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I'm inked. Are you?
I have three tattoos. My first, which is also my favorite, was a simple butterfly on my right ankle. I sat on a metal folding chair with my leg twisted sideways on the tattoo artist's chair for what seemed like forever. I was 19. And then I got addicted. My second and third tattoos live on my right and left hips, respectively, and were done within two years of the first.
All my tattoos were received pre-children, pre-home ownership, pre-diabetes.
Lately, I've been thinking an awful lot about getting another one (I've even started browsing web sites). Aside from likely wanting to spend that kind of money on something else, I'm nervous about the possible effects of diabetes and getting a tattoo. I know that there are risks no matter what, even for people who don't have diabetes. (READ MORE)

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I spent Saturday at the Providence Convention Center.  Getting tattooed.  The product of my inking can be seen in the photo attached to this post.  The picture, I can assure you, doesn't do it justice.  It's really beautiful.  And it means a lot to me.  The script says "I don't need sleep to dream" and I think the winged goddess looks like something out of a daydream - and like a daydreamer herself.  

 

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The week following my bicycle crash was spent going through varius stages of the "human Holstein effect" -- large, colorful bruises that mimicked the black-and-white markings of that particular breed of cattle, but in colors reminiscent of tattoos from the 1950's. While most of the bruising has faded, I'm still dealing with three bumps on my left arm and...

 

It could have been worse.

 

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The topic for July's DSMA blog carnival is "diabetes technology", springing from a discussion in which we dissed the downsides of our Borgified selves and collated a wishlist of things we'd like the diabetes device industry to provide us with. Topping the list were more accurate glucometers, more reliable CGMs, sensors, and infusion sets, more accurate (smart?) insulins, and affordable (read: under ten cents each) glucose test strips. Somewhat further in dreamland were noninvasive testing methods (tattoos, retina scanners, "mood" watches, and so on).

 

The more interesting question is that of disillusioning those who think some of this technology wishlist is already here.

 

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Today is Kick Butts Day. It's a day when thousands of youth across the nation take on Big Tobacco to stop kids from even starting to smoke. This is the 13th year of the event.
I can tell you that when I first started smoking I was a Freshman in high School. My stepdad was a chain smoker. I used to say, "He uses one match a day for his first one then lights the next one off of the last one." That is what it was like. (READ MORE)

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While I posted yesterday that Nick Jonas was in New York Sunday for the Diabetes Research Institute's Carnival for a Cure, I didn't mention much about the event itself. Billed as "New York City's largest indoor carnival," the event was a cross between a street fair and an arcade, aimed largely at the under-twelve crowd. Three walls of the Metropolitan Pavillion were lined with inflatable mazes, slides, and bounce rooms, and a human-powered "mechanical bull". Several street-fair games-of-skill, aimed again at the under-twelve set, occupied a block of canopies in the center of the room. Prize tickets were given to the winners, and by the end of the afternoon almost every family there was wrangling multiple shopping bags of toys. (READ MORE)

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Somewhere between work and sewing the overgown for my most recent renaissance-faire visit, I managed to miss Friday's Blog Action Day. It's not something I feel I must participate in, but it's an occasional source of inspiration -- especially when it's a topic that can be turned on its ear.

 

This year the topic was water -- in particular, access to clean drinking water. Washing water. Safe, parasite-free water. Something that is lacking in many parts of the world. (At least one episode of Bobby G, Adventure Capitalist showed the eponymous individual playing a major role in bringing safe drinking water to a Nicaraguan community.)

 

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I should not have worn shorts to the gym.  Even though it's like a bazillion degrees in there and running is more comfortable wearing them.  I should not have.  In fact, there's a reason I don't.  Running shorts, even if they're comfortable, show off "all those scars..." 

 

My thighs are one of my favorite pump site spots.  They don't reject the canula - which often happens on my hips and belly.  They don't get it the way of my clothes as happens with my arms.  So I probably over use them - just a little bit.  I try, mind you, to move away from there here or there, but old habits are pretty hard to break.  Funny, there was a time when I absolutely hated putting in thigh sites.  Not so much anymore.

 

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He doesn’t say "if there’s a cure." He says, "When there’s a cure."

 

We are on our way to Carlucci’s, a restaurant that will donate 15% of one night’s dinner sales to JDRF.

 

I glance at Charlie in the rear-view mirror.

 

"When there’s a cure, I’m going to take my pump, jump up in the air and smash it down on the ground like football players do when they score a touchdown."

 

"You mean you’re going to spike it?" I ask.

 

"Mmhmm."

 

"And I’m going to throw all of my diabetes supplies in the garbage."

 

He stares through the car window at used car dealerships and strip malls, thinking longer about it.

 

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