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I want to Live a Normal Life

Hey All, I've forgotten to post my latest blog posts pertaining to diabetes here, so here is part 4 of working through the desire/understanding the want to live a normal life

I also suggest to read Self Awareness in Care for Diabetes

Thanks all, Paul

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that within being diagnosed with…

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Added by PaulQuessy on January 16, 2013 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Diabetes and Exercise Self Forgiveness

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…

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Added by PaulQuessy on December 17, 2012 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Sugar Suppresses our Immune System

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/11/day-330-sugar-suppresses-our-immune.html

My chemistry teacher made a quick comment about how when one consumes sugar, it paralyses the immune system for x amount of time. This was fascinating to hear, because diabetics are known to have a weak immune system - so I've done some reading and this is the best site that I've found for it at…

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Added by PaulQuessy on November 29, 2012 at 4:36pm — 1 Comment

Day 229 - Time, Pressure, Stress and Diabetes Part 6

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/11/day-229-time-pressure-stress-and.html

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that this system that we live in is really conducive to fears and stresses and essentially promotes the fears and stresses within the fight or flight response, and that this system within the constant need to get money in order to be…

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Added by PaulQuessy on November 28, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Time, Pressure, Stress and Diabetes Part 5

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/11/day-228-time-pressure-stress-and.html

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that when we are stressed we will access the flight or fight response which has been hardwired into our brains from the primitive days to either fight off predators or to run away from predators or ensuing danger, wherein all that we…

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Added by PaulQuessy on November 27, 2012 at 5:22pm — No Comments

Day 227 - Diabetes and Suicide Part 3

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/11/day-227-diabetes-and-suicide-part-3.html

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fail to see that within the act of committing suicide one is stating in absolution that they are not willing to live within responsibility for that which self has created unto self and thus within my consideration of suicide when I face a…

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Added by PaulQuessy on November 26, 2012 at 4:42pm — No Comments

Day 226 - Diabetes and Suicide Part 2

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to consider, think about, even attempt suicide when I find that my life will be limited because of the manifestation of diabetes within me, wherein I feel that the life that I am able to lead with living with diabetes is going to suck and I am not going to be able to give myself the life that I would like to lead and thus find no point in living any longer because I am not able to have that which I would like for myself - in this…

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Added by PaulQuessy on November 25, 2012 at 4:20pm — 1 Comment

Day 225 - Diabetes and Suicide

A friend of mine who works as a Veterinary assistant was telling me about a cat that was diagnosed with diabetes a few days ago. Today she read the consultant report of the family who owns that cat and has shared with me that the family is deciding to euthanize the cat because they believe that it is too difficult to take care of a cat with diabetes, from what the family has heard from friends who previously had cats that had diabetes.

This has occurred in me in similar ways in…

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Added by PaulQuessy on November 25, 2012 at 4:19pm — 1 Comment

Day 220 - McDonaldsization and Responsibility Part 7

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…

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Added by PaulQuessy on November 19, 2012 at 4:15pm — No Comments

Day 134 - Worldwide FOOD SCAM Exposed!

http://economistjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/11/day-134-worldwide-food-scam-exposed.html#.UKQ0S4bGH4w

"Hip, Hip, Hooray! China has experienced an impressive growth in middle-class consumer spending!" That's generally seen as a 'good thing' in economics. But let's just take a moment to see what the consequences have been - or, in other words, what are the Chinese…

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Added by PaulQuessy on November 14, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Alignment to Effective Care

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 …

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Added by PaulQuessy on October 31, 2012 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Day 200 - Don't Tell Me Who I am

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-200-dont-tell-me-who-i-am.html

This is a continuation from my previous post - Doctors Appointment - and here I am apply self forgiveness on the reaction of being told information about `who I am` and simply not listening because I believe that I know myself such as within the point of hormones at night and the excessive lows

I…

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Added by PaulQuessy on October 30, 2012 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Day 199 - Doctors Appointment

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…

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Added by PaulQuessy on October 29, 2012 at 6:20pm — 2 Comments

Day 184 - Fear and Hypoglycemia Part 3

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-184-fear-and-hypoglycemia-part-3.html

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear having diabetes, fear the struggle that it may bring me in walking this life and in this system - fear being susceptible to the highs and lows of blood sugar levels, fear having to deal with the constant that is me being a diabetic,…

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Added by PaulQuessy on October 14, 2012 at 6:38pm — No Comments

Fear and Hypoglycemia Part 2

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-183-fear-and-hypoglycemia-part-2.html

Part 1 is on the blog as well as a few other posts that I forgot to post here as well. Thanks for reading guys.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that there is a correlation between coming down from a spell of happiness within a reaction of fear and…

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Added by PaulQuessy on October 14, 2012 at 1:39am — 1 Comment

Diabetic Epidemic

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…

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Added by PaulQuessy on October 7, 2012 at 12:17am — 2 Comments

Hypoglycemia, Confusion and Survival

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…

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Added by PaulQuessy on October 3, 2012 at 6:14pm — 2 Comments

Day 160 - Sugar in All Our Food

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…

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Added by PaulQuessy on September 20, 2012 at 6:23pm — No Comments

Perceiving Diabetes as a Weakness

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…

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Added by PaulQuessy on September 13, 2012 at 5:05pm — 8 Comments

Insulin Sensitivity, Sedentary, And Junk Food

http://paulsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-144-insulin-sensitivity-sedentary.html

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that if I am not active during the day there is going to be a lack of assistance from physical activity to support the transfer of sugar within the blood stream to the cells and therefore I am going to need more insulin…

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Added by PaulQuessy on September 4, 2012 at 11:57am — 1 Comment

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