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Today is Raise Your Voice For Diabetes day. So here I am, raising my voice.

Why should I? It's hard, getting the word out about diabetes. But that's why I do it.

I do it to combat the rampant ignorance about this disease.

I do it to do my part to set straight the massive amount of misinformation that's out there about diabetes, type 1 and type 2.

I do it because I want my daughter to feel comfortable advocating for herself one day and the only way she can do that is to see me, advocating for her.

I do it because her father would prefer to ignore her diabetes, feels ashamed that she has it and I don't want that shame rubbing off on her.
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Happy November, dLifers! Welcome the 'In Case You Missed It' edition of Blogabetes, highlighting some of the best posts of the week from our Blogabetes writers.
Here are some of the highlights:
Did you catch George's post about being a Born Again Diabetic? The sentence, "Sometimes that fresh attitude is the start you need to take control of your disease," couldn't be more true.
We're in the middle of Walk Season, and blogger Carey Potash writes about his son Charlie leading his personal team of angels. (READ MORE)

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I know, I know, I know. People with diabetes must exercise. People with diabetes must stay fit. This is especially true for those of us with Type 2.
And you know it. I know it. You know you know it. I know you know it. Who needs to tell you this?
Reuters and Dr. Ronald Sigal of University of Calgary and colleagues at the University of Ottawa, as announced in this article, do feel the need to tell us. Specifically, they're telling us that lifting weights and resistance exercise also helps to reduce blood sugars, just like aerobic exercise does. Aerobic exercise, that would be the sweaty kind.
This is good news.
This means that ANY and ALL exercise you do counts for good diabetes points. It all counts! I love this. (READ MORE)

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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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This morning as I changed my infusion set I decided to revisit abdomen sites. It has been a few months since I have had my site anywhere but my thigh. It is not like me to change things just for the heck of it but I decided to switch it up. It reminded me of a time long ago,
Way back when I was first diagnosed, I only gave myself shots of insulin into my thighs. That was how I was taught and so that was the only way I did it. I remember several times I would hit a tender spot and be in a lot of pain. Or the worst was when I swear it felt like a knife stabbing an apple. I don't know if that was just scar tissue or my imagination but it was enough to really scare me on several occasions. (READ MORE)

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My life is on a peg. It's hanging, waiting to be pulled off and move forward. But it's not there yet. I'm not there yet. I'm waiting, so impatient and so anxious for the future, so annoyed by the past...I'm waiting to move forward and be myself, to stop hanging on this peg.

 

The past three years have been an incredible roller coaster of a journey in regards to my health. I've made so many changes, tried so many things. And at what cost?

 

Right now, I'm extremely impatient with the future of my skin and the future of pain. I have some major decisions to make in the next couple of months...decisions that I wish I could have made months ago. I'm waiting on the endometriosis diagnosis/surgery. And I'm waiting to decide on Accutane/birth control pills...extremely impatient about this one.

 

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When I was fresh out of college and looking for my first job as a reporter I would send off cover letters that started like this: The most important thing you need to know about me is that I love to write. I thrive on it!

 

OK, so sometimes I still introduce myself like that. *blush* But seriously, I can't remember a time when I didn't identify myself as a writer. Can't remember a time when I didn't read published authors with awe and envy. Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a better writer.

 

I've worked hard to get where I am. As a writer and editor. And I'm proud of that. And I still thrive on writing. I have a list of blog posts that I want to write up, and can still think of the plots of the two short stories I have had brewing for years.

 

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I'm battling pretty severe nausea again this evening. I decided to stop the Metformin and just stay on the Wellbutrin until my body adjusted. But at this moment, I'm greatly reconsidering that decision and thinking that I might stop the Wellbutrin altogether. I'm not sure that it's the right choice for me or for the people who love me.

 

I didn't exactly plan to tell my mom this evening that I'd started the antidepressant, but it came up and I got exactly what I expected. A lot of shock and a lack of encouragement about being on them. She doesn't believe that my life is bad enough to warrant antidepressants (because in her mind, they are only to be used for extremely bad situations like the death of a child or a sick spouse or some other catastrophe).

 

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This year marks my fourth year blogging here at Blogabetes (I started in the spring of 2008 when I was a sophomore in college). I can't even believe it. Where has the time gone? And where does it continue to go?

 

I've loved sharing my mind with all of you. I've loved the encouragement that I've gotten time after time when I post something that I'm aiming for, something that I'm struggling with, or just life events in general. I love to write and writing about diabetes has been generally easy.

 

But in the past year, I've noticed that writing about diabetes has become burden more than relaxing or helpful. I've noticed that finding topics is difficult. I've noticed that I write about the same things again and again...because isn't diabetes really just the same, different thing every day?

 

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Today's DBlog Week Prompt: Let’s end our week on a high note and blog about our “Diabetes Hero”.  It can be anyone you’d like to recognize or admire, someone you know personally or not, someone with diabetes or maybe a Type 3.  It might be a fabulous endo or CDE.  It could be a d-celebrity or role-model.  It could be another DOC member.  It’s up to you – who is your Diabetes Hero??

 

This afternoon, I decided to venture into the past. At my college graduation party, my family wrote me special notes in a journal to wish me the best on the new chapter in my life. I've read them a dozen times when I need some encouragement, love, or family wisdom. But today was different.

 

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