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I'll tell you another secret.  I kinda LIKE the Jonas Brothers. Laugh all you want since I am quite a couple decades away from their usual tween-aged fan base.  Disney signed them though, and from Annette Funnicello until Miley Cyrus and beyond, Disney has a proven eye for musical talent.  (Maybe not class, but definitely talent).

 

Nick is, at 15, the youngest brother of the singing group (they do have another even younger brother named Frankie - think Andy Gibb snubbed from the BeeGees for his youth).  As everyone with any connection to diabetes knows, Nick has had type 1 for almost 3 years.

 

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In my recent post "My 25," number 13 remarked "I'm not so sure that I'd want to sacrifice what I've gained from it [diabetes]." After some interesting perspectives in the last few weeks about diabetes, I've found myself truly wondering...would I do it?

 

The question is...would I sacrifice everything that diabetes has given me to be without it? Do I honestly hate diabetes enough to throw away every diabetes by-product in my life? My honest answer is no.

 

Do I desperately want a cure? Yes! Do I constantly fight for one? Yes! Am I willing to do whatever possible now to make sure that I can live some PART of my life without diabetes? Yes!

 

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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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I'm thankful that Charlie has diabetes and not something devastatingly worse.
I'm thankful for the grungy little boys in Charlie's class that play with him and treat him no differently despite the fact that he's part machine. I'm thankful that for the moment, they think blood is cool.
I'm thankful for the absolutely massive amount of support we receive year after year as we desperately search for a cure.
I'm thankful for friends and family members who would drop the Earth for us in a New York minute.
I'm thankful for numbers like 98 and 102 that sometimes come as an unexpected gift from an unforgiving disease.
I'm thankful for this amazing diabetes community whose empathy and encouragement never tires.
I'm thankful for my wife, who has given up so much of herself to juggle the unrelenting demands of diabetes.
I'm thankful for my daughter who accepts the abundance of attention Charlie receives from us with compassion and grace. (READ MORE)

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Kerri recently posted a blog on Six Until Me about her co-worker having "diabetes for the day." It was interesting to hear just a few details about an outsider's perspective on this disease. Even though it was only for a day, at least a small portion of what we go through hit home with him.

 

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I was diagnosed just about thirty years ago with type 1 diabetes.  Since that hot June day, I've accomplished so much.  I've lived well, virtually complication-free.  I've competed in individual and team sports, graduated high school and college, established a career, become a published writer.  I've practiced empathy and kindness in my day to day existence, I've reached out and made my world better in every way I could think of, in every way I could manage. 

 

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I woke up this morning thinking of a friend, Jennifer Stowers-Quintal. Jen was a promising teacher, artist, musician and dancer from the Boston area. The light of so many lives, including her amazing parents, her fiancé and her students at the Blackstone Elementary School in the South End of Boston, Jen passed away in 2003 at the age of 23 just 3 months after surviving the Station Nightclub Fire and 6 weeks before her planned wedding.

 

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Whether or not we recognize it explicitly, we are all caregivers (aka, T3s). Whether we serve a family member, someone in our neighborhood or church, or just others on the dLife forums and in the dLife community, we are each part of someone else's diabetes support team.

 

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Earlier today, I wrote that I have faith in Karma.  Sometimes, Karma takes a long time to do its work.  Living every single day conscious of the actions I take and how they impact others, careful to be considerate of others' feelings, practicing empathy, and sometimes feeling like the world, in return, does nothing but work against me, I am not the biggest fan of the slower workings of Karma.  So, when it delivers in short order, I am often surprised.

 

Today, that happened.  I had called my doctor's office earlier in the week and emailed over bloodsugars to try to get help with the (mostly high) rollercoaster I'd been on.  I would've given anything to be able to see patterns myself in the numbers and adjust accordingly, but I just couldn't.  Having not heard back today, i decided to give a ring.  Turns out, my doc had already gotten some wheels turning and his office was going to call me this afternoon.  

 

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While I really hate being such a "Debbie Downer" this early in the year, I'm getting extremely frustrated with the red tape surrounding my mother's passing. The basic: we are still waiting on the life insurance to cut loose enough money to bury my mother. While she pre-paid the funeral expenses, she didn't have enough money to pay for a plot — and without the life insurance money, neither do we.

 

I'll spare the details of dealing with government-based life insurance (Mom was a Federal Government retiree). The funeral home has been as helpful as possible (which is actually very helpful, especially in terms of compassion and empathy), but the end result is that we are dealing with businesses, and at the end of the day, they need to report a profit (or at the very least, the lack of a loss).

 

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