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The odds that Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the first person with diabetes to be seated on the highest court are pretty long. However, Justice Sotomayor is the first to reveal her diabetes diagnosis in a very public way. She let it be known that she has Type 1 in her 2013 memoir, My Beloved World. Her memoir opens with an account of her frightening emergency trip from Sunday church to the hospital; she was diagnosed with diabetes at age 7.
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In the summer of 2009, I was participating in a summer program for high schoolers at Georgetown University, and I could sense something was a little off. I explained away my insatiable thirst because of the summer heat, but I kept waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. My face looked a little thinner in the photos from the end of the program than the photos from the first day.
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Advocates calling for earlier Type 1 detection have formed a new group to raise awareness about the dangers of a missed Type 1 diagnosis. The group, UPrising Against DKA (“United Parents Rising Against Diabetic Ketoacidosis,”) has built a membership of more than 1,800 since its creation in July. Page administrator Cindy Turner, who helped form the advocacy group TestOneDrop , urges others to “unite against the lack of education and complacency that allows unnecessary life-threatening illnesses,
I recently attended my 10-year high school reunion, and while the event caused me to wax nostalgic about my teenagehood, it also made me realize what I didn’t know about Type 1 diabetes self-management at the time. If I could go back in time, here are 8 tips I would tell my younger self about managing Type 1 diabetes: 1. Listen to your parents. Teenagehood demands more self-sufficiency, but parents really do have your best interests at heart, and (irritatingly) they’re usually right.
As a person with Type 1, I do my best to stay in control of my blood sugar levels; I even use a CGM and pump. Even so, sometimes my body has a mind of its own. It’s frustrating when I do my best to be on track only to realize my glucose levels are way off. These swings in blood sugar levels make me feel out of control and helpless. Dealing with the mood swings of hypoglycemia is not an easy process, either.
We’ve come up with a fresh batch of Type 1 diabetes memes, straight out of the ovens of our fevered imaginations. Feel free to pass them around like Groupon offers for Starbucks: Do you have a Type 1 meme you’d like to share? Email it to our editor at cidlebrook@epscomm.com. The post 5 Diabetes Memes You Need to See appeared first on Insulin Nation.
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If you have Type 1 diabetes, you might think your pancreas is worthless, but researchers don’t. They hope you will think of donating your pancreas to research efforts when you shuffle off this mortal coil. Researchers want to study the human pancreas to learn more about Type 1, but to do so they need organ donors. The Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD) was founded to supply researchers with pancreases to study, says Dr.
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Late in July the London tabloid the Daily Mirror published a story about a man who had suffered a hypoglycemic episode and collapsed at home. Under a headline which said he was “accused of being unfit parent by paramedic,” the article described how a 27-year old dad, March Le Fey, came to after being administered emergency treatment, only to be upbraided by a paramedic who later reported him to the child protection authorities.
Trance Rodenbough, an insulin-dependent sixteen-year-old with a history of running away, left a rural hospital intensive care unit under his own steam and about 110 miles from his home in Guthrie, Oklahoma on Friday of Labor Day weekend in 2015. He had disappeared the day before from the Lawton Adventure Program, a community-based facility providing counseling, education, and transitional housing services for at-risk youth.
Frozen…Insulin. Diagnosed with diabetes at a young age, Princess Elsa of Arendelle was taught by her crass father, the king, to keep her hands covered with gloves so nobody would see the small scars from repeated blood glucose tests. Elsa also can make snow come out of her fingertips, but no one really cares about that. Hearing rumor across the land of a possible cure for diabetes, the king and queen set sail.
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Commentary. To make it in the NFL, Patrick Peterson has to remember a bewildering amount of plays, most of which are labeled with random numbers. He apparently is pretty good at it, too, as the former All-Pro cornerback signed a $70 million contract extension with the Arizona Cardinals in 2014. That makes his momentary slip-up on his diabetes diagnosis all the more strange.
As a person with Type 1, I do my best to stay in control of my blood sugar levels; I even use a CGM and pump. Even so, sometimes my body has a mind of its own. It’s frustrating when I do my best to be on track only to realize my glucose levels are way off. These swings in blood sugar levels make me feel out of control and helpless. Dealing with the mood swings of hypoglycemia is not an easy process, either.
If someone just met me, they wouldn’t immediately guess I worry about my health several times each day. They have no idea that I fret over every bite of food or swig of a drink that passes my lips. Or that before I go to bed, I measure, check, and create backup plans in case something unexpected goes wrong. They don’t see this. To them, my illness is invisible.
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I was nervous when I was told I could go home from the hospital after my initial diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis. I had forgotten what life was like without a nurse checking my blood sugar levels every hour or a ham and cheese sandwich delivered at bedtime, just in case. All of those hospital elves I had come to rely on were about to disappear, and I wasn’t ready to deal with this diabetes thing on my own.
Michael J. Fox alguna vez dijo esto acerca de vivir con la enfermedad de Parkinson: “Usualmente digo que ahora no tengo opción alguna sobre si o no tener Parkinson, pero alrededor de esa no-elección hay un millones de otras elecciones que puedo hacer.” Como alguien que vive con el Tipo 1, argumento que puedo decir lo mismo acerca de vivir con el Tipo 1.
Insulet, known for the OmniPod tubeless insulin pump, recently announced that its manufacturing plant was functioning quite nicely again after a rocky period of quality control issues. This announcement, of course, came just before the FDA released details of a July recall notice that affected over 400,000 OmniPods. The recall was issued because regulators in March found that the Billerica, Massachusetts-based pump manufacturing facility had “inadequate standards compliance” issues, according to
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There’s been evidence as far back as 2009 that acetaminophen can cause inaccurate blood sugar readings with meters. Now, a more recent study suggests that the common pain reliever also might interfere with continuous glucose monitor (CGM) readings, as well. In July 2009, The Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology published a paper discussing sources of meter errors in measurement of blood glucose levels, including patient use of acetaminophen.
A fun Vine video has been making the rounds for the last couple of years. It’s short and hypnotic. In it, an older woman with diabetes cheerfully describes the high-carb meal she is going to have: You can just watch it over and over again. (Thanks to Travis Manni for finding this for us.). And it raises so many questions. Who is this woman? Does she have Type 1 or Type 2?
In the summer of 2009, I was participating in a summer program for high schoolers at Georgetown University, and I could sense something was a little off. I explained away my insatiable thirst because of the summer heat, but I kept waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. My face looked a little thinner in the photos from the end of the program than the photos from the first day.
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