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Categories: Type 1
Tags: Desperation lows Sugar and other things
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Have you ever had a diabetes moment that called for desperate measures?
I've had a few too many to count.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management Fitness sports
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I must admit that I do wonder how in the *&%^ing world Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler manages his sugar during what I can only assume to be an intense several hours every Sunday. I asked a friend of mine, who has type 1, how she managed her sugars when she recently ran a marathon. They were, predictably, up and down. But from a novice's standpoint, it seems like she may have had more luxury of stopping to treat a low or deal with a high. There are no TV timeouts in community marathoning, though.
When a professional sports team – and all that comes with it including your job, sponsorships, advertising, ad nauseum – are essentially riding on whether or not you can throw a football to a guy 50 yards down the field without getting sacked, the stakes are a little higher.
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: coincidence interventions new friends Severe lows
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My girlfriend's calling me a diabetic angel, and not to brag, but I kind of feel like one. I experienced some kind of intervention yesterday, or at least something bigger than me, that connected me with a stranger.
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Categories: Type 2 Relationships Real Life
Tags: Diabetes Education Doctor visits medical news primary care doctor
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How often has this question been debated?
Olivia doesn't care what she's called. She calls herself diabetic often. I'm the one with the issue. I always say that she has diabetes. To me, calling her a diabetic makes her only her disease.
On dLife a couple of weeks ago, Jim Turner said that he was always a diabetic, that diabetes was what he thought about, what was going on in the background all the time, no matter what else he was doing. He was, first and foremost, a diabetic.
I can understand that thought process, but I don't agree with it. Yes, diabetes takes up a lot of space in the brain and it's not something that can be shoved aside and forgotten. You always have to take it into consideration. But you take it into consideration along side your life. Your life as a person. A person with diabetes, yes, but a person with a life. A person who is a sister, daughter, student, drama queen and soccer player as well as a person with diabetes. (READ MORE)
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As I mentioned in my previous post, there's been a great deal of discussion lately about what it means to be a diabetic and how we as type 1s and type 2s self-identify with our disorders. It's come as part of a larger (and, in my opinion, 100% stupid) dialogue about which is worse, type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
I was going to make a joke here, something like "My answer is type 2, because I don't have type 1, ba-DUM!" But the thing is, it's not entirely a joke, when you think about it.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Emotions In the News Real Life
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I'm a little torn on how to react to President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayer. And this torn-ness is based only on the diabetes issue.
Part of me thinks: Way to go! This is awesome! I'm so happy that a high-profile person other than an athlete or actor is bringing light to diabetes and showing that we can indeed do anything and that diabetes is not an obstacle.
And part of me thinks: Why is this even a stinking issue? Ok, I know why it's an issue but why should Sotomayer -- or anyone for that matter -- be judged on whether or not they can perform a job simply because of diabetes?
It is for this reason that I chose to "hide" my diabetes during my last two job interviews. I wanted to be judged based on my qualifications and my sparkling personality not on whether I was capable of doing a job with diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
Tags: avoiding pizza and cake parties
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I took Charlie to a party on Saturday. It was in a large, old church hall with high wooden rafters and lots of wide-open space. When we opened the door, Charlie sprinted like a racehorse out of the gate, joining his friends who were busy whipping rubber balls at each other's heads at high velocity.
We had already discussed that we were going to pass on the pizza and Charlie was cool with that. Although many college students (and my high school humanities teacher) would be of a different opinion, Charlie does not like being high all night.
Charlie has an interesting way of describing things. He tends to invent his own words that end in "er." For example, for a party like this one, he would typically wonder if there was going to be a "jumper" there. Translation - a trampoline.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management low blood sugar
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It's rare, but there are actually times when I don't feel like eating. And, naturally, those times are pretty inconvenient.
Site change day always leaves me high no matter what I do. Even though I tried new real estate this morning (hello 43-inch tubing!!), I was still high after breakfast, though not as bad as I thought.
I had a deadline looming. I was struggling through some proofing. I was checking my email. I was reading blogs, reading the news. I felt fine. I was struggling through some proofing.
Man, I can't believe it's 11 a.m. already, I remember thinking. I'll be done with this by lunchtime. But lunchtime came and went and I was still struggling with the proofing. (Sometimes it's just so tedious!) I felt fine, so I kept going. And the thought of my roast beef sandwich, crackers and an apple just wasn't that appetizing.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
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It may be more politically correct in the diabetes community to say "person with diabetes," but to be honest, I’ve never really had too much of an issue with the term "diabetic."
When referring to Charlie, I suppose I use "diabetic" more in writing than I do in speaking. For example, if speaking, I’d say ...
"Excuse me, gentlemen. If you would be so kind, might you stop holding Charlie down and pouring sugar down his throat? You see, Charlie has diabetes."
I most likely wouldn’t say, "You see, Charlie is a diabetic."
Especially in a situation such as that. I wouldn’t want to make him feel worse.
I don’t know why I use the term more in writing. Maybe because it’s easier to find words that rhyme with "diabetic" than it is with "diabetes."
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Are you a person with diabetes (PWD) or diabetic? Which do you prefer and why?
Those are questions I hear quite frequently, and were the topic of discussion during a Diabetes Social Media Advocacy chat session on Twitter a couple of weeks ago.
To me, "Person with Diabetes" and "Diabetic" are labels. Yes, I do use each of them interchangeably when speaking and writing, because I am both a person with diabetes and a diabetic, but those labels do not define who I am. Those are just two of the hundreds of different labels with which I can identify myself.
And to be quite honest, my preference would be not having the need for either of those labels, but I do have Type 2 Diabetes, and it came wrapped in a package with PWD written on one side, and Diabetic written on the other side.
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