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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 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: community daily routine depression diabetes management support
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A couple of weeks ago, Kim over at Texting My Pancreas got together with a few other movers-and-shakers in the diabetes online community to create a project to support and encourage other people with diabetes. Called "You Can Do This", the project includes videos, blog posts, and artwork from people with diabetes, for people with diabetes.
It's sort of a crowdsourced Test! Don't Guess campaign, with two main rallying cries: "You can do this!" and "You are not alone".
It's not all unicorns and glitter.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose testing diabetes awareness month DOC memories unicorns World Diabetes Day
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Today is the 6th Annual D-Blog Day and in some ways, I'm stymied by the topic: Gina has proposed we all do a 12" x 12" scrapbook page. Growing up, a scrapbook was a shoelace-tied book of heavy vellum-colored Manilla paper to which one pasted telegrams, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, and the like. In theory, one scrapbook could last a lifetime; in reality, the pages started falling out about five years in, and we always had to be careful not to lose either the pages or the stuff glued on to them. My mother's scrapbook has telegrams of congratulations from relatives who couldn't make her wedding and a guest-card with the lyrics to "Bei Mir Bist Du Shane", telegrams of congratulations when my sister and I were born, and newspaper clippings from every time one or another of us was mentioned in the local newspaper. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Relationships
Tags: children with diabetes living with it lucky unicorns
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Don't tell me it's a good thing Charlie was diagnosed so young. Just don't do it. Don't tell me how fortunate it is that he was a baby, too young to have known any other way of life.
It's not a "good thing." It's not the "bright side."
Do any other parents of children with diabetes out there ever get this? I still hear this occasionally from people and it makes me nuts. Some seem to think the biggest challenge is telling our son he can't have a lollypop. But, somehow we're lucky. We're lucky that Charlie was so young, he never formed that special bond between sugar and child. Guess what. He can have a lollypop and he does. He's eating one right now, as a matter of fact. Watermelon.
Excuse me one sec.
"Charlie, get that lollypop out of the baby's hair!"
"Charlie!"
"No! I don't want to see Ben as a unicorn!"
"Ah, I guess you're gonna just show me anyway." (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children In the News Real Life
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I’m not the guy who worries. I’m the glass half-full guy who says that everything will be fine. Mister "it’s probably nothing."
When confronted with something potentially scary, I become this guy:
"Carey, did you hear that noise coming from the kitchen?"
"It’s nothing. Let’s go back to bed."
"Carey, there are people walking around in our kitchen!"
"It’s just mice. Let’s go back to bed."
"Carey! Those are heavy footsteps and they’re whispering to each other!"
"Talking unicorns. Pretty common this time of year. Come on, let’s go back to bed. It’s late."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Food Highs & Lows In the News
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Blueberries can help prevent diabetes - Irish Health.com
Yeah, sure. In two-headed rainbow-colored unicorns.
Nicely stepped in diabetes - Jefferies (Japan)
Ew! Gross! Poor Nicely. I hope those weren't his new shoes.
Diabetes Quick Fix: Pork chops flavored with apple butter - Charleston Gazette
The elusive cure to diabetes was in our local grocery all along. Fine cuisine! Who knew?
Poodle keeps Oshkosh teen on top of her diabetes - Sheboygan Press
"Elizabeth! If you don't test your blood sugar this instant, so help me God I will crap on your pillow!"
"But, Patches ...."
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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It took a good part of the baseball season, but the kids on Charlie's baseball team finally discovered that their hard-hitting catcher has diabetes. For the most part, we are fairly discreet about it. Charlie will run over to me if he feels low. The kids in the dugout are generally too busy using each other's heads for batting practice to notice anything out of the ordinary.
This time, Charlie was high heading into the game and I wanted to get his blood sugar before he came up in the batting order. Outside the chain fence dugout, I asked Charlie to stick his finger through. Soon a flock of Little Leaguers converged on the scene and watched with mouths open as if witnessing the birth of baby unicorns.
"What are you doing to him?" one perplexed kid asked.
"Well, Danny, Charlie really should have made that catch, so .... ya know ... punishment."
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