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Categories: Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management food choices stress
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Remember that silly/sarcastic quote that people were spouting off some time ago? The one about stress? Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it. I like it better when there are some choice words replaced, but this is a family place!
Stress comes in many forms, though, not just from anger and frustration, as the quote above demonstrates. Stress comes from having too much to do and not enough time to do it in; from lack of sleep; from poor blood sugar management; and a myriad other situations. All of which can wreak havoc on every part of your diabetes management. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: guilt lack of control poor management
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For the past few weeks, my diabetes management has really gone by the wayside. I've been so consumed with my job, my new project, school, and catching up on things that I haven't been able to invest the time that I usually do with my diabetes. And it's giving me a guilty conscious.
Typically, I look at my averages every day and analyze for daily trends I see. I upload at least once a month and analyze all of that data. I count carbs fairly accurately, instead of just plugging in a number that sounds "about right." And I make sure to treat accordingly.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: Sick Day Management
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The fun never ends around here. Olivia woke up at three o'clock this morning. She puked on the floor in her room. She puked down the hall way. She puked all over the bathroom. And herself. Poor kid - she was miserable.
Of course, this woke up both little girls - I'm running up and down the stairs, fetching towels and the mop and trying to keep the two babies from yelling the house down. Boo calmed down quickly and went back to sleep. The Bug, who is The World's Lousiest Sleeper (TM), was up, but quiet. And here I am, in my t-shirt, freezing, mopping the floors. Fun.
Olivia showered as I schlepped the puked-upon clothing and towels down to the cellar. Back upstairs again to get her into bed, with the puke bowl. A quick blood sugar check - she was 199, which I didn't correct, given the amount she threw up - and we both went back to bed.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: depression poor managment Weight Gain
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For 4 weeks I have avoided the world. I stopped blogging. Stopped logging. Stopped counting points. Just stopped.
What good did it do me? Lots actually when I look back. I realized that support and friends are an important part of my life and my diabetes management. I use the support and advice from my friends almost daily. When I read comments on blog posts I always find support and help from so many. It truly keeps me in line.
The other side of it is that I found that worrying does no good at all. I have spent this last month worrying about money which did absolutely no good. The only good that came about was that realization. Worry is a waste of time.
What is annoying is that I know this. I know that worry is nothing more then a stress creator and with that, a glucose "inflator." I need not add to the stress of my life worrying all the time.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: ketones virus
Views: 1191
Charlie took a swig of his water, scraped his tongue with his teeth and contorted his face as if he’d just ingested lizard juice.
"Dad, does everyone get ketones?"
"No," I told him. "I think mostly just people with diabetes."
Charlie stared at his water bottle and said nothing more on the subject. His lips, that wanted nothing to do with the water, were dry and colorless.
"Charlie, you have to drink the water," I said. "We need to get rid of these ketones."
"But it tastes terrible," he said. "The water doesn’t taste normal. I think it’s the ketones."
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Categories: Type 2 Complications
Tags: neuropathy
Views: 1116
It was easy to ignore diabetes when the effects of poor blood sugar management were intangible. When I don't feel sick, when I feel normal despite eating carb-laden foods and not countering with exercise or insulin, I felt like if I had complications they were so far down the road that I would just deal with it then.
And then, something happened. Something that could have been a result of poor diabetes care or just a fluke or just something that happens to me.
Most winters the heel of my right foot cracks badly enough-despite daily lotion therapy and foot scrubs in the shower at least once a week-that it's painful to walk. Most winters that crack gets bad enough that I pick at it until it opens up and I can peel off the dead skin. There's no blood, nothing unmanageable. It's then that I can walk normally. This is winter time, when dry, cracked feet are normal for me. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News
Tags: cost of diabetes cure Diabetes in the Media diabetes management Health Insurance naming researching a cure stereotypes type 1 Type 2
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One of the more heated discussions going through the diabetes online community is whether or not type 1 diabetes should be renamed to avoid it being lumped in with the public perception of type 2 diabetes. "Don't blame me because my pancreas decided to crap out on me!" is the rallying call -- implying, rightly or wrongly, that type 2 diabetes is always caused by the person with diabetes, through a combination of poor diet choices and poor lifestyle choices. Many people with type 2 diabetes -- particularly the young, fit, and not-obese -- also take issue with that perception.
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Categories: Type 1 Relationships Emotions
Tags: (none)
Views: 930
I am so very fortunate.
I am surrounded by people who care about me, and who understand my diabetes. I have family, friends, co-workers, and online cheerleaders (like you!) who "get" diabetes, who understand the physical and emotional challenges, and who are willing to help me manage under what are often difficult circumstances.
This is no small thing.
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Complications
Tags: (none)
Views: 600
“What the fu**… fishsticks is she doing NOW?”
“Seriously, can’t she FEEL us here, getting all broken and bleedy? Man I wish we lived in a *smarter* body.”
“Really. Did she NEED that pizza at lunch? There was salad available. You think it’s bad down here in the hands, we’re just a little tingly. Think about what’s going on in her EYES.”
Gasp! “Or her kidneys. Her poor kidneys.”
“Well at least I heard her talking about using us later on at the gym. That should help.”
“Hey! You guys down there! It’s her EYES. The gym is not always fun for us up here. You think pull ups are good for her. We think it puts an even bigger strain on us.”
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Categories: Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood glucose testing blood sugar management blood sugar testing college complications death diabetes police food choices guilt Highs lows myths psychology
Views: 158
In one of my high school English classes, we had to read Samuel Beckett's play of this name. Thirty-some-odd years later, I don't remember the details, only that it centered around two men who seemed to be relatively old, penniless, and alone. They met at a particular spot each day, left each evening, and could only remember one day past and think towards one day forward. They awaited a third character, the eponymously named "Godot", who never arrived. The style was considered existentialist in that there wasn't all that much character development: what you saw was what you got. While I never read the French original, in English, "Godot" seemed a thinly-veiled metaphor for "G-d" — and since old, penniless (and possibly homeless) folk have always had the shortest from-this-point life expectancy, it made sense — at least on one level — that these two characters were waiting to die.
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