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When I look back at 2007, I realize that a lot happened and that I learned a great deal about many things. First and foremost, I am happy to say that it is another year completed and another successful year behind me in the books. To say that and to think about that feels great. Every day that goes by a person living with diabetes learns something new about their disease. I can look back and recall different situations where my blood sugar got low. I remember certain times when I checked my glucose and it was off the charts high. Everything that has happened this year will be a learning experience that I can come back to in the future. I learned about myself and how different things affect me. I can recall specific weeks where everything was hunky dory and others where I felt I was going to lose it. Just living and learning each day adds more notches to my diabetic belt, a belt that I will always have. (READ MORE)

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When I look back at 2007, I realize that a lot happened and that I learned a great deal about many things. First and foremost, I am happy to say that it is another year completed and another successful year behind me in the books. To say that and to think about that feels great. Every day that goes by a person living with diabetes learns something new about their disease. I can look back and recall different situations where my blood sugar got low. I remember certain times when I checked my glucose and it was off the charts high. Everything that has happened this year will be a learning experience that I can come back to in the future. I learned about myself and how different things affect me. I can recall specific weeks where everything was hunky dory and others where I felt I was going to lose it. Just living and learning each day adds more notches to my diabetic belt, a belt that I will always have. (READ MORE)

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Happy New Year, dLifers! The Blogabetes bloggers have been saying their fond farewells to 2007 and welcoming the clean slate of 2008 - here are the highlights!
Julia admits that she doesn't normally make resolutions, but she is making one this year to log O's blood sugars.
Kim offers up her resolutions for 2008, which include blogging five times a week!
Scott reflects on a year of connecting with diabetes and highlights some of the diabetes hot-points in his 2007. (READ MORE)

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I have to take issue with something my new, wonderful treatment team seems to think. Dr. A said, "It really doesn't matter what type of diabetes you have as long as you have an effective treatment method." While I mostly agree with him, I have to say that a lot of people with diabetes want the distinction; we want to know the label. Because even though the treatment method may be the same, it’s still different.

 

Despite me rattling off a list of drugs meant for people with Type 2 that I tried and that didn't work, and telling him my c-peptide result (<0.1), Dr. A still said, "I think you are Type 2."

 

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My pump sites have just not been cooperating lately.  No matter where I put the canula - it ends up hurting.  A lot.  Enough so that I complain about it. 

 

To give you an idea of what it takes for me to complain - I am a girl who has had external fixators drilled into a bone in my arm for eight weeks and who refused pain killers (other than Tylenol) after two days.  I'm not a sissy.  Not at all.  So these sites are causing me more than a little bit of turmoil.

 

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To: Michelle's boss
From: Michelle
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008
Subject: Tomorrow morning

 

Hey, boss. I'm going to have some bloodwork done on my way in tomorrow. I should be in by 8:30. I went to do it on Friday afternoon, but my doctor's office failed to tell me I had to be fasting. Grrr.

 

To: Michelle
From: Michelle's boss
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008
Subject: Re: Tomorrow morning

 

OK. I hope everything's OK.

 

To: Michelle's boss
From: Michelle
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008
Subject: Re: Tomorrow morning

 

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The poem/song Auld Lang Syne is a toast to the departing year written by Robert Burns in 1788. I think that's a lovely sentiment.  In that spirit, I'd like to salute my health in 2008.

 

2008 was a good year as far as diabetes.  My A1C is stable, and regular exercise seems to help level out the glucose rollercoaster.  I weigh just 1 pound more than last New Year's.  That sounds more stable than reality - up as much as 15 pounds, down as much as 10.  

 

My endocrinologist's office switched me to six months between visits from three.   It's a good sign, with most conditions, if your doctor wants to see you less.  I'll be seeing them this month, as a matter of fact.

 

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Per usual, I'm tardy.
Resolution #1 in the New Year: I shall try to be more timely.
Actually, I'm not making any resolutions this year. I think I've turned a corner in terms of resolving to lose weight, exercise, eat right, and relax - then not doing any of it. The difference for me in 2007 was that I promised to do nothing - and I did most of the things I would have promised to do if I'd made resolutions.
Go figure.
At the close of December, the year found me down 30 lbs, exercising more and with more vigor than I have since my teens, eating right and enjoying it, in a new - more satisfying - job, getting paid to write (how exciting!). Numbers-wise, I finished the year with an average A1C of 5.7% and my cholesterol levels much lower. (READ MORE)

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I arrived home from work on Monday night to a very brightly colored, giant-sized envelope from Smiths Medical.  'Important Information' it declared.  'Open Immediately!'

 

So I did.  And read:  Your current Cozmore System warranty expires in December of 2008.  Please begin the process of replacing your pump immediately, as we will be unable to replace your pump should something go wrong after December 9, 2008.  Alright then.  

 

The very next day, I went online and printed out both an Insurance Information form and a Medical Necessity Form.  I filled out the first form, signed and sent to Smiths.  Then I faxed the second form to my Doc (who is amazing) and by that afternoon, it was filled out and faxed to Smiths.  Great.  I'm on my way to a new pump.  Right?

 

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2007 is behind us now. It blurred by and stamped in key moments that will surely be remembered. My past year with diabetes stacks upon only a few others since I was diagnosed. 2008 will mark four years since that day in the hospital and it seems like I'm always learning something new. Each highlighted moment in this year taught me a little more about how I successfully live with diabetes. (READ MORE)

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