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Melissa Holekamp
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Am I overreacting here?
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Wow - I don't think you're overreacting - people don't realize that insulin is LITERALLY our lifeline... BUT - maybe try talking to the roomie before moving out?
I know it's not the same thing - it's NOT a matter of life and death, like insulin i...
Sausage balls - YUM! But, I pay for it for days!
Wow - I can sympathize with this one!
Diagnosed at 15 - I never connected my diagnosis with my lack of goals and aspirations. I also grew up in a church that referred to us as the "Countdown Kids" - assuming the rapture would occur well before I'...
Good points!
My mom was considered a "brittle diabetic" - I could see her blood sugars go from the 40's to the 400's in just a few minutes. I think (in my uneducated, but much experienced opinion *grin*) that there are WAY more than two or three ...
I'm so sorry! I can sympathize - and it's a really hard thing to deal with - environmental stress plus diabetic stress. Just when we need to be clearheaded and capable, we feel out of control and helpless! This will pass - at least there's that.
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Hi Cathy!
First of all - congrats on being strong enough to make the efforts you are making! Sometimes we get wrapped up in the numbers - and feel that they are a scorecard, of how "good" or "bad" we are - Rather than giving ourselves credit for ...
Just another thought - keep finding support! Most folks who haven't been there (particularly your doc and endo!) will act as if you're being totally ridiculous to think of such "vain" issues... BS! LOTS of things change with weight loss - friendsh...
Join this group to share with the rest of the community about the activities you are involved with leading up to World Diabetes Day, November 14.
Okay, a friend of mine made a good remark the other day, when I was discussing how it seems that many people don't "get" the seriousness of diabetes and its impact on our lives (especially when we are relatively "normal" on the surface *grin*)...
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154 - 2 hours after pizza for lunch :)
Like you, I just realized how recently insulin was discovered - and what a miracle it has been for many of us. My maternal grandmother was T1, my mother was T1, and I was diagnosed T1 at age 15 (though we later discovered I was T2) - so my daughte...
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- Hometown (where you come from):
- Tupelo, MS
- Do you have diabetes?
- Yes
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Date diagnosed
- October 1, 1987
- Most recent A1C (Blood Glucose Average) Value
- 7.7
- What glucose meter do you use?
- One Touch Ultra
- Type of treatment you use
- Oral, Shots
- What do you expect from TuDiabetes?
- friends, support, new information
- How did you find out about us? What were you searching for?
- Ran across TUDIABETES while doing a google search about diabetes and weight loss
- What do you do for a living?
- librarian
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- At 8:17pm on July 27, 2009,
Anna Kiff (FatCatAnna) said…
- Hey Melissa - there was no link in my blog about my having "firm flesh" (http://www.diabetes1.org/blogs/Annas_Blog/TipToe_Through_the_Tulips) or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you were asking me on My Page. It was just something that I'd been told by a few medical folks over the years - that it was something they'd noticed in long term diabetics. That we tend to have "firm flesh" or perhaps I misworded it - and should have been hard flesh? I know many people are shocked when I tell them how much I weigh - as they think I'm small - well at 5'4" I'm 160 lbs - which according to my GP isn't good - but I've always been in this weight range for past 20 years - so figure it's better then going up and down!
You've now got me wanting to do abit of research on it - so I'll have to figure out what key words to use in the search engine to find out more - e.g. long term diabetes firm flesh or someting like that. If you come across something before I do - send it on to me!!!!
Have a great day!!
- At 9:02pm on July 6, 2009,
Melissa Holekamp said…
- Hi all! Just got back from a WONDERFUL vacation in the Smoky Mountains - but, unfortunately, had no internet access (though our cabin was SUPPOSED to!)
It may take me a while to catch up with all of you - but I will very soon! Thanks for all the comments - I am amazed at the difference in how I feel about my D-care these days - and the support I get from knowing I'm not alone - and that SOMEONE understands. This site - and all of you - are a real treasure to me.
Now I'm off to bed so I can work tomorrow! Vacation is officially over... *sigh!*
- At 7:37am on July 1, 2009,
Saskia Marina said… - Hi Melissa,
I just want to tell you that I ' ve read your comment about diabetic complication and the story of your mum.Sorry about that :-( You are so right and I really felt much better after reading that .You know I'm a very ''new'' diabetic and the first thing I think about after getting up in the morning is :when do I get kidney failure or when will I be blind? I am so afraid of these complications...I just can't tell you!!I I want you to know that your comment really cheered me up-although it's sad ...Greetings Saskia
- At 2:31pm on June 26, 2009,
Danny said… - Melissa, thank you so much for the response on my latest blog... it truly helps me more than you know.
Hope you are going to have a great weekend!
- At 8:59am on June 26, 2009,
Cathy said… - Sounds like we have an extreme amount of stuff in common. Yes I have kids at home, I have a toddler who just turned 4 in March. I also have to older boys that I had as a teenager. Right now I am on a pump using novolog in it. An extreme amount I might add, and fixing to be taking humulog 500. I take glucovance 3 times a day right now also. Meds seems like that is all I ever get to do anymore.
Cathy
- At 6:43am on June 26, 2009,
debb said… - hi melissa,
sorry for not getting back to you sooner. i had the full gastric bypass, not the lapband but i can still answer your question. from what my doctor tells me you can reduce or eliminate your diabetic medicine with a lapband. it will take longer because it takes longer to lose weight. which can be good because more of your skin has a chance to go back where it belongs. he also told me that the decision was mine to make because if i didn't think a lapband would work then it wouldn't. that was good for me because i really didn't think the band would work. i have lost 20 pounds in just a little over 1 month. i haven't been on any diabetic medicine since the surgery. if you check out gastric bypass~~the last resort in groups at the top of your page i have kept a journal of my progress. i need to update it, but it's all there untill the surgery.
here are three information sites:
asmbs.org
lapband.com
realizeband.com
there is a lot of information in these three sites. please take your time with making up your mind. it is life changing and isn't for everyone. after my husband left. (he wouldn't allow me to have it done. he wanted me to do it on my own, even though i was just getting bigger instead of smaller) and i could make up my own mind i still took a year to deside on the surgery. even then, if i had decided to not have it done i could have said no on the day of my surgery. with a lapband it can be taken out if you decide you no longer want it, but with the full gastric it's not really reversible. make sure it's your decision, not anyone else's because it's you who have to do the work. if you end up resenting things it won't work.
i ended up with the yo-yo weight loss and going nowhere fast. my hips and knees and feet paid the price. i have three grandchildren that i want to run and play with and i needed to get my life in control in order to do so. my doctor was worried that i might be trying to get my husband back and once he heard me say, if he can't love me as i am then he's not going to love me in a thinner form, he was relieved. it came down to me wanting to life a longer healthier life.
i hope this has helped you and if i can help please let me know.
- At 7:26am on June 17, 2009,
Danny said…
- Hi and welcome to TU, Melissa! Thank you for the support on my blog "hit by a bus"... I have this strange feeling that's how it will end for me, LOL!
I see you are from Tupelo MS... last year we went to Memphis and had the time of our lives. I posted some pictures on my page of the trip. We would have loved to have gone to Tupelo but we didn't have the time :(... checkout the photo's when you get a moment.
Hope you are having a wonderful day!
Danny
- At 9:50am on June 9, 2009,
Marps said… - Thanks fo ryour thoughts! It is so nice to meet people w T1D who feel the same way that I do, who share the same fears and struggles.
When I was diagnosed, we had some very misinformed doctors around here, and they led me to believe that I wasn't going to live past 40.
I lived with that ultimatum for ten years, until I volunteered at the Joslin Diabetes center in Boston MA (one of the best in the country) and they told me that I could have kids, could live forever, and could be happy.
What a relief!
- At 2:17pm on June 3, 2009,
Christina said… - Welcome to tudiabetes =]
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