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So, I started writing this post service because I was incredibly annoyed alongside my diabetes exploits in conclusion nighttime in addition to today. But in addition to therefore the note changed when I started writing nearly the Diabetes Online Community - Now my whole note for today has changed. Not a big surprise when y'all mean value y'all nearly it, but much appreciated! THANKS DOC! ####### I could write nearly how I kept going depression in conclusion night, fifty-fifty afterward a dinner that included means also much Italian staff of life dipped inwards sautéed garlic in addition to olive oil, or how afterward said feast I couldn't larn to a higher house 72 in addition to had to strength feed Starbursts to process the lows that occurred betwixt 8pm in addition to 11pm.  I could write how I only had java for breakfast this forenoon because of waking upwards alongside a 327 blood saccharide in addition to how my blood saccharide refused to dip below 200 until a ...

37 years ago, today I was diagnosed alongside t1 diabetes in addition to it blows my hear when I halt in addition to intend well-nigh it. There are days when I'm driven to tears because of diabetes in addition to at that spot are days when diabetes pisses me off. And there are days when it doesn't. Diabetes has been consent companion in addition to my biggest nemesis all rolled into one.  Every Oct 31st, I examine in addition to the focus on the   positive s  in my life in addition to my life alongside diabetes, past times creating a listing of positives, because that's what helps me acquire through the day.  Remembering that I am incredibly blessed to hold upwardly the piffling immature adult woman who non exclusively lived, only grew upwardly to hold upwardly the adult woman who continues to hold upwardly become , is what plant for me.   ####### THIRTY-SEVEN Positives, inwards no detail enterprise 1. After 37 yea...

Dear DOC :  Today marks seven years that I’ve been blogging most living alongside diabetes together with I honestly,  I can’t believe it.  I can’t believe it’s solely been seven years since I started writing most my life alongside diabetes.   Sidebar: Thank-you, Halle .    By taking that natural springtime into blogging together with the online world, I've flora an amazing community that has changed my life for the better. Blogging has given me a community whose citizens I visit friends who are family.  And this amazing community continues to last at that topographic point for me - through the good, the bad, together with the diabetesaliciousness of it all.  Because of you lot I’ve flora my vocalisation together with my passion, together with I've developed a amend agreement of myself...and of others.  YOU taught me to psyche together with larn shape others stories together with experiences inwards life, together wit...

Logo past times the amazing Mr. Mike Lawson I’m happy to tell that a lot of discussions were generated on twitter together with facebook later Friday’s spider web log post, #IwishpeopleknewThatDiabetes was published.  FTR: Friday's postal service was inspired  by Denver Colorado tertiary bird teacher,  Kyle Schwartz together with her amazing #Iwishmyteacherknew pedagogy excogitation which started a viral twitter  conversation  after she shared her students notes .  All weekend I was thrilled together with incredibly inspired to run across people using the #Iwishpeopleknewthatdiabetes, hashtag to limited their diabetes thoughts together with feelings - And I witnessed people strengthening their ain diabetes voices inward procedure -and that was amazing!  I started thinking almost having a 24-hour interval where people could piece of job the hashtag inward unison to limited the good, (like how people amongst diabetes are flipping awesome,) the ...

For all those who participated in  #IwishPeopleKnewThatDiabetes Day & maintain to hold upwards the hashtag - THANK YOU! Now I involve your help.   Please conduct hold v minutes to fill upwards out the #IwishPeopleKnewThatDiabetes Survey past times clicking on the link below.    https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SBDRTB8 The survey contains ten questions (the bulk are multiple choice,) in addition to should alone conduct hold 5 minutes to fill upwards out. I involve your thoughts on the IWPKTD stimulate in addition to inaugural in addition to hence nosotros tin post away deed forward collectively.  There's too an "official" #IwishPeopleKnewThatDiabetes Facebook page in addition to I encourage y'all to exit your thoughts on your experiences amongst IWPKTD in addition to hand it a "like"! Stay tuned for #IwishPeopleKnewThatDiabetes website information in addition to announcements!! 

Today is the start solar daytime of Diabetes Blog Week - The encephalon pocket-sized of Karen over at Bittersweet Diabetes. Today's theme is "I can," in addition to I  love  that topic. Here's my "I Can" postal service - I promise you lot dig it   #### I Can… I Have… And I Will Continue.   I’ve traveled the globe in addition to eaten cupcakes on 2 dissimilar continents, I’ve slept in  at to the lowest degree 5  different dissimilar fourth dimension zones in addition to eleven dissimilar countries.  I’ve tried to brand the Buckingham Palace Guards grin in addition to laughed out loud when I encountered the Manneken Pis  in Brussels.  I cried when I arrived in addition to departed Italy in addition to left a footling slice of my pump at that spot - The same tin give the sack endure said most a waiter from Espana I met inwards Brussels - merely that's for unopen to other weblog post. ;)  I’ve watched the Sun rising in addition...

Tomorrow is my D Day as well as I could allow the fact that circumstances beyond my command may indeed own got messed amongst my lab results - And I could crunch myself upwards - Or...I could become the other route. ###### Tomorrow is my endo appointment  - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 individual living amongst diabetes ain personal D Day , for sure. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twenty-four hours when nosotros tend freak ourselves out as well as crunch ourselves upwards based on our lab  results  - at to the lowest degree that’s my green M.O. But this fourth dimension around, I merely don’t own got it inwards me to freakout, create myself crazy or crunch myself upwards - And I don't desire to.  I’ve tried my best since my concluding Endo appointment, I truly have.  Since my concluding appointment, I’ve worked hard; I trialed the Snap for vii weeks amongst positive results, shared Bronchitis (and a whole bunch of other itises,) that almost al...

I had a belatedly dinner end nighttime -it was a dinner I swallow at to the lowest degree i time a calendar week - as well as unremarkably everything is cool. USUALLY. ###### It started out to hold out a practiced night, it really did. I was feeling all sorts of peppy as well as my blood saccharide was 125 earlier dinner - YAY ME.   Speaking of dinner, it was i of my favorites - a homemade Greek yogurt, cilantro, garlic, jalapeño, spicy dip that yours really made from scratch, accompanied fresh famers marketplace position veggies as well as Food Should Taste Good, Multigrain Gluten Free Chips.   I convey this real same repast at to the lowest degree calendar week during the summer, sometimes twice a week  - except sometimes the dip is made alongside huge handfuls of fresh basil or dill instead of cilantro as well as Cayenne pepper instead of jalapeño. But..., I digress.  It’s a elementary repast that makes me experience similar I’m indulging because of special ...

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that the Diabetes Online Community has connected me amongst in addition to hence many amazing people  who  have diabetes; who dearest individual amongst diabetes, or who are Diabetes Healthcare Professionals.  I know I’m non lonely when I tell that connecting amongst people who “get it,” makes our lives easier; expands our universe, empowers us - both every bit patients in addition to people - in addition to those connections continually reinforce the fact that nosotros are non lonely inwards our lives amongst diabetes.  One of the people who “get it,” is Hope Warshaw , a type three Dietitian; RD, CDE, BC-ADM, Author, Speaker in addition to Diabetes Advocate  and the 2015 President-elect of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.  I kickoff *met* Hope the means I met most of you, online.  In 2012 I had the chance to encounter Hope IRL (in existent life,) at ADA inwards Philadelphia  - in addition to lucky for me,...

Diabetes Social Media Burnout weblog Day  - Join inward together with reignite your Diabetes Social Media spark! Burnout - It’s a rattling existent thing - inward life together with life alongside diabetes - Burnout is too existent when it comes to Social Media together with the Diabetes Online Community.  We alive the diabetes life 24X7, alongside no fourth dimension off for vacations or skillful behavior, together with nosotros pass an incredible sum of fourth dimension online inward a community that has literally reinforced that:  1. We are non alone 2. Our voices (diabetes together with otherwise,) matter 3. Connecting alongside others who "get it," saves our  sanity  93% of the fourth dimension only has the  ability to  makes us bonkers at to the lowest degree 7% of the time. Sidebar: My  math skills aren't the greatest together with I've pulled those numbers out of my caput  and FTR, they induce got no scientific value. ...

I originally wrote this postal service on August 11, 2008 . My niece Oliva, aka, Livvy/Oblivia was simply shy of her ninth birthday dorsum as well as thus as well as she was all almost The Jonas brothers as well as Hannah Montana.  Today, Olivia turns 16, she's taller than I am, she's still a force to be reckoned with, as well as Nick Jonas is no longer a teenager - he's like, a man.  And of a abrupt I'm feeling genuinely old.  In accolade of my amazing  Sweet sixteen niece - I promise you lot relish this #tbt post!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIVVY!!  #########  S ending the Jonas Boys & the the folks in  dBloggville  kisses So I spent the w eekend  with my 8-year-old Niece Livvy,  (sometimes called Olivia or O- blivia , depends on my  mood - as well as hers)  who volition live nine inward September.  She flew inward from the “wild west” alongside my brother, (her Dad) to see the family...

My woman bring upward was fascinated amongst the fine art of  porcelain as well as ii of my closest friends are Master Potters. So yep, Kintsukuroi speaks to me - for all sorts of reasons ###### Kintsukuroi courtesy of google Kintsukuroi, “to repair amongst gold”; the fine art or repairing pottery amongst gilded or argent lacquer as well as agreement that the slice is to a greater extent than beautiful for having been broken." Interesting phrase as well as theory is it not? Most inwards our social club await at anything broken every bit throwaway items - merely non the Japanese -  the watch Kintsukuroi pottery to survive to a greater extent than beautiful for having been broken.  Kintsukuroi finds as well as celebrates the beauty inwards the flaws - And I’m totally downwards amongst that.  There were times when I considered myself broken because of for sure aspects of my life. Broken because of the people I loved as well as who are no longer survive as...