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Having been away for a weekend of fun since Friday morning, I feel like I've been living under a rock! Albeit a really fun rock, with a little alcohol, BBQ, and great music, but still a rock.

So, as I watched Barack Obama introduce his first Supreme Court appointment, Sonia Sotomayor, this morning, I was taken aback to discover that she has type 1 diabetes. That she was diagnosed at eight years old. That she's lived with type 1 for 46 years.

How incredibly inspiring for people with diabetes. Even more inspiring, I would imagine, for those raising children with type 1.

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A pilot in Denton, Texas, made an emergency landing near a freeway yesterday because he felt lightheaded. Only one media source stated he was diabetic. Yet the article made every major newspaper in the area.

Thursday, I drove down the highway in rush hour traffic digging through my bag and eating everything I had with me. As I stuffed the glucose tabs into my mouth, I sat wondering about my fellow drivers. Were any of them diabetic? Had they driven this low before? Would they be mad because I was driving low (granted we didn't reach speeds above 15 mph)?

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When we got out of the car, the first thing Charlie did was adjust his "Charlie's Angels" t-shirt so that his insulin pump was visible to his fellow diabetic comrades.

Then he scoped the area for others who sported similar machinery. If there was a "D" signal on the pump, he would have surely activated it.

Calling all diabetics! Calling all diabetics! Rendezvous at the Tastykake table in 5. Tell your mothers you feel low.

We had a gorgeous day filled with sunshine and the support of great friends and family who walked beside us for a cure at Rutgers University's agricultural campus.

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It's always interesting to meet fellow diabetics in person. It doesn't happen all that often to me, but occasionally I will bump into someone and find out they are diabetic too. Being a pumper has definitely changed that awareness (because you know all diabetics can spot a fellow pumper from miles away!).

Over the summer, I went in to have a microdermabrasion procedure (trying to get rid of the post-acne marks from the PCOS) at a local doctor's office. My new patient forms asked the usual questions: pre-existing conditions, prescriptions, etc. So I marked the normal things: diabetic, PCOS, on humalog, etc. and moved on.

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I've been reading "Psyching Out Diabetes" off and on. Each chapter is devoted to a different emotion that commonly affects diabetes management. So far, I haven't had an epiphany. But it is nice to hear what some diabetics struggle with in their diabetes growth and how those outside are affected.

One of the topics in the "Anger" chapter is about terminology and labels. What is right: diabetic or person with diabetes? The great debate!

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Ring around a rosy, a pocket full of posies...

By the time we reach adulthood, most of us know that the seemingly-nonsensical nursery rhymes of youth were sharp political snipes and sarcastic observations at the time of their composition. We know, for example, that the "ring" or "rosy" was the distinct buboe of bubonic plague, that it was believed that carrying around fresh flowers would help ward off the Plague, that the belongings of a Plague victim would be burned to try to limit the spread of the disease, and that all too many people had succumbed -- and would succumb -- to its horrors.

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After I got Diabetic Echoes up and running as a website, I noticed that my college campus needed a place for diabetics and those interested in diabetes. So I went about setting up the organization with my campus. It was a long process, which took careful planning and creativity.

The group started last semester with four members including myself. We met every other week to prepare for this semester, talk about the JDRF Walk, and discuss things that were happening in our diabetes lives. Finding other members proved difficult, although I wasn't ready to give up just yet (after all, we raised over $1000 for the JDRF Walk).

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I get asked a lot about diabetes care.  Sometimes by other diabetics, sometimes by parents of diabetics.  Most often, though, I get asked about diabetes care by the spouses, partners, and adult caregivers of diabetics.  To be more specific, the spouses, partners, and adult caregivers of less than compliant or noncompliant diabetics.  

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I've spent many hours over the past six weeks training in a local hospice program. I learned about the logistics of hospice, toured a hospice house, heard the difference between hearing and listening, and met several amazing fellow volunteers. With this hospice program, I'm certified as a volunteer to sit with hospice patients in their homes or in the hospital.

Over the past weeks, I've had several "hard" moments in the training. There were stories that brought up emotions about both my deceased grandparents and my late great grandfather. There were also moments where I considered myself in relation to death and mortality. Some of those moments, I wasn't exactly sure how to handle what I was feeling.

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This past weekend was absolutely wonderful. I trekked to central Texas to spend the weekend in the company of my oldest friend (known the longest, not oldest by age) and attend the JDRF Austin Type 1 Now event. I also had the awesome pleasure of meeting Kerri Sparling who blogs over at Six Until Me and others.

Friday night, my non-diabetic friend and I had a late dinner and glass of wine after I'd sat in traffic for most of the evening. We stayed up chatting for awhile, just catching up and having some good laughs. The feeling of being with a friend of almost 12 years is indescribable. There is not much we haven't been through together and it's so appreciated.

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