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11/20/2009 at 01:00PM
authored by AmyT, submitted by Amy Tenderich

Guest Post: Have a Little Respect

My D-blogger friend and intermittent correspondent Allison Blass has been living with diabetes since she was 8 years old. It’s pretty much all she knows. She copes with it her way, and... read more

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An Unintentional Bond in a New Year

Candid Diabetes

I rang in the New Years up north with a dog on my lap. The Aurora Borealis was dancing across the dark sky, undulating in patterns of green and pink and silvery-white. I could almost taste their current, like live...

07/14/2008 at 09:16PM
authored by Tiffany, submitted by TRKnight2007
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Stress & The BS

Candid Diabetes

You know that frantic, panicky feeling you get deep inside of your stomach, as though you just swallowed a cup full of worms without chewing? For the past two weeks, my stomach has been filled with big old garden earthworms...

07/14/2008 at 09:16PM
authored by Tiffany, submitted by TRKnight2007
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Visit The Bathroom Before Reading This Post

Candid Diabetes

I cannot stop laughing. And I am talking loud, full-bodied throwyourheadbackandholler laughs. Head over to Scott's house and read this post. Have a good laugh, and then mosey on into the comments section and read through it. I made a...

07/14/2008 at 09:16PM
authored by Tiffany, submitted by TRKnight2007
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Asking for a CGMS is like asking for a pet dragon

RideToRemedy

You’d think that I was applying to bring a dragon home from some fantastical world into ours by all the questions I was being asked in regards to getting the process started to get a CGMS from Minimed. They were all questions that my doctor could

07/14/2008 at 04:03PM
authored by Courtney, submitted by courtney
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Recording Those Numbers

Life With Diabetes

Well, I'm trying to get back on track. Between the wedding, the honeymoon and trying to find a sort of rhythm to my new life as a wife, I haven't been very good about recording my glucose numbers. A few months before school let out I had finally (after

07/14/2008 at 03:40PM
authored by Melissa, submitted by Melissa Dawn
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Sign the CGMS Denial Online Petition

Diabetes Talkfest

Have you been denied a Continous Glucose Monitoring System? Sign this online petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/CGMSdenial/index.html

07/14/2008 at 02:38PM
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Life, Lemons, Letting Go, And Becoming

Diabetesaliciousness

As of late, I've been suffering from life throwing me a few lemons. While some of these lemons are easily turned into delicious lemonade, others leave bruises that make them not so easy to forget.The stress of my job; my moms heath, the fact that I sti

07/14/2008 at 11:05AM
authored by k2, submitted by TRKnight2007
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Medical Adhesives: My Allergy Hell

Diabetes Mine

Talk about adding insult to injury! It was bad enough when my Type 1 diabetes ushered in a new era of being allergic to wheat.  But now I’ve received some equally upsetting news: it seems I am also allergic to medical adhesives.  Would you believe&#

07/14/2008 at 06:15AM
authored by AmyT, submitted by Amy Tenderich
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Thirst for More....(and a contest!)

Amazing Grace

 Have you ever had one of those experiences of thirst so convincingly proof of hyperglycemia that you didn't even check your bloodsugar before rage-bolusing a cool unit or so of insulin, just to get a jump start trending downwards back...

07/14/2008 at 04:55AM
authored by Amylia Grace, submitted by amylia
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Bla, Bla...blog

DiabeticizMe

Last week was a relaxing week! I started the week of very positive! I didn't let my job get to me! I tried to keep a positive frame of mind; easier said than done. I think sometimes people tend to try me but I let it go one ear and out the other! I had a

07/13/2008 at 10:14PM
authored by Cherise, submitted by DiabeticizMe
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