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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...

On This World Diabetes Day - I desire to conduct maintain a 2nd as well as say yous that YOU ARE AMAZING.  If yous are a individual amongst diabetes or dearest a individual amongst diabetes - YOU ARE EFFING AMAZING.  Diabetes isn’t slow to alive amongst or slow to bargain with.   Diabetes is difficult work, both emotionally an physically - And the move never ends. I know at that spot are moments when yous intend that no 1 is paying attending to all your difficult move as well as struggles as well as I totally “get it.”  But I’m too hither to say yous that it’s non true, because the p eople who conduct maintain walked a mile (and many cases, decades) inwards your shoes empathise who yous are, where you’ve been as well as where you're coming from regarding your life amongst diabetes.  And inwards those moments when yous experience lone inwards your diabetes life, shout upwards that yous are far from alone. Remember that every unmarried 1 of is inwards th...

Dearest Blood saccharide of 240:   It was nigh probable the 2 teaspoons nutulla; the unmarried serving of non-fat Greek yogurt amongst a quarter loving cup of freshly sliced strawberries, summation 2 cups of java combined amongst a guesstimated breakfast bolus for all of the to a higher house this morning time that brought you lot my way.  Coffee ever makes me/you spike in addition to I receive got no doubtfulness that my nutella portions were to a greater extent than than generous.  But I wouldn’t receive got changed this morning’s coffee, breakfast in addition to nutella dearest for anything.  I was hungry, I bolused in addition to I ate.   Was I off my carb mark?? Magic 8 Ball says ‘ MOST LIKELY ,’ exactly that’s OK. Shit happens.  See.... the Magic 8 Ball (courtesy of   http://www.ask8ball.net )  really did nation "Most Likely," fifty-fifty if it did cutting off my 2 inquiry marks in addition to the halt of my inquiry I tin ...

Dearest Blood saccharide of 240:   It was nigh probable the 2 teaspoons nutulla; the unmarried serving of non-fat Greek yogurt amongst a quarter loving cup of freshly sliced strawberries, summation 2 cups of java combined amongst a guesstimated breakfast bolus for all of the to a higher house this morning time that brought you lot my way.  Coffee ever makes me/you spike in addition to I receive got no doubtfulness that my nutella portions were to a greater extent than than generous.  But I wouldn’t receive got changed this morning’s coffee, breakfast in addition to nutella dearest for anything.  I was hungry, I bolused in addition to I ate.   Was I off my carb mark?? Magic 8 Ball says ‘ MOST LIKELY ,’ exactly that’s OK. Shit happens.  See.... the Magic 8 Ball (courtesy of   http://www.ask8ball.net )  really did nation "Most Likely," fifty-fifty if it did cutting off my 2 inquiry marks in addition to the halt of my inquiry I tin ...

This ship was based on a recent conversation I had amongst friend. We tin give the sack wishing all nosotros want, but nosotros also conduct hold "to do." We gotta construct the listen. We must demand, nosotros must "do," in addition to nosotros must become the alter nosotros desire - In our lives in addition to our lives amongst diabetes ######  Dear H ealth Insurance Companies:  I wishing I knew what my diabetes required tomorrow - I really, genuinely do, because it would construct my life in addition to then much easier inwards in addition to then many ways.  I wishing I had a crystal ball that would accurately enjoin me just how much insulin my torso volition need, xxx days, ninety days in addition to 365 days a twelvemonth downwardly to 1/5 unit of measurement - but I don’t know, because my diabetes requirements are never the same from 1 24-hour interval to the next. That doesn’t construct me non-compliant - that makes me a mortal living amongst diabetes -...

The next  TBT slice was originally on the weblog agency dorsum when, on September 15th, 2008   and dorsum when my blog was less than a yr old! I wrote this post service for all sorts of reasons, but explaining those reasons would convey upward to much fourth dimension and bandwidth. Bottom line, nosotros are imperfect people inwards an imperfect populace - Diabetes or not....And nosotros are magnificent! ###### Dear Kelly inwards the Past -  It’s Kelly from the future. I’m writing y'all for several reasons. To remind me simply how far I’ve come upward whenever stress in addition to sadness start to creep inwards regarding life amongst the large D. And how far I nonetheless involve to cash inwards one's chips inwards fellowship to accomplish all that life has to offer. And to remind others that life goes on in addition to happiness happens, regardless of diabetes. That there’s materials (shit) that y'all to involve to motility past times inwards fel...

NO, NO, NO.  Dear CrossFit: My Diabetes Homies & I Would Like You To Know....  Making fun of people alongside diabetes isn’t funny. It’s offensive, disturbing as well as it perpetuates diabetes myths instead of perpetuating as well as education diabetes realities.  And because of tweets/jokes/rubbish similar yours, diabetes becomes an unending diabetes blame-game,a target as well as punchline, that keeps people living alongside diabetes as well as regardless of the type, inwards the Diabetes Closet.  Your offensive tweet  also  directly impacts funding for diabetes research.  Diabetes shaming is a matter as well as a horrific matter at that. Diabetes shaming similar your unfunny tweet makes fun of a real existent grouping of diseases (t1 diabetes, LADA type 1.5, as well as T2 diabetes,) that are never ending as well as lead hold the potential to kill.  And only to endure crystal clear, I didn’t railroad train my type 1 diabetes ...

94 years agone today, ninety years . But, I am eternally grateful to Dr's Banting & Best - as well as I ever volition endure because they saved our lives.  This post service was originally published on Jan 19, 2010 - And since today is the 94th anniversary of the uncovering of insulin, I felt compelled to repost as well as issue again.  I promise you lot tin relate ###### Dear Doctors Banting & Best Dear Doctors Banting & Best. I simply wanted to accept a instant to Thank-You for giving me the gift of LIVING.  Because of you lot as well as your efforts, I've lived yesteryear the historic menstruum of 8.  Instead of existence notwithstanding to a greater extent than or less other piteous retentivity for parents who lost their kid or loved 1 to an illness that offered no hope, I became a daughter who non alone lived, but grew upward to endure a adult woman who is becoming.  Because of your diligence as well as difficult w...

Today's spider web log post is truly posted over at IwishPeopleKnewThatDiabetes , in addition to I promise you'll click HERE and hand it a read -and if yous experience similar leaving a comment at that spot - great! What's the post about? It's about  the diabetes constabulary in addition to existence judged inwards a house that’s supposed to hold upward filled alongside vacation cheer - in addition to that’s effed up.