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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
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I've been doing some reading on diabulimia. It's not a recognized eating disorder, but it certainly sounds like it should be.
Diabulimia is a means of weight loss, primarily suffered by young women. In order to lose weight, they use far less, sometimes even no insulin and let their blood sugars run very high. It means they can eat whatever they want without it having any repercussions on their weight. I remember how skinny Olivia was when she was diagnosed, just before her 3rd birthday. She only weighed 24 lbs. Her body was eating itself.
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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: emotions support World Diabetes Day
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People with diabetes, and those touched by diabetes, follow their journey with the disease through a myriad of winding emotional paths. Depression is very common for those newly diagnosed, sadness can rear its head at different stages in the game, and a little humor and humility can even find the door to expose itself from time to time. The keys for controlling those doors are littered all over the place and on W
rld Diabetes Day today, you can follow this map of internet hotspots. Expose diabetes for all that it is, good and bad, and then share it with others. Find an emotion and embrace it!
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: breakthroughs friends tools
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I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes twenty-five years ago. Twenty-five years is a long time to live with something. It is an especially long time to live with something that requires tight control. Twenty-five years is enough time to have seen lots of bad days, lots of good days, and lots and lots of in betweens. And it is enough time for me to have had the good fortune of seeing vast improvements in access to information and treatment, developments and improvements in technology and even some improvements in (GASP!) what health insurers are willing to cover. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: A1C diabetes communities social networking
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Kris Freeman may have won the 30K cross-country race at the U.S. National Championships in Anchorage, Alaska last month – had he not been forced to stop and test his blood sugar late in the race. Freeman came in second.
The first and last time an American won an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing was 34 years ago. Freeman hopes to end that drought in the winter Olympics, despite having type 1 diabetes.
As a hockey household, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the winter Olympics to cheer on team USA. I’ll admit, cross-country skiing was never something I had given much thought about and it was not on my radar when I thought of the events I’d like to check out. That said, we’re now officially on the Kris Freeman bandwagon and our household will be cheering loudly for him when he races in Vancouver.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
Tags: A1C diabetes communities social networking tudiabetes
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I joined Tu Diabetes recently.
If you feel like your page is being spied on by a guy sitting on a bench across the street in a grey overcoat and a newspaper with two holes cut out for eyes , well, it has. It's me.
I've been snooping around in the parents of kids with type 1 group, ogling your A1cs.
I've spotted some very nice ones.
Seeing such a selection gets me in that envious, wanting mode - the way I get when let loose in a good record store.
"Whoa! 6.8! That's rare. I don't have this one."
"Wow, 7.2! I don't have this either. I thought they broke up?"
"Ooh, a 7.0 live in UK bootleg. I have to get this!"
"This 7.4 is also pretty cool. I only have their 8.7 and their 8.9."
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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 Children Real Life
Tags: JDRF fundraising Ralph's World walk to cure diabetes
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You should have seen it! It was THIS big! [arms outstretched]. I swear!
When I’m in fundraising mode (typically July through October), I take the "hey, ya never know" and the "can’t hurt to ask" approach ad nauseam. With both email and social networking, potential targets are more accessible than they’ve ever been.
Sure it comes with a 99.8 percent rejection rate, but I try not to let that deter me. Like I said, ya never know. Maybe someone will be moved by Charlie’s story from this "desperate dad doing everything I can to bring about a cure for this dreadful disease." Yes, I’ve written that in countless emails. Barf!
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: abbott connections diabetes at work freestyle social networking
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It's no secret that several of us who blog here at dLife are active in a number of diabetes-oriented online forums and social networks -- what we refer to as "the Diabetes Online Community" or "the DOC" -- and that in the process, we've learned which people, which groups, and which venues are doing what in terms of offering emotional support, medical and lifestyle advice, places to gripe and complain, and ways to use our various talents to make living with diabetes easier (or less difficult, depending on your point of view) for ourselves and others to manage.
I must also mention here that I have been, for the most part, a satisfied user of Freestyle glucose meters since I adopted the Therasense Freestyle several months after my initial diagnosis, upgrading to the Freestyle Flash almost as soon as it came out, and eventually to the Freestyle Lite (which I currently use).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: advocacy blood glucose management community Diabetes Education diabetes police medication outreach social networking support Type 3
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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it... -- Oscar Hammerstein II
Much like the opening lines of the "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" reprise (1), knowledge -- like love: doesn't exist "'til you give it away." Data become knowledge when they are shared, analyzed, verified. Or like money in Hello, Dolly!, knowledge "is like manure -- it doesn't do good unless you spread it around, encouraging young things to grow."
While sharing everything you know may, perversely, show up everything you don't know, knowing what you don't know gives you the option to learn it. Of course, there will be someone who will take that opportunity to say that it's your posterior, not your cranium, that has the intelligence,(2) but y'know what? That's just him (or her) sharing his (or her) lack of knowledge.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: data analysis doctors Health Care insulin learning online communities pigs social networking therapy twitter type 1
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One of the advantages of modern technology is the ability to view remote events live; another is to discuss a presentation, while it is being presented, "in the back channel" — i.e., in a chat room or on Twitter. These technologies give many of us who could not otherwise attend a technical presentation the opportunity to attend virtually, and to participate. This past week has been chock full of such opportunities.
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