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And that is the point, you don't know where.

When someone is newly diagnosed with diabetes, where should their educational journey begin? Sure, there is the inevitable hospital stay, and the chat with a doctor, and possibly a self-injection tutorial (for the insulin requiring crowd), but what is the next step... after the hospital scene?

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I had a headache when I got home from work around 3:30 Monday morning.  I don't know what brought it on; I thought maybe it was stress or tension, or that I hadn't eaten in a while, or maybe even sinus related.  I did know that my blood sugar numbers were good, so that wasn't it.

Whatever it was, I just wanted it to go away. So, I found something to eat, took some Tylenol, and climbed into bed, hoping that the headache would just go away after a good night's sleep.  Much to my dismay, that's not what happened.

I woke later Monday morning with what can only be described as a migraine from hell. It felt like someone had hit me in the head repeatedly with a baseball bat or something.  It was immensely painful, and was accompanied by sensitivity to light and sound. Oh, and nausea, too.  It's been a long time since I've had a headache that bad, and frankly, I could have gone a whole lot longer without it, too.

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It feels like I've been lying in the rain for an hour.  I am soaked.  And where the hell am I?  How is it raining?  I'm inside, right? 

I can see the ceiling, its popcorn bumps popping out, and the place where it meets the hot pink wall in this room.  My room?  This is my room, right?  Oh, god, how did I get so wet?  And cold.  I'm shivering.  But why am I sweating?  I think I'm cold.

I feel nauseous too.  Really, really sick to my stomach.  I'm pretty sure I can't get up.  The floor seems a long way away. 

I pull out my insulin pump, which feels foreign in my hands, not at all like a part of my body (that's how it usually feels).  And I look for the CGM screen, but I can't find it.  And it doesn't occur to me that I'm not wearing the CGM, that I'm taking a break.  I can't really read the pump screen anyway, can I? 

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I don't even know where to start this post. Should I tell you first how I started to fell sick after dinner last night and how my blood sugar was on the low side until this morning or how I nearly fainted at the pediatrician's office this afternoon?

I think I'll start from the beginning. Because, really, the best part is the near-fainting and why would I want to tell you all about that first without telling you what lead up to it?

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With the summer heat scorching down upon most of us, two big issues are keeping cool and keeping hydrated. For those of us blessed by dry heat, it's easy not to feel as if you're sweating; the air soaks up your skin's moisture almost before it's shed. For those of us in humid environments, the air becomes hot and heavy, our sweat clinging to us like plastic wrap, making us feel consistently hot and wet. In either case, it's easy for us to forget to replenish those fluids we so rapidly shed.

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No matter where I'm going, or what I'm doing, my health problems are always with me.  Type 2 diabetes and congestive heart failure impact pretty much every aspect of my life in some way or another.  Having said that, though, I'm not merely a person with diabetes and heart problems.  There's more to me than that.

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Today has been quite a day in the diabetes world. My DIABETES series is on the second "E" and I'm not sure I know what to say. I used "exercise" for my first one. This one seems a bit tough. It feels a bit limiting.

E: Emotions is the only word that I really know to use for this post. Today has been an emotional day regarding diabetes. In my usual morning routine, I checked emails and Facebook. In the middle of my check, I came across some devastating news.

It's regarding a family in the CWD community. And for their privacy, I am going to let you find your own way to the story. Unfortunately, diabetes took a horrible toll for this family. In my most frightening way.

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In less than two weeks my baby brother is getting married. He's eight years younger than I am, and I remember mothering him as a baby. At eight years old, I was in second grade when he was born -- prime time for baby dolls, so when a real baby came into my life I was all over that!

I'm excited to travel from Phoenix to the Midwest, especially since I've been stalking the weather forecast and it's guesstimated to be in the 70s there, while it's still in the 100s here (set a record high yesterday of 107 and a a record for the warmest overnight low a few nights ago at 89).

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