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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: complications intervention television
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Did you see this week's Intervention on A&E? The subject of the intervention was John C, a young man with type 1 diabetes. The episode's on YouTube,
Watching his behavior around his diabetes nearly made me physically ill. He never tested, guessed at insulin doses, didn't count carbs, didn't exercise - it was horrific. John tests at one point and his meter only returns HI. I'm surprised the producers didn't call 911. He also looked like death warmed over - very pale and thin. In several shots his arms looked as big around as the spindles on my porch railing.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Emotions
Tags: Diabetes In The Movies
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So last night, I did the Dumbest Thing Ever. I had a couple of glasses of wine while we had family over, celebrating a birthday, and after they left, I went to bed and turned on the television. And what was on?
Steel freakin' Magnolias.
I haven't watched that movie since about a year after Olivia was diagnosed. I tried watching it then and bawled my eyes out. Well, guess what? I did it again last night. Mark was asleep beside me and I had to hold my hands over my mouth to keep from sobbing out loud. It was awful. I couldn't finish watching it.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: frustrations unexplained
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I was looking through a list of writer prompts for Blogabetes post ideas, and one of them was this: "Open up a dictionary and flip to a random page, then select a random word. Use that word to write a post, and see if you can find a diabetes connection!"
Easy enough.
So I cracked open the big, unabridged Webster's Dictionary and selected the word "Bermuda."
Bermuda ... like triangle? Okay, I'll try it.
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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: Ego's feelings food random Sincere Sportsmanship Truth TV
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Is it just me...or has anyone else noticed the lack of true sportsmanship in today's sporting events and competitions? That’s kind of what I was thinking today after reflecting on last night’s superbowl. It seems like all I see anymore, when I catch a rare game on TV, are egotists trying to out do one another. Anymore, all I see are fights and bad things taking place on screen. Our kids are watching. We’re watching. And no one truly seems to take offense anymore to the programming that’s on. ( I guess my ego does :)
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Categories: Type 1 Fitness Real Life
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Oh, Jane, how I hate you. Exercise videos were your idea, right?
Selling people exercise to perform in their own homes? Lots of people with hard bodies on-screen sweating half as much as the people performing the video in the living room? People exercising in front of the television that usually serves as a friend? People's cats (well, my cat) chasing their draping hair during ab crunches or swatting at sneakers during butt kicks?
All of it, torture. At least Richard Simmons had the decency to include real-life people exercising. Not you, Jane. You inspired people like Jillian Michaels. And she is, no question, SATAN. I think she's trying to kill me. For reals. Or at least get me to wear leg warmers. And it's your fault, Jane.
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Categories: Type 1 Emotions Real Life
Tags: falsely accused feelings Justice system lens of life opinions thoughts
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It’s been one of those days, the type of day where you just want to get some things off your chest (or mind). I wrote my last blog about television. I said some strong things; I got out some strong feelings. But they were heartfelt at the time, and looking back, I still feel strongly about what I said. TV sucks. It’s not natural. Their are a few things on occasion that are worth watching; sometimes you can catch something on that is educational or good for the soul. TV CAN be used as a good medium, or tool for our health. Sometimes, you see something you connect with or that gets you fired up, but in a good way. Tonight, for example, I watched a documentary on Netflix called, “Mario’s Story.”
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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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Categories: Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: hypoglycemia overnight checks
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The thud my step-mother heard came from the first floor. It was my father hitting the ground when he woke up and tried to stand.
The first thing he remembers was a township police officer standing over him. Then his memory cuts to a big breakfast. The EMT stuck around, making sure he ate it all. My dad, a type 2 diabetic, had a blood sugar of 22.
Dad blames the brand new flat-screen television that was delivered that day. He was so consumed with playing with its features and admiring its picture that he forgot to have his usual bedtime snack and eventually fell asleep on the couch. Clearly he’s getting too much insulin if he’s eating a regular snack (without insulin) and still waking up on the low side, as he mentioned was the case recently.
"It’s so difficult to figure this disease out," he said to me over the phone.
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Categories: Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: diabetes blogs diabetes supplies glucometers insurance mail order
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"Freaking the 'danes": In fandom, the deliberate exhibition of extreme fannish behavior before "mundanes" (non-fans) for the specific purpose of eliciting incomprehension and social discomfort. (See: bear-baiting.)
With eight separate phone numbers registered to the two members of this household, it's not surprising that -- despite those numbers' presence on the National Do Not Call Registry -- we get more than our share of telephone solicitations. Most of the time, they're phishing scams telling us we can "lower your interest rates" if we give them our banking information immediately; the rest of the time, they're split between trying to get us to change our telephone, Internet, television, gas, and electricity providers.
Until yesterday.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: (none)
Views: 370
Oh, Lourdes
Charlie wants to set out on a pilgrimage to the town of Lourdes in France. We recently watched a news show about Lourdes. Millions of people visit the small town each year to bathe in and drink the spring water that is said to be a miracle cure. Charlie’s eyes lit up. He dropped his iPod into his lap, inched closer to the television and turned his head to me. “Can we go???”
I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff
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