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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions
Tags: kindness of strangers resolution Steel Magnolias
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Now, about this time, I ought to tell my friendly hairdresser that I really need to retest. That it'll only take a minute. That I'm a bit dizzy. But I don't. And I have this irrational and overwhelming urge to laugh as I picture myself pulling a Steel Magnolias'-style Shelby freak out in my own, hometown version of Truvy's Salon. Still, I don't say anything, as I am wrapped in a smock and my hair falls in small, trim-length strands all around. Everything is a bit turned around. The older lady from earlier is STARING at me again. I wonder what she's thinking.
I wonder if she thinks whatever I've got is catchy. I'm sure I look a fright. I try to focus on staying upright as the cut is finished and my hair is styled. When it's done, I sit in the chair too long, trying to gather my things, throwing away the spent juice bag and mentos wrapper. I test gain, 5-4-3-2-1... "41 mg/dl." Oof. Not so hot. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling freestyle promise Health Insurance resolution Tour de Cure
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For many of us, our sense of self is tied to our glucometers, our pumps, and/or our CGMs. "Sad, but true," you may say. The truth is, we tether ourselves to these devices to maintain and/or improve our lives. In addition, most jurisdictions require us to carry at all times some form of government-issued identification -- and of course, we dare not go anywhere without our health insurance cards and our cell phones.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: A1c levels depression Resolutions
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At the end of every year I take some time to look back and kind of analyze the year’s past.
2008 was filled with lots of down times. Sure there were things to celebrate but big things, like losing my home, overshadowed my son’s high school band performance at Angel Stadium. I feel awful just thinking that something so material like a home could get in the way of such an exciting memory that my son will have forever.
It’s my fault.
Yes, losing my house was a major cause for my depression and with it, all of the things that went along with it. Having to find a place, move, and tell others the whole story. Trying to make a new place a new home after the one you had been in for over a decade was gone. All big stuff.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: New Year's resolutions
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It's hard to believe that we are already a week into the New Year. I feel like I haven't accomplished anything for being one week closer to 2010. I finally made my resolutions last night, but haven't taken any steps to obtaining them. Despite my laziness, here they are:
1) Exercise more: I'm starting out with walking/jogging two days a week, specifically Mondays and Wednesdays since things are slower paced then. I want to build up to three, four, and five times a week, but I don't want to overload myself.
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Categories: Food Real Life
Tags: candy canes eggnog sugar free
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I modified a recipe from the Hungry Girl website for a low sugar eggnog and found it very acceptable. It has nearly the same taste and mouth feel as the lite eggnog I've been drinking. It may be a bit late for this year's holiday season, but there's still New Year's.
The original recipe is here. My version is below.
6 C 1% milk 1 Tbsp vanilla extract 1 small (4-serving) package Jell-O Sugar Free Fat Free Instant Pudding mix, Vanilla 6 no-calorie sweetener packets (like Splenda) 1 tsp Mace (or nutmeg) (optional) 6 oz dark rum or 1 tsp rum extract (READ MORE)
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Following through on my one and only new year's resolution, I am writing about each of the topics bold and underlined in my first post of 2009.Â
The title of that post came from something my father has said to me only two times in my life. "Just where the hell have you been, young lady??" Â
The first time, I was hanging out in the woods with friends and smoking a cigarette. A stupid move that would be repeated several times during my pre-teen and teen years. And the smoking a cigarette part of the stupid move would be repeated again and again in my late teens and early twenties. Â
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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The new year is off to an auspicious start. Despite being hampered by pink eye and a very nasty cold, I've already accomplished my first resolution – grow a manageable light winter beard as a distraction to increasingly thinning hair. Done!
Christmas was nice. Santa rocked it. Although …
I hate to be nitpicky, but there was one Christmas present under the tree that we just had to throw out due to the odor. Remind me next year to specify in my letter to Santa that "working pancreas for Charlie" should be kept on ice.
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Categories: Type 2 Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: (none)
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So, it's been about five months since I last posted here on Blogabetes, and I'd like to start off by saying that I'm sorry for going MIA for so long. Â At the beginning of the year, I wrote of my grand new year's resolution to send more time writing for this blog and, clearly, that just hasn't happened.
Now, I've never been the best at sticking to new year's resolutions, so the fact that this one has been a spectacular flop isn't really a shock to me. Â Admittedly thought, it does annoy the fire out of me. Â
Life has a tendency of getting in the way of our best laid plans and intentions sometimes and, unfortunately, that's what's happened in my case over the last several months.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: Lists Resolutions
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I don't normally make New Year's resolutions, finding them to be just another way to make myself feel guilty about things. And I can do that well enough without adding a list to the mix.
But this year, I have resolved to get more on top of tracking Olivia's blood sugars. I tend to slip about it. I'm great for a week or two and then I let it slide. I forget to ask for her meter for a couple of days and then I think "Oh, well, I'll start over on Monday." But I don't. I forget. (do you sense a theme here?)
This forgetfulness thing is kind of new with me. I'm fairly sure it's because I don't get enough sleep. My youngest daughter - 17 months old - still isn't sleeping thru the night and I'm up 2 or 3 times with her, which plays havoc with my sleep patterns. It can't possibly be because I'm getting old. *ahem*
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Fitness Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: 2008 Blogabetes Diabetes New Year wrap up
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Happy New Year, dLifers! The Blogabetes bloggers have been saying their fond farewells to 2007 and welcoming the clean slate of 2008 - here are the highlights!
Julia admits that she doesn't normally make resolutions, but she is making one this year to log O's blood sugars.
Kim offers up her resolutions for 2008, which include blogging five times a week!
Scott reflects on a year of connecting with diabetes and highlights some of the diabetes hot-points in his 2007. (READ MORE)
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