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Diabetes has always entailed a lot of paraphernalia. Back in the day, meters were three times the size they are now. Bottles of strips weighed a ton. And syringes came with much longer needles. Plus there were juice boxes, snack packs, and rolls of candy. But even now, with all the advances in this modern day and age, diabetes comes with baggage (and I'm not talking the emotional kind).

 

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It started a couple days ago -- I think Thursday or Friday. And like a dumbshit I didn't call the doctor before the holiday weekend.

 

I had the classic symptoms of a urinary tract infection: pain, urgency, discomfort. I didn't want to foot the bill for a trip to urgent care, especially since I already knew what I had. But I also knew the pain was getting worse and no amount of water was making it any better.

 

UTIs are common for people with diabetes (no I can't find a single source to back that up, but I did find mentions of it in several places when I Googled). And with my history of kidney stones I'm guessing I'm at a slightly higher risk for it.

 

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Rant beginning. Prepare yourself.
Call me sensitive. Say I'm soft. I don't care.
I was having lunch with a new friend today and a friend of hers. Apparently, my diabetes had not been discussed at all before our meeting. This is, in and of itself, a good thing. But.
During lunch, friend of new friend - who works in a local Primary Care Doctor's office processing insurance claims - started into a rant about unhealthy eating, obesity, diabetes, and the havoc that diabetics and the like reak on our healthcare system. Ugh. (READ MORE)

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I am sitting in the waiting room at the hairdresser, flipping through a magazine that highlights what celebrity stylists are doing with hair that is blonder, smoother, tamer and thinner than my own. I'm tired -but I've worked all day - so that's normal. My appointment was a half hour ago, so I think that my feeling totally annoyed is probably justified. It's not until I see two heads of the same extension-filled yellow hair on a pair of identical faces staring at me from the same shiny magazine page that I realize - something could be amiss with my blood sugar. (READ MORE)

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I woke up New Year's morning after a fun night out.  I'd had a few glasses of wine the night before, while watching metal and rockabilly bands, cavorting with friends and a sword swallowing lady, and ringing in 2011.  

 

My fitness schedule called for a gym visit on Saturday morning, and I've been dedicated to keeping that schedule.  I got up, tested at 106 mg/dl, and had a breakfast of fruit, peanut butter and a half cup of milk with no bolus.  Twenty minutes later, before climbing on the treadmill, I tested at 185 mg/dl. I figured I had some food still in their working, so I got to running.

 

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There's a picture of me in pre-K with no smile and looking incredibly unhappy. It's a class picture and the rest of my classmates are all smiling and happy. When you turn the picture over, my mom's handwriting reads "Lindsey had a very high blood sugar this day and did not feel well."

 

That same year, my mom took pictures of me on the first day of school. I still don't look happy. In the background, there is a pink kit with a blue handle. My name is written on it. The contents include a meter, low treatments, and emergency information for everyone in our family.

 

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Happy Diabetes Blogging Day. Thank you all for the lovely cards you sent. Who knew Peanuts had a line of Diabetes Blogging Day cards.

 

So, six things I would want people to know about diabetes?

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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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I was diagnosed in June of 1982.  In those days, home blood glucose monitoring was about as common and as advanced as listening to music on the go.  In other words, think no ipod, but plenty of cassette player walkmans.  Home blood glucose monitoring was primitive and expensive. 

 

For the first two years of my life with diabetes, we used various forms of urine testing to track my levels and determine dosing.  First, in the form of tablets dropped into glass tubing filled with pee that heated and turned colors - then in the form of nifty sticks that turned colors after being dipped in urine based on the amount of sugar you were carrying.  Since you weren't actually testing bloodsugar, management was largely a guessing game.

 

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I feel a little like the hostage of a bank robber trying to escape the police - at least on the diabetes front.  I'm in an old Buick that's running through picket fences, tearing up gardens, driving the wrong way on the highway and running over spike strips but continuing right on its merry way.  And I'm no longer comfortable with this crazy diabetes ride.

 

I've gotten out of the habit of testing 8-10 times a day and into the habit of testing 3 times or so, 4 or 5 on good (or particularly bad diabetes-wise) days.  I'm not logging.  The discomfort of the CGM in terms of the tape has made it so that I'm not putting on and using this critical tool.  My eating is spotty at best.  I'm unsurprised to see out of range sugars.  

 

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