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Categories: Relationships
Tags: community Diabetes fitzcarraldo type 1
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With Carey and George writing about music that moves their diabetes lives, I wanted to add my two cents on this one.
For years now, the song Fitzcarraldo by The Frames has reminded me of the diabetes community and our lives with diabetes. The song Fitzcarraldo is based on a movie from 1982 about a man, Brian Fitzgerald, so enchanted with opera and the singer Enrico Caruso that he takes it upon himself to build an opera house right where he lives.
In the middle of the Peruvian jungle.
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Relationships Real Life
Tags: Box friends community DOC support
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When I tell my "real-life" friends stories about my friends from the Diabetes Online Community (DOC), I'm often told that my stories make these people sound real.
"Well," I say, "They are real. In many ways more real than some people I've met face to face."
I usually get the look then. The one that says: Nicole has been spending too much time online. Nicole's friends all live in the box.
That's the furthest thing from the truth. I mean - really - who can spend too much time online? And my friends don't live in the box, they just talk to me through it. Right?
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First of all, I would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who offered to send test strips and insulin to Olivia. The support that the diabetes community gives is just amazing to me sometimes and I find myself overwhelmed and a bit teary-eyed at all the kindness. Heidi, over at The D-Log Cabin sent us some Novolog and Scott sent a box full of test strips. I also bought the Reli-On meter and strips at Wal-Mart and so far, we've had no issues with them. I think we're going to be OK for now. We get health insurance in another 60 days and I have an application in for MassHealth - if Olivia is approved for that, she'll be able to continue going to Joslin. If she's not approved, well, we'll have to switch endo groups - unless I can convince the insurance comapny to allow her to keep going, something I'm told they never do. But I'll try. I'm a persistent pain in the arse when I need to be.
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Categories: Type 1 Emotions Real Life
Tags: community diabetes management emotions
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For a number of years, I was the only diabetic I knew. Diagnosed when I was a little kid, there wasn't an army of advocates knocking down the doors of my school. As far as I knew, the only meter in my elementary school was mine. In my high school, there were two meters: mine and the one belonging to a classmate's older sister. No one else I knew was taking a fingerstick before having the orange slices at soccer practice, or before tap dance lessons.
My first taste of a diabetes community came one summer at camp. Growing up in New England, I had access to one of the best diabetes camps in the country - Clara Barton Camp. I spent six summers at CBC, giggling with my fellow campers, singing my lungs out at the nightly campfire meetings, and making friends. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: caring community depression
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Yesterday was just a crappy day in general. I think my brain was just working overtime which is never good for me. I try to keep the depression that comes with having diabetes at bay but sometimes it is overwhelming. Sometimes it seems nothing will get me out of it.
I have found the best way for me to get this junk out is to get it out literally literally! I write my blog here at dLife and my personal blog. I share the good times and bad. So many times I have thought, "no one wants to hear about my cruddy day" but whenever I have, someone else has commented on how they too feel that way now and then. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
Tags: binge eating diabetes burnout diabetes diet eating disorders obsessive psychological issues
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Some years ago, I joined an online "healthy eating forum", expecting support in eating healthy (fresh, whole, medically-appropriate) foods in reasonable amounts -- the same sort of community support one expects from a community in which people are looking to lose or maintain weight. What I found instead was a community of young women in various stages of recovery from eating disorders or disordered eating, or progressing from one type of disordered eating to another.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: bloggers JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes meetups new friends outreach World Diabetes Day
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I guess technically, I joined the diabetes online community back in October, 2005 when I joined dLife, and I became active in the overall DOC some time in 2008 -- but it wasn't until this year that I, and others, had the opportunity to "eyeball" the folk we'd been e-mailing, blogging to, commenting blog posts from, tweeting, and otherwise conversing with on various diabetes-related forums and social networks. 2009 is also the year dLife launched the dLife Community, and the year I started blogging here at Blogabetes.
Some of my year's highlights include:
March
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blogging community online support
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What did I do before the internet?
I used to buy the newspaper to find out what movies were showing at the theater. I would call all my friends at least once a week to see what was going on. I would have to watch the news to see what the weather was going to be like the next day. I would read the TV guide to see what TV shows were going to be on.
So much has changed.
Before the internet I had no relationships with any people with diabetes. I knew a few type 2’s but never felt like they understood what I was going through and they were always much older then I was so I felt awkward.
So now that I use the internet all day long, I have no clue how I lived without it.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: caregiver diabetes police empathy Type 3
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Whether or not we recognize it explicitly, we are all caregivers (aka, T3s). Whether we serve a family member, someone in our neighborhood or church, or just others on the dLife forums and in the dLife community, we are each part of someone else's diabetes support team.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: access to care advocacy cure friends fundraising insulin JDRF poverty priorities Test Strips
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A few days ago, I posted about how we end up being each others' emergency support systems in real life (and occasionally by posting links to resources such as iPump and the Partnership for Prescription Assistance online), and how this made us each to some degree our brothers' keepers.
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