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"Exercise is key to lifetime management of type 2 diabetes".  How many times have we heard that or a variation of that statement?  dLife even has a whole section devoted to the topic.

 

I started picking up the exercise habit last summer, when I was laid off by my employer.  But I tried to get the habit for many years prior to that event.  If I only had exercised for all the months that I paid for gym memberships, I might not be writing first hand about type 2 diabetes! 

 

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I know several people who participate in fantasy football leagues. I just never got into that sort of thing. I really have no interest investing so much time and energy into football. For those of you not familiar with fantasy football, points are earned based on how well one's fantasy team players perform each week. It's a pretty big deal for some. Participants draft players, trade players, decide which players to start and which to bench and they even act as legal representation when their players get in trouble for injecting illegal substances, abusing their wives and/or organizing dog fighting rings.
But I really do like a little competition. I certainly invest plenty of time and energy into diabetes and my knowledge of the disease is fairly good. What if we had our very own fantasy league? A fantasy league for diabetes. Well, look no further. (READ MORE)

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I am a fan of Team Type 1. To be able to perform at top levels of competition despite a medical condition that can leave one droping with hyperglycemic fatigue one minute, and fighting for balance due to hypoglycemia the next, requires an incredible amount of attention, perserverence, and skill in addition to one's natural talents. Imagine doing this while traveling at 30 to 60 miles an hour, precariously perched on two continuously moving patches of less than one square inch apiece, all the while jockeying for position in a crowd of cyclists all trying to be first, or fastest -- or to keep everyone else from going fast -- and you have some idea of the challenging task these men and women have chosen.

 

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Just about a month until our Walk to Cure Diabetes. I’m hoping for a good homestretch. Fundraising is hard.

 

I actually did get a response from the golf course regarding my request for a "Longest Marshmallow Drive for Diabetes" competition. Just getting a response is half the battle. They said they were intrigued with the idea and asked me to submit a proposal with details of the event. They wanted to know how much space I needed and how far a golfer can hit a marshmallow? Good question. I bought a bag of marshmallows to test it out, but never did because the marshmallows were all conjoined in one big sticky lump. I’m not much of a golfer anyway. I hope I get this fundraising event. Crossing fingers.

 

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Peddler's Village in Lahaska, Pennsylvania, has 42 acres of quaint specialty shops, restaurants and country landscape with a small town Colonial charm. It has strawberry festivals in the Spring and a scarecrow competition in the Fall.

 

On Sunday, it had two diabetics crashing simultaneously on the stone steps between Hats Galore & More and Skin 'n Tonic Day Spa.

If combined, their blood sugar would have been a perfect 108. But separately, my father and Charlie were in bad shape and spiraling rapidly downward.

Note to self : People with diabetes should eat.

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Charlie’s Angels were in large numbers for the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes. It was a great day. So cool seeing all of our friends and family coming together for our cause.

 

We looked pretty darn spiffy in our T-shirts designed by Charlie. Of course he managed to make it a hockey theme - completely ignoring my suggestion for T-shirts based on the movie, The Piano, about a mute Scotswoman sold into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman.

 

 

 

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The winners of the first annual Chachi Awards wore their medals with pride.

 

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After putting a lot of effort into Charlie's Angels every late summer/early fall, I usually slip into a long fundraising hibernation.  I typically wake from it some time in August and start all over again. This year I slept a little longer.

 

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I'm an information junkie. And I think I'm one of those people who always wonders why some people don't at least watch the news once a day or scan the headlines on any reputable news web site. I tend to fall into the habit of making sure people are in the loop. I'm not a know-it-all, but I'm happy to tell people what's going on.
And that includes what's going on in my life. However, I recently discovered that letting my mom in on every detail of my diabetes management is not necessarily a good thing. There are some things moms just don't want to know-even if they think they do. (READ MORE)

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Our team, Charlie's Angels, has been raising money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation since 2003 – the year Charlie was diagnosed.

 

For the first few years, we sent out our fundraising letter to friends, family and co-workers and did remarkably well. Last year, however, I started to feel uncomfortable asking the same people to give so generously yet again. I felt like they were investors in a cure that I was falsely promising. A cure that was "closer than ever" or "within reach" or "right around the corner." To be honest, I really don't know how close we are to a cure. But, what else can I do? I can't cure Charlie. I can only raise money and give it to the people who say they possibly can. I'll sell it like a snake oil salesman if I must.

 

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