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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: birthday party dessert life decisions
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This Saturday we celebrated my nephews first birthday.
It was a monkey themed party with the cutest cake and great decorations. I swear my cousin's home looked like a jungle. She must have purchased all the bananas they had at the store. There were bananas everywhere!
After singing "Happy Birthday" the cake was cut. It was a shame to have to cut such a cute cake but it was a cake and well, I would rather eat it instead of looking at it.
It was a chocolate cake with banana cream filling. All home made and all delicious.
I almost didn't find out though.
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Today is Raise Your Voice For Diabetes day. So here I am, raising my voice.
Why should I? It's hard, getting the word out about diabetes. But that's why I do it.
I do it to combat the rampant ignorance about this disease.
I do it to do my part to set straight the massive amount of misinformation that's out there about diabetes, type 1 and type 2.
I do it because I want my daughter to feel comfortable advocating for herself one day and the only way she can do that is to see me, advocating for her.
I do it because her father would prefer to ignore her diabetes, feels ashamed that she has it and I don't want that shame rubbing off on her.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: diabetes information Halle Berry misconceptions about diabetes
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I'm putting on several layers of body armor for this post. I suspect some of you will be more than angry at me for saying this: Maybe we should give Halle Berry a break.
::Michelle ducks::
Here's my reason. She's clearly misinformed about either her disease or diabetes in general or both. Instead of attacking her, let's take this opportunity to bring to light the common misconceptions about diabetes, let's offer education to those who don't know or have been afraid to ask, and let's also encourage people who have diabetes to be as informed as possible about the disease and the best treatment options. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: Pump Locations
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When Olivia first went on a pump, I didn't even think about where she'd put it during the day, how to handle the hanging tubing or whether or not she would feel uncomfortable having a piece of equipment on her. I just wanted to allow her more freedom. Freedom to eat when she wanted rather than letting the insulin dictate. Freedom to have an extra piece of pizza or to go get an ice cream on a sweltering evening. Freedom from having shots 3, 4, 5, sometimes 6 times a day. It was a huge step and one that neither of us would undo.
I was just reading Kerri's column over on Diatribe and she discusses how she likes to conceal her pump, not out of any shame (and I've met Kerri - shame isn't really on her list) but because she'd rather be the one to let people know about her diabetes. She didn't want her pump to announce it for her.
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How Far Would You Go to Help Cure Diabetes?
- Diabetes Health
I'd go as far as Alexandria, Virginia, but not an inch further.
Dance against diabetes - NewsMedical
Uh oh. Now diabetes has gone and pissed off dance!
Diabetes deal unlikely - Mesoblast
After two days of closed-door negotiations, it appears as if diabetes will not budge and will continue to be a "prick."
Prevent Diabetes With Your Cellphone - WLWT Cincinnati
Though difficult to digest, the mobile device has zero sugar and zero carbs.
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Categories: Type 2 Fitness Real Life
Tags: exercise motivation
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As a magazine editor, I am deadline driven. The closer I get to one, the harder I work. I think I've always been this way. In college I tended to leave big projects, studying for tests and semester-grade-defining papers until almost the last minute. I've joked for some time that the reason I haven't written The Great American Novel yet is because no one has given me a deadline for it. I'm like those card-playing patients in Awakenings-someone just has to play the first card. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: endo endo visit
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It's a shame in a way that such little things can be so influential.
By now you've read about my struggle to find an endocrinologist since moving to Phoenix. The first doctor I saw? What a joke. And then to Mayo where I loved the staff, but couldn't afford the out of network bills. While I've been mostly satisfied with Dr. R's office I have felt for a while that I settled on this office. And I don't really want the bad karma, but I seriously think I did settle.
And I think that point was driven home last week when a friend of mine saw a different doctor at Dr. R's practice. Her first experience there was much like my first endo experience here. She was completely unsatisfied and has vowed to never go back.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
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I’ve had a really hard time with my writing/not writing lately. In December I blogged only once, and so far this month I’ve blogged twice.
This is kind of weird for me because I’m so used to writing so often. It hurts, actually, that I haven’t been doing more of it. It’s not for lack of trying, though. I’ve written countless Post-It notes to myself with blog topics and have every intention of writing when I get home and then I don’t.
And it’s not like I’m forgetting to do it, I just don’t do it. Or I decide that I’d rather do something else. I think about the Post-It note stuck to my calendar and about all the things I would say in the blog and how wonderfully eloquent I would be. And then I just don’t do it.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood sugar tests diabetes supplies empathy guilt HbA1c Health Insurance parents shame understanding
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We spend much of our formative years looking for approval from parents, teachers, older siblings, and friends. We spend our teen years and early adult years looking for approval from (potential) spouses. A recent #dsma chat reminded me how much we, living with diabetes, still spend our lives searching for approval.
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I don't make resolutions so much. Not because I can't keep them. I've promised myself to eat well, exercise, take the healthy route - and I stick with all of it. But the thing is, making actual resolutions - eh.
But I realized sitting in my living room last night, reading and watching something not all that interesting on TV that I'm missing opportunities. Specifically, this opportunity, at this blog. The opportunity to share my story which might, in turn, help others. I'm just not doing enough of it. And that's a shame. So, I decided to make another loose promise to myself. I'm going to endeavor to write here far more often. Even on days when things might not be going so hot.
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