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Myth 6.

"If you take insulin, or more than one type of insulin -- or you wear an insulin pump -- or you have to take pills and not-eat certain foods -- you have the 'bad kind' of diabetes."

• Fact: There is no good kind of diabetes. Each type of diabetes has its challenges in maintaining relatively normal blood glucose levels. Each type of diabetes, left unchecked, can cause complications and death.
• Fact: The really, really bad kinds of diabetes are diabetes that has not been diagnosed and diabetes that is not actively managed, whether by pills, insulin, and/or diet, and that is not well-monitored (by home glucose testing).
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I know he meant well.
I know he was just curious.
I know he is simply concerned about my health.
But seriously, since when is "So how's your diabetus?" an acceptable question?
It's not like saying "How's your broken leg?" or "Is your cold getting any better?" The status of diabetes doesn't get any better.
I should say, though, that I suspect my friend--whom I had reminded that I have diabetes when he spotted my pump the day before I got hooked up--was really just wondering if the pump was making things easier for me. In fact, he asked as much several minutes later. (READ MORE)

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"Sana Sana Colita De Rana" which is Spanish for "Heal, Heal. Butt of a Frog!" LOL Yeah, I swear.
It is usually said to little kids when they get hurt. You may call it a "boo boo" or "let mommy kiss the boo boo and make it better." The whole "frog butt" part is really used as a distraction. It's hard to worry about a stubbed toe when grandma just said something about a frog's bottom! (READ MORE)

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In the past few months, I've really noticed the media attention given to diabetes. Countless times the "d-word" gets thrown into a media line, leaving me clinch to the familiarity of my disease and cringe at the inaccuracies they portray. Unfortunately, too much of this media hype is giving diabetes the wrong kind of attention. Too much of it is snide comments about the disease and not about funding for a cure or the pitfalls of diabetes.

 

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Four continents, 30 cities and 32,000 miles. Adventure seeker Nat Strand and her teammate Kat Chang made history as the first all-female team to win CBS's The Amazing Race. Her accomplishment, however, doesn't stop there. Strand, a 32-year-old doctor from Scottsdale, Arizona, had an additional "road block" to contend with during her race around the world - she has type 1 diabetes.

 

 

Congratulations! The first all-female team and the first person with type 1 diabetes to win the Amazing Race. My 8-year-old son Charlie, who has diabetes, thinks you're pretty cool. Or was it cool and pretty. Something like that.

 

 

Thank you so much! Having type 1 diabetes, I was just happy to finish the race. Winning it and being the first female team to win it was the icing on the cake.

 

 

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Like many in the diabetes community, my wife and I were pretty disturbed when we heard the premise of Hannah Montana's "No Sugar, Sugar" episode that was scheduled to air last night.

 

The episode tackles the issue of juvenile diabetes, but not as we know it to be. A major, recurring character on the show gets diabetes. Oliver, one of Miley's best friends, is ashamed at first and tries to hide his disease from his friends.

 

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There's a time and place for every conversation. I know this sounds weird coming from the girl from the funeral family who routinely talks about all things death at the dinner table and who isn't squeamish about much. But seriously, there are some things I just don't want to focus on, say, during my annual well woman exam.

 

Maybe I was just set off a bit when E. gave me the diabetes look of pity when, in response to her asking how things were with my diabetes, I told her that I found out I am type 1 and not type 2. I think I zoned out right then as she began telling me her history with diabetes.

 

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It's dblog day here in the diabetes blogosphere. The web is alive with exciting variations of "Six things you want people to know about diabetes." And I'm joining in this dblog day (it also happens to be my birthday) with my own variation of these six things. Six things I want you to know about MY diabetes.

 

I can talk all day about the facts of diabetes and overcome myths and point out the truth of this disease. But there's a big difference between telling you all the facts of diabetes (like the difference between type 1 and type 2) and telling you what my diabetes is actually like. My diabetes is not your diabetes or the diabetic sitting next to you at work. We are all different and each have our own things that pertain to our unique situations.

 

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Today, I am participating in Blue Fridays by wearing a blue sweater in support of diabetes awareness. I've never really understood this trend where we wear blue on certain days to advocate for this disease. Who is going to ask me why I'm wearing blue today? Who is going to notice that every Friday in November, I am wearing blue? I can guarantee that answer is no one.

 

Yet we all do it. We advocate in these tiny, unified ways that show we are working for a cure. We sign up for the Walks, fundraise in a multitude of ways, write letters to Congress, post on Facebook, blog about it, and sometimes never stop talking about it. And what are we really accomplishing?

 

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