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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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During our 504 meeting with the school staff, my wife and I mentioned that we'd like to read a short children's book to Charlie's classmates so that they could have a basic understanding of diabetes. Surely they would want to know why he was putting a blood sample into a strange device every couple of hours and why he was able to eat at times that they weren't.
The teacher and the principal thought it was a good idea, but the district official, who was there to make sure everything was kosher, suggested the principal have a look at the book before approving A Ruler, a Number 2 Pencil and Diabetes by Dr. Troy Apaches.
My initial thought was that this was strange. I mean it's a published children's book. What could possibly be offensive? Though, truth be told, it had been years since I read the book. I suppose I could have forgotten about some of the content. (READ MORE)

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Why can't diabetes give me some room to get some things done this season? I swear, I have had more "diabetes in the way" moments lately which is driving me nuts!
So there I was, cruising through the local Target store looking for some gifts for a gift exchange party we were invited too. I could not decide on a fun gift like a board game or go with the décor type like a cool candle or something. Now keep in mind I was power walking through the store because all I want to do is get my gift and get the heck out. I like most guys am not a shopper at all. Frankly, I hate shopping.
As I am standing in an aisle staring at the wall o' board games a sudden feeling of hunger hits me. It was more like famine. Let's just say that I almost tore open the Ice Cream Cone puzzle and started eating pieces. Then the sweating started. Great, a Christmas Shopping low. (READ MORE)

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Perhaps I'm pushing the envelope a little too much here, but personally, I don't think so! Were all adults here,..RIGHT!? Although sex may not be one of our biggest concerns as diabetics, it certainly is just one more thing we have to think about.

I was searching around in my head for different things to write about today and then all of the sudden this video popped into my head. I also got the inspiration for this post after I injected 15 units of fast acting insulin and, well, let's just say the mood hit.

I bet that if you're reading this you have had at least one experience with hypoglycemia while "in the moment". Am I wrong? Of course not, it's a part of life and being diabetic that's not very fun. (caution kids, it gets more awkward)
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Still sleeping at 7:20 am? That's peculiar. He's usually doing laps around the house with Cheerios spilling out of the box by no later than 6. Where's the ear-deafening screams? Why does the dishwasher have just dishes in it and not dirty laundry or fresh fruit? Something's not right.
When Ben finally did wake up, he was extremely lethargic. He wanted nothing to do with his pancakes and cried at anything we put in front of him. I ran out to get chocolate glazed munchkins - the true test.
He threw his head back, cried and said "Noooooooo!"
And then he did something that we'd seen before, but never from him. In Susanne's arms, his skin turned pale and he couldn't keep his eyes open. What the hell is going on?
"Test his sugar!" Susanne said. (READ MORE)

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When things couldn't possibly get any worse ...

 

"Hi dad, I'm 31."

 

It's not something you ever want to hear. That is, unless it was his 31st birthday and he was just calling to remind me.

 

It's certainly not something you want to hear on the other end of the phone when your son is at a friend's house and you really don't know the father too well are you're miles away from him in a strip mall buying a brass turtle.  

 

We've only just begun letting him go to friends' homes without us - dealing with diabetes on his own. He's maybe done it three times prior to this one and all has gone well.

 

A.  He knows to check his sugar if he feels low.

 

B. He's wired with piercing alarms that go off when he's too low or too high.

 

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On more than one occasion I've been rather surprised at how low a post-meal or random blood sugar check is. Not in a 'wow-I-did-good' kind of way; more like a 'geez-I'm-53-and-not-feeling-it' kind of way.
I don't consider myself to "suffer" from hypo unawareness, but it's safe to say that I get it quite often. I remember plenty of times waking to a fasting of around 60 and feeling great.
So when I have a day like today, it really drives me crazy.
After lunch, I was feeling pretty shaky. Not terribly low shaky, just like a going-low kind of shaky that I knew needed to be dealt with soon or it would get bad. I expected to be in the 60s and was quite shocked with an 83. I treated, thankful that I caught it early and went on my way. (READ MORE)

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Information overload is a side effect of being a health writer. I often know too much about too many things. Symptoms start to seep into my subconcious until I convince myself that some minor irritation is a major illness. A simple rash is ringworm, a charlie horse is neuropathy, a side stitch is my appendix bursting.
I'm told medical students often have the same problem. The technical term for it is hypochondria.
Knowing that I'm prone to imagine the worst, I tend to avoid situations that will trigger this little bit of mania. The most important thing I've learned is to never read the sheets from the pharmacy that accompany my prescriptions. If headaches are a side effect of a particular medication, my head will start pounding before the pill has left my tongue. The same goes for gastric distresses, heart palpitations, night sweats, you name it. If I know about it, I will have it. (READ MORE)

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Olivia's had a few scarily low blood sugars recently and didn't really realize that she was having them. One was in the middle of the night and woke her up, which is good, but the others were at home and she was pretty oblivious.

I worry about her becoming unaware of her hypos, so I always ask her how she's feeling when she does test low. Most of the time, thankfully, she has symptoms - shaking hands, feeling lightheaded, that sort of thing. When she stops and thinks about how she's feeling, she's aware of the symptoms and the need for treatment. It's when she's preoccupied that she doesn't pay attention. Normal, really, for a 13 year-old. Scary for me, though.
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The chirping of birds strikes fear into my heart.

 

It means it's morning and I never got up in the middle of the night to check Charlie's blood sugar.

 

Charlie is downstairs on the floor. His friend is sleeping over. It's 5:45 am. I start to have horrible, horrible thoughts. So horrible, I can't even say.

 

I want to check him but I don't want to wake them up so early. I do some hypotheticals.

 

He was 100 at midnight with .4 units of insulin active. I gave him a 4 ounce juice box. If the .4 units dropped him 60 points or so and the juice brought him up about 70 points, they cancel each other out and we'd be looking at a perfect blood sugar of about 110 come morning. He should be OK, right? Right??

 

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