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Today is #dblogcheck day, where nosotros halt lurking as well as piece of job out a comment on the blogs - The comment tin hold out equally elementary equally "dblogcheck," "check," or whatever floats your proverbial boat Living alongside diabetes has the potential to brand everyday things weird as well as worrisome - if you lot allow it - And seek equally I might, sometimes I allow the weird worries acquire the best of me.  H ere are few examples of my D weird worries  as of belatedly - I'm hoping at to the lowest degree unopen to of you lot mightiness hold out able to relate to them. #####   Last nighttime I was baking, what I was told crimson skinned sweetness murphy at 400 degrees inward the oven, spell sautéing chicken on the stove top.  When I  opened the oven door  to banking concern agree on the potato, I was striking past times a moving ridge of rut as well as ended upwardly clipping my insulin total to the dorsum of my pants because I was afra...

I'm a petty weird as well as diabetes is a lot weird - I shouldn't fifty-fifty hold upwardly surprised anymore...but I am .   #### Last Sabbatum nighttime I was sitting to a greater extent than or less a friend’s dinning room tabular array eating salsa as well as chips as well as chatting most all sorts of non diabetes related things amongst my cohorts.  Things similar the weather, our families, the Republican Debate (don’t fifty-fifty larn me started, ) when midway through the conversation my insulin meat made a serial of beeps to the melody of “FYI: your insulin meat is gear upwardly to a temporary basal rate.”  Now I know that annoying but necessary melody very good as well as commonly it becomes white noise, until I determine to hitting the “snooze”/ACT button. Without skipping a shell inward the convo, I unclipped my meat from my hip; pressed ACT,  boluses for  2.5 units of added insulin protection for the chips as well as salsa, placed my insulin me...

Diabetes technology helps to save  our lives  and improves our  quality of life.  But diabetes technology equally good gives us comfort. And I swear to God, sometimes I achieve for my insulin pump similar a pocket-sized fry reaches for their favorite blanket or stuffed animate beingness in addition to I'm non fifty-fifty aware I'm doing it... And that's cool because it is comforting.  ###### My insulin ticker has kicking the bucket a role of me - an  extension of myself - then much so, that when I'm non wearing it for an extended menses of time, either yesteryear pick or yesteryear force - I'll notwithstanding achieve for it out of both comfort in addition to security. Since I article of apparel my insulin ticker nearly 24X7, I respect myself myself reaching for my insulin ticker automatically, without thinking, in addition to for no argue at all except... well, it’s comforting - in addition to subconsciously, reaching out for my insulin tic...