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I've always been used to humidity. I may not appreciate what it does to my curly, frizz-prone hair, but I'm used to it. Sixty to seventy percent humidity was fairly common growing up. I just never realized how much my skin appreciated the high humidity of my area.

 

My mom always said to like it since people in high humidity areas wrinkle less. I didn't make the connection until I moved and started experiencing the irritation of dry skin. Moving, just four hours away, sent me into a completely different climate where the air is typically dry and a lot colder than what I'm used to (except in summers when it's so much hotter than what I'm used to but without that humidity it's actually tolerable at 115 degrees).

 

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How can you tell when you've tried too many different diets? When you can't keep the rules of them straight any more. This month, I'm following the Atkins diet. I'm doing it because my doctor took me off meds and I know from experience (and trial and error) that I cannot keep my blood sugar in healthy ranges without meds if I eat any carbohydrates. It isn't right, it isn't fair and there isn't anything I can do about it.
So Atkins it is this month. I started out the year on Weight Watchers. I've always considered Weight Watchers to be one of the healthiest, sanest, most practical diets. Unfortunately, it wasn't working for me this time around. The leaders keep saying the Core plan is great for people with diabetes, but I couldn't lose weight on it. Besides, I was eating mostly whole grains, fresh veggies and lean proteins. I think my portions sizes were too large. I did better counting points, but still that was a struggle to keep my blood sugar in line. (READ MORE)

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Now that I no longer have to fret about my diabetes, I have a new worry: What if I gave it to my son?

 

I have to assume that is a pretty common worry among mothers (and fathers) with diabetes. Did my son inherit my faulty diabetes gene along with my ticklish feet?

 

On the Diabetic Mommy support group I belong to, it is very common for moms to start freaking out that their child may have diabetes. He's drinking too much, he's peeing too much, he falls asleep after meals, etc. With these worries, a mom will then test her child, usually at the exact wrong moment, like when he has juice all over his fingers or just ate a big bowl of cornflakes, to get a higher than normal reading. Usually anything over 100 will do a sufficient job of bringing a diabetic mom to a full panic. 

 

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My last post was about pretty difficult low bloodsugars.  These continue.  And my hatred for this disease has been just all-consuming of late. 

 

Over the past several days, my Facebook page has been overloaded with terrible news.  A beautiful 14 year old girl dead from a stroke, an 18 year old dead from a low bloodsugar in her sleep and another young woman is in the hospital in DKA fighting for her life. I hate the heartache diabetes has left for their families.  

 

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The Worm

 

Have you ever seen a pump-wearing kid with diabetes do "the worm" dance on a hard wood floor? Sounds a little like this: flop-clunk, flop-clunk, flop-clunk.

 

It's a sad scene.

 

If for nothing else, can we please find a cure for this stinkin' disease? So our children can perform a decent worm without breaking their pelvic bone? Please!

 

JST SRF

 

I saw two vanity plates the other day. The first one was ‘JST SRF.' So simple. So optimistic. So worry-free. I'm immediately reminded of my 23-year-old Justin Bieber-looking co-worker who can't get through a single sentence without saying either "no worries" or "it's all good."

 

Just found out your child has diabetes?

 

Hey, it's all good. No worries. Just surf!

 

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Fifteen years. A decade and a half. Thousands of days. Millions of minutes. Over half my life.
It doesn't seem real that I've lived with diabetes for fifteen years. It doesn't seem fathomable that this is only the first fifteen years of many more. I can't imagine how the rest of my life will daily involve diabetes despite the daily involvement of the last fifteen years. I just can't picture more infusion sets, more doctors appointments, more worries. (READ MORE)

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It seems like lately I've felt more abnormal than ever before in my life. I've always known I wasn't like the rest of the world. I have always been the different kid, the one who had to eat different food, the one who did shots all the time. I thought that I wouldn't feel so different when I got older. I figured that with time diabetes would be just a part of my life like being a brunette or having freckles. Now I'm getting older and diabetes is completely ingrained in me, but I still feel different. (READ MORE)

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After my work function last week, my mom and I met at a resort to spend some quality girl time together. It was much needed for both of us as we haven't been able to spend a lot of time just the two of us doing the things we love to do since I moved four hours away. We went shopping, ate a lot of good food, got massages, and talked non-stop over the weekend.

 

We also had a few drinks in celebration of our vacation. Neither my mother or I drink to get drunk. We like to enjoy a glass of wine or a margarita socially, which is what we did. The first night, I had a glass of white wine with my salmon salad. It was delicious and my mother didn't say much.

 

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I should start this post by saying there is a history of heart disease and stroke in my family. 

 

 

My father, at 43 had a heart attack resulting in a quadruple bypass surgery.  The doctors at the time of the surgery told him that had he not quit smoking eight years earlier, he'd be dead, given the condition of his arteries. 

 

 

My maternal grandmother, who struggled with insulin dependent diabetes (we're unsure if it was actually type 2 or LADA) and its complications, for the last 35 years of her life, died at 62 of a massive heart attack.

 

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Sometimes I wonder why I moved four hours away from my family and friends. Sometimes the nights are tough, long, and sleepless. Sometimes I'm homesick and in need of a nice girls' night with my best friends.

 

Every time that happens, I think of two things: what made me move and what it'd be like to move back. The first is easy. I had multiple factors pushing me away from home and into a new adventure. I wanted to try something different, move away from the city that I'd always known and away from the instant network of friends and family. I wanted a good graduate program that I didn't have to wait months to attend. I wanted to be close to Marvin.

 

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