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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: sports and diabetes
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He lunges from left to right, securing his black Pumas against the goal post and suffocates the bright-orange hockey ball before the marauding yellow team can squeak it past him.
When the whistle stops play, he glances over to make sure we're watching. Happy as a clam behind his helmet's cage and bopping his head up and down like a parrot.
"Way to go, Cholly!" one of the fathers yells, slouching comfortably in his folding chair.
"His name is Charlie," his son says, stressing the "arlie."
"Well here in Philadelphia, we say Cholly," he says proudly, adjusting his thick gold chain around his deeply tanned neck.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: fire medication preparedness San Diego
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Over fifteen percent of San Diego County's population of 2.9 million has been evacuated from their homes due to impending threats of fast burning fires. The San Diego Charger's home field, Qualcomm Stadium, as well as local shelters and hotels are being filled up as a safe-haven for relocated San Diegans. More than 1,300 homes and businesses have been set afire by the wind propelled wildfires and containment in some areas is still zero percent. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: depression feeling down good things in life hyperglycemia reality
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Life is full of simple pleasures.
Today I slept in until 12. I made some coffee. I drank about 4 cups. I had a nice little breakfast. I turned on the tv and actually caught a decent movie. The movie was, "The Broken Trail" with Robert Duval. It was about some good ol' cowboys taking some horses about 800 miles or so through some beautiful country in Wyoming. The movie really hit home with me this morning. I love to be outside. I love that I am country guy and that I am in my element when I am out in the wilderness. I love a good fire and a good meal. Sometimes I am happiest with just a cup of coffee and maybe a smoke if I feel like it.
Bottom line is today I was depressed.
I had a nice breakfast, watched that great movie, drank my coffee, and then tested my sugar.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions
Tags: depression Diabetes emotions
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Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year but for so many it is not. The holidays tend to be a time that people reflect on the past year and sometimes that can be a real downer.
This Christmas will not be so “Holly Jolly” for me.
My health was pretty good as far as my diabetes goes. I had no major incidents like DKA or hospitalization of any kind so that front has been pretty good. In fact, I may have some really good news to share soon but I will wait for the official word on that.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: diet temptation weight loss
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In case you didn't know that acronym stands for, "There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." I remember those words on the chalk board during my Economics class in high school. Yesterday this saying came to mind again.
During the day I get a phone call from one of our salespeople at work letting me know that he wants to treat the office employees to lunch as an early Valentine's gift. All the gals in the office were excited to get a free lunch but see it as a test of my will power.
Having to count points and carbs means I plan for most meals. I have spent the first weeks of the New Year luke-warm about my weight loss and I just recently got the fire burning again. Free lunches come with a price that I am not ready to pay. (READ MORE)
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I have found another one of my deep passions. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
There are many things in this world that make me feel good: my girlfriend, being with my friends and family, going on long walks or hikes, building a nice fire and sitting around it feeling its warmth, traveling, joking around- basically you get the idea. I could continue to write down dozens of other things that make me feel good, but I'll spare you the time. Over the past couple of years, I have had one focus that especially makes me feel great, martial arts. I feel the main reason why I love kickboxing and jiu-jitsu is that I feel empowered. This is so important to me and my physical, spiritual, and mental health because getting diabetes at a young age took ALL of that away from me. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food
Tags: counting carbs Eatsmart carb-factor food scale
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Anything that gets delivered to our home in the form of a box or a large envelope sets the children into a carnal frenzy. They stand beside it jubilantly and crazy-eyed like cavemen around a first fire.
A food scale is something we always planned on getting but just never did. I always wondered, though, how close we were with our guesstimates.
Before I even finished reading the brief manual, Charlie had already determined the total weight of three storm trooper figures, a bar of soap, my car keys and his little brother's tongue.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: feeling low blood sugar
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Just this morning …
Charlie says, "Dad, I think I'm low."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"OK, one sec."
Rip. Pop. Click.
"Nope. Not low."
"Aww. I wish I was low."
"What? No Charlie. Being low is very dangerous. Why do you want to be low?"
"Because I want to eat some juice."
"You mean drink juice?"
"Drink juice."
"Charlie, it's really, really dangerous."
"Could I die?" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Complications
Tags: cure hypo unaware hypoglycemia
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I am always cold. At night I sleep mummified in a blanket burrito. Sure mornings are difficult since I do not want to face the frigid temperatures that accompany a typical Southern California morning but I do with a chipper grin after just having a wonderful night of deep sleep.
But last night was different. I woke up sweating. I was on fire! Someone must have turned the heater up or something. My wife woke up and asked, "Are you alright?"
"It's just freaking hot! What is the heater set at?"
"Where is your machine?"
Machine? I mean, it took me a second to even understand what the heck she was talking about. Did I actually forget that I have diabetes and have had it for 18 years? What is wrong with me? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Emotions In the News
Tags: blood sugar testing medical news
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As a member of the media, you might think that I would get riled up about news stories all the time. Strangely, though, I don't find that to be true. So I guess it's no surprise that when I do get moved by a story, I get really moved.
There's not often much information in the e-newsletter from Diabetes Health magazine that pertains to me, but I look forward to reading it nonetheless. I usually scan the headlines and teasers, and maybe read a story or two. I sometimes forward it on to my mom and two aunts who help their 90-year-old type 2 mom with her diabetes management.
Today's newsletter, though, had a story that I read several times. The headline, Psychologically Dependent Type 2s Use Too Many Test Strips?, intrigued me; the story, on the other hand, made the fire rage. (READ MORE)
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