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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: Highs humulin insulin pen
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I have been keeping a dirty little secret. I don't know why it feels like a dirty little secret, it's legal in 50 states and not immoral.
I've told everyone I haven't needed insulin since Kate was born. I was up to 30+ units a day of NPH. I haven't taken any NPH since her birthday. I also had an insulin pen of Humulin for the days that I just didn't control myself at lunchtime. Sometimes it was lunch out with the girls, or birthday cake at work, or just unfortunate run-ins with the evil vending machine. But it was important to control my sugars for the baby's sake, so I did what I needed to do. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: depression ditching appointments Endocronologist
Views: 1335
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 Emotions Real Life
Tags: Cumbersome facts triggers
Views: 1142
Am I a man, or even a person- or just a type with an age? Should I be mad at what they think-what kind of war should I wage?
"You can overcome diabetes and make it part of your past" But as an autoimmune, I declare that their thinking should not last!
"Check your blood sugar; you seem to be having a bad day" Must it always be related to diabetes in every way?
"Should you be eating that brownie, too much sugar you know" Should I explain the meaning of bolus and my expertise in insulin flow?
"Why, here, did you go so low- you really deserve this excessive blame" It is just one bad day- not always easy to play this daily game! (READ MORE)
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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
Views: 1088
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
Views: 949
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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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: children diabetes symptoms diagnosis
Views: 920
I think I am losing my mind.
Back when I was in High School I never thought about diabetes or the fact that I could get it. I never thought that a disease would sneak into my life and change it forever. It was just not on my radar and not on my parents radar either. They were just as shocked as I was when I was diagnosed.
So now I am the parent and since I have diabetes, it I think about all the time. I hope some parents with diabetes can tell me how you deal with this but I think I am a little paranoid about my children getting diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: birthday party dessert life decisions
Views: 827
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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Categories: Type 2 Fitness Real Life
Tags: exercise motivation
Views: 814
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
Views: 544
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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