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Categories: Type 1
Tags: crappy pay Life time commitment responsibility
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Just recently I had a talk with myself. I told myself that being a diabetic is a/my full-time job. That is how I choose to look at it sometimes. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: Cost of diabetes care
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Yeah, I know. Duh, right?
I was just reading a post over at Diabetes Daily by Bernard Farrell. He was discussing the astronomical cost of test strips. It is ridiculous that they cost $1 a piece. On an average day, Olivia tests 8 - 10 times. When she's sick, it's even more frequent. That's $10 a day, just in test strips.
The insurance company's answer to this, usually, is "Well, test less frequently." Yeah, you know where you can shove that statement, bucko. Get lost.
But why aren't the insurance companies pushing back on this? Why are they content to let manufacturers charge so freakin' much for test strips? I don't understand it.
I've done this before, but I think it's time to break down what diabetes costs us every month.
-- Approximately $750 for health insurance. Per month. Yeah. Ouch.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management depression humor Logging
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This is not the post I planned to write this morning.
Having a nearly one-hour commute (everyone flees the city in the summer, so traffic is much, much lighter) often gives me a lot of time to think. This morning I thought about what a crappy mood I had been in on Sunday and that it had carried over to this morning.
I tried to blame it on the kids: a four-day weekend trying to keep the kids entertained and not arguing and generally not getting on my nerves is exhausting.
I tried to blame it on AF: though she has left the building.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management low
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When I look back on my blood sugars today all I can think is WTF?
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Categories: Type 1 Children In the News Real Life
Tags: awareness friends fundraising JDRF JDRF walk JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes
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Once you get past the congestion of sheer numbers and the mix of colors, designs, and graphic techniques, there's one thing that stands out on every team shirt at the Seaside Heights, NJ JDRF Walk: cure. It's not just because the event is called the Walk to Cure Diabetes (emphasis mine), or because insulin is "not a cure" for autoimmune diabetes. It's not because parents are struggling to pay for their children's pumps and CGMs, or because adversity breeds strength.
The reason we see the word cure is same reason we see another word on team names and slogans, and that word is hope.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Highs & Lows Complications In the News
Tags: Diabetes UK silent assassin campaign
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Are you familiar with the controversial 'Silent Assassin' advertising campaign distributed by Diabetes UK last fall?
Some complained that the disturbing imagery went too far in the organization's efforts to bring awareness to the seriousness of diabetes and its complications.
One poster showed a man collapsed on the ground appearing to be dead, while a creepy phantom-like figure prepared to kick him. The large text stated, "Diabetes. Beware the silent assassin."
In a second poster, a woman in a supermarket is reaching for food while a shadowy figure is lunging at her throat. "Diabetes. Beware the silent assassin."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: dealing with nurses doctors appointments
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This morning I set about getting Lantus and figuring out the doctor situation from yesterday. So I followed my plan to call the new doctor's nurse first then the CDE I know at the clinic if that didn't work. I was prepared to raise a little "cane" if need be, but desperately hoped they would make it easy.
I called the new doctor's nurse wanting to speak to the nice one that I spoke to yesterday. Unfortunately, she wasn't in. So I ended up speaking to another nurse, who was quite rude. When she first began the phone call, she wouldn't let me speak to tell her about the issue which got the whole thing off to a rocky start.
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