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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: new endo
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I have spent nearly 72 hours trying to figure out how to describe my appointment at the Mayo Clinic on Thursday. I just can't decide what to tell you first.
Although I arrived much earlier than I had been told to (it's hard to judge traffic patterns at off hours) and was getting ancy when numerous people were called back before I was, I was quite pleased when the nurse called me at 8:04 a.m.
No nurse came in to take my temp or blood pressure or ask me why I was there. I barely had time to observe my surroundings -- an actual desk with a computer, phone and other medical necessities including an ergonomic chair; a couch!; and other non-medical-feeling necessities -- before Dr. A came in. He shook my hand and we got down to business.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: hair loss LADA PCOS
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I've always loved my hair. I used to say it was one of my best features. Once I understood and appreciated my curls, I learned how to take care of them. Throughout college and before having kids, I had long (mid-back length), curly hair.
I started cutting my hair shorter around the time No. 1 was born. I would go back and forth between wanting it short and wanting it long. The Mr. has always liked my hair long, and I think for the most part I prefer it that way.
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Categories: Real Life
Tags: fashion magazines Teenagers young adults
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I stare at the rack of magazines. The latest stars, the latest trends, the latest everything all stare back at me from glossy pages.
As a college student, I want to be in style. I want to have the latest fads and know the latest "body secrets." As a self proclaimed "fashionista", I want these magazines to tell me all that I need to dress with the world. As a diabetic, I just want a glossy paged magazine for diabetics!
A magazine that shows the latest gadgets, the latest research, the latest success stories. But I want all that to be catered towards me: the college student, the fashionista. I want hot trends in meters, new diet tips and expert advice on all my questions. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: surgery wisdom teeth
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I went in for my six-month dentist cleaning and checkup today. It went as smoothly as it usually does. No cavities. No gum problems. Nothing except for this one huge thing: wisdom teeth.
Last year, my dentist and an oral surgeon confirmed that my wisdom teeth were coming in and needed to be removed or my current smile would be scrunched together in a painful fashion. Not to mention the risk of infection and increased gum disease. But I kept putting it off. I told myself that I'd do it over Christmas break. Yet Christmas break came and I hadn't made any appointment.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: CGMS getting in control
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I've been having a lot of lows lately. I've been increasing my insulin, so I'm in that middle stage of fixing highs and avoiding those pesky lows. But it seems like every time I turn around, another low has snuck up on me.
Sure lows are great for my A1c, but they are horrible for my weight, my nerves, and everything in between. I'm trying to treat sensibly, but it seems like if I don't carb load that I'm low again in another hour. And I can't get it out of my head that I'm at risk of lows constantly now (like during a quiz in class, at work, and driving home from Target).
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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Free Balls
At least with lows, you can get a heads up when your child comes to you and says, "I think I’m low." It’s a quick fix. At my 4-year-old’s first soccer practice on Sunday, the coach asked the group how many balls are used in a soccer game. Ben popped up like a Ben-in-the-Box and shouted out the answer triumphantly, adjusting his fingers accordingly to support his response.
"Freeeeeeeee!!!! (3)"
How’s that for the son of a soccer player.
Meanwhile, Charlie sat quietly behind one of the goals. Maybe too quiet. Maybe we should have been intuitive enough to know that he was sitting there very high and possibly had been for a few hours. It makes me sick knowing it after the fact. Continuous glucose monitoring is entering our conversations more and more these days.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions In the News Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: advocacy diabetes awareness diabetes in public World Diabetes Day
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Every November, those of us in the diabetes community bewail the "invisibility" of our condition, our passion, our advocacy over the remaining eleven months of the year. One of our ongoing gripes is that -- unlike breast cancer's pink ribbon, the red ribbon of AIDS awareness, Livestrong's iconic yellow wristband, or the double-cross of the American Lung Association -- there is no single, universally-recognized symbol or color representing diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Real Life
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When I was little, I spent my days playing dress up and detective and imagining that my bicycle was indeed a car. I've always had an active imagination. In one of our former houses, I consistently imagined that we remodeled my room to include an endless hallway of bookshelves so that I could store all my books and stuffed animals. I loved thinking of new stories, new things to do, just anything new.
A major part of that imagination was thinking of all the things that I wanted to be when I grew up. Mostly, I dreamed of being a mother. I'd carry around my dolls, and even my cats, and pretend that they were my children. I couldn't wait to be pregnant, have kids of my own, and be the best mom in the world.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
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It doesn't happen very often, but occasionally my subconscious decides to connect with reality. I'm talking about dreaming. And lows.
This morning, I was in the middle of another bizarre dream. I've had several nightmares lately so this dream was a small relief compared to the horror stories going on in my sleep. Marvin and I were driving in an unknown city attempting to get into a parking garage. For some reason, we'd stopped in the middle of the road.
Next I know, there is a car rammed into the back of ours. Suddenly, I was low in my dream. My stomach had that butterfly feeling. I pulled out my meter and checked even amidst the car accident. According to my dream, I was only 120.
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Categories: Type 2 Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling exercise fundraising Sick Days Tour de Cure
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Rather than the bell lap at a local bike race, one is the number of days until my second-ever Tour de Cure ride.
The good news is, I have my bib and helmet number, my VIP wristband, and I've been able to up my goal twice: I'm now aiming for $900.
The bad news is, I may have come down with that same sinus infection that put The Other Half out of commission all of last week. I'm hoping it's just a reaction to a whole lot of insect bites which have not been behaving in a typical (for me) fashion, but the effect has been a systemic histamine reaction rather than something that's site-specific: I'm dealing with the whole running nose, watery eye, swollen face and extremities thing.
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