Comments on: Just Another Day

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:01:42 +0000

Really good post, Chris. Thank you. I know exactly how you feel. Having just reached my A1c goal, I feel like I deserve some kind of diabetes break…but that, of course, is not an option since taking a break would mean compromising my next A1c. Vicious, vicious circle.

Cheers,
Laura

p.s. Your “don’t call me Shirley” comment made me laugh.

By: Cherise

Cherise — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:36:13 +0000

Chris-

I love it!!! Don’t think I’m crazy but I LOVE the rawness!!!

By: tmana

tmana — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:33:51 +0000

You hit the nail on the head, Chris. Even when we don’t think about it, diabetes is there. As a diet-controlled T2, I don’t have the wild swings that many of you T1s get, but then it’s sometimes hard for someone who believes s/he can “eat anything as long as I calculate the insulin correctly” to understand how food switches from emotional and cultural nourishment, a thing to be enjoyed, to another in a string of medications to be taken in specific amounts at specific times, in response to specific symptoms.

And yet, I’ll wager most T1s on MDI, or who have spent years on MDI before pumping, have had to adopt that same relationship towards Medical Nutrition Therapy. (I dare you to call glucose tabs “food”. Nutrition, yes — 5 grams carbohydrate nutrition. But food????? And I dare most people to call protein bars and shakes “food”, even though they are high in calories as well as protein, and often vitamins as well.)

By: Sarah Jane (sajabla)

Sarah Jane (sajabla) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:05:35 +0000

stream of consciousness ftw. i think they’re more interesting anyway (soc posts)

By: Lee Ann Thill

Lee Ann Thill — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:02:05 +0000

I can’t add much. I’ve been trying to write about Invisible Illness Week, and so far all I’ve come up with is a lot of nothing that makes any sense.

This sums it up well because the never ending suck is indeed *that awesome*…

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:00:38 +0000

Thank you for being so real & raw with this post. I think you nailed it on the head when you said “It’s the burden of the doubt” and “A test with no passing grade.” Although we all walk our own individual D life, I really think you hit upon common themes and feelings. Regardless of what Bart Allen says, I will always give you an A+ in my book.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:41:44 +0000

(bear)

Wish I had some insight to add but after working out then receiving a 207 five hours later, correcting then waking up to a 59 four hours later, then a 307 three hours later…..this Diabetes roller coaster just pisses me off.
Some days I think, “Tomorrow will be better.”
Other days I just don’t see how it will ever get better.

That does not stop me from hoping it will though.