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Author Archives: janekdickinson
Diabetes Friends
The Diabetes Online Community (DOC) is a network of blogs, websites, social networks and other internet-based resources for, by, and about people with diabetes. Over the last year-plus I have gotten to know the DOC. Once I started blogging more, … Continue reading
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Tagged dblog, dblog week, diabetes, diabetes online community, DOC, friends
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Diabetes Moms
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there with diabetes. Raising kids and managing diabetes is a lot to take on. Happy Mother’s Day, also, to moms who are raising or have raised kids with diabetes. It turns out … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, moms of kids with diabetes, moms with diabetes, Mother's Day
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Diabetes Meal Plan – exchange system
The “exchange system” diabetes meal plan was introduced in the 1950s. I didn’t come on the diabetes scene until 1975, so I can’t comment on the early exchange days. For the first two decades of my diabetes life; however, we … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, diabetes diet, diabetes exchange system, diabetes meal plan, exchanges, food, nutrition
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Check BG before Insulin before Food
Don’t you just love when life throws a good lesson in your face? I had that happen last night. I was talking to a patient on Friday about checking blood glucose. He was going on a pump for the first … Continue reading
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Tagged blood glucose monitoring, diabetes, high blood glucose, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, life lessons, low blood glucose
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Diabetes Supplies
Once you have diabetes you become a pack mule. I recently got a call from a patient who learned this lesson the hard way. She was 2000-plus miles away from home when her pump stopped working. Another pump was shipped … Continue reading
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Tagged be prepared, diabetes, hypoglycemia, insulin pump, low blood glucose, supplies
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Social Media & Diabetes
I had to take a couple days off after blogging for a month straight. Nice to be able to do that. Not so much with diabetes. Funny thing is that managing diabetes every day is much easier for me than … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, HAWMC, routine, social media
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Word Cloud
I followed the instructions for making this bigger, but failed. So get out your magnifying glass and check out my word cloud. Luckily, it’s the last prompt for Health Activist Writers Month Challenge.
Hypoglycemia Symptoms in Six
Today’s prompt is to write a six sentence story. Since I’m just coming up from a low, I thought hypoglycemia would be a good topic. Originally I felt shaky when I was low; my parents would say my face got … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, hypoglycemia, hypoglycemia symptoms, six sentences
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The first insulin injection
Ok, truth: I don’t really remember my first injection. For the first year after I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, my parents (mostly my father) gave me my shots (injections). I was sent to diabetes camp for two weeks … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, diabetes camp, injection, self-inject
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