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Categories: Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: candy Halloween will power
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OK, I really don't hate Halloween. In fact, I really like the "holiday". I love to see well-done costumes and to watch my children have so much fun gathering all that candy and showing off their costumes. It's fun to watch them have fun. Even my office-mates enjoy the black-and-orange season. This morning we all walked downstairs to see the parade of three-year-old preschoolers come through in their costumes while trick-or-treating at the downtown businesses. We oohed and aahhed at the pirate, the princess, the flower and the pilot. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications
Tags: blood sugars dLife pancakes vampires
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With all the blood that diabetes care involves, it's no wonder the "vampire" image keeps coming into play. A former T2 co-worker referred to going for blood work as "seeing the Vampire". Kerri's Diabetes Terms of Endearment list includes the entry, "Vampire cannula". For those who live in fear of (fictional) vampires, every time we prick our fingers to test... has to include the scary thought, "Am I inviting a vampire to bite me?"
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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 Type 2 Children Highs & Lows Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: bicycling costumes fundraising Halloween halloween candy heat trick or treat work
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"Trick or Treat" came early this year.
Perhaps I should clarify. While Saturday, October 29 was the designated day for many children's Hallowe'en-themed activities — including costume contests, mall Trick-or-Treats, and the costumed American Diabetes Association Step Out to STOP Diabetes Walk, Mother Nature had other plans for us — plans that included snow shovels, flashlights, streets full of wet, slushy, ice-snow, and not a microwatt of electric power to be had for three towns' radius around us.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
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The good news is that none of the kids caught diabetes at Charlie's birthday party. Phew! That was a close one. I would hate to receive that phone call from an angry mom or dad.
We had Charlie's birthday party at a little magic shop in an old, historic building. It was a Harry Potter theme. Susanne made great cloaks and wizard hats for the kids to wear and Hogwarts house badges with the symbols of the Gryffindor lion, Slytherin snake, etc.
The kids were good sports about wearing the costumes, though there was something ominous about the image as they waited for the magician's show to begin. From the back, the twenty kids sitting in lined chairs in the small "party room" with their hats pointing skyward and their long cloaks just barely touching the floor looked disturbingly reminiscent of a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Nice. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management
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Yeah, yeah. I know. Here it is Oct. 17 and I haven't blogged once this month. It's insanely crazy how crazy life has been in the last few weeks.
I've been working on freelance projects, sewing the girls' Halloween costumes (No. 2 is going to be Supergirl and No. 3 is going to be a witch), a little photo editing and a bunch of other things that I can't seem to remember but that have kept me from blogging. Heck, I've spent the last nearly five hours sitting at the computer catching up on things and I still have work to do. I'm not complaining; just sayin'.
On Sept. 29 The Mr. and I and our brood flew to St. Louis for my baby brother's wedding. We were all so excited to go: we got to see family, the temperatures were outstanding and it felt really good just to be home.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: fundraising Life for a Child Trick-or-Treating
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When I was in grade school, regardless of whether our Trick-or-Treat costumes were home-made or store-bought, whether we wore masks or make-up, our huge paper loot bags were accompanied by small orange milk cartons stamped with information from UNICEF -- The United Nations Children's Fund. Printed on the cartons were examples of what a small donation might do for a child in a third-world country -- a nickel, for example, might provide a child with a pencil and notebook for school; a dollar might vaccinate him against smallpox or polio; five dollars could get his town clean water. The following school day, our teachers would collect the milk containers. The local PTA would count up the money and submit the school's UNICEF donation for that year.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: dieting halloween candy temptation
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Happy Halloween! I suspect it is only in the USA that Halloween has taken on such huge proportions. It's the number two holiday for decoration sales. There are probably a lot of interesting psychological reasons why Americans are drawn to a holiday all about appearing to be someone else; but that's a post for a different forum.
As a person with type 2 diabetes, I really dislike the candy aspect of the celebration. In all honesty, I really LIKE the candy aspect, but dislike having to try and restrain myself. It didn't used to be ALL candy. Remember apples? But then the urban myth of the razor blade in the apple started and that was the end of apples for trick or treat.
Remember "Trick or Treat for UNICEF"? I haven't see that for several years. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Food Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: children with diabetes fire fundraising Halloween halloween candy religion trick or treat walk to cure diabetes
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Hallowe'en is a time of transformations.
In the ancient Celtic traditions (and the modern Wiccan ones), Samhain is the time at which the Goddess — old, and lonely, and missing her lover — goes to the Summerland to be with him. With her goes light and warmth, fertility, and life. The Samhain Sabbat denotes the end of summer/fall and the beginning of the winter seasons, a time when the last harvest has come in and when the herds are pared down to what the community can feed through the winter, and what will be able to reproduce in the spring.
It is a time of plenty, preceding a known time of famine.
It is also the start of the new year.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2
Tags: diabetes fun and games
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Due to the overwhelming popularity of my first diabetes Mad Lib, I've decided to take another crack at it.
That's, uh, sarcasm.
You guys like totally blew me off.
That's OK though. I've only grown stronger from your rejection. (READ MORE)
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