Why I Am Not Going To Hide My Diabetes
This started as a Twitter post but I thought it important that I put it here as well. At every step of my diagnosis and treatment since April people, doctors, CDEs and Vendors have mentioned "discreet" as it relates to testing, injecting, wearing a CGM and/or wearing a pump. Fuck that. I am not and never have been a discreet person when it comes to my life experiences especially health related experiences (see my Lyme Disease posts here and here and here ) Here's why I will not hide my diabetes (in no particular order): I am…
Pump Approval Pending
With one pump class left to go I met with pump vendors last night and settled on the Tandem t:slim X2. There might be a kink in my pump plans though. Apparently most insurance companies require someone be diagnosed as diabetic for 6 months prior to pump approval. I am on day 123. Once again I feel like I'm being punished for not being diabetic long enough. If I had to guess it's a safety thing. Being diabetic means walking a tightrope every day. Will this be enough insulin? Will it be too much insulin? I assume they wa…
Please Excuse The Mess
I've decided to rebuild my website so things might look weird for a bit.
Day 119 With Some Form Of Diabetes
I really want to get back into posting to this blog. I've let it go for a couple years. I'm attempting to unfuck that. Today is day 119 since being diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, Day 112 since being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, Day 92 since getting a proper LADA diagnosis and Day 91 since starting MDI insulin treatment. I'm thinking like a completely different person and it hasn't helped my disposition any. All this math. It's ridiculous. I eat less sweets, root veggies and breads - not because I can't but b…
Hello Diabetes!
This post has been a long time coming, I've created several drafts but it seems that every time I was close to finishing and ready to hit the publish button, something would change. I'm still in the process of things changing since I'm currently jumping through all of the hoops to get myself an insulin pump. This is my diabetes story so far... it is a disjointed story that has been added to for 90+ days I started having some severe health issues in March. Just weird abdominal pains, feeling like crap, anxiety through the roof, no…
Spring Can't Come Soon Enough
I need some moderately warm days of sunshine. It's been overcast for a week now. I'm in stress mode over the van. It's been grounded for two years now and I've been hitching a ride to shows. It's time to get something a little newer and a bit more reliable and call it a day with The Inn. I sunk a lot of money into rebuilding a carb, having to then buy a new carb, replacing the accelerator cable, putting a new (used) AC unit on, and putting 4 new tires on it that I just can't keep sinking any more cash into this thing.…
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