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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blood glucose testing Finger pain
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For some reason my fingers are not being very nice to me. All day I have had to squeeze my fingers so hard they hurt. They will not give up any blood! I literally tried all of my fingers three times before I finally got enough for my machine.
Now I do remember back in the day when it seemed to take a "gallon" of blood to get a glucose reading so I am thankful it is not that way any longer. But my One Touch takes a much bigger drop then some of the other machines I have used. Unfortunately my insurance will not cover any other strips but the One Touch. Again, I am thankful for that but I just need to vent a little.
My hand hurts from squeezing my fingers. I can hardly feel my poked fingers anyway so you know it's bad when the squeezing hand is hurting. I have tried the alternate site testing but it is hard for me to trust it. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: diagnosis stories World Diabetes Day
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Back on November 14th was World Diabetes Day. I really wanted to do something special to mark the day this year. I decided I would write a song and record myself playing it to try and raise some awareness.
On my drive home from work on Thursday the 13th I started humming a tune that I thought would work. I knew I wanted the song to be my personal feelings about my disease and I wanted it to be empowering.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: bolus candy high blood sugar insulin pump
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Up until dinner time tonight, I was having a great day. Nothing out of the ordinary. And then I got an incredible shock.
I'd been snacking on some candy all day, but I thought I had been bolusing appropriately. Apparently not. I knew I'd be high going into dinner, but the highest I imagined was still lower than 250. I thought my meter was pulling my leg when I saw 448.
"Holy fffffffffffff..........." I said as I actually jumped as if someone had jumped out of the bushes and scared me.
"What? What? Are you high?" The Mr. wanted to know.
I nodded. I could feel my face getting red with embarassment. I looked at my pump (like it would have the answer!) and then my site. Surely there was something wrong with my site. I had just changed it about six hours ago and hadn't checked my sugar since. My site was obviously the problem.
I checked my sugar again, thinking maybe something was on my fingers and trying to retrace where my hands had been over the last hour. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Complications
Tags: (none)
Views: 1377
It feels like I've been lying in the rain for an hour. I am soaked. And where the hell am I? How is it raining? I'm inside, right?
I can see the ceiling, its popcorn bumps popping out, and the place where it meets the hot pink wall in this room. My room? This is my room, right? Oh, god, how did I get so wet? And cold. I'm shivering. But why am I sweating? I think I'm cold.
I feel nauseous too. Really, really sick to my stomach. I'm pretty sure I can't get up. The floor seems a long way away.
I pull out my insulin pump, which feels foreign in my hands, not at all like a part of my body (that's how it usually feels). And I look for the CGM screen, but I can't find it. And it doesn't occur to me that I'm not wearing the CGM, that I'm taking a break. I can't really read the pump screen anyway, can I?
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: children with diabetes funny
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Charlie has gotten into a bad habit when he pees. He drops his shorts to his ankles, places the pump in his shirt, wraps it upward like a baby sling and then skillfully holds it all in place with his chin. We would prefer for him to just clip the pump onto the neckline of his shirt.
He frees his hands not so that he may use them to guide his rocket-like stream of urine into the toilet bowl. Oh, no. His hands have a greater purpose. His hands are for placing on his hips. So that he can stand back like a proud Roman general and watch his unshackled penis terrorize the innocent porcelain.
Urinatius Everywhereus.
With the slightest distraction, his chin lifts up and the shirt unravels, sending the pump into the pool of pee. He's done this twice to my knowledge. I caught him once.
I peeked in the bathroom as I walked by and saw Charlie with his line out in the water as if he was fishing - the pump floating like a bobber.
"Charlie!" I yelled. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: bloggers JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes meetups new friends outreach World Diabetes Day
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I guess technically, I joined the diabetes online community back in October, 2005 when I joined dLife, and I became active in the overall DOC some time in 2008 -- but it wasn't until this year that I, and others, had the opportunity to "eyeball" the folk we'd been e-mailing, blogging to, commenting blog posts from, tweeting, and otherwise conversing with on various diabetes-related forums and social networks. 2009 is also the year dLife launched the dLife Community, and the year I started blogging here at Blogabetes.
Some of my year's highlights include:
March
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blood blood glucose testing hands immune system social issues virus
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I'm no politician, but my day job does involve shaking the hands of many strangers. In the "normal" (i.e., non-diabetes-related) world, this is no big deal -- if the other person's hand is really icky, just use some hand sanitizer and be done with.
In the 1980's, AIDS-phobia taught us otherwise.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food In the News
Tags: humor
Views: 880
STUDY USES CHINESE WOLFBERRIES TO IMPROVE VISION IMPERFECTIONS CAUSED BY TYPE 2 DIABETES - Physorg.com
Most effective when taken with a single dose of Ukrainian rainbow eggs, study finds. I mean seriously. Are we just making stuff up now?
DRINK YOUR WAY TO A DIABETES REMEDY - Suite101
"OK, Charlie, let’s get it right this time! First you lick the salt, then you drink the tequila and THEN you bite the lime! We’ll do this all day if we have to!"
DIABETES TREATMENTS MAY MAKE IT WORSE - St Louis Post
Splendid.
CURING DIABETES ONE ZIP CODE AT A TIME - WTOC TV
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: CGMS for children high blood sugar
Views: 879
She calls me on the phone at work. With a lack of privacy, there’s not much I can say.
“I just hate this disease so much, you know???”
“mmhmm.”
“I wish it was a physical thing that I could just rip out of him.”
“mmhmm.”
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: annoyances blood glucose testing bolus Diabetes Education diagnosis diet doctors education type 1 Type 2
Views: 414
On dLife's Facebook page, the following question is posed:
There is no doubt that doctors are key to success in maintaining your diabetes. However, not all doctors have diabetes. There are some things that even doctors do not know or understand about living with diabetes. What are some of the things you wish your doctors knew about diabetes and the daily task of living with the illness?
The responses range from issues of doctors not spending enough time with PWDs, giving incorrect information, doctors believing the information we gather about our diabetes is solely for their use (and not ours!), and having poor bedside (or examination room) manners.
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