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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: depression diagnosis helplessness
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When I woke up this morning I didn't notice anything different. I heard my kids running around getting their stuff together for school. I sat up and walked directly to the bathroom to shave and shower as I do every day. I turned on the water and sat my pump on the counter just like yesterday and a lot like tomorrow.
Before I wet my face I caught of glimpse of myself in the mirror and stared at the infusion site on my stomach. I saw this medical device stuck to me like an IV or something. I noticed the curliness of the 43" tubing running from the site to my pump. I looked at my face and saw a tired guy. A guy that has a lot of choices and plans foiled because of this disease. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Food Emotions Real Life
Tags: budget community food choices outreach poverty religion support groups
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With a new year come new ideas, new resolutions, new solutions to old problems, and of course new problems needing solutions.
Among the last is, once again, need for a full-time job. Cell phone sales were not high enough to keep me on until Christmas, so I am once again navigating the waters of unemployment and job-search.
For now, enough of that. The meme going around the Diabetes Online Community has been that of "spreading the word" -- both telling people with diabetes of the online resources available to us, and bringing our online activism out to the world in which we live, visit our doctors, purchase our food and medications, and educate our children. While most of us talk about outreach in terms of getting our real-life neighbors to hook up with our online resources, I see a different reality.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
Tags: blood glucose testing hypoglycemia travel
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We live in Southern California not too far from "the happiest place on earth." With that, season passes to "The big D" (as we refer to it) are a very good investment for us. We can go during the week after work for a few hours. Ofter we head over after church on Sunday for a few rides and then head home. The kids don't flip out because they know that we can go back when we want to. It works quite well for us and it's a blast!
Except when diabetes shows up in the form of a very scary low.
We made dinner reservations in New Orleans Square and we had to rush from Space Mountain which is on the other side of the park. My sister and her fiance took the lead and my wife and kids brought up the rear. Snaking through a ton of people is the easiest way to move quickly. Single file and move fast. I was at the very back of the line and of course started to feel low. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Emotions
Tags: Dreams Low Bloodsugar Screaming
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I have vivid dreams. When I close my eyes at night, a whole new world appears, in living color. My dreams hold smells and sounds and sights that often rival the sensory reality of my waking life. There have been times when I could swear I've seen people, had conversations, and done things in real life, when these memories were simply creations of my sleeping mind. I know that I talk, run, laugh, and cry while I sleep; something that makes sharing a bed with me a real challenge. I suppose that the vividness of my dreams might be a reflection of the constant activity in my brain. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions
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For the third year in a row, I found myself at the doctor's office on March 15th. That seems to be the day my allergies have decided to kick right in. Sore throats, nasal congestion and dripping, little bit of a cough. Every year. Same day. This has not made for a fantastic week. I feel horrible.
As a result of medicating pretty heavily (Claritin, nasal decongestant, bendadryl at night) and lack of activity, the allergies have come with elevated bloodsugars that are making me feel even cruddier. High hundreds and low two hundreds have dominated my meter landscape. Insulin seems like a pale warrior standing up to these sugars, which just flat out refuse to surrender. Drastic increases in both basal and bolus rates (up to 30%-40%) haven't worked with any kind of consistency. I am not exercising because I feel like such crap. I'm frustrated... Which means I'm avoiding.
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