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Let me explain why the pattern above troubles me. I have been having late afternoon lows off-and-on for months. Normally I would think I need less insulin except for a few pertinent facts:
Continue reading OK Brainiacs… Riddle Me This: Crowdsourcing Diabetes Management…
I’ve been pretty absent recently dealing with a big chunk of burnout. Not diabetes burnout, but caregiver burnout. While I really have to do very little for mom, there are a lot of things that roll into the caregiver picture, at least for me.
- Always “on” – the monitors are always on. I’m always listening, the weekend is often not very restful and I’ve come to dread long holiday weekends.
- Uncertainty – I’m truly not sure where I’ll be living in the future and have no idea when such a change might occur.
- Fear – Let’s face it, I’m constantly worried.
- Anxiety – Will my burnout become apparent to mom, making her feel like a burden?
Continue reading I Have To Stop Giving A Sh*t…
** A recent petition on Change.org, Revise Names of Type 1 & 2 Diabetes to Reflect the Nature of Each Disease, has stirred up a bit of controversy in the Diabetes Online Community. Personally, I agree with Lee Ann Thill’s assessment and think it is a waste of time and energy. Reading of my friend Bob Pederson’s feelings toward the petition made it painfully clear that this was indeed insulting to the T2 community and would only serve to fracture the vibrant online diabetes community. A community that seems to have finally coalesced into diabetes, no types, no judging, just support. I decided to post a petition in response to the one listed above.
Continue reading And One Petition to Help Them All…
** I’m writing this from my viewpoint as a Type 1 diabetic and, as always, Your Diabetes May Vary
The Atlantic posted an article by Thomas Goetz, The Diabetic’s Paradox, that did a very good and accurate job of describing why data collection is the arch-enemy of many diabetics, even addressing the psycho-social aspects of the issue.
So let’s just say, for arguments sake, that we now have all this data. What now?
The analysis. Data by itself, with no analysis, is totally meaningless.
Analyzed data with no action is totally, well mostly, meaningless. Sometimes no action is the correct response.
Continue reading We’ve Got DATA!! Uh, So… Now What?…
And it’s not from a lack of trying, the word simply doesn’t exist. Maybe there’s been no need for it, a word to describe a concept that is imbedded in societies around the world. Maybe it simply hasn’t risen to the level where society will take notice. Except, I believe, it has.
Let’s look at a few other notable ‘-ists’ from The Online Etymology Dictionary.
racist
1932 as a noun, 1938 as an adjective, from race (n.2); racism is first attested 1936 (from French racisme, 1935), originally in the context of Nazi theories. But they replaced earlier words, racialism (1871) and racialist (1917), both often used early 20c. in a British or South African context.
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sexist (adj.)
1965, on model of racist, coined by Pauline M. Leet, director of special programs at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., in a speech which was circulated in mimeograph among feminists. Popularized by use in print in Caroline Bird’s introduction to ‘Born Female’ (1968).
How about
Continue reading I Can’t Find The Word For This Type Of ‘-ism’ Or ‘-ist’…
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