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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management endo
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Soooo.... I tried not to walk into Dr. R's office last week with a chip on my shoulder -- even recognized that it was there while I was sitting in the room waiting for her and tried to think happy thoughts -- but I don't think I succeeded.
I actually met with Dr. R this time, not the physician's assistant. I should say that I really don't mind meeting with the PA because at this point I feel like I have a good handle on what's going on and what needs to happen. So maybe some of my anxiety with this appointment was more that it was really the first time we've had an appointment together.
And yet, I still can't shake the feeling that we rubbed each other the wrong way. I waited longer than I wanted to for her to come in and when she finally did come in she said she had been looking over my pump records.
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Complications Fitness
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I woke up New Year's morning after a fun night out. I'd had a few glasses of wine the night before, while watching metal and rockabilly bands, cavorting with friends and a sword swallowing lady, and ringing in 2011.
My fitness schedule called for a gym visit on Saturday morning, and I've been dedicated to keeping that schedule. I got up, tested at 106 mg/dl, and had a breakfast of fruit, peanut butter and a half cup of milk with no bolus. Twenty minutes later, before climbing on the treadmill, I tested at 185 mg/dl. I figured I had some food still in their working, so I got to running.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: compliance diabetes management good control self-care
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As people with diabetes, we are tasked by our medical teams with conducting our lives in a manner such as to minimize or mitigate the destructive effects of our medical condition. A lot of press is given to the concepts of "patient compliance" and "patient adherence" -- enough to raise the blood pressures of many of us past the levels covered by our antihypertensive, renal-protective pharmaceuticals. The idea of being "a diabetic in control" (or "out of control") has also been known to raise the hackles of a number of the T1s among us, whose blood glucose levels vary with the tempo and dynamic (but none of the grace) of a Mahler symphony.
Like the four movements of a symphony, or the members of a string quartet, the cornerstones of diabetes self-care are:
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Categories: Type 1 Emotions Real Life
Tags: emotions Tucked in type 1
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I get up every morning. I test my bloodsugar, give a morning dose of insulin. I decide where to place my pump in the outfits I'm considering. Some mornings, I wash away pump stickiness in the shower and insert a new canula. Some mornings, I treat a low bloodsugar, quaking and pale at the kitchen counter. All of this, while feeding the cat and getting ready for work. Drying my hair and putting on lip gloss. Trying to find the right shoes and grabbing a book to read at lunch. Diabetes comes with routines that often fit, tucked quietly, into the other routines my life holds. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: bicycling Blogabetes blogging daily living jobs work
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If I've been a bit incommunicado during the early part of the month, a chunk of it can be attributed to the pre-Christmas time crunch of cookie baking and working retail. I actually had several ideas sketched out — two of them even drafted — but no time to sit and get them posted. Finally, I had some time over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day — but for some still-undetermined reason, every time I tried to access my page to post, I got a 404 File Not Found error. Worse yet, I got this error for everything under Blogabetes — so I missed Carey's posts on Charlie's Christmas and all but the first paragraph of "Prickings" as well.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Women's Issues Real Life
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I’m generally not a jealous person (at least I don’t think so), but “jealousy” is the only way I think I can describe what I’m going through right now.
Every time I see an ad for the breast cancer three-day walk — which is about every 30 seconds these days — I want to hurl the TV across the room. Why? Because why can’t that much attention be paid to people with diabetes?
Yes, I know there are walks for diabetes. But are there commercials with people dressed in blue saying “Save the ta-tas”… er, “Save the pancreases of the world” and “If I can walk 20 miles a day in support of my mother/sister/aunt/uncle/son/daughter then anyone can?” No, there aren’t.
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Categories: Insulin & Pumps
Tags: clothing issues frustration pump
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Christmas means joy. Christmas means tales of sugar plums dancing in children's heads. Christmas means Christmas dresses.
This past holiday was my first pumping Christmas, which meant learning how to "graze" and square bolus at all the parties, how to watch for trends from "holiday stress" and how to buy a Christmas dress fit for a pump.
Typically, finding a dress is hard enough. I'll try on one hundred to find one. Some are too fancy, some are the wrong color, some are just ugh! But never has one been unfit for a pump. Until this Christmas.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: anger customer service problems frustration pumps tossing out the pump
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I'm writing two posts today because I am so incredibly frustrated I really need an outlet. I am about to start throwing things through the wall (which I really don't think my neighbors would appreciate). Particularly, I'm going to throw my stupid pump through the wall (I know they really won't appreciate that!). I have been having a lot of trouble with it since day one. The worst part is that I am having so much trouble with the company and getting help. (READ MORE)
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You are the night
You are the days
You are the hours until
You are the pain on his face
You are his pinching eyelids
You are his grinding teeth
You are the screaming
You are the 2 am light bulb
You are the creaky stairs
You are deception
You are doubt
You are the things that go wrong
You are runaway hands tucked under his pillow
You are the holes in his wet fingers like coral
You are panic
You are fury
You are desperation
You are paleness
You are the vacant collapse
You are the burning tremble
You are the shark in the fog
You are the dark hallway
You are the unknown
You are unanswerable questions
You are the odd imposter
You are jagged temper
You are dread
You are scar tissue and blood
You are alarm
You are guilt
You are darkening shades of purple (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
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I’ve had a really hard time with my writing/not writing lately. In December I blogged only once, and so far this month I’ve blogged twice.
This is kind of weird for me because I’m so used to writing so often. It hurts, actually, that I haven’t been doing more of it. It’s not for lack of trying, though. I’ve written countless Post-It notes to myself with blog topics and have every intention of writing when I get home and then I don’t.
And it’s not like I’m forgetting to do it, I just don’t do it. Or I decide that I’d rather do something else. I think about the Post-It note stuck to my calendar and about all the things I would say in the blog and how wonderfully eloquent I would be. And then I just don’t do it.
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