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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
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Call me a glutton for punishment, but I like to buy my shoes for their cute factor rather than their comfort. I have way too many pairs of shoes and boots to count. By majority, they are high heels, trendy, and semi-insane.
Usually, my feet don't really give me issues. I've heard and read plenty of things about how diabetics really have to watch for foot problems. I'm well aware that my feet do need a little extra care and attention.
But that doesn't usually stop me from wearing four inch heels or strappy sandals with absolutely no support. Because usually, nothing happens. I get a blister every now and then but they heal and I get over it. Who doesn't get blisters in four inch heels?
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In my last post, I mentioned that I would be wearing some Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGMS) and deciding if any were right for me.
I tried both the DexCom and the Navigator. My decision was this: there is simply no way a separate device is going to work for me. This was proven by the HOURS worth of dead zones - where I'd accidentally left the device behind. Further evidence, the fact that I regularly leave my cellphone behind when I leave my house in the morning - and that since childhood I've been known as someone who "would lose their head if it weren't tied on." Really, I think I'd lose my pump if that weren't tied on!
So, I am starting the process of trying to get a Minimed Real-Time System. I've got new insurance with my new job- so the pump part shouldn't be too great a struggle. But the CGM to go along with it is a different story.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food In the News Real Life
Tags: bloggers insulin meetups research World Diabetes Day
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It's been a bit busy this week, leaving me somewhat late on reporting back on Saturday's d-group meeting to see Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin, a special exhibit showing at the New York Historical Society. Since I had to work Sunday, this ended up as the total of my World Diabetes Day celebrations this year.
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Categories: Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
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I have many routines each day.
I check my BG as soon as I wake up. I make sure I always weigh myself before the shower (you know for that EXACT body weight). I listen to NPR on my way into work. I am a total creature of habit.
One habit I have, or routine, is identifying myself. I do this every morning and it is always a choice I make. Every time I make this choice, I am reminded of why I have made it and what it means to me. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
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When you see the check-mark-y swoosh, you think Nike, right? An apple gets you the computer company, golden arches make you think of cheesburgers, a peacock will have you thinking Must See TV, a red cross... you get the picture.
And when it comes to health there are several very recognizable symbols of support, perhaps the most popular is the pink ribbon for breast cancer. I was doing some research today on breast cancer and realized that the pink ribbon is quite possibly the only symbol synonymous with only one health condition. Even the red ribbon went from AIDS to a host of other causes.
You see a pink ribbon you instantly think breast cancer; you see a red, green or yellow ribbon and you have to do some thinking or asking. While many diabetes organizations and associations have their own symbols, there is not one that is universal for diabetes.
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Here are the six things I'd like people to know about diabetes.
1) Yes, I know I'm not fat. When I tell you I have diabetes, I hope your first reaction won't be "But you're not that fat." Fat does not equal diabetic. Diabetic does not equal fat. I am already sensitive about my weight, the automatic association with diabetes increases that sensitivity.
2) You don't not need to monitor my food, I will do that myself. Please don't ask if I should be eating what I'm eating. I am an adult. Diabetes has no impact on my ability to make choices and handle the consequences of those choices. And please, if I tell you yes I can have it, don't say something like "well, whatever you think is best" and then relate a story about how someone you know lost their eyes, their legs, or their kidneys because they ate brownies.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: diagnosis emergency preparedness motivation spring
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Après moi, le déluge.
In Genesis Chapter 9, G-d commands Noach to build a watertight vessel and to stock it with all species of life known to man. Following this interchange, the earth was subjected to forty days and forty nights of rain, sufficient to wash all living things -- except for those ensconced in the ark -- from the earth.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions In the News Real Life
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As I laid in bed last night unable to sleep from all that's on my mind, I began thinking about Japan and the turmoil it's currently facing. I'd heard the news immediately after waking up yesterday. At first, very little information seemed to be leaking down the chain. Then the reports began about the aftershocks. Then other reports about entire ships with hundreds of people being overtaken. Then the 23 to 30 foot tsunami that blasted the coastline.
I listened to the information with a heavy heart. As the good news about Hawaii came in, I rejoiced. But as the death toll rose for Japan, my heart broke a little more each time. I prayed for these people. I cried for these people. And I thought about what I could do to help. I thought about going with the Red Cross in relief efforts, but then I remembered all my responsibilities here.
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Categories: Type 2 Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling friends frustration Tour de Cure Training
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Thursday, I started with the concept that the standard directions for taking a medication may sometimes cause a person to respond poorly to its intended therapeutic effects, and used that theme to segue into last Sunday's ride to North Brunswick. One of the biggest issues for me in planning a route to the Brunswicks has been that of crossing the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Crossing the canal (more of a river) with anything other than a motor vehicle is a bit tricky -- most of the crossings are either limited-access highways or bridges without any accommodation for cyclists, pedestrians, or non-motorized traffic.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: access to care blood glucose testing diabetes awareness Dreams poverty team type 1 Test Strips World Diabetes Day
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It's unusual for me to have nightmares — especially nightmares about flying. Mine are usually about family relationships gone completely awry. But facing a World Diabetes Day on which I am working at a place whose uniform does not allow even a touch of blue, having given Nick Jonas my last World Diabetes Day pin (and not having had the money to replenish my stash), and having failed to have the presence of mind to do the Big Blue Test at least once (even though I am bicycling to and from work at least half the time), I feel a bit like a diabetes failure. (READ MORE)
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