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Since getting my hands on a review copy of Jenny Ruhl's new book, "Blood Sugar 101: What they don't tell you about diabetes" (Technion Books), I haven't been able to put it down.
Finally, an intellegent book about type 2 diabetes that tells it like it is and offers practical advice without talking down to me or engaging in quackery. Reading it, I feel like I did when met best friend Sue in middle school or when first found Diabetic Mommy. There's someone else who gets it! (READ MORE)

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Do you consider yourself to be selfish? That's the topic I've been pondering over today and for many years since becoming diabetic. Sometimes I can't help but feel like because of diabetes I am forced to think of myself, or my diabetic needs, before the needs of others. Maybe selfishness is a characteristic that is inherited in people who develop life threatening illnesses or diseases. Perhaps because we live with the constant reminder of the thin line between life and death, we are more in tune to our needs.

Is it true that selfishness and diabetes go hand in hand?

What do you think? Have you, like me, thought about this before? Do you think of yourself as a selfish person?
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Today is World Diabetes Day, by golly, although I doubt I'm going to get cake. (And how funny would that be? I'd eat it, too.) It does present a good opportunity to stop and actually assess my life as a diabetic.
I know, that's not politically correct. I am not supposed to self-identify as a diabetic. I am supposed to call myself a Person with Diabetes or a Swell Guy with a Complicated Pancreas or Blood Glucose Challenged or whatever. I suppose there's a newsletter that I should subscribe to in order to get the proper talking points. (READ MORE)

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How often has this question been debated?
Olivia doesn't care what she's called. She calls herself diabetic often. I'm the one with the issue. I always say that she has diabetes. To me, calling her a diabetic makes her only her disease.
On dLife a couple of weeks ago, Jim Turner said that he was always a diabetic, that diabetes was what he thought about, what was going on in the background all the time, no matter what else he was doing. He was, first and foremost, a diabetic.
I can understand that thought process, but I don't agree with it. Yes, diabetes takes up a lot of space in the brain and it's not something that can be shoved aside and forgotten. You always have to take it into consideration. But you take it into consideration along side your life. Your life as a person. A person with diabetes, yes, but a person with a life. A person who is a sister, daughter, student, drama queen and soccer player as well as a person with diabetes. (READ MORE)

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"Are you going to eat what your wife made?"

 

It was loud. It was purposely loud to get everybody's attention. It was coming from an unexpected source. I was ready.

 

"If you mean the cake then, heck yes I am having some. Why?"

 

"Hello, you are diabetic!"

 

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There are a lot of things in our lives that require guessing. There are few things in everyday life considered an exact science, particularly when it comes to diabetes. If you're a person with diabetes and/or a person who regularly reads this site, you know that what works for one person with diabetes may or may not work for someone else with diabetes. Not only that, but there are so many factors that influence our individual diabetes -- right down to the weather! -- that what worked for ME yesterday may or may not work for me today.

 

So when someone tells me to adhere to some of the basic principals of diabetes management -- like testing before eating (which I admittedly don't always do, but don't necessarily need a lecture on), and talking with a diabetes educator -- I actually get a little offended. I'm far from perfect, and heaven knows I don't know everything when it comes to diabetes. I do, however, feel like I know my body pretty well.

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The recession has finally caught up to my employer, who has painstakingly tried to shield us from it as much as possible. However, next month may bring a restructuring that may include layoffs. No one knows yet who may or may not be on the chopping block.
 

I’ve been unemployed before and it sucks. And I don’t want to do it again. But then, I didn’t have diabetes. Then, I didn’t rely on an insulin pump to stay healthy. Now, I think being unemployed would be a much worse situation.
 

When I heard the news about what may happen next month my first thoughts were about how we would continue to pay the two mortgages (no, the house in Missouri hasn’t sold yet!), buy groceries and continue to provide the basics for our family without losing our minds. The thoughts of how I would continue to pay for my health care needs were delayed, strangely.
 

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Back in November I wrote a song called "Not By Choice" for World Diabetes Day.

 

The words I wrote were pulled from my memories of how it felt to be diagnosed and not know what type one diabetes was. Thoughts like, “why did this happen to me?” “What did I do wrong?” And I blamed myself for a long time too.

 

Then I found this community online. The Diabetes O.C. which we affectionately call it and a community I mention often. When I found this group of other people with diabetes who had those same feelings, I realized that we could help one another and not give up hope.

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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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Are you a person with diabetes (PWD) or diabetic?  Which do you prefer and why?

 

Those are questions I hear quite frequently, and were the topic of discussion during a Diabetes Social Media Advocacy chat session on Twitter a couple of weeks ago.

 

To me, "Person with Diabetes" and "Diabetic" are labels.  Yes, I do use each of them interchangeably when speaking and writing, because I am both a person with diabetes and a diabetic, but those labels do not define who I am.  Those are just two of the hundreds of different labels with which I can identify myself.

 

And to be quite honest, my preference would be not having the need for either of those labels, but I do have Type 2 Diabetes, and it came wrapped in a package with PWD written on one side, and Diabetic written on the other side.

 

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