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Categories: Type 1
Tags: aloneness Others shared experience
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I saw him from across the room. And edged closer.Â
Tall, white-haired, horn-rimmed glasses, a blue and white seersucker suit.  Yes, seersucker. What can I say? It was a summer event on the water for the theater where I work - seersucker is always "in" amongst theater folks. But none of that caught my eye as much as the clear Medtronic Pump clipped to his grosgrain belt. I had to get closer. The pump, like a magnet, drew me.Â
"I noticed you're wearing an insulin pump," I said brightly, "I wear one too!" Popping my hip so that the outline of my pump showed a bit through the fabric of my dress.Â
"Oh, I'll just move out of the way - you guys are like a club."Â Said his wife "And don't forget to show her that other thing you have, Stan."Â
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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It's my time...to plan phase 2 of my healthcare team.
I'm a girl. A 21-year-old girl. A girl who has spent the last year listening to friend's talk about engagements, attending weddings of high school pals, and buying baby shower gifts for my already-coupled friends. Sometimes it feels like everywhere I turn, someone else is getting engaged or married or growing their family.
All that means that my mind is constantly confronted with the fact that potential coupledom and familyhood is in my future. That means I spend a lot of time thinking about this future, with these couples and families of my imagination. My mind trails in daydreams to consider the kind of guy I want to marry, getting pregnant, and growing old together.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2
Tags: Spirituality and diabetes Sweat Lodge
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What types of spiritual practices or mental exercises do you use to help you cope with diabetes? For me, I like to mix things up and do whatever feels right at the time. Typically I use martial arts, exercise or various "mental exercises" like praying, meditation and reading spiritual books. I also love to listen to a variety of music and sit and relax around fires. This weekend will have me trying something that I have never attempted before but something that I have always been interested and curious about - a Native American sweat lodge.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Real Life
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Since I'm applying for so many jobs, my mind is focused on employment lately. The best jobs for me, benefits, hours, salary, and all the side perks of being employed. I'm excited about this stage in my life even though I have no idea where it might end up.
Diabetes and employment can be tricky though. Especially when your health issues have been aired to the world via Blogabetes. I would never trade the honesty and the vulnerability that I've shared with you guys here, but it does make me wonder about how much my health will affect the job search and the final job offer.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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As a person living with chronic health conditions, it isn't hard to remember how life can really be. How short things are, how quickly time flies, and just how important the little things need to be. With the way humanity is, it's easy to let that all pass by without even considering the bigger picture.
So I try my hardest to count the smallest things. The simple joys in life. The blessed moments. The things that make you smile and nod. Even when things seem truly dark, the tiniest moment can change the whole perspective. A slight reminder that life is short, that time is to be cherished, and that you can never have enough fun.
Today, I feel like giving thanks. I was down on Wednesday...just feeling the weight of all my stress. My burden was heavy. But two days of the small things...and I'm lighter and happier.
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Greetings everyone!
My name is Mike Durbin, and I am excited to be joining the team of writers here at Blogabetes. I've been living with type 2 diabetes and congestive heart failure (CHF) since I was diagnosed on December 29, 2008. I was 24 at the time.
Notice that I said living with type 2 diabetes and CHF. Despite how difficult and scary the last year and a half has been, with adjusting to a new way of living and the near death experiences I've faced, I’ve not stopped living. If anything, there's more liveliness in me now than there ever was before. It's amazing how it takes a near death experience to make you realize just how precious life is and how important it is to live each day to the fullest. We never know when we might reach out last.
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Categories: Type 1 Real Life
Tags: children with diabetes emotions parents
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I was talking recently with a friend of ours whose twelve year old daughter was just diagnosed with type 1. As much as I love my friend, her attitude toward her daughter and her daughter's diabetes scared me a little. She uses the phrase "It's that simple," quite a bit. For example, she recently informed me that she told her daughter 'Sit your butt in the chair and test your bloodsugar. You have to do it - it's that simple.' She continued by telling me that crying about diabetes is not tolerated in her house. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: death errors insulin pumps
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I'm in the process of updating my presentation on Connected Medical Devices for presentation at the Trenton Computer Festival on March 10th. (Slides and resources for the original presentation are available ACGNJ Presentations Page.) While examining the links, I found that the paper and slide deck for Jay Radcliffe's presentation on insulin pump security are no longer available online. I'm not completely surprised, and I remember some hullaballoo in that neither the presenter nor the pump manufacturer wished someone to make malicious use of that information. (If I recall correctly, the presenter had only "gone public" after the manufacturer dismissed his concerns.)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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I am Charlie. I am 7 years old. I love hockey! I have one bruther and one sister. My sisters name is Maeve. My bruthers name is Ben. When I first got diabetes I was almost two years old.
I don’t remember how it felt when I was littil. one time I past out at a food stoor!I think I was four or five when I past out. I have a pump. When I go in the pool I have to take my pump off.
when I am really high I feel low. i like the pump beder then a shot because you have to take shots all day with a pump you get a bolus. the pump gives me insulin. my littil bruther is four and my sister is ten. diabetes can’t stop me from dowing anything. There are a lot of difrint kides of pumps. i have a minnimed. it is blue.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships
Tags: dating introducing diabetes
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I've known him since I was a junior in high school. We met during the years that I wasn't taking care of my diabetes. I don't even remember telling him I was diabetic. I'm sure I did, but I doubt that I made it as detailed of a thought as it should have been.
It took me about two years after I met him to finally get my diabetes act together. By that time, he had moved out of state for college. We barely saw each other, so he never experienced what my diabetes was really like. He didn't experience the terrifying lows or the frustrating highs because he just wasn't around enough to see.
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