Friday ramblings
I'm in bed as I type, courtesy of some bug that's been floating around the family and the office.Despite diabetes I'm usually fairly healthy, but diabetes means my immune system doesn't work as well as it should. My blood sugars have been high all day, and wouldn't go down even with extra insulin. That gave me a chance to think about how I felt, and I had to admit to having caught something. Oh well, hopefully I'll be back on my feet before the weekend is out.
So here are a few links for Friday. I hope everyone has a wonderful Veteran's Day weekend. Keep our military men and women in your prayers, they need our support.
Today is D-blog day. If you're new to the blogosphere, you'll find lots of great bloggers writing about diabetes-related issues.
I've mentioned the diabetes search engine before. Right now it uses Google technology to search over 750 sites for information about diabetes. I'm probably adding around 20 sites a week to the engine so hopefully it's getting more useful over time. And the money that's raised by advertising revenue goes to diabetes research causes. Please try it out and let me know what you think. If you know of a good diabetes site that's not in there let know about that too.
Recently I found the SafeSittings web site. (The owner is a member of TuDiabetes.) What do they do?
SAFESITTINGS is a nationwide website that makes available teens with Type 1 diabetes as babysitters for children with diabetes. These teens have been managing their own care for many years. They understand the dangerous highs ands lows inherent in the disease and have the skills to test blood sugars, give insulin injections, adjust insulin pumps and treat hypoglycemia.I imagine that for parents of children with diabetes, this might be a great service. And for teens with diabetes, it might be way to earn useful babysitting money and feel good about helping out a family. What a great concept!
I've been reading the Wall Street Journal Health Blog a lot. Good short articles about health-related issues. One of the recent posts is about the increase in use of adult meds by overweight children.
A small but growing number of children are taking medicines for high blood pressure, cholesterol and especially diabetes[my emphasis], according to an analysis presented at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting in Washington this week. One big reason: childhood obesity.So the bad news is that type 2 diabetes is on the rise in children. The good news (such as it is) that it's not a huge proportion, yet.
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Among the findings: America’s tweens, kids ages 10 to 14 more than doubled their use of type 2 diabetes meds during the studied period. Girls ages 10 to 14 showed a 166% increase. Still, the prevalence of use is still pretty low. For kids aged 15 to 19, the use of type 2 diabetes meds was only a tad more than one kid in a thousand in 2005.
I wish there was an easy way to improve these statistics.
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Labels: diabetes, health, nablopomo, veteran
posted by Bernard @ 7:23 PM
14 Comments:
Bernard-
I hope you feel better, soon.
And hey-- your D-Blog day haiku was lovely.
Take care,
Sandra
Hope you feel better Bernard. Even if you don't know what day it is :D
Bernard, I really hope you feel better quickly. Thank you for all you do.
Thanks for your kind words! And I hope you feel better.
My hubby's come down with something too, and I'm hoping that it's NOT only a matter of time until I have it. Ugh.
Happy D-Blog Day! I enjoyed your haiku too. Get well soon!
happy d-blog day, bernard.
hope you're back to your dandelion sniffing self soon! when i first read that on your profile, i swear i thought it said you'd wear a dandelion on your butthole instead of buttonhole, and i laughed so hard. and then laughed again so hard at my stupidity! haah!
bernard,
hope that you are already feeling better.
and thanks for reminding me about the search engine. I have some questions this morning; maybe I'll find some answers there.
I'm a day late but Happy D-Blog Day!
I hope you feel better soon!
Thank you for your kind comment yesterday.
Hope you're back on your feet quickly, Bernard. Happy belated D-Blog Day!
So sorry your feeling under the weather. This is the worst time of the year for those pesky bugs! I hope you start feeling better soon.
Hi Bernard--
Just wanted to say thanks for your helpful comments on my blog. I DID find Tu Diabetes and LOVE IT!
It is so great to find a d-community out here in the blog world.
Hope you feel better!
thanks for your comment.. I'm not living in Irleland, I just wish I was :P my dad grew up in kildare so I have uncle's over there still, every couple of years we go back to visit.
Hope you're feeling better, Bernard. Get well soon!
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