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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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I’m the nosiest man in the world. The weather was crappy but the kids wanted to go to the pool anyway. When we got there, the lifeguards were about to close up because no one was there. Then we showed up.
A few minutes later, a mother arrived with two blonde-haired twin boys. Maybe 11 or 12 years old. With a storm coming, surely they would jump in the pool and swim for the short time they had.
The mother had a brief word with them - something about making sure they were all on the same page.
And then each boy went to a different table and buried their heads inside their folded arms.
What’s happening? Why aren’t they swimming? Were they in some sort of trouble?
Dark clouds approached in the distance. There was not much time.
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Categories: Type 1 Fitness
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When the new year started, I made a promise to myself that I'd get my butt moving again.
I had, toward the end of 2009, not been to the gym nearly as often as I'd wanted to and I wasn't eating as well as I should have been.
So much had changed in my life between summer and the holidays. I ended a long-term relationship, started seeing someone new, moved into a new house, and thew myself into the job I'd started last January. It was overwhelming and the routine I'd been in of gym visits four times a week and watchful, healthy eating took a backseat to all of the changes.
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Categories: Type 2 Relationships Real Life
Tags: Diabetes Education Doctor visits medical news primary care doctor
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The theme for this week is "Manage Your Healthcare Team".
For me, and for many others with Type 2 diabetes, this is a laugh. Team? What team? I have a primary care physician who handles everything from soup to nuts, including my diabetes care. She'll refer me to specialists and labs as needed, but she doesn't have any direct correspondence with my ophthalmologist (for whose checkup I am long overdue), and I've never had a CDE or an endo.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Real Life
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Some people collect butterflies. Other people collect coins or beer cans.
Susanne collects autoimmune diseases. She has a pretty good collection too. Psoriasis, Hypothyroidism, Celiac disease, Sjogren’s syndrome and Raynaud’s phenomenon. The latter two she picked up recently.
And now ... (drumroll please)
Gastroparesis!
This one was not easy to find. Gotta hand it to her. She’s been searching on eBay and yard sales, etc. Sometimes, however, you don’t find it. It finds you.
If I understand correctly, gastroparesis is not an autoimmune disease, but rather one that is associated with autoimmune disease. Thyroid disease appears to be Susanne’s connection.
It also happens to be associated with the complications of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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I really cannot believe that the year is already coming to a close. When I look back, I feel so old...wondering where the time has gone and knowing that I'll never get it back. It seems like just yesterday I was enjoying the feel of the summer months with its easy going and warm nights. Now, 2009 is at its end and we're starting an entirely new decade. So where did 2009 go?
In January, I got my wisdom teeth removed and learned that letting go of my diabetes wasn't the end of the world. at least when into the hands of trusted doctors with type 1 themselves. Little did I know that having my wisdom teeth removed and undergoing that sedative would prepare me for what would come in November.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Emotions Real Life
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I admit to being a little sensitive. My feelings get hurt pretty easily and I cry at things that aren't that sad sometimes.
But it wasn't always that way. When I was a kid, I was pretty tough. I took the abuse that comes with having been a huge tomboy that liked to play with the boys, wore coke-bottled glasses, and could most-often be found searching thrift stores for the strangest attire I could find and my mother could afford. I was bulletproof. I guess having endured brothers who called me Pukeface for years, as if it were my name.
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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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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Those horrible days of highs we witnessed in the past couple of months felt like weeks. Months even. I was certain that this would not be a good visit to Children's Hospital. Charlie's A1c would for certain be somewhere in the mid 8s. 8.4 I guessed.
This would not be like my cat burglar days; sneaking into Charlie's file outside the exam room to find the piece of paper with his A1c written on it by one of the nurses. This time I was in no rush to hear the news.
"His A1c is 7.9," the nurse said, popping into the room and grabbing the weathered blue meter from my hands. Maybe she had seen me in the past, thumbing quickly through the papers in the folder and decided to this time just put me out of my misery.
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