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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Complications Real Life
Tags: carb counting Endocronologist
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Last week I wrote about my experience with my new endo. Today marks a week from that first visit and the day I am supposed to fax over a weeks worth of BG readings and boluses from my pump.
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: ouch pain Pump Sites
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My pump sites have just not been cooperating lately. No matter where I put the canula - it ends up hurting. A lot. Enough so that I complain about it.
To give you an idea of what it takes for me to complain - I am a girl who has had external fixators drilled into a bone in my arm for eight weeks and who refused pain killers (other than Tylenol) after two days. I'm not a sissy. Not at all. So these sites are causing me more than a little bit of turmoil.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: No Insurance Test Strips
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It seems like we're going to be without insurance for a couple of months. The cost of going on now is astronomical but if we wait three months, the company starts to pick up half. I have an application in for MassHealth for Olivia, but it's going to take a few weeks to kick in, provided they approve it. Of course, in that time, we're going to need test strips again. (I have some extra insulin, thanks to Heidi, over at the D-Log Cabin - thank you, Heidi!!)
I've been checking around and it seems that Wal-Mart carries something called Reli-On strips and meters. Do any of you use these? They are far less expensive than the One Touch Olivia currently uses, which will be a big help as far as costs go.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Real Life
Tags: education talking to children type 1
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Yesterday my daughter Gillian decided to wear this shirt to school.
When we did the ADA walk last November, I made shirts with different sayings on them and Gillian’s says, “My Dad is #1” but right under the number sign there is the word “type” in very small letters.
When I got home and saw that she had been wearing it all day I asked her, “What made you want to wear that today?”
“I dunno, I just wanted to. A lot of kids asked about it and I told them all about diabetes.” She was so proud.
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This is a bit of a rant. I get on this horse periodically, ride it around, waving my flags and guns, foaming at the mouth a bit, going slightly nutty. You'll get used to it. Or ignore it.
What is the deal with lumping both types of diabetes together? Seriously. If I have to read one more freakin' article about how high fructose corn syrup causes diabetes or get one more stupid email from some clueless acquaintance, telling me that if I just put my kid on the Atkins diet, she'll be cured, I'm going to go to the top of the water tower and start picking people off. OK, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but holy cow, does it make my blood boil.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: difference between types
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Nobody likes a know-it-all. I've worked really hard for a number of years to keep myself from saying, "Actually, this is how it is...." in just about every situation. I've worked hard to decide when I should make an issue out of what I think is right.
I think I'm doing pretty good with not forcing people to know that I know everything. Even when it comes to diabetes. I've written here before about avoiding conversations about diabetes and not getting into too much detail about certain diabetes-related issues. It depends on the person and the conversation and so many other factors.
But tonight while I was proofing a story for work, I went back and forth about whether to make the distinction between type 1 and type 2 diabetes for an audience that the majority of whom likely have no idea that there even is a difference.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: education frustration hypoglycemia spouse
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management guilt living
Views: 878
The magazine I work for is not for health-care professionals. It’s not even close to being something read by health-care professionals. Yet the audience deals with health-care and insurance issues on a regular basis. So for me to read and edit a story about wellness or diseases is not uncommon.
I have become quite defensive of the truths about diabetes and of making sure people understand the differences between type 1 and type 2. As someone who was originally diagnosed with type 2 and who lived with that label for three years I know the blame that can be placed on the victim.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: Diabetes Diabetes in the Media difference between types general public misconceptions about diabetes
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"They all look the same to me!"
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: (none)
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I've spent many hours over the past six weeks training in a local hospice program. I learned about the logistics of hospice, toured a hospice house, heard the difference between hearing and listening, and met several amazing fellow volunteers. With this hospice program, I'm certified as a volunteer to sit with hospice patients in their homes or in the hospital.
Over the past weeks, I've had several "hard" moments in the training. There were stories that brought up emotions about both my deceased grandparents and my late great grandfather. There were also moments where I considered myself in relation to death and mortality. Some of those moments, I wasn't exactly sure how to handle what I was feeling.
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