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11-05-2007, 09:15 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 9
| | | If your having a hard time coping:
If your having a hard time coping with the fact that you have diabetes, find a someone you know who has it too and joke about with them. I have this friend in my school and we joke about stabbing ourselves with our novolog flex-pens and testing out blood sugar. We laugh so much about it. It really takes the stress off! So next time you feel down, pissed, or whatever, talk to a friend who has it and laugh it off! |
11-07-2007, 05:20 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: illinois
Posts: 3,316
| | | thaty's why i'm here....i have no diabetics in my life i can relate to. trish |
11-07-2007, 05:22 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
Posts: 144
| | I like that idea, but in my case it seems like an impossible thing to do! There are abolutely nobody in my entourage who has diabetes. Not even a type 2 person! I guess that is why it was so hard for me to cope with the disease for the last 4 years! I just started using diabetes forums and it helps a lot! I read a lot of stories that make me laugh! So, people, keep posting funny stories! 
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11-07-2007, 05:31 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sacramento California
Posts: 2,515
| | | Absolutely Pat.
Being around others that understand what having diabetes means and being able to joke about it is a huge stress reliever.
They(us?) should put us all on an island. How about we take over Hawaii? If any non D's come we take their pancreases. |
11-07-2007, 09:03 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 9
| | | Brian, why arent you a comedian? That has got to be the funniest thing i've heard in while! |
11-07-2007, 09:20 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Muncie, IN
Posts: 15
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Originally Posted by shockme  i have no diabetics in my life i can relate to. | I don't think I've seen a peer with diabetes since high school and then we were never really "close" friends.... For the most part diabetics have always been too disciplined for my liking. Is that weird?
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11-07-2007, 09:37 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Posts: 13
| | | I agree too. I don't know anyone of my friends, or even anyone my age that has diabetes. I like being on this forum and reading, it is like talking about it without even having to really talk, you know? But sometimes I feel like I am not discliplined enough and get down on myself for not "doing something else or better."
But what does help me sometimes is my best friend (who isnt diabetic) "pretends" she is to keep us both motivated to stay on our diet and exercies (which we are both doing anyways and it works out well that I really should watch it all now, ha) So it helps me stay on a good track and not feel like I am really missing out on a lot. Where do you think I could go or find local young adults that have diabetes in my city? A diabetes club or something?
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Incorrectly dx'ed type 2. 8/13/07
Correctly dx'ed type 1. 9/21/07
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11-07-2007, 09:44 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Muncie, IN
Posts: 15
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Originally Posted by ClaireElaine Where do you think I could go or find local young adults that have diabetes in my city? A diabetes club or something? | We should just start giving everyone in our cities diabetes so we're not alone... How would one do that? Hold hands? Make out? Punch them in the pancreas? That would have to be a very well placed shot.
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11-07-2007, 10:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sacramento California
Posts: 2,515
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Originally Posted by PatKn_07 Brian, why arent you a comedian? That has got to be the funniest thing i've heard in while! | lol imagine a non D reading our jokes. Just proving your point  .
For those that don't have In Real Life Friend diabetics, I highly recommend getting out there and finding some. I know that's so, SO, much easier said then done, but I gotta tell ya, when hanging out with other diabetics (the bigger the group the better imo) it just takes so much of the burden of diabetes off of you. It's like you get to release the top off of a bottle of shaken up soda then enjoy like it's a regular Coke lol.
That is the reason I am working for the diabetic youth foundation. The pay sucks, but being able to be around a company (a non profit, but none-the-less) with diabetics is pretty darn cool.
I know how tough it is to meet other diabetics too. When I lived in San Diego for a couple of years I didn't know any diabetics there. So I went to support groups and it was just a bunch of really old people who didn't look like they enjoyed life at all. |
11-08-2007, 12:45 AM
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| | | Its posts and threads like these that inspire people, it inspired me when i was wallowing in my self pity! |
11-08-2007, 01:05 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South Africa
Posts: 42
| | | I'm lucky in the fact that I have3 close friends, one of whom is my boss who i've worked with for the last 6years so he was really a big help when I was dx'd. even gave me a bg tester and enough humalog for 5 months
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11-08-2007, 02:29 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada
Posts: 121
| | | Although I don't have any friends with D the friends I do have pretty well make fun of it all they want... mostly about my 'no show' pancreas. But I do think it would be pretty sweet to have someone who knows what you go through day in and day out.
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11-08-2007, 07:33 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,417
| | | That's half the point of using this website IMO. |
11-08-2007, 06:58 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The music wasteland of CT
Posts: 172
| | | It's why I'm here.
Mike
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Can I get a little more bass in my monitor?
You obviously don't know how to have fun.
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11-10-2007, 06:42 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Up in the Rockies
Posts: 247
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Originally Posted by PatKn_07 ...and laugh it off! | I was at the dentist the other day. The Dental Assistant looks at my medical alert bracelet. She says "Oh, that's neat! Do you have to wear that all the time?" I say "No, only on the days I'm diabetic." Except it comes out "Mmmphh onnnyyy awwwnnnn ooommm eckkkk."
Joe
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