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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: airport search insulin pump
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I stuck on my belongings in gray bins. Removed my shoes and took off my belt. As I watched my suitcase, shoes, phone and belt go into the X-ray and walked through the scanner I anticipated a beep because of my pump. But as I walked through with silence, I smiled and gave myself a mental high five.
And then... "Wait ma'am. We need to do a secondary search because of your pump."
First thought: Damn!
Second thought: Hey, he knew it was a pump. Bonus points for you, buddy.
Since I was expecting this I wasn't pissed. In the past I have showed the TSA agents my pump before walking through the scanner, but since I expected to get beeped I just left it on my pocket. In the past I figured if I showed it up front and let them know what it was that I'd be shown mercy. Not.
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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 Type 2 Food Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood sugar control blood sugar management celiac CGMS cooking diets disclosure errors Etiquette friends glucometers gluten-free religion
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To everything there is a level of precision, a degree of reliability, or a standard beyond which improvement is either unachievable, or requires huge investments of time and money well beyond the benefit of that improvement. Companies may refer to this point as "zero return on investment". Most of us just call it "good enough for jazz", "good enough for government work", or simply, "good enough".
It has been said that our ideal blood glucose levels "should" never vary outside the range of 80-126, ever -- but most of us don't have CGMs, none of us have glucose measurement technology with accuracy of greater than 5% (expanding that range out to 76-132) and even if we had them, we'd need infinitesimally-small amounts of ultra-fast acting insulin to keep it there every time it budged a point or two. For most of us, a two-hour postprandial reading of 140 is "good enough".
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