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Apr 3

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The Art of Compliance.

Is the word “compliance” frightfully out-dated? Or misunderstood? This month, “compliance” is the word under investigation over at diaTribe, with some crowd-sourced input from fellow people with diabetes, stemming from the Facebook question, “As people with diabetes, how does the word ‘compliance’ strike you? (Positively? Negatively? Apathetically?)”

“As with everything related to diabetes, your mileage may vary, and the concept of “compliance” is no exception. For me, it can feel like the end-all, be-all assessment of my diabetes, like an A1c result. But even if the word itself stirs up some negative feelings, it does serve to remind me that the to-do list of diabetes is never fully checked-off, and while there are plenty of reasons to feel good about my efforts, there is always something I can do to improve. The quest towards “better” remains constant, and I have to remind myself that a label doesn’t matter as much as my actions, and their outcomes.”

Check out the full article over at diaTribe, and if you want to weigh in with your opinion, I’d love to hear it.

 

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May 30

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Link Circus.

My email inbox is swollen with resources and links and stuff to share, so I’m plunking it all down here before I forget.  Yes, that’s my system:

  • I’ve been following Kelly Close’s experience on the artificial pancreas with great interest, and you can, too, by checking out her Twitter feed.  The photos and video are amazing.

  • (And if you sign up to receive the diaTribe newsletter, you’ll be eligible for a free ebook about Targeting a Cure.  Details here!)
  • Gorgeous post from Melissa at Sweetly-Voiced:  “To people with diabetes, the word complication is code for “quietly life-shattering.” It’s a code word for failure.”
  • There’s a new article in JDRF Countdown about What T1D Teaches, about the lessons we learn from diabetes.  “What you learn overall, as a person with T1D or as a loved one who cares for someone with T1D, touches so many aspects of your life other than the food on your plate or the insulin in your syringe. Living with T1D, in any capacity, gives a perspective and insight that doesn’t live within the box of T1D.”  which contributions from some lovely folks in the DOC, like Meri, Pete, Leeanne, Samantha, Kelley, Kate, and Sean.   (And this is my favorite quote, possibly ever:  “Screw this, I’m eating cake!”)
  • I can’t unsee it.
  • Californians debate over who can administer an insulin injection at school goes before the CA high courts.  As someone who was in grade school before 504 plans came into play, I’m amazed at what it takes to manage the complexity of diabetes in today’s school system.
  • “But for crying out loud, if you throw me in a race with 1,000 other people and I’m clad in sunglasses and a hat and essentially draped in anonymity and more-or-less looking like everyone else about to make a run for it?  I’ll break out in hives, riddled with fear and panic.”  More about my fear of public exercising over at Animas.
  • Non-diabetes related, and ripped from The Bloggess, but I had to share this comic because it scared the pants off me.  It’s safe for work, but might make you scream.
  • Are you app-happy?  (Or are you an apphole?)  Talking about some of the apps that I actually use, over at The DX.
  • I think what strikes me most about this video of a teddy bear surgery is the voice of the narrator.  He seems to feel every bit of the pain of the teddy bear, and at the same time, he doesn’t care in the slightest.  Totally memorizing.
  • 10,000 views equals out to  $10,000 donation to the Diabetes Hands Foundation – can you help?  Sharing the link is awesome, but watching it a few times on your own is even awesomer (<– mangled English), so get on that.
  • “I think for me, the hardest thing about diabetes is that there are no days off.”  Short but poignant birthday post from my dear friend Karen.

I’m off to forever delete that animated .gif cartoon thing from my brain, because since I’ve watched it, I haven’t slept.  Or at least not properly.

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