An Ad, to Be Placed on Freecycle or the Giveaway Section of Craigslist
Free to a Good [or Bad] Home - Type 1 Diabetes (Philadelphia or Anywhere)
The beta cells in my pancreas quit working after 8 short years. My immune system attacked them, and instead of going back to doing their f**king job, they decided to just sit and panhandle around the Islets of Langerhans, like that's some kind of vacation for them. I've tried to give diabetes a chance for 25 years, but you know what? I'm done.
Surely there is some soul out there who would like to adopt my diabetes and give it a good home. Or maybe you know an unsuspecting Men's Rights Activist right-wing homophobic politician asshat that you want to teach a lesson. Either way, please come to this address [Hannah's House or Place of Employment] and help yourself.
Type 1 Diabetes has been a challenge to love. Most recently, an insulin pump site of mine got pulled off in the middle of the night, so I woke up around 6:30am with a raging "HI" staring deep into my soul from my glucose meter. Through gritted teeth I said, "Hello yourself" to the screen and injected a buttload of Novolog as I replaced my infusion set, drank two giant cups of water and went back to sleep, nauseous. A few hours later, at work, that buttload of Novolog kicked in all at once, so while my blood glucose clocked in at 200, my body was trying to tell me I was a solid 65 with shakiness and a case of the woozies.
Diabetes is sometimes a gentle nuisance, and other times it makes me want to cry, scream, and throw things across the room. That's not a terribly healthy behavior, so obvious my Diabetes would do much better if it were rehomed.
Please stop by this weekend. Type 1 Diabetes can be yours for the exclusive price of FREE-NINETY-NINE! I will even throw in all the fancy gadgets and tropical fruit punch glucose tabs!
I can also just leave it on the curb. Come grab it, as I only have this one case of Type 1 Diabetes to give away. If you're also interested, I will set out some plantar fasciitis, macular edema (right eye only), and arthritis of the lower back, also free.
It's a whole new kind of summer fun!
Over a decade of high levels of glucose and geekery.
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Friday, August 19, 2011
Two Weeks on Symlin
I remember now what this feels like.
The random sweating during the day, the occasionally floaty feeling in my head. Is my blood sugar dropping? Is it just kind of a faux-low because I am going from high to normal?
Symlin has been going well so far. I am ramping up my doses very slowly, because I remember that's what worked best for me last time. Going from one dose to another too quickly definitely brought on the nausea, and nobody likes that. I was surprised at how simple it was to re-adjust to pen injections after so many years on a pump. I had forgotten what all that knob-twisting and priming felt like. I tend to wear dresses to work, so I am perfecting the art of the quick injection through the clothes. I did my injection so fast at lunch with a co-worker the other day that she didn't even notice I had done anything. Stealthy!
(Hmm, just realizing you can't spell "healthy" without most of "stealthy"...)
I have been seeing a lot more numbers under 200 mg/dl, which is awesome for me. I am satisfied with smaller amounts of food, and about that? I'm finding if you don't take the Symlin at least 10 minutes before your lunch, you will suddenly find yourself stuffed in the middle of whatever you chose for your lunch that day. I tend to eat one thing at a time, so it's kind of a let-down if you were looking forward to soup while wondering if you are even going to be able to finish your salad. (First World problems!)
What's really unpleasant is counting the exact number of carbs, bolusing, eating and then dropping like a rock an hour and a half later. They are very spikey drops, and with no CGMS, I'm not really sure how fast I'm falling. If I test after a meal, like last night, and my BG is at 92 mg/dl, and I'm experiencing low symptoms, it's a good bet to just eat some sugar and hope for the best. I had some glucose tabs and an hour and a half later I was at 97 mg/dl.
Those are the effects of Symlin right there. I also forgot about how sometimes when I am on Symlin, my highs sometimes start feeling like lows, just a little. Normally highs are just times when I'm sleepy, cranky and thirsty, but with Symlin, some of them have been joined by that weird adrenaline-rush drifty feeling.
For the most part, Symlin and I are pals. Will this progress into a long-term relationship? I guess we'll see. Stick around, and maybe you'll find out.
The random sweating during the day, the occasionally floaty feeling in my head. Is my blood sugar dropping? Is it just kind of a faux-low because I am going from high to normal?
Symlin has been going well so far. I am ramping up my doses very slowly, because I remember that's what worked best for me last time. Going from one dose to another too quickly definitely brought on the nausea, and nobody likes that. I was surprised at how simple it was to re-adjust to pen injections after so many years on a pump. I had forgotten what all that knob-twisting and priming felt like. I tend to wear dresses to work, so I am perfecting the art of the quick injection through the clothes. I did my injection so fast at lunch with a co-worker the other day that she didn't even notice I had done anything. Stealthy!
(Hmm, just realizing you can't spell "healthy" without most of "stealthy"...)
I have been seeing a lot more numbers under 200 mg/dl, which is awesome for me. I am satisfied with smaller amounts of food, and about that? I'm finding if you don't take the Symlin at least 10 minutes before your lunch, you will suddenly find yourself stuffed in the middle of whatever you chose for your lunch that day. I tend to eat one thing at a time, so it's kind of a let-down if you were looking forward to soup while wondering if you are even going to be able to finish your salad. (First World problems!)
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| Not THIS kind of Symlin pen, silly. |
Those are the effects of Symlin right there. I also forgot about how sometimes when I am on Symlin, my highs sometimes start feeling like lows, just a little. Normally highs are just times when I'm sleepy, cranky and thirsty, but with Symlin, some of them have been joined by that weird adrenaline-rush drifty feeling.
For the most part, Symlin and I are pals. Will this progress into a long-term relationship? I guess we'll see. Stick around, and maybe you'll find out.
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