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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

Diabetes 365 Project 2010
Posted: Jan 11, 2010 13:20:07 0 Comments.
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  • Diabetes 365

    Well, I decided to join yet another diabetic project online.  I enjoy a challenging mission,  though this isn't really what I would call a challenge as it's more abit of fun with everyone putting in pictures of their life with diabetes.  It is making me think about how my diabetes effect me over a period of 365 all in the form of pictures taken each day.

    Now, this project was started back in 2008 on Flickr.  Now if memory serves me right, back in 2008, I wasn't even aware that diabetic discussions existed on the Internet. Duh!!!  That's how sheltered a life I lead prior to that - 40 years of being a "Lone Dranger" .  Then when I started educating myself on how to take care of my diabetes better with the use of an insulin pump, my world changed at that point.

    This current project seems to be run by Bernard Ferrall, but please correct me if I'm wrong there.  I'm still learning the proper way to tag the photos I'm loading up, and of course, reading the instructions correctly.  There is a theme for each week, but I've been told, it's okay if I don't go with the flow . 

    If you feel like taking a look at what has been posted from the previous years that Diabetes 365 was held along with current pictures that members have uploaded - just enter  "D365" in the search line area. 

    If your creative juices start to flow (make sure they are low carb or bolus correctly ) and you would like to contribute your photos - then sign on up - and join the group!  Make sure you read the Weekly Focus Calendar in the Discussion area to ensure you are following "zee rules", but everyone is pretty easy going if you don't follow them to the "T" .

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