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My pump sites have just not been cooperating lately.  No matter where I put the canula - it ends up hurting.  A lot.  Enough so that I complain about it. 

 

To give you an idea of what it takes for me to complain - I am a girl who has had external fixators drilled into a bone in my arm for eight weeks and who refused pain killers (other than Tylenol) after two days.  I'm not a sissy.  Not at all.  So these sites are causing me more than a little bit of turmoil.

 

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I'm always high on a site-change day. I've tried doubling the recommended amount of fixed prime, but I still wind up in the upper 200s. I've tried doubling my fixed prime and overbolusing for breakfast (I typically change my site first thing in the morning before breakfast) and I'm still high.

 

It occurred to me recently that I didn't know for sure if the "trauma" to my body from the site change was the culprit or if it was the insulin absorbing into a new place or both that was to blame. Because I'm only high after breakfast; back into range by lunch time.

 

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Nope, this post is not about Thanksgiving or the dawning of the Holiday Season.

 

It's about the calls I receive from my family that are diabetes -related.  Often, I don't hear much from them on this front.  But lately, it's been a flurry of calls...

 

First, about the insulin syringe recall. Frantic calls from both of my brothers, who are apparently aware of my insulin sensitivity (ie: "2.5 times your usual dose would probably KILL you") but not aware that I've been using an insulin pump...  

 

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Brynn and I had a great laugh, or at least she did, this afternoon. Maybe you or your significant other can relate to this, but sometimes, when the blood sugar is low, MANNERS GO OUT THE WINDOW!
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Diatribe recently ran an interview with the JDRF's new President and CEO Jeffrey Brewer.  In the interview, as do most new Presidents,  Mr. Brewer outlined his vision for the organization.  It includes "moving away from the over reliance on the cure as the central part of our message and funding" and a new focus on improvements in day to day living for people with type 1 and seeking means of prevention for those at risk for type 1. 

 

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"Hold your pump," the tall twenty-something dude with multiple piercings in both ears said prosaically to Charlie as he helped him out of his rock-climbing harness.

 

Lurking nearby, I was amazed by a couple things. First - how did the guy working the rock-climbing birthday party know it was a pump? Second – how is it that he had no reaction to it other than to move it out of the way? Like it was just another appendage getting tangled in rope and buckles.

 

When he walked away, I asked Charlie, "Did you tell him it was a pump?"

 

"No."

 

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Olivia was supposed to babysit yesterday afternoon, but because we got 87 inches of snow, it was canceled. She was disappointed about not getting paid but I think a little relieved about it, too.

She was going to be babysitting another kid with diabetes (and his little sister). I'm friends with this woman, Deb, who lives in the next town - we met thru the Children With Diabetes email list. Deb thought that Olivia would make a great babysitter, since she knows all about diabetes. I think Olivia was having qualms.
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There is simply nothing more powerful in this world than the love of a parent.  Active, engaged parents make such a difference in the life of any child, even more so in the life of a child with a chronic illness or special needs.

 

I've had the pleasure of meeting quite a few such parents through my work here at dlife, in my outside life working and volunteering for non-profits, and in my social life.  Just recently, I met two of the most amazing parents I think I've ever known.  My friends Joel and Zaira.  

 

These are two people who have made extreme sacrifices to ensure that their son, Lance, has the best of everything in his life.  By the "best of everything,"  I don't mean the latest X-Box, or monetary comforts, or anything else like that.  

 

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Runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, coughing, congestion.

 

Most people who read this set of symptoms think, "common cold" or today, "rhinovirus". But it also describes the symptoms suffered by many with seasonal or other allergies.

 

The general term is "histamine reaction" — and while these symptoms don't describe all histamine reactions (hives, localized swelling, and/or general bloating can also be present in a histamine reaction) — the correct diagnosis should be histamine reaction until an underlying cause (allergies, rhinovirus, influenza, etc.) is determined.

 

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Rather than the bell lap at a local bike race, one is the number of days until my second-ever Tour de Cure ride. 

 

The good news is, I have my bib and helmet number, my VIP wristband, and I've been able to up my goal twice: I'm now aiming for $900.

 

The bad news is, I may have come down with that same sinus infection that put The Other Half out of commission all of last week. I'm hoping it's just a reaction to a whole lot of insect bites which have not been behaving in a typical (for me) fashion, but the effect has been a systemic histamine reaction rather than something that's site-specific: I'm dealing with the whole running nose, watery eye, swollen face and extremities thing.

 

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