Hey everyone, I am going to be publishing a book about Diabetes--focusing on the struggles diabetics face in school when dealing with our diabetes, supplies, feeling rundown, etc and overall being misunderstood by the education system, peers and administration. I want to include some artwork and poetry made by diabetics themselves illustrating our frustrations---if anyone could please send me their work I would definitely appreciate it and give you credit in the title page of the book.
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Added by Revvy on November 18, 2009 at 10:01pm —
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So yesterday was a fun day. Practically less than a month after receiving my replacement pump for my previous Minimed 522's "button error", my new pump (or should I say, my refurbished pump) hits me with an alarm. well....not exactly. First my 2 hour BG reminder alarm goes off...I went to clear it, the screen froze. A glimmer of - oh no not this again- flashed through my mind. Then it cleared a few seconds later, only to go off into yet another alarm:
"A52 pump reset, savings preserved… Continue
So I was browsing post secret today (as it is Sunday and new secrets are up-yay!) and I saw this. <3 it. Sometimes we feel like a burden on our friends, families, loved ones, etc- because our life requires so much patience and attention to detail. So its nice to hear once in a while that we aren't a burden. ya know?
Now in other news, I've been a bit lazy since I start… Continue
Added by Revvy on August 2, 2009 at 8:57pm —
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Got myself all hooked up to my replacement pump today. I put in all my settings by myself but i had no clue how to sync up my meter so I called minimed for that...only a 40 minute wait this time. lol. But the guy was super helpful : )
I was eating lunch and showing my mum my new pump and she asked me what I named it.....it never even crossed my mind that i ought to give my new pump a new name!
Soooo RIP Pumpeta, and Hello new pump- Pekka!
Now, Pekka- is derived from old Finnish name Petrus (w… Continue
Nothing shakes up a sunday night quite like some near death experiences eh? Okay, so maybe “near death” is a wee bit of an exaggeration…but definitely a life-threatening situation. Shall I explain?
so tonight whilst cooking a late dinner, I felt my pump vibrate, I ignored it at first because I thought it was just letting me know that it had finished bolusing….WRONG…oh lord was I wrong, about two minutes later it starts alarming and screaming about like I had never heard before. “BUTTON ERROR” w… Continue
I had to watch this video for a class, and the info around 16:00 caught my information....a new way of looking at a cure for type 1?!?! what is this..... *dives off to google to research further*
but alas, for now, i shall share the video for those interested:
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So i figured I should probably get around to posting the results of the CGMS I had last week.
dunn dun dunnnnnnnnn!
-NOTHING- okay, well maybe not nothing, but nothing nearly as helpful as I thought. turns out, in those 3 days i was hooked up and felt like a transformer with a transmitter attached to me, all bionic-woman-like, 70% if the time my BG was in range, 27% if the time i was high and only 3% i was hypo. but HOWWW can that be? i feel like i am never in range im always high or low? bah.… Continue
So I'm taking a Human biology summer class, online, and this week our topic is on the endocrine system. (yayyy something i know by heart by now! haha)...as part of the class we have to write blog entries every week, so I thought I would share mine here!
not 100% sure if this link will work, if it doesnt, someone let me know and I will just copy and past the post here :)
here is the link (copy & paste into address bar):
http://humanbiopress.org/blog/?p=573#more-573 Continue
Well hello there tudiabetes bloggers and random googlers,
sooo life has been interesting lately. Guess what, my A1c went up. :( 7.3 and i have dangerously low B12 and vitamin D levels. fun fun. So since my pump has not been doing wonders for me ( i was a 6.3 a year ago before i started, now im higher...defeating the point of the pump?!) and ive been diabetic for 5 or 6 years now and i STILL don't have any decent control over my BG at alllll-- I am thoroughly frustrated.
I saw a new Endo about… Continue
alllright...so lemme give a rundown of my life as of late:
1) I turn 21 next week!
2) I still can't eat birthday cake : (
3) I moved and dont have an Endo team anymore and my numbers are Out Of Control! : ((
4) Im going to get an A1c tomorrow...its been a year. oops?
5) My health insurance ends on my birthday. fantastic
6) Since i last wrote on here, i got into a relationship, got out of said relationship, and decided my ex was a very large DB, and that i was being used/played. never thought I'… Continue
First off, i just want to thank everyone for all their kind advice on my last post! Funny thing happened, one night last week i was on my friends laptop, talking to him on AIM, and he wanted to webcam (completely legit, nothing funky people haha), so we were talking and la dee da, i got up to get something and sat back down, and i noticed my pump showed when i stood up, so i basically gathered my courage and said "see this?" and pointed to my lil pumpy...."what your pager?" he said. haha i alway… Continue
alrighty, so college started back up again- spring semester.....hooray? well...i guess its good cause at least i will be able to be on somewhat of a routine now, yay for hopefully stabilizing my ever crazy blood sugars!
this morning i woke up with a Bg of 45!!!!! omg. i became a ravage animal and tore into my food bin under my bed, im surprised the noise of me ripping open bags of food at 11 am didnt wake my roomate. :P
anyways, the point of this entry:
sooooo theres this guy (how much do i s… Continue
so i keep a) getting blood in my catheter, and b) getting bent catheters so i dont get full delivery or i get 'no delivery'
my educator was thinking of switching me to the 9mm, (im on a 6mm now) or maybe the silhouette infusion set. im not sure which is best though ><</body> Continue
since ive been on the website. things have been so hectic in my life.
Between my actual life and college life all my time is consumed!!!
i will have to sit down later and write a more detailed entry about the chaos filling my days right now, but alas i dont have time for that right now! gah.
but anyways....2+ months into using the pump and i STILL dont have good blood sugars. i have to wait 40 minutes after i bolus to see it have any effect on my blood sugar, not immediately like they said it… Continue
Added by Revvy on October 10, 2008 at 12:25pm —
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sooo I'm back upstate at school. JOY. lol. nah, school is going great so far, i like being back in my old dorm (we got new windows thank god!) and im living nextdoor to some really cool friends. so it looks like this year will be a good one -minus the INSANE amounts of schoolwork i already have. damn papers.
soooo now comes the troubles with diabetes. i FINALLY got my overnight lows to go away this week, by adjusting some basals, but now i keep peaking during the afternoon- particularly after l… Continue
so apparently i have had diabetes for 5 years. not 4. I know i have never been great at math, but damn...lol, bit of a mistake. 2003. it seems like forever ago.....
i was drinking Shirley temples at sweet sixteens and downing pizza like it was going out of style that year. man, i miss those days of unsupervised, un-restrained, over-indulgent eating.
in other news...
i made some jello tonight to satisfy my craving for something sweet. sugar free=0 carbs. i usually hate jello. but tonight, it… Continue
SO i've been pumping for a little over a week....maybe closer to 2 weeks?...and so far nothing is working. okay, not nothing, but my numbers are still being tweaked- apparently my lantus was lingering in my body and making my BG all funky and unreliable. I have been in the high 200's for the past few weeks on the pump and it has been making me feel very sluggish. My educator just adjusted some of my rates and ratios- all that good junk- and now the numbers are better, 160's. But now im crashing… Continue
maybe this is just me, maybe I'm a little disgruntled diabetic....but i really really loathe when people rant and rave about the delicious super sized ice cream sundae they just ate, or how they just consumed 3 slices of pizza and are still hungry. I'm always left sitting there, thinking to myself...BAH! you lucky fool. (its only been 4 years, but i cant even remember what life was like, how easy it was, to eat anything i wanted whenever i felt like it.)
but what has been particularly bugging m… Continue
so today my Diabetic educator from the pump company came over, got me all educated-hooked up to a saline solution, and left. it happened so quickly. i was left sitting at the kitchen table, completely encompassed by books, manuals, plastic wrappings, pump supplies, meter supplies, old insulin pens, my old meter, alcohol swabs, the whole shebang. i immediately felt (excuse the ridiculousness of the following cliche), impending doom. i began weeping and basically having an anxiety attack.
my educ… Continue
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Now in other news, I've been a bit lazy since I start… Continue
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