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I met my boyfriend Curtis in April, just weeks after he was in a very serious car accident. I have watched and helped, over the past months, as he's struggled with serious back injury that has impeded his ability to work and play in so many ways. I've also watched and helped as post-concussion issues with cognition and vision have caused major struggles at work and home. It has been a difficult road for him.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Since I often go into grueling detail when Charlie is going through a rough period of high blood sugars, it’s only right that I also share some good news for a change.
Charlie’s blood sugars have been near perfect for the last three or four days. To Lucy Van Pelt, happiness may be a warm puppy and to John Lennon, happiness may be a warm gun, but to me, happiness is knowing that Charlie’s blood sugars have been in the low 100s for hours and hours. Just as long periods of highs make me sick to my stomach, long periods of just-rights feels like nirvana. It can completely make my day and get me chirping with the birds.
It’s also nice to go into our quarterly endo visit, which is tomorrow, on a good note. I almost said, "on a high note." No way. No high note. I want a good A1c. Big money! No whammies!
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Categories: In the News
Tags: diabetes humor headlines
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The following are actual headlines published recently:
HOLLAND ON VERGE OF DIABETES EXPLOSION – Dutch News
"Synthia Van Vechten reporting live from Amsterdam where the region is bracing for a massive diabetes explosion. Businesses and residences have taken precaution, boarding up windows and relocating to more secure locations in the north. Others such as Joop Nederhorst, who I spoke to earlier, have ignored national warnings to evacuate, brazenly saying that he is not afraid of people with diabetes. That's right, you heard me correctly – 'not afraid of people with diabetes.' Just when I thought I've heard everything … Back to you in the studio Tabitha."
YOUTH DIABETES IN EUROPE SET TO EXPLODE – Sky News
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blind bolusing guilt perfectionism
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: claiming your life diabetes battle fears
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Fear of needles. Fear of blood. Fear of hospitals or doctors. These are all normal phobias in the world. People commonly relate to one or all of these fears, whether from bad experiences, horror stories or movies/TV shows.
But for a diabetic, what are our fears? Of course, many diabetics deal with the fear of needles, blood or hospitals/doctors. I'm fine with the needles and the blood, but I have a strong dislike towards doctors. I wouldn't say I'm afraid of them, but I don't particularly like to hear what they have to say (this stems from every doctor's appointment in my past that I would leave crying from because my control just wasn't good enough).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: burnout community diagnosis psychology support
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Wednesday I was stuck on nursery rhymes. Thursday, it was fairly tales. Reading the Wikipedia entry on Red Riding Hood, I followed the link to an entry on something I'd never heard of before: liminality. While Wikipedia has not nearly evolved into something rigorous enough to be considered a sole source for research, sometimes a new word or concept can shift something known and comfortable into an entirely different perspective; this is what that definition did for me.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows
Tags: humor
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Well, it’s that time again. The new school year is right around the corner. Time to revise our 504 plan, give the kids their semi-annual shower and purchase more school supplies than we ever have before.
I’m sure you’ve seen this on the news. Due to budget cuts, many school districts around the country are asking that in addition to the usual pens, pencils, folders and notebooks, parents also contribute classroom items such as toilet paper, printer paper and anti-bacterial wipes. Fair enough, but I was surprised to find shark nets, sedatives and vodka on our list.
Hmm. Well … it is for kindergarten.
Point taken.
And with the school year fast approaching, Charlie has been busy working on his diabetes-related excuses and manipulations. Here are a few:
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling exercise loss team type 1 Tour de Cure Training
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While the title of this post is a play on the French "Poisson d'Avril" ("April Fools" is called "April Fish"), there's nothing funny about it.
We've heard about folk stealing one or more of Lance Armstrong's bikes, but a whole team's bicycles -- and not just that, but also their spares, parts, and tools?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: college life dating van
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Dear Diabetes,
Lately you've given me some troubles. Pesky lows in the thirties. Drastic drops during the night despite adequate carb consumption. Bruises from my insulin injections. Packing on pounds between the lows and fear of lows. The list really goes on and on...like usual.
But lately, I've also been ignoring you. I'm in the throes of my senior year of college. With tests every week, research for papers, and all sorts of miscellaneous assignments. Not to mention that my future is looming large in my mind, with only about seven months left until I'm thrown fully into adulthood. So I've ignored you.
I've kept my testing to a minimum five times per day. Stopped freaking out at the sight of crazy numbers. Let my logbook get behind. Avoided eating exactly right or counting every last carb. I've just let you go by the wayside, drifting around the sea like a speck of sand.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Food Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management diet Family food choices quitting smoking smoking tight control
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One of the earliest "grown-up" movies I remember seeing in the cinema was a comedy called Cold Turkey, starring Dick Van Dyke. The premise was that a small town would win what, for them, was an obscenely large amount of money if everybody in the entire town could stop smoking, "cold turkey" — that is, suddenly, as if the "off" button had been pressed and the power disconnected — for an entire month. The lengths the town fathers went to, to win, and the lengths the tobacco company went to, to ensure they didn't, made for laughter and hijinks that were accessible to even middle-school children.
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