Your Mom Has Diabetes.
I struggled to think of a title for this post, but the one that stuck is the one that's up there. Because this weekend plays host to Mother's Day, and I wanted to celebrate some of the BAMWD (Bad Ass Moms With Diabetes) I've had the pleasure of getting to know through the DOC. These eight lovely ladies, all living with type 1 diabetes, were willing to share a little bit of their diabetes and motherhood experience, and I'm grateful to have their experience and humor to draw from as I raise my own Bird.Kerri: How does diabetes impact your perspective as a parent?Holly (dx'd with T1D at age 22): Even though ...
Source: Six Until Me. - May 10, 2013 Category: Diabetes Tags: Diabetic Mommy Source Type: blogs
Diabetes Sisters: Weekend for Women.
To sit in a room chock full of women (weird description but I'm leaving it there) and be able to blurt out strange and potentially awkward questions about how diabetes affects life as a lady? All while surrounded by supportive and understanding women who also have diabetes?That pretty much sums up my weekend in Raleigh, NC for the Diabetes Sisters Weekend for Women conference. I've attended one other Diabetes Sisters event, and the same sort of sentiment applied to this most recent one: it's oddly comforting to be in a roomful of people who "get it." Especially people who "get it"...
Source: Six Until Me. - May 9, 2013 Category: Diabetes Tags: Diabetes and Women Source Type: blogs
Looking Back: Change Just One Thing.
My plan was to recap the Diabetes Sisters conference today, but that plan was deftly derailed by a 3 am blood sugar in the 40's, and now I have to change all the sheets on my bed because they're covered in sweat and glucose tab dust. (Sounds like a hot night, but wasn't.) So, instead, I'm revisiting a post from October 2010 about the one thing I'd change regarding my diabetes. * * *Recently, I was asked to answer a few questions for a company that was looking to better understand people with diabetes. I expected a list of questions ranging from "What color meter do you...
Source: Six Until Me. - May 8, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Clingy Hypoglycemia.
The night before heading out to the Diabetes Sisters conference in Raleigh, NC (more on that tomorrow), I wanted to get to bed early and get a good night's sleep, since those have been hard to come by with travel, time changes, and my body's refusal to listen to my brain's good advice.Suitcase packed up, Birdzone tucked in and asleep, and teeth brushed, I was ready for bed at 11 pm. Oh, hang on a second ... the Dexcom is blaring. What's that, you say, oh technological safety net of mine? 78 mg/dL and TWO arrows down? I popped three glucose tabs into my mouth from the jar on my bedside table, and wip...
Source: Six Until Me. - May 7, 2013 Category: Diabetes Tags: Blood Sugar Source Type: blogs
Eight Years Of Blogging.
The day-to-day physicality of diabetes isn't what gets me down. I can test my blood sugar without wincing, or change my infusion set without minding the pinch. A new Dexcom sensor stings for a second, but then just blends into the background. It's the day-to-day head game of diabetes that messes with me. It's doing everything "right" and still having an unexplainable high blood sugar. It's doing everything "wrong" and ending up at a mysterious 112 mg/dL. It's worrying about complications that haven't yet come to pass. It's gracefully dealing with the ones that h...
Source: Six Until Me. - May 6, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Time Warp.
My basal rates remain steady, throughout the day, except for a few hours in the morning when they're cranked up to almost triple the normal amount to take a bite out of the dawn phenomenon that I've experienced for years. That pesky "wake up at 80 mg/dL but then go up to 200 mg/dL for no effing reason" phenomenon. That midnight - 5 am at 0.45u, then all the way up to 0.85u at 5 am until 9.30 am, when it goes back down to 0.45u mess. It's something like a phenomenon. And it's definitely part of the reason an insulin pump works for me, because without the ability to tweak that morning basal ...
Source: Six Until Me. - May 2, 2013 Category: Diabetes Tags: Diabetes and Travel Source Type: blogs
A Dog with a Flappy Hat and a Pipe Can Only Mean One Thing ...
With all the discussion about a name change for type 1 diabetes, I laughed out loud when I saw this pop up in my Twitter feed (courtesy of the Type 1 Diabetes Memes Facebook page). Serves as an answer anyone in the DOC could give:I've thought about the name change discussion, and I've been trying to figure out what my opinion on it is. You'd think a person who has had type 1 diabetes for a long time would have an opinion, right? One that jumps out and smacks me in the face with its conviction? Nope. I have to be completely honest: I don't really care if the name is changed. Or if i...
Source: Six Until Me. - May 1, 2013 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
