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Categories: Type 1 Children In the News
Tags: diabetes news humor
Views: 946
The following are actual headlines published recently:
DID STEROIDS CAUSE DIABETES? – Philly.com
You heard the man, Charlie! Did it? Put down the 50-pound dumb bells and answer the question!
CARBON MONOXIDE MAY HELP WITH DIABETES – St. Louis Post
There's just one small problem.
SUN CUTS RISK OF DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE – Coventry Telegraph
You want to end up like your brother? No? Then get back outside and don't let me see you back in here until your back is the color of the stop sign.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions
Tags: coping parent's diagnosis purpose
Views: 1494
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 Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
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Views: 752
There's a picture of me in pre-K with no smile and looking incredibly unhappy. It's a class picture and the rest of my classmates are all smiling and happy. When you turn the picture over, my mom's handwriting reads "Lindsey had a very high blood sugar this day and did not feel well."
That same year, my mom took pictures of me on the first day of school. I still don't look happy. In the background, there is a pink kit with a blue handle. My name is written on it. The contents include a meter, low treatments, and emergency information for everyone in our family.
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: children coping father with type 1 genetic risk newly diagnosed
Views: 2054
Sometimes diabetes makes me feel so alone. I've always been the "token" diabetic in my family. And after almost fifteen years of being the only one, I'm adjusted to the idea. I'm good at doing this "alone." I actually like it. I know that no one I love deals with it. I never have anyone to blame. Plus it makes me unique.
In October of last year... that all changed. My dad was diagnosed with type 1. I've never worried about my parents getting it, only my future children. Yet here we are: my father has my disease. It feels horrible, a true blow to the gut. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Relationships Real Life
Tags: coping with diabetes
Views: 961
Maybe it's just that it takes different parents of children with diabetes different lengths of time until they finally "back off," as my son's endocrinologist so bluntly urged us to do at last visit.
Even after just a year into life as a pancreas, doctors and nurses focused a great deal of concern on Susanne and me. "Hello!" we wanted to say. "Child with diabetes standing in front of you! Can we just focus on him?"
"You need to get your sleep," they'd say.
"You shouldn't have to get up every night at 2 am," they'd say.
"If you don't take care of yourself, you won't be able to take care of him," they'd say (the fear mongers)
"Don't worry about us."
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Categories: Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions
Tags: Blogabetes depression Openness your help
Views: 1568
Blogging is difficult for me sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I love this website and everyone associated with the Blogabetes community. Each and every one of you continue to be an enormous help. I can come on here and rant and rave to the ENTIRE WORLD about my life with diabetes. I make friends, I laugh, I tear up, and it's all wonderful. It's fantastic and I have no doubt this will continue to be an extremely helpful thing for me and everyone else too. At times though, the only thing I crave is complete and utter privacy, freedom from the world of diabetes and from everything. The last thing on my mind is the desire to share one more personal diabetic experience with the world. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: dieting exercise motivation weight loss
Views: 1171
The other night I had a breakdown.
I needed to wear a nice shirt for work and none of them fit. I threw most of my clothes in the trash and was very upset about how fat I've become.
I have a closet full of clothes that I have outgrown. I have gained all the weight I lost and a lot more!
This is the fattest I've ever been.
But tonight, I am celebrating what I am calling, "My Fattest Night Ever!"
I have decided that tomorrow will be the beginning of the new me. The me that will never ever be this fat again. Someone who makes wiser choices and who tries to find little ways to change so it's not overwhelming.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Real Life
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I didn't tell The Mr. that I had an appointment yesterday. Not sure why but I wanted to keep it to myself until after. Which could have been part of the reason I cried when I called him to tell him I had the appointment.
We were going to talk more about it last night, but school work and meetings got in the way. It wasn't until mid-day today that we actually got to chat about it.
I told him that M had basically pinned down the root of my issue to childhood when I had a tough experience with my biological father and his new family. We talked about how my weight gain may have started when I turned to food as a coping mechanism.
"But you weren't a heavy kid," he said.
"Yeah I was. The first time I tried to lose weight was in sixth grade," I reminded him. "I was always the biggest kid in the class."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: Dan Koppel finish this sentence Leroy Sievers My Cancer NPR
Views: 2150
Finish this sentence, I was asked. "My Diabetes..." It is a playoff inspired by an NPR blogger, who was covered by his friend, Ted Koppel, in a documentary that focuses on his "My Cancer" blog. Leroy Sievers was a Peabody Award-winning journalist who detailed his inward thoughts about colon cancer in a personal online journal of sorts, helping himself and others find some comfort and knowledge while living with cancer. He aimed for everyone to learn from one another by finishing one sentence. By scouring his readers' answers, it allowed him to see if he had "missed something", and determine if there was a "lesson the disease was trying to pass on". (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Real Life
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My blood sugars have been pretty bad these last two days. I am just not feeling like doing anything with the diabetes at the moment. My mind is distracted with thoughts of careers, moving, and sleep. I'm also in "hunger" mode where I just want to eat and eat and never stop eating. I constantly have an appetite, as if I'd been starving for months on end.
It's pretty normal for me to feel that way every now and then. Sometimes it's hormone related, sometimes it's just my body telling me to eat a few more calories. But it always wreaks havoc on my blood sugars. I'm just not accustomed to eating so much in one sitting or to drinking large sugary drinks. So even with insulin, my body just wants to backfire and run high.
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