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It's bad enough to get sick-any kind of sick-but add diabetes into the mix and you can have a real problem on your hands.
I've been sick only a handful of times since I was diagnosed. And when I say sick, I mean the kind of sick that keeps you from eating and leaves you laid up in bed for a couple days. It wasn't long after I was diagnosed that one of the kids got sick and I kept wondering when it would hit me. And then I realized that I literally didn't know what to do with myself if I did get sick. I didn't know what to expect from my blood sugar or how to manage it. (READ MORE)

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Having played roller hockey for many years now, I have acquired a lot of hours on my inline hockey skates. Well, after two rink closures this past year, I have had some gaps in my playing time. (READ MORE)

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Diabetes management is really getting under my skin lately. I'm just so exhausted with it all. I never can seem to find a balance. I take one step forward then seem to take three hundred steps backwards. I know that it's all perspective and my control isn't bad, but it just feels like all the work I do has no payoff. But do I need to keep in mind that the pay-off may be 40 or 50 years from now?

 

If that's the case, I'm not so sure I want to make it. It isn't that I'm burnt out (and gee, don't think I'm suicidal). I'm just stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. Sadly, it seems like I've been stuck there for quite some time.

 

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For the past few weeks, my diabetes management has really gone by the wayside. I've been so consumed with my job, my new project, school, and catching up on things that I haven't been able to invest the time that I usually do with my diabetes. And it's giving me a guilty conscious.

 

Typically, I look at my averages every day and analyze for daily trends I see. I upload at least once a month and analyze all of that data. I count carbs fairly accurately, instead of just plugging in a number that sounds "about right." And I make sure to treat accordingly.

 

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Today I started responding to a question left in a comment. 

 

In the end, I decided this subject deserved its own post.

 

I have lost somewhere between 40 and 50 pounds over the past year and half.  It depends on the day and the time of day and whether I've worked out - etc, etc...

 

Anyway, it's been a long, strange trip losing the weight.  And the way I did it is pretty simple.

 

I stopped trying fad diets and started doing things the one way that I think really works.  I made very basic, but important changes to my lifestyle.  

 

I count calories and I burn calories.  It's that simple.  I used a calculator I found online to figure out how many calories I should be eating if I wanted to lose weight. 

 

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I'm burnt out on the constant diabetes thoughts that run through my head, even when I'm not consciously thinking about diabetes. I'm so tired of everything I do being followed with a diabetes related thought. I wish that other people could understand how present diabetes is in my life.

 

When I work out, I don't just get to de-stress my body and burn calories. I get to plan basal rates, meal times, and blood sugars around my workout.

 

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Diabetes gets old.

Pricking my finger, taking insulin, filling my pump, going to the doctors, counting carbs, and all the rest of the stuff we have to do to manage this stupid disease gets old. Fast!

So with that Diabetes Burnout happens.

I know for myself I get burned out every few months. I just get to that point where I want to give up and take a little vacation from it all. Not necessarily throwing in the towel or forgetting all about it, since we all know where that will lead, but maybe a few less tests or not worrying so much for a particular day.

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Last Friday, I'd spent the day studying physics and packing my apartment. There was a lot on my mind...boys, school, the future, and my body. I'd been dealing with mega water retention that entire week. And I was so disgusted with my body.

 

I hadn't run in a week, so I decided to hop on the treadmill for a mile or two. To drench myself in sweat and forget there was a world outside the treadmill bubble. I ran, hard, thinking of graduate schools and the park trails of northern Texas. It was the kind of run where my mind leaves and my muscles take over.

 

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The thing swooped into the living room like a pterodactyl while I watched TV and Susanne worked on the laptop.

 

This has happened before. The last time a bat got into our house and flapped its horrible wings over our heads, it held us hostage for hours. This time I was pissed.

 

I have an unusually intense fear of mice. Not mice in a cage at a pet store. I’m fine with that. But a mouse scurrying around in my home? Forget about it. I lose my mind. Throw some creepy wings on that mouse and give it a face like Steven Buscemi and I am a complete mess.

 

Susanne screamed and dove under a blanket.

 

I think I just kept yelling at it. I picked up my guitar and went bat shit (literally).

 

"No!" I yelled.

 

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I feel like a real Debbie Downer these days on this blog - and in my life with diabetes.  I want to lend hope, and lately, it feels like I'm just lending a whole lot of stress and negativity to those who read this blog.  But I want to be honest about what I'm experiencing and in some ways it helps to get it out and share it with folks who understand.  In other words, this is another kind of downer of a post and I hope you'll bear with me.      

 

This morning was a complete cluster f**k at my house.  I locked my keys in my car last night after having a great night out with an amazing guy.  Slightly frustrating, and I probably should have dealt with it at the time given that I had to work this morning early-ish producing our pledge drive at work.  But I'd been up since 4:45 am, I was exhausted and so was my date, and somehow my addled brain thought I could make time to fix the screw up in the morning.  

 

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