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Tags: flu flu shot h1n1
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Despite the fact that temperatures here in the Valley of the Sun (or as my brother likes to call it The Actual Sun) continue to hover around 100 degrees, it's technically fall, which means that flu season is upon us.
I don't think I ever got a flu shot prior to getting diabetes. I was healthy for the most part and likely didn't understand what the flu really is. And even four years into the disease, last fall was the first time I got the shot since being diagnosed.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
Tags: cold flu high blood sugars immune system Sick Days
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It's about once a week now that my college sends out an important "Flu" reminder. Wash your hands, stay at home if you experience symptoms, and seek treatment immediately for the more severe. We've had several reports of swine flu, including some students in my friends' classes. And more and more of my friends are coming down with colds and "flu-like symptoms."
For me, every reminder and every swine flu diagnosis sends a tiny shock-wave through my system. I know that my immune system isn't that of a healthy, non-diabetic. It has its weak spots, its vulnerabilities. Especially lately with all these highs and crazy numbers.
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: flu injection vaccination
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Tiny, seemingly invisible water droplets soar through the air, projected by the reflexive action of a coworker. The inconspicuous flu virus enters your mouth or nose, it’s version of nirvana. Your warm, moist body provides the luscious environment for the evil-doers to multiply and make your week miserable.
This internal image along with cooling weather and sickly school mates and coworkers drives me to seek out a yearly flu vaccine. A stint with flu symptoms throws my routine into a domino of disruption. Not just with taking charge of diabetes needs, but by missing work, falling behind in school work and education, losing weight from appetite loss, and that endlessly obnoxious thumping in the back of my head. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: A1c results endo visit
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We have Charlie's endocrinology appointment tomorrow. In his last two visits, we've seen a minor decline in his A1c. From 8.1 to 7.9 and then from 7.9 to 7.8. Unfortunately, I think the downward streak ends there. I'm anticipating an A1c back in the low to mid 8s.
Hopefully I'm wrong. When looking back at Charlie's blood sugar control over the last three months, the high times are the ones that stick in my brain and give me an unsettled feeling. Charlie had a two-week period of terribly high blood sugars. Although it was just two weeks, it feels as if it has tarnished the whole three-month period that the A1c will review. The two weeks of troublesome highs feels like an eternity. I want to hit a re-set button and just start over. Start over when things are better. When he's not having crazy growth-spurt highs or crazy virus highs or crazy full moon highs.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: ketones virus
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Charlie took a swig of his water, scraped his tongue with his teeth and contorted his face as if he’d just ingested lizard juice.
"Dad, does everyone get ketones?"
"No," I told him. "I think mostly just people with diabetes."
Charlie stared at his water bottle and said nothing more on the subject. His lips, that wanted nothing to do with the water, were dry and colorless.
"Charlie, you have to drink the water," I said. "We need to get rid of these ketones."
"But it tastes terrible," he said. "The water doesn’t taste normal. I think it’s the ketones."
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: celiac disease lows stomach pain
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Sounds like a bad sitcom destined for cancellation, but seriously … what is up with Charlie?
He has had chronic stomach pains for weeks and we don't know what's causing it. We thought maybe he had a bug after he woke us up at 5 am last Saturday to tell us that he was about to vomit. Which he did. Once.
If it is a virus, it's the longest one ever. His blood work came back negative for Celiac disease, but Susanne's gluten-free gut tells her otherwise. The peds want to take him off dairy for a week or two to see if the issue lies there.
He has just been very un-Charlie like and I'm getting concerned. Where is the Charlie that harasses us until submission? That begs us to stay up late and devours everything on his plate? He's not eating because he feels sick when he does.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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The new year is off to an auspicious start. Despite being hampered by pink eye and a very nasty cold, I've already accomplished my first resolution – grow a manageable light winter beard as a distraction to increasingly thinning hair. Done!
Christmas was nice. Santa rocked it. Although …
I hate to be nitpicky, but there was one Christmas present under the tree that we just had to throw out due to the odor. Remind me next year to specify in my letter to Santa that "working pancreas for Charlie" should be kept on ice.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management sick virus
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Some freaky viral sickness has infected our house. It started with No. 2 who had a terrible fever over Memorial Day weekend. Several days after she got better, The Mr. came down with it. Now, No. 1 is on the tail end of it, but sadly he will miss his last three days of third grade because of this stupid flu-like virus.
I've often said that while I don't want to see my children sick, it's better for a well mom to take care of sick kids than for a sick mom to take care of well kids. That's up for debate, especially since my kids are getting to the point where they're fairly self-sufficient and if I were laid out on the couch No. 1 and No. 2 would be able to take care of No. 3. (I should say that The Mr. isn't a slacker, he works two of every three weekends, so when I'm home alone with the kids it's usually because The Mr. is working.)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blood blood glucose testing hands immune system social issues virus
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I'm no politician, but my day job does involve shaking the hands of many strangers. In the "normal" (i.e., non-diabetes-related) world, this is no big deal -- if the other person's hand is really icky, just use some hand sanitizer and be done with.
In the 1980's, AIDS-phobia taught us otherwise.
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Categories: Type 1 Complications Real Life
Tags: advocacy death diabetes comparisons disease immune system non-diabetic siblings triggers
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While researchers have isolated in the vicinity of two dozen genes associated with autoimmune (type 1) diabetes, we still haven't figured out how one of a pair of identical twins might develop type 1 diabetes, while the other remains diabetes-free. (Such a case exists.) This suggests that while genes may be part of the equation, they're not the sum total of "why someone gets type 1 diabetes".
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