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"Dad, am I going to get diabetes?"
This was the part I was dreading. I knew this question was going to come up but how do I respond? Do I tell her about my fears. How I do not know how I could live with myself if you had this terrible disease? Do I mention the fear she may have to live with for the rest of her life? Should I mention how she may not but her future kids could get it? How should I respond? (READ MORE)

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I've been bragging for a few months now that Mom and Dad are flying my family, my brother's family and my single brother to Catalina Island, Calif., in June to celebrate Mom's 60th birthday (which is in August). Having spent quite a bit of time at the beach as a youngster, I simply can't wait to introduce my children to the ocean.
Although the trip isn't until the first week of June, I've already done some preparing. I'm making mental lists of supplies I'll need for the kids, noting which suitcases to take, realizing I need to drop a few pounds, and even (gasp!) deciding to buy a new swim suit since it's been years since I had a new one. (I think I may need to be heavily sedated or severely drunk for that dressing room session!) (READ MORE)

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Diabetes has made me a hypochondriac. Every ache, every pain, every change is some condition, disease or syndrome. Now typically I don't truly believe I have any of the things I so often "self-diagnose," but I have to admit that I am constantly living in the shadow of my diabetes. (READ MORE)

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I keep saying that my new diagnosis doesn't change anything, but it does. It just does. I can't put my finger on it, and many of the things that are going through my mind as being "worse" than having type 2 are likely just unfounded fears. (READ MORE)

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I’m not afraid of needles, but I must admit that I’m a little fearful of the bloodwork I’m scheduled to have in a few weeks.
 

Since I finally found an endo practice that I enjoy (yes, I know I still haven’t blogged about it yet!), they naturally want their own bloodwork. Which is great. And fine with me. It’s just the type of bloodwork that’s being done that’s leaving me a little uneasy.
 

I know it shouldn’t. And, really, I’m not uneasy I’m just kind of … I don’t know… just nervous? anxious? curious?
 

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Fear of needles. Fear of blood. Fear of hospitals or doctors. These are all normal phobias in the world. People commonly relate to one or all of these fears, whether from bad experiences, horror stories or movies/TV shows.

 

But for a diabetic, what are our fears? Of course, many diabetics deal with the fear of needles, blood or hospitals/doctors. I'm fine with the needles and the blood, but I have a strong dislike towards doctors. I wouldn't say I'm afraid of them, but I don't particularly like to hear what they have to say (this stems from every doctor's appointment in my past that I would leave crying from because my control just wasn't good enough).

 

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Life is full of scary moments. Life with health issues is especially scary at times. Each person struggles with different fears and different aspects of diseases, but there is always a recurrent line of fear.

 

For me, there is the fear of difficult pregnancies. I would absolutely love to have my own biological children, but there is a part of me that knows that might not be possible. Not only am I high risk from the diabetes, but PCOS makes pregnancy an often far-fetched and difficult event.

 

I'm afraid that I won't have a full term pregnancy. I'm afraid that I'll struggle to get pregnant in the first place. I'm afraid that I'll do something wrong or something even out of my control to hurt my baby. I'm afraid that I won't have the option to decide my own birth plan.

 

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>: What is it that you're most afraid of?

 

<: I don't know doc. I guess it's the unknown. You know. The unexpected. The terrible. The monster hiding under the bed. I can call you doc, right?

 

>: Sure. I guess. If you want to.

 

<: Thanks doc.

 

>: Let's just say you went through with it. What's the worst that will happen?

 

<: Well, we'd be in for a long night. That's for sure.

 

>: So, it's him that you're worried about or are you more concerned about yourself? I'm just trying to understand.

 

<: Well, no, it's him. Of course it's him. I mean sure, it's us too. It's exhausting, these sorts of nights.

 

>: So we're talking about potentially one rough night?

 

<: Right, but ...

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There's a reason I don't watch 9/11 memorials and retrospectives. I spent too many months breathing in the remains of the never-identified mixed with burning concrete, steel, and asbestos. For too many months, my previously-direct route into work was disrupted and made roundabout. For too many months, the scaffolding, National Guardsmen, barricaded streets, and ubiquitous grey dust left us worried of another attack that might complete the destruction that the attacks on the World Trade Center left half-done. I spent too many months wondering about what my religious responsibilities were to the families of those I never knew, whose loved ones' remains would remain as a body burden in my lungs, and too many months worrying about latent effects that might not show up until ten, twenty, or even thirty years after my exposure to that environment.

 

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The past few mornings, I've noticed a tingling, shocking pain in my heels when I take my first steps. It happens in both feet and disappears after a few steps. And it's got me worried.

 

I have full sensation in both my feet and pass the neuropathy test every time my doctor does (twice this year, last in October). I do get heaviness in my legs and foot pain sometimes, but it usually coincides with wearing heels too often, being on my feet for long periods of time, or strenuous exercise. It's never been that concerning.

 

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