I’ve registered to go to the Students With Diabetes National Conference, and I’ll bring back, as well as live blog the going ons of the conference. It’s the weekend of May 31-June 2, so that gives you a time frame.
Also, just a bit of personal news, I’m going to be a camp counselor for Pee Wee Diabetes Camp, so that’s exciting for me. I used to go to all the camps when I was younger, so it’ll be nice to give back to that program a little bit.
-Allie
Hello everyone!! It’s been a while since we’ve posted, but we have some big news to share with the diabetic community here!!
The group Students with Diabetes is having a National Conference in the Tampa area of Florida. It’s for people with diabetes ages 18-30, and you can find out all the information you need here!
This will be a great opportunity for diabetics to meet one another and learn more about treatment and ways of dealing with diabetes! Networking with other diabetics is great if you ever find yourself feeling alone!
Registration is $85 and it covers fees, housing and food for the entire weekend! The conference is being held over the weekend of May 31-June 2!! Click on the link above and learn all about it!!
Hope to see you there!
CGMs are somewhat new when it comes to the Diabetes community; however, they’ve come out with new updated versions of the sensors that make it easier to track blood sugar levels, and what your levels do between blood sugar checks.
There are a few brands of CGMs: Dexcom, and the MiniMed Real Time. The MiniMed CGM has the ability to communicate with the Paradigm pump; however, the Dexcom does not. The Dexcom CGM would be more applicable to those on shots.
If any of you are interested in tracking your sugar levels in-between blood sugar checks, as well as your levels overnight, feel free to click on the links and check them out. Talk to your endo before starting any type of CGM, and feel free to drop by our ask and tell us how it goes.
there’s the motivation to keep on keepin on
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I, Allie, have been caught up in my college finals week and I end classes next week. I’ve been really busy and haven’t had the time to sit down and make some quality posts for you all.
I’m really sorry, and as soon as I’m on break, I’ll conjure up some awesome things for you all.
Stay healthy!
Our question today is how long have you had diabetes, and what do you think has been the hardest thing when it comes to dealing with it?
November 14 is internationally recognized as World Diabetes Day (WDD.) Millions of people around the world are affected by diabetes, and we’re all endlessly searching for a cure. We’ve encountered billions of fingerpricks, shots, pump site changes, glucose tabs, etc. Diabetes can be hard, there’s nothing wrong in admitting that, but it’s not going to stop us. And how could it? The world is backing us up.
More information about WDD can be found here, on the website.
Never forget that just because you’re a diabetic, that doesn’t mean that diabetes controls you. You are your own person. You are not diabetes; you are you.
Here’s to all the diabetics who struggle on a daily basis with the obstacles diabetes throws at us. The high blood sugars, the low blood sugars, the DKA, the endless amounts of juicy juice, glucose tablets, glucagon shots, finger pricks, pump sites, omni pods, needle tips, strips, blood work and endo visits.
We all go through it. We all deal with it differently. We are our own people and we need to stick together and find a cure for this disease together. It’s not about fighting about who has it worse, or who’s had it longer. Dealing with diabetes takes patience, work, determination, and a merciless effort to make sure that we stay as healthy as possible with one less working organ as everyone else.
Don’t feel alone. There are millions of us out there suffering with the same exact thing. Even though we suffer differently, it comes back to the same idea: strength. We have so much more of it than we think we do. We just have to realize it and take a hold of it.
Diabetes may get in the way of us living normal lives, but it does NOT seclude us from being happy and healthy. Speed bumps are a part of life; pieces we can’t escape, but it doesn’t mean we can’t find a way to get around them and conquer them.
Diabetes does not have us, and it never will. We will find a cure, and no one will tell us otherwise.
Personal opinion, but the only thing worse than regular lantus is cold lantus.
The juvenile diabetes research foundation (JDRF) is putting together a cellular program where non diabetics become a type 1 diabetic for a day.
The process is to text in T1D4ADAY to 63566 throughout the month of November. Then, you’ll be set up for a full day of texts that simulate being a type 1 diabetic throughout the next day.
Spread the word and help the population and your friends learn what it’s like to be a type 1 diabetic!
