Today was a big day, it as the diabetes walk, my blogaversary, and my 100th post. I have to say though the best part of my day was the diabetes walk check out the event! http://irunonbatteries.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-blogaversary.html

Sorry Im so late with this but I finally got our story done.

 

My daughter Melanie was diagnosed in 2006 at the age of 18 months. I would say over a month or two starting in either November or December 2006 she was getting symptoms such as drinking (it never seemed to be enough no matter how much she drank but it was maybe a little more than usual). If you have kids you know they love to drink and constantly ask for drinks so it was hard to go by this.…

I had a great week, and felt completely encouraged based off of one conversation with this lady! http://irunonbatteries.blogspot.com/2013/05/she-made-my-week.html

My thoughts are this...

It seems to me that it would serve all of us better, if our diabetes was referred to as either

"Insulin Dependent", or "Non-insulin Dependent" 

Insulin dependent diabetics would have a medical ID that states their need for insulin, instead of saying T1 or T2. Therefore, those who need…

Wego Health is doing a Health Activist Writer Monthly Challenge, where you get prompts every day for 30 days. This is for all health activists, so they may not know anything about diabetes. Here's my Day 2...

In the second day of HAWMC, my true love gave to me... I'm supposed to: tell you a little about my "condition" and five things I would want someone to know about it, as well as some links that would help…

Tomorrow is American Diabetes Association Alert Day. In our latest Discuss Diabetes post, learn about our interactive “Check It Blue” Facebook event that we hope you will share with others.…

I came across this video, in support of camps for children with diabetes. Be they under the umbrella of The Canadian Diabetes Association, the American Diabetes Associates or from any other country...they are in GREAT need of your support. These are Summer/warm weather camps....that time of the year is just around the corner. Please be generous!…

Today's the day...Super Bowl Sunday. Where people in America eat tons of junk food and watch commercials. Oh and there's a football game too. But today, in Colorado Springs, also marks an annual event where 100's of athletes flock to downtown in hopes of winning their own game...The game of running.

This year, I participated in a Super Bowl 5K with a few friends. I was also introduced to another Type 1 diabetic. Standing around waiting for the start gun, we were talking about pumps. I…

On this past weekend I was not active in the normal sense that I would be active during work within the week. At work I work 8 hours and lift boxes all day working with the body for 8 hours in physical exercise which can be quite strenuous at times. At this time I do not need much insulin at all to counterbalance the sugar produced from the digestion of the food that I consume during break, but this changes quite dramatically as I am on my days off.

This weekend I needed quite a lot…

Hey there!!! A new group was born today here at TuDiabetes....

I am inviting you to join...Type 2 Teens!!!

I was looking about for a group specifically geared to Type 2 Teenagers, and to my surprise....nothing!!

So....if that's who you are, Type 2 and a teen or young…

I suggest to read the first part in this series for context - I have only shared part 7 because of the realizations of this memory and how I've created my own diabetes

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/11/day-220-mcdonaldsization-and.html

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to learn, develop, and create myself in a way where I suppress my emotions that I…

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-201-alignment-to-effective-care.html

This is a continuation from the Previous 2 blogs that I wrote - if you have not read them I suggest to read them to get context for this one …

Hey Guys, I visited and Endocrinologist today in the first time in a year and this is what I went though upon meeting with her.

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-199-doctors-appoitment.html

Ok this is going to basically be a ranting and raving blog post for me to write out my reactions upon visiting a endocrinologist today, and the points that I am walking through…

Scott Kasper, of Hope on 2 Wheels, shares a look into his family life with three boys – two of whom are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes – and a moving example of what life is like for his third.

Read the full post at Discuss Diabetes here

Best,

Laura…

This post is from my blog, The Juice Box Diaries. There are several pictures that go along with it so I encourage you to pop over and see the original post if you have a chance! Also, just to preface this so you understand without the context of my site, you should know that next to…

I wrote a post on my blog The Juice Box Diaries about my experience at the Walk to Cure Diabetes yesterday in St. Louis, MO. I'd love to share that blog here, however, the original post has some great pictures that I'd love for y'all to see. So, instead I'm just going to post the link here so feel free to…

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-176-diabetic-epidemic.html

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see that there will be a diabetic epidemic arising in the world due to the amount of sugar that we consume within the products that we buy and our sedentary lifestyle, causing the pancreas to become overworked and having the hormone of insulin become…

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that when I go low (hypoglycemic) the body is lacking in a nutrient that it needs to stay stable and operational and that within this all focus within the body is going to keeping alive, working to get sugar from something within the body, in this going into survival mode wherein anything that is not of immediately priority to the body such as any information at that point is going to be disregarded - hence the lack of…

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that there is an overload of sugar that is being added to our food for us to `enjoy`, but the starting point has not been enjoyment, the starting point of adding all this sugar has been for profit without the consideration of the human physical body and the nutrients that it needs, and in this I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize the correlation between the amount of sugar within our…

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-153-perceiving-diabetes-as-weakness.html

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to define diabetes as being weak and define myself as being weak wherein I want to hide the disease from all other people so that they do not find out that I am weak and then `pounce` on the subject and me; constantly living in fear…