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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: Diabetes selfishness your thoughts
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Do you consider yourself to be selfish? That's the topic I've been pondering over today and for many years since becoming diabetic. Sometimes I can't help but feel like because of diabetes I am forced to think of myself, or my diabetic needs, before the needs of others. Maybe selfishness is a characteristic that is inherited in people who develop life threatening illnesses or diseases. Perhaps because we live with the constant reminder of the thin line between life and death, we are more in tune to our needs.
Is it true that selfishness and diabetes go hand in hand?
What do you think? Have you, like me, thought about this before? Do you think of yourself as a selfish person?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Real Life
Tags: diabetes care team medication pharmacy
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I am lucky. I have insurance. Sure I pay a lot out of pocket each month but the coverage is decent. Especially for my prescriptions. My co-payment is not too bad which I am thankful for since I have not only my insulin and strips for my BG machine to buy but also 4 pills for other ailments. But each January I get shocked by the same surprise.
My $200 deductible. Now I am not fortunate enough to be able to drop 2 "C-notes" here and there. I live pretty much check to check and unless I get an extra $200 for "passing Go" then I am gonna have a problem. Luckily the pharmacy I use is awesome. They gave me one bottle of insulin and are letting me come back on my next payday to pick up and pay for the rest of my order. What life savers, literally. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: diabetes in school
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Charlie begins first grade tomorrow. He will have two health aides. One in the morning and another in the afternoon. Neither aide has seen a pump and I'm pretty certain, they've never tested someone's blood sugar. So ...
Susanne will take the first shift, stalking with binoculars from an old, abandoned house across from the elementary school in army fatigues.
As for me, I'm going undercover - enrolling in Charlie's class as a transfer student from Ghana.
We do feel fortunate that the school has decided to provide health aides, but we just hope that they can slip somewhat into the background. We're also very much aware that this sort of special arrangement could be socially detrimental for Charlie if we were to continue beyond first grade. For now, however, it gives us a little peace of mind and it buys us time for Charlie to learn how to test himself, and bolus himself, etc.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Relationships Real Life
Tags: diabetes care team Family
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This weekend was a busy one. Typically we are busy folk. It seems there is always an event, party, meeting, or whatnot to attend. This weekend was no different.
I had a happy and successful start to Saturday with a loss on the old Weight Watchers scale. The weather was perfect which was both bitter and sweet since most of the country is having horrible weather. But living in Southern California has its definite pluses and minuses. The next stop was a friends Baby Shower in which all the guys were going to hang out at the house with the dad-to-be as the gals had the shower somewhere else. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycle racing bicycling team type 1 Tour de Cure
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Having missed Saturday's road race, I was more determined than ever to not-miss Team Type 1 at Sunday's criterium. Since a criterium pretty much stays in one place (think of it as racing twenty times around the block to see who's fastest), even if I missed the start, I should manage to catch up with the team somewhere.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Relationships In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: blogs blood sugar control Diabetes dLifeTV eating team type 1 twitter
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I'll admit: I'm not the most regular contributor to the Diabetes Social Media (#dsma) Wednesday-night Twitter chats, and I don't always get the time to tune into the Thursday-night BlogTalkRadio program (or listen to the archive), but when Cherise announced the first DSMA Blog Carnival, I figured I really should chime in. The problem is the topic: "The Most Awesome Thing I've Done Despite Diabetes". I haven't done awesome things despite diabetes, but rather because of it.
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Categories: Type 2 Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Health Care Health Insurance health issues scheduling
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One of the issues that crops up with the Mulligan's Stew of insurance benefits that come courtesy of our employers and the States in which we live is the order and manner in which those benefits are applied to the charges incurred by our use of the services covered in those plans. In insurance-company parlance, this is called "Coordination of Care". Back in the days of traditional indemnity plans, medical insurance didn't kick in until after one met an annual deductible, and even then, it was split into two separate policies: normal medical (aka "Blue Cross/Blue Shield") and "Major Medical" (single-incident costs of, in today's money, probably $4000 or more). (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Food Highs & Lows In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling children with diabetes competition holidays hot weather team type 1 Tour de Cure
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If you have only one day to see the Tour of Somerville, Monday's the one to aim for. The Borough of Somerville puts on a day-long festival that starts with a Memorial Day parade before proceeding to a family fun-ride and the day's races. Vendors of cycling gear, healthy-lifestyles, and other stuff are set up on the lawn in front of City Hall; club team tents are lined up on the lawn along the side street; and the whole area is punctuated with local fraternal organizations selling burgers, hot dogs, and other "hand" foods while spectators line the barriers along the route. It's also the day Team Type 1 - sanofi-aventis plays "meet the public" in a big way, signing posters and team cards under the Sanofi tent as well as racing in three or more of the day's criteriums.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling death exercise heart attack loss team type 1
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While my primary cycling fandom allegiance is to Team Type 1, since our household worships at the shrine of La Grande Boucle, you'll often find me streaming the day's race video on my computer, or when Versus or Universal Sports covers it, on the TV. So it was this morning, as the first of the three Grand Tours, the Giro d'Italia, played out its third stage.
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Categories: Type 2 In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: advocacy bicycling events fundraising Team Tour de Cure Training
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Put aside the images of the Kingston Trio's Boston-area rewrite of "The Ship That Never Returned" and think instead of a group of riders, runners, walkers, or drivers following one after the other, or a flock of migratory birds, or any group trying to travel a significant distance, using the strongest to protect the weakest from wind and weather, each member of the group taking a turn at the front to allow the others to recover.
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