Sometime this month is my 10th year diagnosed with diabetes.<\/p>\n
We\u2019d had a day off, probably a staff development day that I\u2019d already done in the summer. I took the day to get some medical issues taken care of, my glucose tolerance test and a mammogram. Not sure why they didn\u2019t get done in the summer but there you go. September is the start of a new insurance year for us teachers.<\/p>\n
I went to a lab in Irving, and had to drink some foul sugar filled liquid every few hours. As the day went I got madder and madder, but I thought part of it was being near where my best friend was killed and going to see his memorial site \u2013 it was less than a mile away from the lab.<\/p>\n
By the time I got to the mammogram site, I was so mad I wanted to hit someone and didn\u2019t care who. I wasn\u2019t very nice to anyone there, but they were okay.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t remember the weekend much, but to this day, remember that feeling of anger when I first got up and persisted as the morning went on. By the time I saw my first students, I knew there was something seriously wrong with me and that I couldn\u2019t handle the classroom. I had a call out to my doctor\u2019s office while they were trying to reach me through the front office. I remember they sent a sub up to me to tell me that my doctor\u2019s office needed to talk with me and see me immediately and that the sub was taking my classes until I was done.<\/p>\n
They immediately booked me into a diabetes education class and hooked me up with Metformin. I figured out pretty quickly that Metformin was doing the job and switched to mix insulin. That didn\u2019t do it either so we ended up with a mix and with a sliding scale.<\/p>\n
Two years later I was on a pump. <\/p>\n
Now, I\u2019m on my third insulin pump, soon to go to a 4th, liquid metformin, and using an diabetes alert dog. <\/p>\n
For 8 years I had pretty good control and then skidded off the wagon due to some environmental factors. My blood sugar was so high I was considering checking myself into a in-patient mental facility until I realized that it was the blood sugar. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s taken two years to get me back on the wagon, and the dog does a pretty good job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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