I recently finished reading “Diabetes and Wellbeing” by Dr. Jen Nash, and I really enjoyed it. Subtitled “Managing the psychological and emotional challenges of diabetes types 1 and 2” Dr. Nash set out to help us find some good ways…
I’ve been feeling better lately (thank you retail therapy). Feeling lost is something that comes and goes when dealing with a lifelong thing like diabetes. Maybe it is a little more noticeable for us because we’re the ones “in charge”…
I’ve been feeling very emotional about my diabetes recently. It feels very vague and hard to identify. There is nothing really specific I can pin it to, no real point of frustration or trouble. More like a low level, under…
Just for the record, my diabetes management has been absolute crap for the last couple of months (plus). I think it is some kind of mourning period from my last A1C surprise. Really high blood sugars and a “poor me”…
I’m not a huge “road trip” guy. I’ve never mastered the art of enjoying the trip. Instead I’m usually focused on reaching my destination so I can be done driving. I’m always glancing down at the clock or the odometer…
Oh how I wish that the title was some witty way of bragging about all the weight loss that is (not) happening for me. Instead, it’s how I feel tonight. In terms of will power and the ability to stick…
Diabetes is, for the most part, an invisible condition. Unless you spend a bit of time with me, you may never know that I walk the never-ending tightrope of blood glucose management. Even if you do spend a bit of…
Not long ago I did a post called “What exactly is it“. This post talked a little bit about trying to figure out what exactly it is about living with diabetes that bothers me. There was some really great comments…
What is it that I hate so much about Diabetes? I spend a fair amount of time and energy being angry about diabetes. There is a lot of raw emotion there. There are a lot of feelings of it being…
I did everything that I am supposed to do, according to what I’ve been told. I followed all of the “rules”. I counted all of the carbs. I checked my blood sugar. I did all of the math. (68g carbs…
Is it just me, or is there a lot of emotion floating around the OC lately? I thought it was just me, but then I sat down tonight to catch up on some posts, and I was just struck by…
There are things in life that we don’t have a choice about. Diabetes is, of course, one of those things. Gas prices and taxes are a couple others… I don’t like having diabetes. In fact, it quite honestly really sucks.…
That term means something to us pumpers – as in “disconnected” from our pumps. But, that’s not what I want to write about today. Instead I’m talking about the disconnect we have in one of our very basic bodily systems.…
One of those things. It’s usually just swept under the carpet until the pile of crap under the carpet is just too noticeable to be ignored. I don’t know what the current statistics are, but those dealing with a chronic…
One of my favorite blogs to read is “aiming for grace“. I’ve talked about ada’s wonderful blog before. Not only are the photos she uses great, but the messages she delivers are even better. I was initially hooked on the…
I usually operate well under pressure. When a situation calls for very high intensity functioning, I am all game. Sign me up for the “whatever it takes” work ethic and can’t-be-stopped determination — but it’s usually for a limited duration.…
20/20 hindsight is a saying often used to express the idea that if I had then the information I have now, I may have taken a different course or made a different decision. I think that almost everyone, to a…
I recently finished reading “Psyching Out Diabetes” by Dr. Richard Rubin, June Biermann & Barbara Toohey (June & Barbara have TONS of books out there on diabetes – you probably know them, even if you don’t realize it yet). The…
It seems like such a very strange thing to be looking at. I was diagnosed in April of 1980. How can one not have completely accepted diabetes after so many years? How can that be? Is it even possible? But…
I had my quarterly endo appointment today. That’s all. End of post. Seriously though – everything was great EXCEPT my A1c. I rung in at a very surprisingly high 9.2. Shit. I have been doing SO GOOD lately. And I…