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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Real Life
Tags: empathy sympatico
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I'll tell you another secret. I kinda LIKE the Jonas Brothers. Laugh all you want since I am quite a couple decades away from their usual tween-aged fan base. Disney signed them though, and from Annette Funnicello until Miley Cyrus and beyond, Disney has a proven eye for musical talent. (Maybe not class, but definitely talent).
Nick is, at 15, the youngest brother of the singing group (they do have another even younger brother named Frankie - think Andy Gibb snubbed from the BeeGees for his youth). As everyone with any connection to diabetes knows, Nick has had type 1 for almost 3 years.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Real Life
Tags: advocacy friends online communities type1 unicorns
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If you spend any time around the diabetes social media advocacy (#dsma) community on Twitter, you will see references to #unicorns in general, and "glitter-farting unicorns" (GFUs) in particular. The unicorns seem to have sprung fully-grown from Kerri's vision of cockeyed optimism, and it is said that their flatus can cure even the most stubborn case of type 1 diabetes.
Obviously, GFUs are part of the Diabetes Online Communitiy's myth and legend, and may even be responsible for Halle Berry's miraculous "recovery" (come on, can't you see her dressed in a skinsuit and narwhal-horn-shaped headdress?) Their pull is powerful, and talismanic unicorn mascots have been popping up all over the DOC.
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Categories: Type 1 Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: Diabetes military veterans day
Views: 1968
Today we celebrate and thank all of the veterans who have stepped up to the plate to serve and protect our country's freedom. I have always been the guy who gets chills when I hear and sing the National Anthem. I was raised to be proud of my country and to love it.
All of those beliefs and feeling were solidified on a visit several years ago to DC. Seeing all the buildings I had only seen on TV and money we amazing. The sense of patriotism swam through my blood stream and gave me a lump in my throat through most of our trip. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: tattoos
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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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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships In the News Real Life
Tags: A1C c-peptide new endo
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I have to take issue with something my new, wonderful treatment team seems to think. Dr. A said, "It really doesn't matter what type of diabetes you have as long as you have an effective treatment method." While I mostly agree with him, I have to say that a lot of people with diabetes want the distinction; we want to know the label. Because even though the treatment method may be the same, it’s still different.
Despite me rattling off a list of drugs meant for people with Type 2 that I tried and that didn't work, and telling him my c-peptide result (<0.1), Dr. A still said, "I think you are Type 2."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management food choices
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It's crunchy and sweet -- even when it's not a sugar cereal. It's wet and soft and smooth. It's great for dinner or breakfast.
I love cereal. It used to be the only thing I ate for breakfast: two bowls of Cheerios and I was set all morning. Occasionally I'd mix it up with a bagel or something, but my breakfast staple was cereal. This was, of course, pre-diabetes.
It was an accident that I found out what milk does to my blood sugar. I was pregnant and taking only Lantus at the time. One morning the milk was gone and I drank water with my PB (no J) sandwich (yeah, yuck). I had a pretty blunt "ah-ha" moment when I saw the post prandial.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: (none)
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The feeling came on pretty fast this morning as I was walking through the cafeteria at work.
My thighs shook like unsteady legs of an old, wooden table supporting the weight of a rhinoceros. There was a tremor throughout my whole body. I felt the same heat on my shoulder blades and forehead that I get when I'm forced to introduce myself publicly to a large circle of strangers. I was starving.
It's not very often that I get a taste of what Charlie goes through with low blood sugars. I've been Gazellin' like a felon and dieting since January, trying to lose about 15-20 pounds. Almost half-way there. Maybe I was taking it too hard-core with my miniscule breakfast of a few sliced almonds and raisins.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management exercise
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I was a little nervous this morning as I set off for my walk. I know it's irrational, but I'm a little afraid of the dark, and at 5:30 a.m. it's still dark. And walking around in an area that I'm not used to walking around in when it's dark can be a little intimidating.
But it smelled like rain when I walked out the door (yes, in the desert!) and the sky was this wonderful shade of blue that you only see when the sun is about to rise. It was chilly but inviting.
Desert landscape means lots of plants all over because people need something other than rocks to look at. So there were lots of bushes and plants that I was constantly scanning to make sure no psyco people or critters were going to jump out at me.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: 504 plan lows at school
Views: 856
First day of school. Schmoozing with new classmates and meeting the class pet – a hermit crab unanimously named Shelly. No tests as far as the eye can see.
Actually, there was one test. Just one hour into the new school year and Charlie tested his new teacher with a raised hand and a "I think I’m low." I was pleased to hear that it was all handled as discussed just the day before in the 504 meeting. Teacher called nurse. Nurse came to classroom and escorted Charlie to her office where she tested him. 62.
The plan is this:
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: LADA MODY stereotypes type 1 Type 2 Type 3
Views: 725
I am not a number. -- "Number 6", The Prisoner
One of the questions asked in a recent #dsma chat had to do with the people we live and work with who are familiar enough with our diabetes care to support us, make sure we have appropriate food and drink as needed, who know how and when to administer glucagon, and what to tell the folk at 911 about us. Some debate arose over the common patient-community designation of these individuals as "Type 3s".
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