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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Fitness Real Life
Tags: exercise food walking
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This is not the post I intended to write this morning.
Today, I woke up to a fasting of 151, which is pretty darn good considering where I've been lately. I dressed for my morning walk, sat on the couch and ate what I'm now referring to as a snack--a small cup of yogurt, just 15 grams of carbs. It was all I needed to sustain me through my walk. I used to eat half of a peanut butter sandwich, but it's really hard to choke down that much dryness before the sun even comes up. But I digress.
I decided that with a fairly decent fasting, so few carbs and a 30-minute walk upon me that I didn't need to take any insulin. I mean, 15 grams of carbs! C'mon! (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
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I've been in an emotional slump these past few days. I'm staying really busy and trying to keep my mind on other things, but mostly I just want to move and have my old life back where I live alone, hang out with Marvin, and have fun with my friends. Even if it means working full time or going to graduate school. I just really need that.
Stress hits me hard sometimes. It can really affect my health. Not my blood sugars usually, but the joint pain and the emotions and all the other issues that I deal with spiral out of control when I'm stressed. And I'm feeling incredibly stressed this past week.
I know that this is a transition period for me. I know that things will work out. But right now, I am just feeling so vulnerable with everything. I haven't found the right job. I'm waiting to hear back about graduate school. I have no idea when I might be able to move. Vulnerability really doesn't sit well with me.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: complications death depression
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I received a comment on my post from yesterday that really struck a chord with me. The reader commented that their parents had died from diabetes and that they would die from it too.
When I read that I got choked up because honestly, I feel the same way.
Sure I plan on fighting the fight and checking my blood as often as I am supposed to. Of course I will continue to work on my A1C and losing weight. I am not giving up on life at all. But, in the back of my mind I “know” that diabetes is going to win in the end.
Will it be heart disease, kidney failure, or a stroke? Maybe something else. Who knows?
The fact is that with all the steps I take to live healthy the odds are against me. Diabetes has the upper hand which makes me sad and angry at the same time.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships
Tags: dating introducing diabetes
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I've known him since I was a junior in high school. We met during the years that I wasn't taking care of my diabetes. I don't even remember telling him I was diabetic. I'm sure I did, but I doubt that I made it as detailed of a thought as it should have been.
It took me about two years after I met him to finally get my diabetes act together. By that time, he had moved out of state for college. We barely saw each other, so he never experienced what my diabetes was really like. He didn't experience the terrifying lows or the frustrating highs because he just wasn't around enough to see.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
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There's been some talk among a few bloggers in the Diabetes OC lately (well, at least a couple of the d-bloggers that I read) about the blog audience: do we prefer to write/read a blog about a person who happens to have diabetes or a blog about diabetes that is written by a person.
I think that for some blogs, I'm drawn there because the person has diabetes and frequently writes about that fact. I'm no less inclined to read someone's blog because they stopped writing about diabetes as often.
Today I read a d-blogger who wonders if she reads and writes about diabetes too much. Probably, she said, but being seeped in the community helps keep her sane with this relentless disease.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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My lab results finally showed up in my mom's mailbox yesterday after my appointment back on the 4th. I'd been impatiently waiting the last week or so to get my A1c results and find out where I stood. I was tempted to call the doctor's office, but I didn't want to hear the nurse's lecture on my out of range numbers. I knew it wasn't going to be pretty and I wasn't willing to hear what I already know.
So my mom read me the results over the phone yesterday. My A1c is 8.4% which is up from 8.3% in June. My estimated average numbers are at 194. All the other lab results were within range. My mom read the numbers then the subscript "All lab results normal except diabetes results. Poorly controlled."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: community daily routine depression diabetes management support
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A couple of weeks ago, Kim over at Texting My Pancreas got together with a few other movers-and-shakers in the diabetes online community to create a project to support and encourage other people with diabetes. Called "You Can Do This", the project includes videos, blog posts, and artwork from people with diabetes, for people with diabetes.
It's sort of a crowdsourced Test! Don't Guess campaign, with two main rallying cries: "You can do this!" and "You are not alone".
It's not all unicorns and glitter.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: food Highs lows
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It's soft like velvet, it's sweet and buttery and melty, it's just a touch crisp on the outside, and salty. And after dipping a Wetzel's Pretzel into cream cheese I feel as if I've died and gone to heaven.
OK, not really, but Wetzel's Pretzels are one of those foods that I hate to love. I crave bread and have since forever. I also crave textures. Yes, really. There are times when I want something smooth like yogurt, or something thin like water, or something heavy like ice cream. So yeah, I crave textures.
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It has been a long time since I had a hypoglycemia-related seizure. Over a year. This, compared to monthly convulsive insulin reactions when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I am thankful for a break which appears to have some promise of permanence. But a break doesn't eliminate fear.
My roommate heads back to Texas tomorrow morning. Leaving me with this apartment, and on my own for the first time ever. I have to admit, the idea of an apartment of my own is in some ways very nice. Space. Time. Quiet. Peace. But I am also terrified. Afraid that diabetes and its accompanying life-threatening dangers will visit in the night.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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It's been an entire week since I moved. I can't even believe that this past week has gone by so quickly. I suppose that's what the unpacking, organizing, and shopping does. It's been such a busy week that I'm not even sure exactly how I feel about it all.
I've gotten to spend time with Marvin which has been both a nice change and a help to getting settled. He and his family have made this transition much easier. I'm looking forward to getting back into a dating routine that I so strongly missed over the summer. Friday night dinner and movie dates are way too vital for me.
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