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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: anniversary cures fifteen years life without diabetes
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Fifteen years. A decade and a half. Thousands of days. Millions of minutes. Over half my life.
It doesn't seem real that I've lived with diabetes for fifteen years. It doesn't seem fathomable that this is only the first fifteen years of many more. I can't imagine how the rest of my life will daily involve diabetes despite the daily involvement of the last fifteen years. I just can't picture more infusion sets, more doctors appointments, more worries. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: lows overnight testing
Views: 1896
His knees are bent.
Like a frog.
His nostril whistles.
He sleeps peacefully.
He's 56.
"Charlie," I whisper into the dead of night, giving him a slight nudge.
The ceiling fan hums.
"Charlie, you're low. Have some juice."
"Charlie!"
So many nights I've whispered these words into his sleeping ears. So many nights for four-and-a-half years. So many nights Susanne has. So many nights other moms and dads around the world whisper the very same words to their children in the darkness. We need a cure.
He keeps his eyes closed.
He just nods and opens his mouth when he feels the straw poking at his lips.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blind bolusing guilt perfectionism
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: glucometers measurement accuracy Test Strips
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My relationship has changed, and I'm not happy. Over the past three weeks, I've lost so much trust in what I'm being told that I'm looking at "playing the field" again.
The relationship I'm talking about is the one with my glucometer.
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: allergies blood glucose management blood glucose testing diabetes at work diet disclosure eating out Family food choices friends hypertension role models sodium
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When friends in one of my Pagan communities talk about disclosing their religion to others, they borrow a metaphor from our LBGT friends: they "come out of the broom closet". It's kind of appropriate, considering that many are Wiccan and that witches are associated with brooms in both folklore and practice. When we disclose our diabetes to someone, we may talk about "coming out of the insulin closet". I'm not sure the modifier is appropriate for those of us who have type 2 diabetes and who don't (yet) require exogenous insulin. Still, "coming out of the diabetes closet" doesn't have the same sort of "ring" to it...
I've been open about my diagnosis (hard not to be when you're blogging on a major diabetes site!) for long enough that my original migration from denial to the "closet", and gradually stepping out to the degree to which I'm open about it now is beginning to get fuzzy.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: hypoglycemia unawareness low symptoms lows
Views: 2007
Since I can remember, I've always had certain symptoms of being low. A funny feeling in my stomach, shaking, cold sweats, feeling tired, slow or incomplete thoughts. Depending on the low, sometimes certain symptoms would be worse than others. Almost every single time, I got this feeling in my stomach kind of like butterflies. Lately, I've been having some of these low symptoms when my blood sugar is not even close to a low. I get the feeling in my stomach, I feel shaky, I even start slurring my words. I check and I'm fine. 141. 126. Even 204. So why do I feel low? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Emotions
Tags: best age diagnosis type 1
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I often wonder what the "best" age is to be diagnosed with diabetes. (I'm not saying there is a "best" but I wonder when it's "easiest" persay.) (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: children coping father with type 1 genetic risk newly diagnosed
Views: 2138
Sometimes diabetes makes me feel so alone. I've always been the "token" diabetic in my family. And after almost fifteen years of being the only one, I'm adjusted to the idea. I'm good at doing this "alone." I actually like it. I know that no one I love deals with it. I never have anyone to blame. Plus it makes me unique.
In October of last year... that all changed. My dad was diagnosed with type 1. I've never worried about my parents getting it, only my future children. Yet here we are: my father has my disease. It feels horrible, a true blow to the gut. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 In the News
Tags: amputations compliance complications
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I have not been compliant with my diabetes protocol for several months. I haven't been testing, I haven't been watching what I eat or exercising. I've even been eating straight carb snacks - when I'm supposed to "never eat carbs alone! "
I can "get away" with this once in a while because I'm early in Type 2. But today I read a story that pulled me up short.
People with diabetes are 15 times more likely to have a lower limb amputation than those without the disease. Yes, FIFTEEN times more likely. And then, 70% of the people who have amputations are dead within 5 years.
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I’ve shed a lot of weight and kept it off for almost two years now. You’d think I’d look in the mirror and see a difference. Not so much.
As most people do, I look in the mirror and see the work that’s still to be done.
It’s the strangest form of self-critique. The fact that I have a fairly trim waist doesn’t seem to matter in the shadow of my big butt.
At any rate, I’ve once again decided to get my big butt back in gear and start 25 to 30 minutes of challenging exercise each day.
I’m on day two. And I’m feeling great. Talk to me at day fifteen.
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