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12 Days to Go!

[2009]

A relatively short 12 days will fly by, I know. I had a meeting with the diabetes educator last Monday and all is going well.

Next week we work out, via a formula, what my basal insulin will be for the pump. Then the following Monday, it’s pump-start day!

The protocol requires my starting basal insulin to be approved by my wonderful endo, who is 1 hour away. Faxes are still very useful, although not for me.

Failing any major catastrophes, it’s all systems go.

Someone else I know from two other internet forums started on his pump today. Here’s Henry’s blog.

I’m constantly amazed at what is to be learned in the field of managing diabetes. I’m more than convinced we don’t have nearly enough education about it. It’s definitely not just a matter of matching insulin to carbs. It’s so much more. So many are of the opinion (including me) that almost everything you eat can have an effect on your blood glucose. This is definitely true for me. Only 2 eggs in the morning, with nothing else, and my BGL will go up. I’ve proven this for years now. For me, a protein only meal still needs some insulin.

More learning about the incricacies of diabetes and more hoping that the pump-start day will be here really soon!

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Diabetes Types

Type 1 Diabetes autoimmune
Type 2 Diabetes many forms of non-autoimmune diabetes in both thin and overweight people
LADA - Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood officially classified as Type 1, or Type 1.5, a slow onset form of T1
Gestational Diabetes onset in pregnancy, often disappears after birth
MODY at least 6 forms of gene mutation causing defects in insulin production
PCOS & Type 2 polycystic ovarian syndrome and T2 often go together
NDM neonatal diabetes mellitus
Type AB unofficial term T1 with insulin resistance
MIDD maternally inherited T2 with some deafness
FPLD children with unusual fat distribution at puberty who develop insulin-resistant diabetes that are one of the following: type A syndrome, leprechaunism, and Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome
TNDM babies needing insulin at birth but not later in infancy. May again develop diabetes later in childhod/adulthood, may not require insulin treatment.
Diabetes associated with Friedreich's ataxia, cystic fibrosis, and hemochromatosis.
KPD ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD) is a widespread, emerging, heterogeneous syndrome characterized by patients who present with diabetic ketoacidosis or unprovoked ketosis but do not necessarily have the typical phenotype of autoimmune type 1 diabetes.

There are also other types related to other causes. Any more, or see mistakes? Please let me know!

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