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My fellow blogger Nicole Purcell, wrote an amazing entry the other day called, How Do Our Bodies Do It? She captivates very brilliantly what it is like to experience a severe late night episode of hypoglycemia. Some of us, fortunately, have never had an experience quite like the one she describes. Others are all too familiar with them. Speaking for myself, I am one of the fortunate ones, who has only been dangerously low a handful of times. I have never been injected with a glucagon shot and I've never really lost consciousness due to a low. But still, I could definitely relate to her experience because I can recall the episodes where I was just so unbelievably out of it. But her post got me thinking of the time when I was a camp counselor at a children's diabetic camp.
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We hear it over and over again: delays in seeking medical treatment are responsible for huge numbers of preventable deaths each year. Sometimes the delays are financial: not having the money to pay the doctor, buy the medication, schedule the procedure. Sometimes they are logistical: unable to get time off work, car isn't working (or a driver isn't available), or there isn't an available doctor or treatment facility space within the necessary timeframe. Then there are the diagnostic delays -- often because life-threatening medical conditions don't show symptoms until they reach emergency status, but sometimes because the condition is difficult for one's healthcare team to diagnose.

 

In this case, though, the expression is idiomatic, and the cause, meteorological. At least, that's what I'm going with.

 

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"When Nick Jonas is 26, I'll be 20," my daughter Maeve said with the sun in her eyes in the back seat as we drove to Point Pleasant.
 

"I have experience with diabetes," she said, making her case for why she'd be his ideal bride.
 

I have been blogging in the diabetes community for about two years now. Never have I actually met any of my invisible friends; these physical strangers that know more about me than my extended family does. There's definitely a certain safeness in existing only in words.
 

All that changed on Saturday when I met up with fellow diabetes blogger and parent of a child with diabetes, Shannon and her family. Shannon's 8-year-old son Brendon was diagnosed when he was just a toddler.
 

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A few weeks ago, a fellow PWD blogger/Twitterer/Facebooker asked her friends what they got out of their quarterly appointments with their endo.

 

I had never really thought about it. And when I did, I realized that the only take-away from my endo appointments is knowing my A1C. Typically my endo appointments are quick check ups to talk about how I need to exercise and lose weight, go over lab results and adjust meds if needed, and poke my feet. That’s kind of sad, don’t you think? I don’t feel like I get much out of these meetings.

 

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A day late, and not a dollar, but a pound short; I'm here reporting in on my first week on the dLife Tummy Trim Challenge.  I didn't lose anything in week 1.  On the positive side, I didn't gain either.

 

I logged some of my food.  To be exact, 2 whole days and several partial days.  As my fellow blogger, Michelle Kowalski, also admitted this week; I am accepting the fact that I have a dysfunctional relationship with food. In other words, I eat for reasons other than fueling my body.  Because of this, logging my food both works well to help me reach my goals, and is incredibly hard to do. 

 

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I want to think a fellow blogger, Carey Potash, for the idea behind this blog. It was him that I got the motivation to write this entry. Thanks man. You're a great father and you do an amazing job with your child with diabetes.
I hate going to my Endocronologist. I can't stand the overcrowdedness, the parking, some of the staff (you know who you are), the blood work (see my post entitled, "Disappointing Endo Visit"), The rookie University medical students, and the list goes on forever. (READ MORE)

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I don't often think about how much mental energy I put into tamping down the thoughts that run thru my head about Olivia and how her diabetes affects her. I do bury those feelings because it makes me sad and angry and worried and a whole host of other, not-so-pleasant feelings and I just can't walk around all day feeling that way - it's too draining. Instead, I concentrate on working with her, figuring out how to handle the myriad situations that crop up every day without dwelling on the ramifications of the disease too much. I'll let myself touch lightly on it daily, but wearing all those concerns on my sleeve would send me to the nut house. Every so often, though,something will burst that dam and I'll sit down and have a good old cry about it.  This morning was one of those days. 

 

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Today, I'm taking a meme from fellow D blogger Kelly Booth with a little change. I'm in the kind of mood where I feel like talking, but have absolutely nothing to say of worth. So here I am.

 

1. Describe yourself in seven words.
Calm, honest, nurturing, hopeful, realistic, determined, and timely.

 

2. What keeps you awake at night?
What doesn't? Sometimes it's the cat or a blood sugar issue. Sometimes it's the TV, a good book, or Marvin. Sometimes it's the fear of the unknown, of the what if, and of the now what.

 

3. If you could be anyone for a day, who could you be and why?
Eek...I find this difficult because I generally am happy that I'm me. Anyone? I'd probably be Margaret Mead so I could experience the cultures she did and be a part of founding sociology and anthropology.

 

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Last night, I participated in #dsma, a Twitter event for the diabetes online community. It happens every Wednesday at 9pm EST. I've joined in a couple of times before, but never gotten into it like last night. I've been really focusing on Twitter the last few weeks and finding connections with the DOC.

 

#dsma is crazy. It's fast paced. That hour goes by like lightning as you're trying to read all the other tweets, submit your own, and truly make an impact with fellow D tweeters. It's insightful and it's thoughtful. For that hour, you are thinking about the diabetes community, how to connect, how to integrate different ideas, how things apply or don't apply.

 

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On a day that we Raise Our Voices for Diabetes, I thought it might be interesting to hear an unfamiliar voice.
With Susanne only having a few days at home before she must return to her armwrestling team in Reno, Nevada, to train for the Women's U.S. Open, I thought I'd invite her to be a guest blogger. Take it away, Muscles.
I think I was very accepting and calm when the doctor confirmed Charlie's diagnosis. It's strange because I don't think I really understood the long haul and challenges that were ahead. (How could anyone?) Type 1 diabetes was not a new disease to me. I was, or thought I was, familiar with it. My younger brother has it. He was diagnosed at 18. (READ MORE)

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