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Categories: Type 1
Tags: carbohydrates dessert nutrition
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The other night my wife, kids, and I went over to my sister's house for dinner.
Upon arriving we realized we had forgotten a crucial ingredient for the dish my wife was bringing. (Cheese-if you are wondering!)
My wife and I took a quick trip to local grocery store to pick up the cheese and possible get something for dessert. This was not the original plan but it seemed like a good idea to me!
We went into the store and quickly found the cheese she needed.
"Alright, let's go," my wife said assuming we were done!
"Um, I was thinking we should get dessert." I said it with that smile she cannot resist or at least, she makes me think so.
"Alright, what do you want?"
And this is when I freeze up. I have no clue what to get.
"Maybe just some cookies. That sounds good."
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Categories: Type 1 Children In the News Real Life
Tags: diabetes myths Hannah Montana
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Like many in the diabetes community, my wife and I were pretty disturbed when we heard the premise of Hannah Montana's "No Sugar, Sugar" episode that was scheduled to air last night.
The episode tackles the issue of juvenile diabetes, but not as we know it to be. A major, recurring character on the show gets diabetes. Oliver, one of Miley's best friends, is ashamed at first and tries to hide his disease from his friends.
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: advice blood sugar testing
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"What's the best diabetes advice you've ever been given," Kerri asked the other day.
As a health writer, one of the perks of my job is that I get to talk to experts. One of the questions I often ask is, "What is the best advice you'd give someone with diabetes?"
And of all the interviews I have done, I think the best response came from Linda Dale, RN, CDE, Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Outpatient Diabetes Eduction Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center. The article was about testing your blood sugar.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: before surgery wisdom teeth removal
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I went to bed early enough to get eight hours of sleep the night before surgery. Before I fell asleep, my blood sugar was 168. I lowered by bolus by about 20%. I set an alarm for 3:45 am (9 hours pre-op) and an alarm for eight (to call the doctor's office). Not too long after, I was fast asleep (thankfully!)
At 3:45am, my blood sugar was 185. I ate 45 grams of carbs and bolused for both the correction and food. I decreased the bolus by 15%. I set my basals to decrease by 30% at 8am, since that would put me at 5 hours pre-op and awake (and nervous!).
When I woke up at 8am though, my blood sugar was 233. I bolused, lowering it by 40%. I called the doctor's office to confirm my pre-op instructions and ask about my basal rates before I came in for surgery. The nurse told me that the oral surgeon wanted me to keep my basal rates at a normal level. If my blood sugar dropped, I was only to treat with Sprite.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: children learning to test blood sugar
Views: 583
Baby’s Firsts
The first time you ...
held a bottle - 8 months
turned over - 4 months
crawled - 8 months
wore shoes - 10 months
sat unsupported - 7 months
stood up - 9 months
took first step alone - 13 months
tested your own blood sugar - 90 months
When you’re waiting anxiously for your baby to begin crawling or walking or become potty trained, it often seems as if it will just never happen. I've joked about Ben throwing his hairy legs in the air and demanding a diaper change at age 17, lest he be late for graduation. (For the record, we're finally making progress on that front).
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: BG meters
Views: 1257
Nope, not a new Nancy Drew mystery, unfortunately. It's much more prosaic.
Olivia has been using the One Touch Mini since last summer. She got a new, downloadable one at the endo appointment in February. It's her favourite meter.
However, yesterday I went to put her numbers for the last couple of days in the meter and I noticed that she tested her blood sugar at 4-ish on Friday and never checked it again until the next day. She swears up and down that she did check it, but there's nothing in her pump and nothing in the meter. Check that - there are carbs and insulin doses in her pump, but no blood sugar readings.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: (none)
Views: 769
"I was a real looker back then. Like Carole Lombard," Nana Kay said to me over the weekend, a month before her 95th birthday.
The Nana Kay annual summer tour made a stop at my place on Friday and my mother's house down at the Jersey shore. She was visiting from Florida.
She told us how she met my grandfather, Charlie.
She was 16. They met at a party in Brooklyn. Charlie always had a camera on him. He loved photography. He would snap pictures of her, figuring it would give him an excuse to see her again; to show her the photos he took of her. He was smoove like that.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management endo
Views: 175
In this post I will rant and rave in a way I don’t think I ever have about something that when I look back at this post in about 20 minutes may see incredibly trivial. Or not.
Seriously, what is the logic behind checking my blood sugar at the endocrinologists office? Not *me* checking my sugar, but the nurse checking it during the course of blood pressure, weight, pulse, etc.
I mean really, for them it’s a totally random time to check someone’s sugar. They never ask when I ate last or when I last bolused. What is the reason for this?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Complications Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: macrosomia pregnancy tight control
Views: 1995
"Your baby is going to be so fat," a friend told me with a smile last spring. To some people, there is nothing cuter than a chubby baby, so calling a baby fat is somewhat of a compliment. But for someone with type 2 diabetes, who has struggled with her weight for a good part of her life, the fat baby comment stings.
"You have diabetes, so of course your baby's going to be chubby," she continued. "They call them sugar babies."
It's a label that left me steamed for months. My child wasn't even born yet and already he's being called fat. I could envision a plump future laid out before him. Shopping in the husky section. Getting picked last in gym class. Being called Jupiter during lessons on the solar system. All this before the cruel middle school years. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Fitness
Tags: exercise highs after cardio
Views: 516
I starting preparing for my workout as soon as I woke up on Monday. I changed my basal rates to an alternate pattern so I wouldn't forget at 6:30pm to switch over the basal rate. I was set to go, pumped up for the workout later that evening.
When I got home from work at 5, I realized that I hadn't eaten lunch and I was feeling a bit low. I grabbed some cashews and strawberry ice cream (no, not mixed together). I wasn't quite hungry enough for dinner, but wanted something to tide me over. Over an hour later, I was feeling better but tired. I checked my blood sugar. 113. Perfect...kind of.
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