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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
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I've faced some hardships in my life. Things that hurt and hindered me, things that took me down on my knees, things that have left lasting impacts and repercussions. I'm sure you've faced hardships like this too. Diabetes can be one of them. It is for me.
Because of the timeline and the amount and my own personality in all these hardships, some of those impacts have left deep scars in places that I really don't want them to be. So a good portion of the past few years of my life has been an attempt to work through these issues and get back my life the way I want it.
Recently, I started reading a book regarding one of these major issues that have stuck with me in life. It's the kind of book that permeates to several areas, diabetes and health issues included. So as the author spoke today about how loss can affect spirituality, I thought to myself that I knew that.
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions
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On Thanksgiving Day, my four year old nephew noticed me test my bloodsugar for the first time. A look of dire concern spread across his little face as I drew blood from my finger. I told him that Aunty needed to test and see what her numbers were before she ate so that she could give her medicine and not get sick. He nodded, still looking concerned, and said, "medicine, like for my eyes?" Born with cataracts and structural issues in both of his eyes, he has had more surgeries in his first four years than most people have in their lifetime, has worn contact lenses and glasses since he was three months old, and medicine is a word he's known for entirely too long.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
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I haven't been having a lot of lows lately since I'm not managing so aggressively. It's been a nice relief and I hadn't even noticed it. Until last night.
Marvin and I went to WalMart then grabbed a late dinner. I wasn't hungry, but I wanted something. A chocolate shake. With curly fries. It's my comfort food and yesterday, my body needed comfort. Hormones.
So I drank my shake and ate my curly fries. Then did 10 units of Humalog. I knew it was about 80 carbs for the shake and probably 30 to 40 for the fries, which would mean about 11 or 12 units of Humalog...cut down by 1 unit for my bedtime routine.
A couple of hours later, I was standing in the bathroom and just felt funny. I wasn't sure if it was the pain that I'd been experiencing off and on all day or fatigue. It was just off. Then I started shaking and feeling weak. I knew.
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
Tags: c-peptide complications Diabetes discussions HbA1c insulin insulin resistance medical treatment Oral Meds
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From time to time, a heated discussion will erupt around the terms and phrases "prediabetes", "borderline diabetes", and "beating diabetes". The basic gist of the debate goes like this:
Someone will post that he was told he has "borderline diabetes" or "prediabetes", or that he had type 2 diabetes, but since he changed his diet, got off his diabetes medications, and has normal lab results, he has reversed or cured his diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
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This morning I set about getting Lantus and figuring out the doctor situation from yesterday. So I followed my plan to call the new doctor's nurse first then the CDE I know at the clinic if that didn't work. I was prepared to raise a little "cane" if need be, but desperately hoped they would make it easy.
I called the new doctor's nurse wanting to speak to the nice one that I spoke to yesterday. Unfortunately, she wasn't in. So I ended up speaking to another nurse, who was quite rude. When she first began the phone call, she wouldn't let me speak to tell her about the issue which got the whole thing off to a rocky start.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Real Life
Tags: empathy understanding
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Kerri recently posted a blog on Six Until Me about her co-worker having "diabetes for the day." It was interesting to hear just a few details about an outsider's perspective on this disease. Even though it was only for a day, at least a small portion of what we go through hit home with him.
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Categories: Food Real Life
Tags: candy canes eggnog sugar free
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I modified a recipe from the Hungry Girl website for a low sugar eggnog and found it very acceptable. It has nearly the same taste and mouth feel as the lite eggnog I've been drinking. It may be a bit late for this year's holiday season, but there's still New Year's.
The original recipe is here. My version is below.
6 C 1% milk 1 Tbsp vanilla extract 1 small (4-serving) package Jell-O Sugar Free Fat Free Instant Pudding mix, Vanilla 6 no-calorie sweetener packets (like Splenda) 1 tsp Mace (or nutmeg) (optional) 6 oz dark rum or 1 tsp rum extract (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Real Life
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"This," I said to my mom while pointing to the table full of mid-afternoon party food, "is exactly the kind of situation where I would really benefit from having a pump."
We were in my brother's dining room at his daughter's first-birthday party. The spread included crackers with an amazing cream cheese and pesto dip, mini chicken salad croissant sandwiches, fresh fruit, potato chips and dip and fresh veggies. To the untrained eye, there wasn't much that I should have stayed away from, but in reality there was just about nothing that didn't require insulin.
Mom looked a little confused. "But you'd still have to count carbs," she said.
"Well, yeah, of course," I said. "But that's not really the reason the pump would be so beneficial. I could eat and not have to excuse myself to take a shot."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: adolescent cure diagnosis insulin injections
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Being 17 at the time of diagnosis gives me some understanding of this years World Diabetes Day theme of "How Diabetes affects children and adolescents.
It was my senior year in High School. I had become Drum Major of the band. It was going to be a fun year but of course, diabetes had another plan.
I look back and remember the disbelief. The confusion that there was no cure. That I was destined to take insulin for the rest of my life. It was too much to handle on top of classes like Government and American Lit. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions
Tags: ambulance complications pancreatitis
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My mother had diabetes the last 20 years of her life. She was insulin-dependent but she wasn't Type 1 or Type 2. Mom had acute pancreatitis throughout the early '70s and had 90% of her pancreas removed just after the Blizzard of '77 in Buffalo. There was later some speculation that she had some beta cells left or some regenerated because Mom would have horrendous blood sugar swings seemingly out of nowhere.
I remember once going to a mall in a big city 2 hours from home a couple years after the surgery and ending up having an ambulance called for her. Mom kept eating sugar packets thinking she was low, and kept getting worse and worse. As I remember it, when she got to the hospital she was extremely high. (READ MORE)
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