tricky. It's hard to find a perfect balance. I want my morning number to be 110. Perfect and steady. But even with tweaking my pump, I either wake up 140 or 80.
Considering my history with night seizures and horrible over-night lows, I try not to go under 100. But I also don't like risking my A1c by running on the higher end of the scale. So lately, I've let my morning numbers slide below the 100 mark.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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As we come to the close of the DIABETES series, I'm not exactly sure how to end. No, it's not my last blog. Just the last for the series. Yet I still feel that a finale is important. A closing argument, if you must. My mind can't seem to find the right words. Specifically, I can't seem to find the right "S" that really fits what is spinning through my mind right now.
S: Spouses is the first word that comes to my mind, yet I have no spouse. But relationships are certainly on my mind right now. I just can't seem to find the right "S" to express what is heavy on my heart. Words like relationship, future, partner, or dating fit but nothing with an "S."
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