So, I found a sight that would be interesting for those of us who might be traveling in the next few months. A free online translator site called WorldLingo
Basically, you just type or cut & paste what ever phrase, words, or documents you like translated into over 15 different languages.
I think it's a wonderful tool for many reasons, especially for those of us who have to carry medical documents regarding our diabetes arsenal.
I think Jeff is aware of this site. Since he told me "I rocked" in Portuguese on my last post, a big shout out goes out to godat! .
Here are aome "travel friendly phrases" that might help us out on global trips that Diabetesaliciousness readers plan to take!
FYI - I'm only printing those languages that we could attempt to speak due to recognizable alpha characters.
Key Phrase number 1: "I'm a type 1 diabetic"
French: Je suis un diabétique de type 1
German: Ich bin ein Typ 1 diabetiker - Er aah, kind a makes me want to say in a thick B-aston accent, "Ich bin ein Berliner "
Italian: Sono un diabetico di tipo 1
Portuguese: Eu sou um tipo 1 diabetic
Spanish: Soy un diabético del tipo 1
Dutch: Ik ben een type 1diabeticus - Ok, I'm dying to say "I'm Diabeticus!"
Swedish: Förmiddag I en diabetiker för typ 1 - OK - Ever watch the movie "Splash"? I'm thinking about the scene when John Candy's chactor, speaks Swedish to the gaurds. He impresses them with certain phrases regading "body measurements" he learned by watching Swedish "Art" films. That's all I'm saying!
Key Phrase Number 2: "I'm a diabetic, I need to get to a pharmacy or Dr. immediately!"
French: Je suis un diabétique, je dois arriver à une pharmacie ou à un Dr. immédiatement !
German: Ich bin ein Diabetiker, muß ich an eine Apotheke oder an einen Dr. gelangen sofort!
Italian: Sono un diabetico, devo ottenere ad una farmacia o ad un Dott. immediatamente!
Portuguese: Eu sou um diabetic, eu necessito começar a um pharmacy ou a um Dr. imediatamente!
Spanish: Soy un diabético, necesito conseguir a una farmacia o a un Dr. ¡inmediatamente!
Dutch: Ik ben een diabeticus, moet ik aan een apotheek of Dr. krijgen. onmiddellijk!
Swedish: Förmiddag I en diabetiker, behöver jag att få till ett apotek eller en Dr. omgående!
Key phrase number 3 : "Excuse me, do you know where the bathroom is?"
French: M'excusez-vous, savez-vous où la salle de bains est ?
German: Mich, entschuldigen Sie wissen, wo das Badezimmer ist?
Italian: Lo scusate, sapete dove la stanza da bagno è?
Portuguese: Desculpa-me, você sabe onde o banheiro está?
Spanish: ¿Me excusa, usted sabe donde está el cuarto de baño?
Dutch: Me, excuseert weet u waar de badkamers is?
Swedish: Mig, ursäktar du vet var badrummen är?
Key phrase (s) number 4 : Yes, I' m a diabetic, and yes, I know I don't "look" like I am.
Yes. I'm allowed to eat chocolate, now shut up and give me some!
Your Mom!!
French: Oui, je suis un diabétique, et oui, je sais que je « ne regarde pas » comme je suis.
Oui. Je suis permis de manger du chocolat, en ferme maintenant vers le haut et me donne !
Votre maman ! !
German: Ja bin ich ein Diabetiker, und ja, weiß ich, daß ich nicht wie I Am. „schaue“.
Ja. Mir werde erlaubt, Schokolade zu essen, jetzt oben schließe und gebe mir einiges!
Ihre Mamma!!
Italian: Sì, sono un diabetico e sì, so che “non osservo„ come I Am.
Sì. Sono permesso mangiare il cioccolato, ora chiudo in su e mi dò alcuno!
Il vostro Mom!!
Portuguese: Sim, eu sou um diabetic, e sim, eu sei que eu “não olho” como eu sou.
Sim. Sou permitido comer o chocolate, fechado agora acima e dou-me eu algum!
Seu Mom!!
Spanish: Sí, soy un diabético, y sí, sé que “no miro” como soy.
Sí. ¡A me se permite comer el chocolate, ahora cierro para arriba y me doy alguno!
¡Su mamá!!
Dutch: Ja, ben ik een diabeticus, en ja, weet ik ik niet als ik ben „kijk“.
Ja. Ik mag chocolade eten, sluit nu en geef me wat!
Uw Mom!!
Swedish: Ja I-förmiddagen en diabetiker, och ja, vet jag att jag ”inte ser” förmiddag för något liknande I.
Ja. Tillåten förmiddag I att äta choklad, stänger nu upp och ger mig något!
Din Mom!!
When Pump Tubing Gets Fresh
I SWEAR, sometimes my pump tubing has a mind of its own & can be quite the cheeky little bastard!!
Human Rights and Health Freedom
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signatory of the US Declaration of Independence, and a committed believer in, and worker for human rights, made this prediction about medical freedom as long ago as 1776:
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic."
Now, in 2013, we are beginning to face the reality he foresaw. Conventional Medicine, led by the big pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma), is now organising itself as an 'undercover dictatorship'. Our individual medical freedoms are under increasing attack, with the concept of "healing" having been replaced by the "treatment" of disease, usually through expensive, highly toxic drugs and vaccines, and by invasive surgery.
Drug-based medicine dominates national health services throughout the so-called 'developed' world. The Conventional Medical Establishment, in the USA particularly, but with Britain not far behind, is dominated by Big Pharma companies, who are increasingly calling for medication to be ‘compulsory. And in doing so they appear to have the support of media organisations, including national press and the BBC.
Drug-based medicine dominates national health services throughout the so-called 'developed' world. The Conventional Medical Establishment, in the USA particularly, but with Britain not far behind, is dominated by Big Pharma companies, who are increasingly calling for medication to be ‘compulsory. And in doing so they appear to have the support of media organisations, including national press and the BBC.
Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in response to the ‘Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund’ lawsuit over an interstate raw milk ban in 2010, was quoted as giving this opinion.
“There is no generalized right to bodily and physical health”.
It is, perhaps, frightening for us to realise that they are probably quite correct in their opinion! Medical freedom is not firmly established in any of the main statements on Human Rights. Indeed, although most Human Rights documents cover Freedom of Speech, Thought, Conscience and Religion, the right to a free trial, and so on, Health Freedom is not specifically mentioned in any the following documents:
Threats to Health Freedom
The need for Health Freedom to be added to the key list of Human Rights is becoming daily more obvious, and can perhaps best be seen in these internet articles, merely a selection of articles that demonstrates what is going on throughout the world, mainly (but not exclusively) in the USA, Europe and Australia:
The list is endless. So although BigPharma, drug-based medicine dominates medical practice, the Conventional Medical Establishment is still not happy. It seems to be insisting that we must all take their medicine - whether we want to or not. Their mission appears to be that they have to 'save' us - because they think they know better than we do.
It is the stuff of all political dictatorships!
Why people want to 'opt out' of Conventional Medicine
There are many reasons for a substantial and growing number of people choosing to refuse Big Pharma drugs and vaccines.
- Pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are not safe, and many are positively dangerous, and sometime lethal.
- Pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are not as effective as the claims made for them, and many of them have been withdrawn as ultimately they have been found to be useless.
- Big Pharma drug companies do not tell us the whole truth, or anything like the full truth, about their drugs and vaccines. On many occasions, especially during the last decade, they have been caught acting fraudulently and dishonestly, both in their testing and marketing of drugs and vaccines.
- Governments, the NHS, even our doctors, have consistently failed to give us full and honest information about the drugs and vaccines they endorse, and particularly about their disease-inducing-effects (DIEs).
- The mainstream media have consistently failed to investigate the claims of the Conventional Medical Establishment, and to tell the public about the known health consequences of taking conventional drugs and vaccines.
- Although one of the major outcomes of conventional medicine are euphemistically called 'side-effects', there is now little doubt that medical drugs and vaccines are causing serious disease. And they are also responsible for killing large numbers of people too.
So opting out of conventional drug-based medicine is not just a reasonable position for patients to take, it is a sensible one too. So for health services and politicians to force people to have this type of medicine, and for the mainstream media to support this, is patently a breach of our human rights.
Patient Choice
Patient Choice is now the policy of all the main political parties in Britain. And they all agree that patients should have their choice of treatment through 'informed consent'. This policy is eminently sensible, and it is one that would (if properly implemented) uphold our Health Freedoms.
Unfortunately, the policy is not being implemented - for two main reasons.
- Patients are not being told about the shortfalls and dangers of conventional medical drugs and vaccines by the NHS until thousands of patients have been damaged. Nor does the mainstream media seem prepared to investigate, or play any role in letting us know about the dangers.
- Patient access to alternative medical therapies, such as Homeopathy, is being severely restricted because the NHS is now dominated and controlled by the Conventional Medical Establishment. See, for example, what is happening to the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital.
So whilst the Government, the Department of Health, and the NHS is saying that patients should, indeed, choose the way they wish to be treated ("No decision about me without me", as their White Paper stated), they have left it to local NHS Commissioning bodies to determine whether they can, or will make such treatment available to patients in their area.
In other words, patients can choose what form of treatment they prefer; but the NHS bureaucracy can, and are determining whether we can have it or not!
Give a Ford car salesman the right to determine whether we can buy a Volvo, and he is more than likely to say 'No'!
As British citizens, we have already paid for, and are entitled to health treatment. So it is particularly galling to realise that many people are being denied access to what we want, and forced to take what we do not want, by a medical monopoly within the NHS
Paternalism within the NHS is alive, well, and flourishing. And it is this paternalism, this idea that conventional drug-based doctors, and only these doctors, who know what is good for us who are currently depriving us of our health freedom.
Informed Consent
If Health Freedom is a 'human right', if there is to be 'Patient Choice' in healthcare provision, we need to remember one, very important thing:
"What "YOU" think about what "I" choose as medical treatment is quite immaterial;
and what "I" think about what "YOU" choose is, likewise, entirely irrelevant."
and what "I" think about what "YOU" choose is, likewise, entirely irrelevant."
Those of us who wish to 'opt out' of conventional drug-based medicine are often told that medicine has to be 'evidence based'. By this, they mean that scientific trials, and in particular 'Randomised Controlled Trials', or RCT's. are essential. Unfortunately, RCT's are at the very heart of drug-based medicine, and this 'science' has not protected patients from the harm and dangers of conventional drugs and vaccines.
But 'informed consent' is important. Without it, patients will not be in a position to decide what treatment they wish to have when they are ill. The need for reliable and accurate information about the variety of treatments that are available is vitally important to patient choice, and health freedom. This places a heavy responsibility on national governments and health services. In order to inform us, properly, they must be obliged to provide us with information, and do to do so fairly and impartially.
At the moment the NHS provides patients only with information about conventional (drug/vaccine-based) medicine, and even then, only a partial view focusing on its benefits. What this means is that many, if not most patients, believe that there is only one form of treatment, and they know nothing of the dangers.
Rarely are they told that the conventional drug and vaccine- based treatment might be harmful, and as a result, patients are unable to exercise and real health freedom, and their human rights are not being fulfilled.
Rarely are they told that the conventional drug and vaccine- based treatment might be harmful, and as a result, patients are unable to exercise and real health freedom, and their human rights are not being fulfilled.
Health Freedom as a Human Right
The right to the health treatment of our choice is a fundamental human right, and should be enshrined within all the statements describing these rights.
Health freedom needs to be enshrined within the practices of the NHS. The medical monopoly with the NHS needs to be broken, not least because it was never the intention that it should become a monopoly supplier of one type of medicine.
Things That Make Me Go...Hmmmmm?
There are lots of things in life that make me go “Hmmmm.” Some are Diabetes related, some are not.
I have a Mac Laptop, which I love, love, and love! When I get deep into writing (or watching “The Office” episodes downloaded from iTunes) I tend to scrunch my legs and rest the laptop against my knees & over my waist. My laptop battery gets hot, I mean like I could fry eggs on the bottom of it if I had to type hot. Sometimes it rests on my pump tubing and or pump. When I realize what’s going on I move my pump and tubing ASAP. But I still wonder, “Is it to late? Have I just fried the insulin in my pump?” Then I end up testing like crazy for an hour. The answer has yet to be “yes” but still,...you never know!
When I eat sliced celery, carrots, and sweet peppers, should I bolus for them? I don’t normally, unless I’m dipping them in hummus, but should I?
Do I really need to shift into forth if I’m only going 26 miles an hour?
Why do some people "syrup" and some people say "seer-up?"
Why is the guy on the Oxi-Clean commercial YELLING?
Why does Mucinex use talking chunks of phlegm to sell their product? SO DISGUSTING!
Sometimes when I wake up (especially when I use 43 inch pump tubing) I can’t find my pump. IS that normal or do I just require GPS tracking 24X7 for it? I really think GPS tracking, or “The Clapper” for my pump would be a good thing. Not to turn it on or off, but to set off an alarm to tell me where it actually is when it's not on my person. YES, I’ve missed placed my pump in the past.
Why do doorknobs have it out for my pump tubing?
Why is Paris Hilton famous? And why does she have a perfume? Who the hell wants to stank like that, or anyone else for that matter? Please see below post for a more "Diabetes"specific scent example -Say that three times fast!
Why do most on-line and print Editors fail to differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?? Same for On-air Reporters, freaking drives me NUTS!
Why does Airport Security know what my insulin pump is, but continually pull me aside because of my blood sugar machine?? Do not the two go hand in hand?
Why does the OLDIES station play 80's and 90's music??? They do not fall into the old music category! THEY DON'T BELONG THERE I TELL YOU!!!
How come I’ve cracked the “pump bolus code” for ice cream but the “pump bolus code” for pasta still continues to elude me?
And why does that bother me so much? I mean, I’ve figured out "Blood Sugar Nirvana" for ice cream so who cares about pasta!
I have a Mac Laptop, which I love, love, and love! When I get deep into writing (or watching “The Office” episodes downloaded from iTunes) I tend to scrunch my legs and rest the laptop against my knees & over my waist. My laptop battery gets hot, I mean like I could fry eggs on the bottom of it if I had to type hot. Sometimes it rests on my pump tubing and or pump. When I realize what’s going on I move my pump and tubing ASAP. But I still wonder, “Is it to late? Have I just fried the insulin in my pump?” Then I end up testing like crazy for an hour. The answer has yet to be “yes” but still,...you never know!
When I eat sliced celery, carrots, and sweet peppers, should I bolus for them? I don’t normally, unless I’m dipping them in hummus, but should I?
Do I really need to shift into forth if I’m only going 26 miles an hour?
Why do some people "syrup" and some people say "seer-up?"
Why is the guy on the Oxi-Clean commercial YELLING?
Why does Mucinex use talking chunks of phlegm to sell their product? SO DISGUSTING!
Sometimes when I wake up (especially when I use 43 inch pump tubing) I can’t find my pump. IS that normal or do I just require GPS tracking 24X7 for it? I really think GPS tracking, or “The Clapper” for my pump would be a good thing. Not to turn it on or off, but to set off an alarm to tell me where it actually is when it's not on my person. YES, I’ve missed placed my pump in the past.
Why do doorknobs have it out for my pump tubing?
Why is Paris Hilton famous? And why does she have a perfume? Who the hell wants to stank like that, or anyone else for that matter? Please see below post for a more "Diabetes"specific scent example -Say that three times fast!
Why do most on-line and print Editors fail to differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?? Same for On-air Reporters, freaking drives me NUTS!
Why does Airport Security know what my insulin pump is, but continually pull me aside because of my blood sugar machine?? Do not the two go hand in hand?
Why does the OLDIES station play 80's and 90's music??? They do not fall into the old music category! THEY DON'T BELONG THERE I TELL YOU!!!
How come I’ve cracked the “pump bolus code” for ice cream but the “pump bolus code” for pasta still continues to elude me?
And why does that bother me so much? I mean, I’ve figured out "Blood Sugar Nirvana" for ice cream so who cares about pasta!
Why Social Media Matters
The following post was written by Dana M. Lewis and the original link can be found by clicking: https://www.facebook.com/notes/dana-m-lewis/why-social-media-matters/181501591897591
Dana M. Lewis is a member of the diabetes on-line community, creator & moderator of the widely popular Health Care Social Media chat on Sunday nights (#HCSM) on Twitter and is currently employed as an Interactive Marketing Specialist for the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
She's also from Alabama and her post regarding How Social Media saved lives before and in the aftermath of the Tornado is incredibly powerful.
You need to read, learn, and share the link to her original post with everyone you know.
Thanks for writing such an inspiring link Dana!
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On April 27, a slew of tornadoes devastated my home. Home is where the heart is, and my family, friends, and the University of Alabama community are these places.
My family and immediate friends were very fortunate to have not been seriously injured or harmed during the
storm. However, there are still residents of Tuscaloosa and students from UA and others across the state who are injured and missing.
I watched online as a tornado, a half-mile wide, headed towards a heavily populated area of Tuscaloosa that was the epicenter of our community.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27, 2011.
Now it's gone.
I was powerless in the path of this tornado - I couldn't do anything from my computer in Seattle, Washington. Or so I thought.
But as I texted my parents and close friends to make sure they heard the warnings and headed to a safe place, I got texts back that said "keep us updated, you're our only source of information."
When the power went out, cell towers weren't working, and only text messages could get through, they relied on me in Tuscaloosa, Huntsville, and other parts of the state to let them know if and when additional storms and dangers were coming - and they were.
I watched multiple news stations online and used Twitter to disseminate information to those without power. Social media saved the lives of people who wouldn't otherwise have been alerted to get out of the path of the storm and inside to safety. As the storms passed, and people emerged, Facebook became the go-to resource to check on the well-being of friends and family, and to help get out the word for people who need to be found.
Today, in the aftermath of the storm, social media continues to empower us. It's keeping us informed and connecting us as a larger community. Like UA students pitched in to help AU students after one of their landmarks was destroyed, AU students and other schools are already busy collecting supplies, volunteers, and donations to help us rebuild.
Using these online networks, we're able to coordinate volunteers across the country, disseminate safety information, and track progress as we work to continue the search and rescue progress. We can direct people to shelter, supplies, and safety. We can't control the storms, but we can do our best to tackle these challenges that our community is facing.
This is why social media matters. If you want to help, help people stay informed. Spread the word about the status of services, the location of shelters and supplies, and connect people in need with resources. If you'd like specific ways to get involved, here's a good resource: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/28/how.to.help/index.html. In general, it sounds like supplies of all kinds are needed, especially clothes, toiletries, baby items. There's definitely a state-wide shortage of blood if you can donate.
Feel free to share or post parts or all of this to your blog, site, or favorite social media network. And please, help get the word out about how people can help.
Dana Lewis
Kudos & Big Props
Kudos and big props to my diabetes, because it played nice and worked well with others yesterday.
As you know, yesterday was the day I had two molars removed. I was scared, nervous, and I kept having the same thought repeating over and over again in my mind: Will diabetes work with me today, or against me?
The Diabetes "force" was with me, in every sense of the term. I woke up yesterday morning with a bg of 132. I had my breakfast, worked all morning and arrived at the Dentist at 11:30 a.m. and was home by 1, sans two molars and the amazing & freakish ability to speak like Don Corleone without even trying.
my blood sugars didn't go above 128, and that's including 2 Vanilla Haagen Dazs & soy milk shakes I had for my lunch and dinner, per Dr's orders of course! ;)
It wasn't all unicorns and fairy dust. I did wake up low twice in the middle of the night at 12:30 a.m. & 4:50 a.m. - but still managed a 7 a.m breakfast reading of 128.
I'm popping my penicillin, drinking my yogurt, and testing my blood sugars like a mad woman.
I'm at work right now, and my blood sugar as of 20 minutes ago was 131.
As much as Diabetes has the potential to throw a "monkey wrench" in our day to day plans, when diabetes agrees to work with us during life's challenges, I'll be the first one to publicly acknowledge and say "thanks" to the Big D for playing nice.
And speaking of thanks,THANK YOU guys from the bottom of this big old fraidy cat's imperfect pancreas for all of your comments, tweets, fb, and emails of support!
As you know, yesterday was the day I had two molars removed. I was scared, nervous, and I kept having the same thought repeating over and over again in my mind: Will diabetes work with me today, or against me?
The Diabetes "force" was with me, in every sense of the term. I woke up yesterday morning with a bg of 132. I had my breakfast, worked all morning and arrived at the Dentist at 11:30 a.m. and was home by 1, sans two molars and the amazing & freakish ability to speak like Don Corleone without even trying.
my blood sugars didn't go above 128, and that's including 2 Vanilla Haagen Dazs & soy milk shakes I had for my lunch and dinner, per Dr's orders of course! ;)
It wasn't all unicorns and fairy dust. I did wake up low twice in the middle of the night at 12:30 a.m. & 4:50 a.m. - but still managed a 7 a.m breakfast reading of 128.
I'm popping my penicillin, drinking my yogurt, and testing my blood sugars like a mad woman.
I'm at work right now, and my blood sugar as of 20 minutes ago was 131.
As much as Diabetes has the potential to throw a "monkey wrench" in our day to day plans, when diabetes agrees to work with us during life's challenges, I'll be the first one to publicly acknowledge and say "thanks" to the Big D for playing nice.
And speaking of thanks,THANK YOU guys from the bottom of this big old fraidy cat's imperfect pancreas for all of your comments, tweets, fb, and emails of support!
Vaccines: the research evidence
The Conventional Medical Establishment wants us all to get vaccinated - against a growing number of illnesses and diseases. In most cases, we are told these vaccines are 'entirely safe'. But they are not! Categorically, they are not!
What is the evidence for this unequivocal statement? In previous blogs I have tried to put together some of the evidence, but GreenMedTV have put together on this web page (click here) all (or at least most) of the research evidence for the adverse reactions they have been found to cause, It is a huge list, and this how they describe this evidence.
"The research below represents under-reported, minimized and otherwise overlooked peer-reviewed data on adverse effects associated with vaccination".
This is how the evidence has been collected together, and presented to the US government. Remember that in the USA, more so that the UK, there are much stronger representations from the Conventional Medical Establishment to make these toxic, and harmful vaccines, mandatory!
What is the evidence for this unequivocal statement? In previous blogs I have tried to put together some of the evidence, but GreenMedTV have put together on this web page (click here) all (or at least most) of the research evidence for the adverse reactions they have been found to cause, It is a huge list, and this how they describe this evidence.
"The research below represents under-reported, minimized and otherwise overlooked peer-reviewed data on adverse effects associated with vaccination".
This is how the evidence has been collected together, and presented to the US government. Remember that in the USA, more so that the UK, there are much stronger representations from the Conventional Medical Establishment to make these toxic, and harmful vaccines, mandatory!
Being Stalked By Tech Issues And Finding My Smile Again Thanks To #DSMA
The last few weeks have been plagued with technical issues on the work/home front and I'm really starting to think that I'm possessed.
Perhaps my body is giving off some freaky sort of electrical current that screws with my electrical surroundings. Or maybe some technical poltergeist is screwing with my word just because it feels like it.
OR MAYBE I'M JUST BEING STALKED.
Electrical weirdness is surrounding me in the form of light bulbs continually blowing out in my kitchen only a few weeks after being replaced.
My car's oil light suddenly flashing whenever I stepped on the breaks this past Saturday. even though it's a good 800 miles before I needed the oil to be changed.
My faulty mac needed to have its harddrive completely wiped and all new software reinstalled last week, which brought all sorts of inopertune realizations regarding mac's PAGES & NUMBERS programs this week.
These programs are great for me to figure out & use, but aren't so wonderful when trying to email work files to others who are sans mac technology.
And then yesterday I realized (after reinstalling my printerdrive software on Sunday,) that my scanner refused to actually, you know... scan. After googling the issue I found out that I needed to install scangear, which I did - and still, NOTHING HAPPENED. So YES, I'm still unable to scan or fax!
I was ready to throw both my mac & my canon pixma MP500 off a bridge and there may or may not have been some tears she on this end.
I was WORN OUT.
SO I logged on to twitter last night and participated in #DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy) twitter chat and was once again reminded just how fantastical the diabetes on-line community makes me feel.
The tweets were flying fast and I didn't feel alone or frustrated. I felt happy and part of the gang! By the time the hour chat (which felt like it was only 10minutes) was up, I was feeling all sorts of chipper and positive!
#DSMA & the DOC helped turn my frown upside down and I'm so grateful for that!
#DSMA/DOV, you brighten my world, continually make me laugh, smile, learn, and I love you!
To learn more about Diabetes Social Media Advocacy, click on the following link! http://diabetessocmed.com/
PS: This morning I was unable to log on to twitter for 6 hours, due to some freaky technical difficulty having to with God knows what. Like I said, I'M BEING STALKED!
Perhaps my body is giving off some freaky sort of electrical current that screws with my electrical surroundings. Or maybe some technical poltergeist is screwing with my word just because it feels like it.
OR MAYBE I'M JUST BEING STALKED.
Electrical weirdness is surrounding me in the form of light bulbs continually blowing out in my kitchen only a few weeks after being replaced.
My car's oil light suddenly flashing whenever I stepped on the breaks this past Saturday. even though it's a good 800 miles before I needed the oil to be changed.
My faulty mac needed to have its harddrive completely wiped and all new software reinstalled last week, which brought all sorts of inopertune realizations regarding mac's PAGES & NUMBERS programs this week.
These programs are great for me to figure out & use, but aren't so wonderful when trying to email work files to others who are sans mac technology.
And then yesterday I realized (after reinstalling my printerdrive software on Sunday,) that my scanner refused to actually, you know... scan. After googling the issue I found out that I needed to install scangear, which I did - and still, NOTHING HAPPENED. So YES, I'm still unable to scan or fax!
I was ready to throw both my mac & my canon pixma MP500 off a bridge and there may or may not have been some tears she on this end.
I was WORN OUT.
SO I logged on to twitter last night and participated in #DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy) twitter chat and was once again reminded just how fantastical the diabetes on-line community makes me feel.
The tweets were flying fast and I didn't feel alone or frustrated. I felt happy and part of the gang! By the time the hour chat (which felt like it was only 10minutes) was up, I was feeling all sorts of chipper and positive!
#DSMA & the DOC helped turn my frown upside down and I'm so grateful for that!
#DSMA/DOV, you brighten my world, continually make me laugh, smile, learn, and I love you!
To learn more about Diabetes Social Media Advocacy, click on the following link! http://diabetessocmed.com/
PS: This morning I was unable to log on to twitter for 6 hours, due to some freaky technical difficulty having to with God knows what. Like I said, I'M BEING STALKED!
D BlogVIlle - YOU ROcK!!
Well, you guys came to bat and put me to shame with DIABETES 36,or should I say DIABETES 56.
I am truly humbled.
Special "shout out" to Naomi for letting me mock her great brain a little! I was only joking sister - YOU ROcK!!
You all "ROcK" for that matter.
I wasn't sure what today's post was going to be about until I wrote the sentence above.
I just want to say THANKS to everyone in D'blogville. I've been writing my blog since November. Never did I think that when I started "Diabetesaliciousness I would meet so many wonderfully talented;funny, smart, informative blokes and I am so grateful that you've all become part of my world.
I love the fact that the folks in D'blogville are so supportive and funny.
I love that we all get one an other's issues regarding the Big D.
AND I love the fact that together, we really are making a difference.
Growing up, Diabetes was dealt with in my family (obviously, 4 of us at our dinner table were type 1's) BUT, to the rest of the world it seemed like it was "Kunik" family problem.
Occasionally, I'd get to meet other t1's and for two weeks, three summers in a row, I got to attend Camp Fire Fly, a diabetic camp in Spring Mountain PA. For those two weeks, I felt completely normal. Then I'd go back to the real world and be the medical oddity known as "Kelly K". I wa sthe girl @ school who shot up insulin (through my clothes when I really wanted to impress) and made her friends laugh about diabetes in order to make them comfortable.
Today, Diabetics are not only loud and proud, we make things happen.
The Diabetes community is making a difference in their OWN treatment and informing the public about OUR disease.
We are the ones who write the letters to any media outlet who spreads miss information to public (i.e. lumping t1 and t2 together), we are the ones "raising our voices," and we are the ones to make changes. We battle insurance companies, movie theaters (Jeff), and idiots annoying comments like "You must have the 'betes" real bad to be on a pump!"
I'm so proud to be part of such a strong community and find strength daily in your blogs, emails, articles, etc. I'm not only a better diabetic because of the D'Blogville, I'm a better PERSON because of being part of said community. I feel empowered by the folks of D'blogville and I hope I make u feel the same.
So THANKS guys, - You Rock!!!
