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It's very rare that I miss a day of work. VERY rare. I've called in sick only a handful of times in the last four years of my working life. I typically am a "bite the bullet" kind of girl and work at least a few hours when I'm feeling ill. So when I do call in sick, I'm usually very sick.

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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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In the past month, I've really gotten off track with my life. School and work seemed to be picking up, so I set a few things on the back burner (not to mention that I had a flare up with my other health conditions). The things that got pushed to the back were really major pieces of my diabetes management.

For one, I stopped working out in the way that I had been leading up to mid-March. Before Spring Break, I was working out at least twice a week (jogging 1.5-3 miles on the treadmill). But after Spring Break, life got in the way so I didn't make the time to add those workouts back into my schedule. I made all sorts of excuses: I was too tired, I wanted to go out with friends, I hadn't watched TV in forever, I had to study. Sadly, I think I've worked out a total of three or four times in the past month...that's just really disappointing.

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I've really been struggling with the Lantus and exercise mix. When I first started out, I did okay with a few lows here and there (nothing out of the ordinary for me). But as I added in new and different work outs and upped my intensity, I'm struggling to keep my blood sugars stable before, during, and after exercise.

With the pump, it was so easy to decrease my basal so I started my workout in the 180-200 range. I struggled with maintaining a higher level during exercise, often going low...but at least I wasn't concerned with those numbers completely wrecking my averages.

Now that I'm back on Lantus, I'm re-learning everything that I did five or six years ago (since high school held my hardest workouts). But I'm failing miserably. I can't get the range right before working out, often soaring to the 260's. And during, I'm flatlining in that same range.

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I am finally fully moved in to my new place in Providence on Federal Hill. Much to my surprise, the changes in my life over the past 6 months have left me feeling one thing. Peace.

I really am happier than I have been in a very long time. More than that, I’m learning and relearning many things about myself, others, and the way I navigate the world.

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I spent the last six days in Mexico with my mom on a quick vacation. Now that I'm back I feel a little overwhelmed at everything that's happening. I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by, especially the last two months.

There's a lot on my mind right now from laundry to tuition being due soon. Tuition that I don't exactly have. But my biggest thought at the moment is about employment.

When I got off the plane on Wednesday, I had several voicemails. One from a non-profit that I applied with several weeks ago. And another about a temporary position. I've been working with temp agencies for several weeks now although I have yet been able to accept any jobs. I get calls pretty frequently, but things just keep seeming to come up.

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A few weeks ago, a fellow PWD blogger/Twitterer/Facebooker asked her friends what they got out of their quarterly appointments with their endo.

I had never really thought about it. And when I did, I realized that the only take-away from my endo appointments is knowing my A1C. Typically my endo appointments are quick check ups to talk about how I need to exercise and lose weight, go over lab results and adjust meds if needed, and poke my feet. That’s kind of sad, don’t you think? I don’t feel like I get much out of these meetings.

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Finding a new endocrinologist has proven to be quite interesting. First, my insurance apparently doesn't have a whole lot of options in my area (or maybe my area doesn't have a whole lot of options in general), especially in the female category. I had about 4 choices, one of which I'm currently seeing.

If you hadn't heard, I decided to change my endo because of a recent mess up regarding my test strip prescription that has me scrambling for more strips to last three months. This was the straw that broke the camel's back after two appointments with her that just didn't go as I'd like. She is a competent doctor, but she isn't the kind of doctor that I'm looking for.

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I am incredibly frustrated with my immune system right now. Sunday night, I began having some symptoms of that upper respiratory infection that took me down over the Christmas holidays. Stuffy nose and pressure in my ears. Monday, that hadn't gotten any better. So I decided to go back on the antibiotics Monday night as well as increase all my vitamin intake like I normally do when fighting something.

Today, I am no better. The stuffiness is terrible. My poor nose is beyond raw. I'm coughing thanks to the drainage. And I'm exhausted.

I know that a lot of factors play into your immune system. Diabetes is definitely one of them. I've always been a little more susceptible to illnesses but with a good diet and proper supplements, usually I kick things in a few days. This time, I can't even stay well for more than a week. And I really don't have time to be sick.

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