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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: eyesight
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When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, I read everything I could get my hands on about it. The fear of complications kept me in line. In fact, when faced with the temptation of cookies and cake, the phrase "blindness, dialysis and amputation" helped me walk away with not so much as a taste.
I guess that's why I took it so hard when my vision started blurring recently. At my post-pregnancy opthalmalogist visit, my eyeglass prescription had changed so much in the last six months, the doctor suggested checking again in a few months instead of getting a new prescription now. He explained my recent high blood sugars (thanks to that third attempt at diet and exercise "control") had temporarily distorted my vision. There are no signs of perminent damage, yet. Get my sugars under tighter control for a two to three months and we'll check again. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Real Life
Tags: Booze Cheap Wine Cigarettes friends music
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I'll admit it. I'm a big fan of cheap wine. Yummy. Give me some Boones Farm Strawberry Zinfandel on a hot summer night, and I'll get my buzz on - and get it on good. And I used to, back in the day, enjoy a nice cigarette (or ten) with my wine. Even now, every so often, I'll get a craving for a cigarette. Thankfully, the urge is usually cured by the smell of a heavy smoker passing by and occasionally cured by a simple, single drag on another person's gross-stick. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Complications
Tags: Jailbait JKL temptation
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I Test. Ring in at a respectable 106 mg/dl. I stand up from the table adorned with "Happy Birthday" balloons. Head to the buffet.
I stare at the spread of food before me. There is a vat of baked macaroni & cheese. There are containers of fatty meats (ham, beef, turkey with the skin still on). There are potatoes, stuffing, and other starchy veggies. And there are desserts. Lots of those. Cheesecake and ice cream cake and white cake, cookies and pastries, pie. I am a little overwhelmed at the size of the spread. Flowing out over three long tables.
My internal mouth is saying, "Fiesta!"
But my mind is saying, loudly, "Jailbait."
Mouth: "Oh, come on, look at it. You've got to take advantage. Have some salad. That'll keep it healthy." (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: diabetes on TV Hannah Montana misconceptions about diabetes
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Do you remember the diabetes-themed Hannah Montana episode last year that was leaked onto the Internet and swiftly pulled before it was aired on the Disney Channel?
Well, it’s back.
You might recall the disappointment many in the diabetes community expressed after seeing diabetes depicted inaccurately - aiding the very misconceptions we work so hard to dispel. Terms like "sugar boy," written as a weak attempt to deploy canned laughter and delivered by young actors unaware of the potential damage it could cause, did not go over well with most of us.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Real Life
Tags: girl scout cookies temptation yum
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Well here's something I didn't see coming: Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip Girl Scout cookies. I walked into the lunch room at work and there, on the stainless steel countertop, rested this never-before-seen box of cookies.
"Where did these come from?" I asked my co-worker.
"No idea," they said, through a mouthful of crumbs. "But they're pretty tasty."
(I love when people without diabetes can't tell that they're eating something less crammed with sugar than what they're used to.) (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: dieting halloween candy temptation
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Happy Halloween! I suspect it is only in the USA that Halloween has taken on such huge proportions. It's the number two holiday for decoration sales. There are probably a lot of interesting psychological reasons why Americans are drawn to a holiday all about appearing to be someone else; but that's a post for a different forum.
As a person with type 2 diabetes, I really dislike the candy aspect of the celebration. In all honesty, I really LIKE the candy aspect, but dislike having to try and restrain myself. It didn't used to be ALL candy. Remember apples? But then the urban myth of the razor blade in the apple started and that was the end of apples for trick or treat.
Remember "Trick or Treat for UNICEF"? I haven't see that for several years. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: diet temptation weight loss
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In case you didn't know that acronym stands for, "There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." I remember those words on the chalk board during my Economics class in high school. Yesterday this saying came to mind again.
During the day I get a phone call from one of our salespeople at work letting me know that he wants to treat the office employees to lunch as an early Valentine's gift. All the gals in the office were excited to get a free lunch but see it as a test of my will power.
Having to count points and carbs means I plan for most meals. I have spent the first weeks of the New Year luke-warm about my weight loss and I just recently got the fire burning again. Free lunches come with a price that I am not ready to pay. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Complications Emotions In the News
Tags: diabetes myths media portayals
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In the past few months, I've really noticed the media attention given to diabetes. Countless times the "d-word" gets thrown into a media line, leaving me clinch to the familiarity of my disease and cringe at the inaccuracies they portray. Unfortunately, too much of this media hype is giving diabetes the wrong kind of attention. Too much of it is snide comments about the disease and not about funding for a cure or the pitfalls of diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Real Life
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It was dark save for one recessed light shining on the counter. She barrelled into the store, rather on a mission. There was anger and determination on her face.
It was nighttime and the store was empty, closed. No customers, no managers, no one at the register. The air was calm and the bank of windows in the back of the store were black.
She stood just beneath the light. From huge bins, she shoved scoops of bulk candy into giant, clear bags. Chocolate covered peanuts and Turtles layered in one bag, small colorful pieces of sugar in another.
She could already taste the candy. The soft comfort of the chocolate, the zing of the sour sweets. Her mouth watered in anticipation.
A young woman -- perhaps a teenager -- appeared. She wore shorts and an apron, much like a candy striper. The women stood next to each other under the light. The spotlight.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: contemplation death diagnosis Outlook religion
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In some traditions, if a person has survived a serious illness or a serious trial in life, he or she will be given a new name, symbolic of a new life, of a resurrection of sorts. A diabetes diagnosis sets us each of us on a new life: a life of glucose testing, carb counting, diet watching, and medication dosing. The ways in which we react to the diagnosis, deal with it, and accept it in our lives changes us profoundly; we are never quite the same people we were before.
It is almost as if the "old" us had died, and we had been reborn again.
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