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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Highs & Lows Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: Anxiety blood glucose management blood glucose testing depression emergency rooms high blood pressure hypertension money stress Test Strips unemployment
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When resources are scarce, it is human nature to try to prioritize and cut back until the situation improves. Usually, these are either short-term or seasonal shortages, giving us some idea of how long we will need to endure -- a sort of "countdown" calendar to work against. When we don't know how long the shortages will last, when necessities such as food, water, and medicine will return, we hunker down into what is called a "siege mentality". The problem with a siege mentality is that it can lead into a downward spiral, with the shortages getting more and more pronounced, until it seems impossible that there will be an outlet or that it will arrive in time... or until the besieged die.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: diabetes gadgets paraphernalia
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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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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: doctor's visits lab technicians rude health care providers
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In the life of a diabetic, blood draws are fairly common. I can remember being a little girl in my pediatric endo's office waiting for the inevitable butterfly needle after the appointment. My mom and I claimed that the nurses in the hospital were always rougher than the ones in my normal physician's office. It seemed like those quarterly blood draws hurt more and more every time.
But I was always used to them. Needles never have been my problem. Maybe it's because before I even begin to remember things, I can remember diabetes. Needles and those blood draws are so common to me that I know no other way. But even though I'm not scared of needles or opposed to the routine draw, I still hate the way it all happens now.
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling crash emergency rooms Training
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. There's not a cyclist, serious or casual, who has never crashed or wiped out. There's not a person who's never crashed on a training ride. At high speed. Going downhill.
Wednesday night it happened to me.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions In the News Real Life
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It's Election Day. As the polls are continuing to count their votes, I'm watching the news coverage mostly unaffected. I know that whomever takes the country this year is going to bring big change for all of us. It's that kind of year. Even if it isn't a presidential election.
The votes are coming in with an overwhelming Republican projected sweep. Generally, I would vote Republican because I tend to be more conservative when it comes to taxes, gun control, et cetera. Yet I'm a moderate which means that I don't side with either party. I'm the kind of voter that would much rather pick and choose topics rather than parties. Let me vote yes or no for the "don't ask, don't tell" act. Or choose how the healthcare reform should be handled. Don't make me pick a party.
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds In the News Real Life
Tags: allergies emergency rooms neuropathy personal experiences Real Life
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In a memorable sequence from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, new Ensign James Tiberius Kirk exhibits an allergic reaction to a drug, his hands and tongue immediately swelling to seemingly-ridiculous proportions in minutes. While the sequence is played comedically, the reality of the situation is anything but.
Local insects congregated in the early evening rains before Hurricane Irene passed through our local area, taking refuge in window frames, sneaking through decades-old screens, and so on. Since our air-conditioning is limited to the bedroom, I am loathe to close windows unless and until necessary -- when the temperature drops, or when the incoming rain becomes strong enough to threaten whatever I have sitting near them. This has the side effect of making me a "target of opportunity" on those occasions in which those windows must be closed. Unfortunately, I'm allergic to insect bites.
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