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By: FatCatAnna

The Roller Coaster Ride of Diabetes! Whoo! Whoo!

I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes back in 1968. Since then, the way diabetes is treated has changed for the better. Compared to the days of testing your urine, boiling glass syringes, sharpening the needle on a stone, it feels like the Stone Age when I see how things have progressed.

The most important thing for PWD's (people with diabetes) I feel is to educate ourselves on our condition, and try not to let it bring us down. Posting here at Diabetes1.org and the other DOC (diabetic online communities) that I am involved with, I hope to bring a smile to each and everyone of your faces.  I also hope that you question the things that we do to keep going on this roller coaster ride of life that we all lead  (and I'm afraid of heights).  Plus share your thoughts with us all!

Hopefully one day we will find a cure for diabetes, but until then, we plod along with the new technology.

 


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Anna's Blog

How to type a blog when you are having a hypo in 5 easy steps ...
Posted: Jul 16, 2009 16:22:44 0 Comments.
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  • Well, lately here on this website I’ve not been able to post into forums or blogs without having to reach the administrators due to their website having problems with folks like myself using Firefox.  And now again, having issues with logging on, but I’m taking advantage of having a hypo – e.g. low blood sugar.  I want to write a blog in this frame of mine to see what sort of nonsense comes off my fingertips.

     

    I generally don’t like to work in this condition – as I told the kind Admin dude at the other end as he asked me for details of what is occurring while I try to post this blog – I told him – "I’m in hypo land – I’m not wanting to respond to you at the moment as I'm not quite here - let me write my blog".  I’m one of the fortunate ones (no comment from the peanut gallery – ahhh – what the heck go ahead and give me your comments below) that knows when they are low.  I can  deal with it and still function – in what I think is probably a semi-comical way (Just For Laughs Comedy Festival is here in Montreal should I go and do a street act?).  I don’t get hypos that often thank goodness, less more now then when I was on MDI (multiple dosage injections) – but they happen. 

     

     Who knows what set this off?  It’s a fairly normal day – only thing I’ve done different – eaten abit more fruit then I normally do – perhaps overbolused – I am not a person to over analyze my situation.  It’s just happening and I’m doing what I normally would not do to quelch a low blood sugar– I’m experimenting grazing on foods.  Just imagine a pig at a trough – that’s sort of me right now – but I’m coming out of the hypo now as I type this out – fingers are not bouncing all over the keyboard as I type (they tend to twitch on their own – like they have a brain in each tip of the finger).  Prior to starting to type this blog, I consumed a glass of OJ (something I rarely touch), a few cherries (did not count – they were awesome tasting), some little cheese fishy shaped things (forget the brand name – but they are okay – bit dry mind you) – my last bit of consumption – and I swear my belly is bulging – some sesame snaps.  I know for sure those will bring up the BG’s no doubt – as the package says 20g of carb. 

     

    So, for now, I am going to attempt to post this to Diabetes1 in the Blog area – if you are reading this – you’ll know I got thru’ – either via Firefox or Internet Explorer.  I am also using another computer to do this work with a roller ball mouse - I feel like I'm Alice in Wonderland at this desktop here .

     

     

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