Brigitte's Blog (8)

6 years ago

6 years ago today, I was in the hospital ( a "clinique") for my open heart surgery and I a few days after ( 2 days after) I really didn't know if I will walk, live again... sad days and so much pain. But I wanted to live and it was a new life, maybe a little slow life. Today I feel fine and I want to tell all my friends that we are very strong and as I like to say: tomorrow is another day! I was thinking that my new life will be a slow life? I just came back from holidays and I made a roof with… Continue

Added by Brigitte on September 3, 2009 at 3:29am — 3 Comments

the battle

I feel like a general after a great battle, not a simple general, the general who wins the battle. the Ennemy is like a nightmare which comes years after years, months after months and its name is A1C. I spent so many years in front of bad numbers, high bad numbers such as 12 %, 9 %... I think I paid for them a very high price and in my brain a litlle voice said, so many times, you must do something, there's something wrong, you can't stay like this... And you know the story, it's always the sam… Continue

Added by Brigitte on June 8, 2009 at 3:52am — 3 Comments

I'm so happy !

Yesterday, I went to see the ophtalmo. I go there every 6 months and yesterday it was for an OCT, to see how was my oedema macula. it's very closed to the macula and my doctor doesn't want to make laser because she thinks that this oedema is too closed to the macula and I will lose the vision , for the right eye... So I went with fear, my best friend when I go to doctors. I put my head in the machine and I did not make a movement; The picture appeared on the screen of her computer and, as I was… Continue

Added by Brigitte on May 27, 2009 at 3:34am — 5 Comments

41 years and five years

41 years with my best friend Type 1 and 5 years of living with my repaired heart... and today so many friends with me. It's why I feel so happy. I'm not a sad woman, I like to smile and laugh. A few years ago I was thinking that insulins gave me this happy feeling. oh, yes, sometimes I was angry against all the world because I was ill, and the years passed, I grew older (outside) and this feeling is gone. 41 years, many years in the dark, lots of highs, many lows, a "normal" life, boyfriends, fr… Continue

Added by Brigitte on September 26, 2008 at 5:29am — 2 Comments

45 days far from Lyon

So many days and I came back. My sister and I and my mother, we made some works; it was a difficult task to build a stair ... During all those days of work my dear friend Diabete was a little forgotten. Of course there were highs and lows, I counted my carbs, but it was different. I didn't spend my time thinking about it. I didn't climb upon the Glandasse because I 'm afraid since my heart attack and I like so much this mountain but I was free and well. Sometimes I was connected with my mails an… Continue

Added by Brigitte on September 3, 2008 at 5:45am — 2 Comments

The thoughts of a fisherwoman

Last sunday, I was angling, not far from Lyon, on the bank of a big river. I bought my licence to fish a few months ago, I went for angling or fishing and always the same old story: no fish? Where are they? I put one of my hooks in my finger, what a great pain! So I was waiting for a fish and I was thinking near the river about tudiabetes. Yes! I was telling me that for the first time in all my diabetic life some great people, or great friends, told me about counting carbs. In the same week I bo… Continue

Added by Brigitte on April 23, 2008 at 1:47pm — 1 Comment

monday

Well, it's monday and my town is under the snow!!!!! I don't want to go outside. Yesterday I read a lot: the forums, discussions, saw many profiles. I must say that it was very interesting and it helped me to understand one thing: I ate too much carbs. So this morning, I only ate 3 krisprolls and my coffee and put 4 units of Apidra because I was bg at 1,45. Two hours after : 1,35. So nice. My Lantus shot is at seven in the morning (11 units). For meal I only took 60 g of carbs ( I used to eat 10… Continue

Added by Brigitte on March 24, 2008 at 8:47am — 2 Comments

it's nice.

yes, it's nice to hear from you all. I was an "alone" diabetic for more than 36 years. May be it's hard to believe me, but I never met another diabetic of type 1 when I was in school, later in "lycée" ( maybe high school) and in my adult life. In 2003 I've got another complication and I need an open-heart surgery and after 7 days at the "clinique" (private hospital) I went to re-education, to learn how to move without using my arms, because the operation was very hard my shoulders were twisted,… Continue

Added by Brigitte on March 18, 2008 at 2:07am — 4 Comments

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