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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: Anxiety
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"It’s classic OCD," the therapist said.
I wish I could blame diabetes for this, but I don’t think I can. While diabetes didn’t cause Charlie to have OCD, it did provide him with something to be obsessively compulsive about. The thought that his blood sugar could go dangerously low at any time provides the anxiety which triggers the compulsion to test his blood sugar all day long.
He’s showing other behaviors associated with OCD, but it's probably best that I keep those private.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: diabetes police obsession self-care
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Tick, tock, tick, tock.
Every one of us with diabetes hears that clock ticking away.
Glucose, insulin, ketones, tests.
The endless cycle never rests.
Fail once to heed the daily strife
And that day you may lose your life.
Alarmists are everywhere. Family, friends, strangers, all with the best of intentions.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood CGMS for children
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I press the button on the inserter and the sensor shoots into Charlie’s bruised butt.
He screams holy hell.
I pull the long needle out and blood fills the sensor and quickly saturates the outer edges of the tape.
Susanne compresses the area with a paper towel and shakes her head, giving me a look. Perhaps you know it.
Ben runs over to witness the carnage.
We shoo him away before he describes the scene to Charlie.
Charlie is inconsolable.
He’s never screamed like this before.
Blood is really pouring out.
I tell him to try to calm down.
He begs us to take it off.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
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There comes a point where death isn't scary anymore. But hope...hope is scary.
I'm a fan of Grey's Anatomy on ABC. The latest episode featured a terminal cancer patient...a young and seemingly vibrant woman (minus the disease ravaging her body)...who was seeking physician assisted suicide. Those lines up there were ones she said in defense of her own death.
As they passed through the TV speakers, they hit me. Hard. I know they're just fiction, that some TV writer/producer thought them up. Someone thought they knew what it felt like to face that precipice. Maybe they actually do. Maybe they're writing from experience the way that I am now.
Those words hit me hard because it's a way that I've never verbalized about emotions that I constantly feel. I've never really considered death and hope in that way. The fear. In a reverse kind of way.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
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Birds are chirping nearby. The cat is content at my feet. A soft breeze is blowing Texas Spring through my patio. I've got a plate of delicious leftovers from dinner last night. What more could I possibly want?
What I want is a cure. What I want is people fighting for a cure. What I want is people making a real impact on this world, including myself.
As I'm getting the hang of JDRF and my individual office, I'm finding myself in a very specific train of thought. Where is our cure? What is it that we're doing? And how can we change this?
It's Gala season here in Texas. And my chapter is in full swing prepping for it. Wrapping boxes of chocolates, finalizing volunteers, finishing contracts with donors. We are full speed ahead until the night of that event. Full speed ahead to raise over half a million dollars.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
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My mom took care of my diabetes for a really long time. Other parents of diabetics told her that I should be doing my own injections long before I actually started doing them. But she just couldn't bear to hand over the burden to a child, to her child. She knew that this would be my life for many years to come, so why hand it over when she was capable?
That simple act of support is one of the main reasons why I'm okay with diabetes today. I was involved in diabetic camps and had a few diabetic friends, but nothing speaks to me like the time and effort that my mom put into my disease for so many years. The pain she must have felt every time I cried after a doctor's visit, the fear she must have faced when I was passed out in the grocery store line, the depression she went through when I was first diagnosed.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: data analysis doctors Health Care insulin learning online communities pigs social networking therapy twitter type 1
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One of the advantages of modern technology is the ability to view remote events live; another is to discuss a presentation, while it is being presented, "in the back channel" — i.e., in a chat room or on Twitter. These technologies give many of us who could not otherwise attend a technical presentation the opportunity to attend virtually, and to participate. This past week has been chock full of such opportunities.
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Categories: Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: crash drug side effects fainting hospital recovery
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The week following my bicycle crash was spent going through varius stages of the "human Holstein effect" -- large, colorful bruises that mimicked the black-and-white markings of that particular breed of cattle, but in colors reminiscent of tattoos from the 1950's. While most of the bruising has faded, I'm still dealing with three bumps on my left arm and...
It could have been worse.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
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It's my time...to appreciate the past.
Dear Mom,
I've probably never thanked you out loud for the years of care that you've put into my life. And I should. Every day of my life. Because you have been the rock, the support, and the lifeline that I've need in the past 16+ years of living with diabetes.
I've heard the way you tell my diagnosis story. I hear the fear in your voice, the emotion run through you. I know that those months were some of the hardest in your life. When you talk about watching me have seizures and bad night lows, I hear that same fear and emotion. I know having a diabetic child must be one of the most difficult things to encounter as a parent. I know it wasn't what you expected or wanted or needed in your only girl.
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