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Tags: awareness children pinky World Diabetes Day
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This is World Diabetes Day, the first annual, and the international community is embracing its message by flying high the striking blue symbol of the disease. The message is about waking up the world to the growing impact of diabetes on our young and old- this year's theme focusing on children and adolescents. The innocent faces of the disease give a hammering reminder of what we are striving for, worldwide awareness, more scientific breakthroughs, and a much needed cure. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food In the News
Tags: fighting diabetes
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In keeping an eye on diabetes news and the progress of various studies going on around the world, one thing is clear. There is a fight going on. Everyone is fighting diabetes. The news headlines say so. Here are just a few of our brave soldiers risking their lives in the war against diabetes.
Red Wine Fights Diabetes
Glowing Mice Fight Diabetes
Pumpkins Fight Diabetes (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: hypoglycemia travel
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Traveling can be an awesome thing. I find that when I do travel, I pay the utmost attention to controlling my diabetes. I'm away from home, I don't want anything to happen. For me, the simple fact that I'm in an unfamiliar place without any "diabetic connections", is reason enough to watch my control closely. When traveling I start thinking about what I would do or where I might end up if I got really low. Personally, I guess that is one of the main reasons while I try and take special care of myself and my sugars while away on vacation or business.
This is the realization I came to this week as I was traveling on JDRF business.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: children testing themselves endo visit
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At a recent family get-together, I gave a subtle "psssssst" to my mother and pointed over to the kitchen where Charlie was hunched over, lining up the pricker against his pinky. She had never seen him test himself.
She watched with a tear in her eye.
This brings up something I've been wondering about. Now that Charlie has decided to start testing himself, does that mean we just hand the responsibility over to him full bore? He is only 7. When is the right age to relinquish a task like this to a child? Different for everyone, I imagine. We have basically continued to test his blood sugar throughout the day and Charlie takes one or two if he's up to it.
I suppose the gradual approach is the right way to go about it with Charlie as he made it perfectly clear recently that he wasn't ready to prick his fingers on a full-time basis.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children
Tags: blood sugar testing Finger pain
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I have always used my index, middle, and ring fingers to check my BG. But lately, they hurt a lot. I check my BG 8-10 times a day so those digits are covered in marks as well as just hurt when I lance them. I have started to use my pinky to give my other fingers a rest.
So I decided to write a poem to apologize to my littlest counter. I hope you enjoy it.
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Categories: Type 2 Complications Real Life
Tags: amputations diabetes complications eyesight foot care infection
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The old fable of Androcles and the Lion -- or in some versions, the Mouse and the Lion -- highlights an unusual amity between two beings who are usually considered predator and prey. In the story, the lion has been crippled by a thorn stuck in his paw which he could not reach, see, or remove. The prey, whether mouse or man, sees the problem, overcomes his fear of the predator, and offers to remove the thorn. The wound heals, and the lion is ever thankful to his unlikely physician.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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When you're stuck in an exam room for more than three hours waiting for the nurse practitioner, a bit of cabin fever sets in. There are only so many times I can check Charlie's blood pressure and peer into his ears with an otoscope before it becomes boring. And only so many times I can let him smack me on the ass with a tongue depressor.
Luckily, I had my camera on me.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Last night.
Well, it's about 10 pm and we are in the danger zone. Charlie had a couple of slices of pizza with thick crust at about 6 pm. So I'm right here waiting for pizza to do its despicable business. No matter what we do, it's like we are against all odds. It happens time after time.
All I need is a miracle right about now. I'm afraid we'll be up all night long. I just want to get through the night without jabbing needles in his arm and without ketones and without cursing under my breath. It's like one thing leads to another. I can't go for that. Not tonight.
At 99, his blood sugar is borderline and eerily fine at the moment, but how will I know it won't still take a terrible turn for the worse? Here I go again. I feel like I'm constantly playing this game. Diabetes, you spin me round. Round and round.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling exercise fatigue fundraising Tour de Cure type 1 Type 2
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4:30 AM. Up at what seems like an ungodly hour, usual for this sort of event. What's making it harder than normal is the congestion dripping from my nasal passages into my throat that kept me tossing and turning through the all-too-short sleep period that happens when your Other Half first gets home from his work shift at midnight. On top of that, I seem to have strained my left arm so that my thumb and pinky are half numb as is a stretch along the upper arm just above the elbow. My right hand is going numb as I type -- can I trust the "99" that my Freestyle Lite just read out? Considering that for some odd reason, the scale is reading four pounds more than it did just before I turned in for the night (and I've neither eaten or drunk a thing during that interval), my skepticism does not seem unfounded. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Charlie sat sandwiched between two teammates on the dugout bench. To his left, an easygoing boy with dark shoulder-length hair who liked to engage Charlie in random conversations usually unrelated to baseball. He was undeterred by Charlie's shyness and spoke fluidly to him as if they'd been pals for years. He began every sentence with, "Hey, Charlie." To his right sat a serious boy with a persistent squint and short hair that sprouted out of his backwards baseball cap.
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