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Looking for good diabetic cookbooks!
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- Hometown (where you come from):
- Not sure- been moving around the world since i was born
- Do you have diabetes?
- Yes
- I have:
- Type 1
- Date diagnosed
- July 15, 1991
- Most recent A1C (Blood Glucose Average) Value
- 7.1- just brought it down from 7.3 in 2 months!
- What glucose meter do you use?
- one touch ultra
- Type of treatment you use
- Pump, Diet and Exercise
- What pump model do you use, if any?
- minimed
- What do you expect from TuDiabetes?
- help others and be helped
- How did you find out about us? What were you searching for?
- i just found tudiabetes by accident and signed up. i bet there are a ton of good resources here
- What do you do for a living?
- missionary
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Everyone's Got Their Dragon to Fight in Life
Diabetes is mine.
I don’t like feeling limited. ( i promise this get's better keep reading)
I don’t like feeling weak.
I don’t like the hassle
I don’t like people’s ignorant comments and opinions about my disease.
I feel embarrassed when my BG is low and I can’t function.
I don’t like missing work even if my coworkers understand.
I don’t like it when people’s first question is “how is your health”… like I’m the sickly friend.
I don’t li… Continue
Posted on May 26, 2009 at 7:19am — 11 Comments
Wrist Ink-
Papua New Guinea women always grabbed my arms to look at my tattoos. Most of them have tattoos and we have fun comparing and complimenting each other’s ink.
They tell me they use razors or needles to cut their skin, rub charcoal into it, and let it heal. They generally tattoo their nam… Continue
Posted on May 6, 2009 at 1:30pm — 5 Comments
Diagnosed in a third world country... (cringe)!
My parents are missionaries and we were in Indonesia when i was diagnosed with diabetes. Indonesia is a pile of islands just north of Australia)
I was 11 years old and my mom looked up my symptoms in a book called "Where there is no Doctor". We were out in the jungle about 15 mil… Continue
Posted on May 6, 2009 at 12:00pm — 12 Comments
Comment Wall (202 comments)
- At 12:30am on February 8, 2010,
Nicolas said…
- Site is working again... yoohooo !! I can post messages again. :-)
Cheers, Nicolas
- At 3:22am on January 8, 2010,
Nicolas said…
- Well, glycemic index is something I didn’t take into account till now. Also don’t know much about it. I know glucose tabs work very fast and dark bread very slow. But everything you eat has a different index and how to deal with that in the amount of insuline in time is another thing…
I know from experience how much insuline I need when I eat something “familiar” to have reasonable BS the next time I measure… I measure about 4 to 6 times a day…
You mentionned you also take protein into account (?). I tought I have only to dose according the carbs you eat. Does proteins affect the BS ?? Do I have to take a shot when I only eat a steak?
I come up with a lot of questions he… but as you are a good teacher… ;-)
If you want to elope to Belgium, always welcome !!
Cheers, Nicolas
- At 1:56pm on January 6, 2010,
Danny said… - Hey, Heather T! Congratulations on your engagement, how exciting, woot woot!
My New Years Eve was great...we had an early fancy dinner, we were at home by 9pm, fell asleep with the TV on, woke up and said a quick "Happy New Year"... and fell back asleep. I could not have asked for a better night.
Hope all is well in the great state of Missouri.
- At 3:54am on January 6, 2010,
Nicolas said…
- Wow… a wedding… that’s big news. Congrats !! But I tought you only knew tarzan for a couple of months ? Or am I wrong ? Great Christmas gift, haha… J
Many thanks to explain the benefits of the pump. It’s much clearer to me now…
For now, I don’t take to much into account the glucose index (how fast the sugar is working) of the food I’m taking. Did you take this into account when you used shots ? I think it make no sense when one use shots… or am I wrong ?
Despite the fact that I have diabetes for five years now, I noticed that the more I read on TU, the more I realise I still have so much to learn…
Also, I have to go to the endo each 4 months (it’s for our heath insurance from the government), but they don’t tell you all these details. They tell me only the rough lines… I think they do so, as probably not everybody can understand this… (now I think I’m smart ;-) )…
But once again, many thanks for the explanation… it’s clear and well written… may be you should become an educator or so… ;-)
Cheers… and if you have to elope, Belgium is a good place to hide… LOL… (I bet the idea of a wedding makes you nervous ;-))
Nicolas.
- At 2:35pm on January 5, 2010,
Robyn said… - OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO My Jane!! Congratulations!!!! I knew you would find your Tarzan. ;)
Maybe you two should get married in a jungle.......so very happy for you. You are just the sweetest and deserve the very best. Love, Robyn
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