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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: driving while low emergency stops media
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A pilot in Denton, Texas, made an emergency landing near a freeway yesterday because he felt lightheaded. Only one media source stated he was diabetic. Yet the article made every major newspaper in the area.
Thursday, I drove down the highway in rush hour traffic digging through my bag and eating everything I had with me. As I stuffed the glucose tabs into my mouth, I sat wondering about my fellow drivers. Were any of them diabetic? Had they driven this low before? Would they be mad because I was driving low (granted we didn't reach speeds above 15 mph)?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: annoyances drinking easy outs excuses food parties
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Diabetes is sometimes the best way to get out of things. It really can be an easy excuse in times of "emergency (parties, dates, movie hunger)." (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: high blood sugar from adrenaline
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I've joked about adjusting Charlie's happiness levels due to the effect it has on his blood sugar. I'm finding now it's not so funny. The adrenalin that comes from excitement shoots Charlie's blood sugar up like a bottle rocket.
The latest culprit: summer street hockey.
Everything was fine on game day. We were at the pool having fun. Charlie clocked in at a lovely 132 just before I made the mistake of saying, "OK, let's go Charlie. We have to go home and get ready for hockey."
What a horrible dad I am to say such harmful words. In retrospect maybe I should have spoken with the enthusiasm of a corpse …
"You have that thing, Charlie. It's really nothing though."
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: diagnosis story
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I remember the day Charlie was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It was November, 2003. Carey was giving a then 3-year-old Maeve a bath upstairs. I was holding Charlie in my arms as he slept. He was 20 months old.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: diagnosis doctors insulin LADA misdiagnosis type 1.5
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What would you say if you had the symptoms of a common medical condition, but if after a year, none of the usual therapies worked?
What would you say if your doctor insisted that he had correctly diagnosed the disease as something chronic, but not necessarily debilitating, and was giving you medicines that all should be working?
Now, what would you say if there was a less-common form of that medical condition that had all the same symptoms, but was caused by a completely different disease -- one that was immediately life-threatening -- and which required a different form of therapy? What would you say if your doctor refused to consider the possibility of that less-common disease? And what would you say if there were two common tests that could confirm whether or not the less-common diagnosis was correct, but your doctor refused to order them?
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