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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: death fundraising for a cure JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes Remembering
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Most of the teams who participate in our local JDRF Walk for a Cure are composed of friends and family walking for a child with diabetes. The child gets to be the focus of attention for a fun-filled day of raising awareness for that which normally separates him (or her) from his friends. There's also the smattering of company, corporate, and fraternal teams walking in the name of public service.
And then there's the third type of team: those who walk to honor the memory of a loved one killed by diabetes.
Memorial teams may be the fewest in number, but they serve as a poignant reminder of why we must walk - why we must continue to walk - and why insulin is not a cure.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: blood CBC clara barton camp diabetes awareness JDRF World Diabetes Day
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An old adage suggests there is strength in numbers.
Not the numbers of our ABCs -- although there is strength in that knowledge -- but the strength of many people, standing together, for the same cause.
Many people making the same choice made Jesse Ventura -- a third-party candidate -- governor of Minnesota, and Abraham Lincoln -- also a third-party candidate -- President of the United States.
Many people speaking out on television and in the media made everyone aware of AIDS and of Breast Cancer -- even though those two diseases kill and disable far fewer people than heart disease and diabetes.
Why is it, then, that hundreds (thousands?) of Twitter users turned their avatars red for World AIDS day, or green to support the protesters after the Iranian election, but not blue to support World Diabetes Day?
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Today, at the grocery store, I spotted a pump.
On a woman at the deli, a black Deltec Cozmo.
Seeing a pump like that, I can’t help but ask about it.
Once, on a train, I saw a woman dosing herself, with what was obviously a pump. When I asked her about it, flashing her my own portable pancreas, she looked shocked and said “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I felt terribly for asking about something that clearly made her uncomfortable.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: diabetic support groups
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My addiction with diabetes blogs began in September of 2006 when I stumbled upon the Diabetes OC. We had spent the first couple of years or so of Charlie’s diabetic life insulated in our own little world. For whatever reason, we rejected the notion of support groups, stubbornly thinking it could not help us.
But I was also going through my own honeymoon period in the very beginning, as Susanne says. I bought into the rosy notion that everything would be fine as long as we tested his blood sugar just four times a day and simply counted carbs correctly. When Susanne insisted that we get up every night, I sided with the doctors who said it wasn’t necessary. I was wrong. In doing this, Susanne took the lion’s share of the worrying during the first six months.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Emotions Real Life
Tags: budget community food choices outreach poverty religion support groups
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With a new year come new ideas, new resolutions, new solutions to old problems, and of course new problems needing solutions.
Among the last is, once again, need for a full-time job. Cell phone sales were not high enough to keep me on until Christmas, so I am once again navigating the waters of unemployment and job-search.
For now, enough of that. The meme going around the Diabetes Online Community has been that of "spreading the word" -- both telling people with diabetes of the online resources available to us, and bringing our online activism out to the world in which we live, visit our doctors, purchase our food and medications, and educate our children. While most of us talk about outreach in terms of getting our real-life neighbors to hook up with our online resources, I see a different reality.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Real Life
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Our kids with diabetes should get extra summer math credit for counting carbs. Cereal is quite tricky for a soon-to-be fourth grader.
Every morning begins at 6:30 am with Charlie hovering over us.
"I'm having a cup and a half of cereal and a yogurt. It's 25 carbs per serving for three quarters of a cup, so that's about 49 plus 13 for the yogurt, so that's (three-second pause) 62 carbs."
He starts plugging the numbers into his pump.
Susanne, still half-asleep, mumbles "wuhzse bluthugger?"
"I'm 88," he says.
"toktedadstllsleeephh."
"Dad. I'm having a cup and a half of cereal and a yogurt. It's 25 carbs per serving for three quarters of a cup, so that's about 49 plus 13 for the yogurt, so that's 62 carbs."
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
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It may be more politically correct in the diabetes community to say "person with diabetes," but to be honest, I’ve never really had too much of an issue with the term "diabetic."
When referring to Charlie, I suppose I use "diabetic" more in writing than I do in speaking. For example, if speaking, I’d say ...
"Excuse me, gentlemen. If you would be so kind, might you stop holding Charlie down and pouring sugar down his throat? You see, Charlie has diabetes."
I most likely wouldn’t say, "You see, Charlie is a diabetic."
Especially in a situation such as that. I wouldn’t want to make him feel worse.
I don’t know why I use the term more in writing. Maybe because it’s easier to find words that rhyme with "diabetic" than it is with "diabetes."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: Diabetes emotions
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How many times have you been talking to someone about your diabetes diagnosis, and had them respond by saying the following: "You don't look sick!"?
And how many of you have ever rattled off a list of medical conditions to someone, only to have them say "You're too young to have that much wrong with you!"?
I'd be willing to bet just about every one with diabetes or any other invisible illness has heard those lines at some point. I certainly have. Admittedly, I find them rather annoying.
Some days, I don't even acknowledge those comments, because I just don't have it in me to deal with them. Other days, however, I'm not so passive.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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Although I haven't technically taken part in this year's D-blog week, I'm taking today's prompt to heart. While reading through several other bloggers' entries for the day, I couldn't help thinking about my own list. A list of 10 things that I hate about diabetes.
1. I hate the constancy of this disease. There is never an escape, a vacation, or a fleeting moment of peace. It is always on my mind, always racing through my body, and always taking a toll on my physical and emotional health.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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Ah, the first day of school.
Now that school is starting back again, it occurred to me that I hardly mentioned the last school year. I suppose that's a good thing. Couldn't have been all that bad if I didn't blog about it.
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