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bunions in your bacon bits 33, Male
Westminster, CO, United States

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bunions in your bacon bits added the blog post ''Touched' by Diabetes' Dec. 24, 2007

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Date diagnosed
March 6, 1986
Type of treatment you use
Shots, Diet and Exercise
Hometown (where you come from):
Loveland, CO
Where do you live? (City, Country)
Westminster, CO
What is the address for your blog or other web site, if any?
http://vodgut.livejournal.com
How did you find out about us? What were you searching for?
wife

Greetings Earthlings.

My wife recruited me here. In general I tend to just be some weirdo on the internet who happens to have the persistent annoyance of type 1 diabetes, and I often don't write a lot about diabetes itself. It is, however, interesting to at least share horror stories about this persistent annoyance with others who have dealt with the same in many ways.

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'Touched' by Diabetes

I'm always amused when I get an e-mail from this site. A community for people 'touched' by diabetes....because to me it doesn't seem like a touchy-feely type of disease. It seems more like a kick in the ribs, a backhand punch to the face, and finally a roundhouse kick to the solar plexus that sends us tumbling down about 7 flights of stairs. You know, something you can get up from and deal with, but it still smarts.

Then, when you try and punch it back, it grabs your arm and like a crue… Continue

Posted on December 24th, 2007 at 3:19pm — No Comments (Add)

Erotica for Diabetics

It occurs to me that Ning, and by inheritance, Tudiabetes, has an interface much like MySpace.com. This got me wondering, why doesn't tudiabetes share other qualities of MySpace? Specifically, all those random women with idealized profiles that want to be my friend on MySpace. You go to their profile, and they're all between 18 and 30, love to have some sort of fun and want you to go to their site to check out more pictures of them. But, wouldn't it be fun to have a Tudiabetes equivalent?…
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Posted on July 8th, 2007 at 3:28pm — 9 Comments (Add)

When do we eat?

I suppose I should go about writing something here. You know, actual content.

I've always fancied myself more of a humorist or satirist than someone who writes baleful pleas about the dire state of affairs. That said, I do think there is room for humor in living with diabetes. This past weekend, as my wife and I went out to lunch at a local restaurant, I got an embarassed and shocked look from an employee there who told me, "I can't believe you're wearing that shirt!"

What shi… Continue

Posted on June 11th, 2007 at 7:57pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 12:45pm on March 31st, 2008, Chad said…

Please help Chad reach his fundraising goal for the
Death Valley Ride to Cure Diabetes!
At 3:10pm on September 16th, 2007, Manny Hernandez said…
All good? Haven't seen you around lately.
At 12:30pm on July 8th, 2007, Sandra Miller said…
Hey Bunions-- just found you.

Oh yes, there is definitely room for humor in this (still chuckling over your very funny first post :-).

I'll keep checking in...
At 11:35pm on June 25th, 2007, Sara from Team Sweetpea said…
Hey Bunions-
I read your t-shirt post about 10 minutes ago and I'm still laughing. I am definitely buying myself one of those - so thanks!

-Sara
At 8:51am on June 23rd, 2007, Manny Hernandez said…
There's a workaround, if you feel comfortable with playing with technology. The way it would work is by using Yahoo! Pipes, basically a mechanism to aggregate RSS feeds from different sources, to create a SINGLE resulting RSS feed. What you'd do is pull the RSS feeds from each of your friends (each of the member pages has a little RSS link at the bottom the blog posts module). You combine those as part of a Yahoo! Pipe (I can refer you to one that I use myself for this very purpose, but on my personal blog, instead of here). Then you pull that RSS feed that comes out of the Pipe and paste it in the module you have access to in your "My Page" (to the left), and over time, any new posts made by your friends will appear as a feed on your "My Page" shortly after they are posted.

If this sounds like Chinese, it is a bit... :)

If you want to give it a shot, let me know and I can give u the last few pointers you'd need.
At 6:19pm on June 22nd, 2007, Manny Hernandez said…
Also, for what it's worth, I set up Regional Groups, so that people can connect more conveniently with others in their "vicinity". One of the groups (just click on the tab at the top) is called "US - Mountain".

Hope you dig this!
At 6:18pm on June 22nd, 2007, Manny Hernandez said…
Hey there!

I have an update for you. The folks at Ning.com (the platform on which TuDiabetes runs) are working on many updates, one of which is a New Activity Dashboard, for seeing all the latest activity among your friends.

I thought you'd be happy about this! :)
At 7:27pm on June 15th, 2007, Scott Strumello said…
Good .... I'm glad I'm not the lone ranger in my opinions on this subject ... sometimes I think I am!
At 10:45am on June 15th, 2007, Scott Strumello said…
My take on this isn't quite so rosy, for the past 30 years, we've heard countless stories of how much better treatment is, yet the National Institutes of Health's own findings suggest that in spite of those monumental improvements, glycemic control has barely changed since the late 1980's.

I think a few quotes from several prominent diabetes authorities substantiate my thoughts on this issue.

In the words of Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, MD, President and Director Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School as published in "Conquering Diabetes: A Strategic Plan for the 21st Century" full report from the Congressionally-appointed Diabetes Working Group, 1999", page 27):

"Genetic engineering of the insulin molecule and new methods of delivery have improved insulin therapy, but in essence, the treatment for Type 1 diabetes has changed little since insulin was discovered."

Another quote, this one from Dr. Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., former Director National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Recent Devlopments in Research on Type 1 Diabetes before the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on June 21, 2005:

"Insulin therapy, via daily injections or a pump, is a poor substitute for the body's exquisitely precise regulation of blood glucose by insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells."
At 11:46am on June 12th, 2007, Manny Hernandez said…
Here's a link to the "View Thread" thing I am telling you below:
http://www.tudiabetes.com/profiles/comment/thread?screenName=vodgut
 
 

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