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Keeping your mind and body in check - popular topics in health and medicine to maintain a long and healthy life.
My Never Ending Fight
Hello, my name is Amanda. I hope to inspire someone with my story so let's get into it and cut the beating around the bush. When I was born the doctors had trouble keeping my body temperature stable. I was either too hot from the waist down and cold from the waist up or vice versa so with this being said, I couldn't be out of the incubator.
By Amanda Turrubiate8 years ago in Longevity
My Blood Clot Survival Story
A near death experience is never something that I thought would ever happen to me. That was always something that happened to someone on television, or even down the street. Up until the age of 23, the most serious surgery I ever had was getting my wisdom teeth out. I never thought as summer was winding down in August 2013, and as I began to prepare to move back to University, that my health and my life would drastically change in the form of a large blood clot. I want to bring awareness to my condition in the hopes that it can help someone else who has experienced this or prevent it from happening to someone else.
By Sarah Franchi8 years ago in Longevity
Why I Want to Become a Certified Diabetes Educator
I want to study diabetes education because of every educator who helped me. I mean I don’t care about making money so much as I care about helping other people. If I can have full control over my diabetes, so many people will be inspired to follow this. Diabetes self-management is an interactive process with an educator who tells you what to do to fix various problems, such as my middle of the night high blood sugar at 2:00 AM, which means that I had an undocumented low blood sugar before 2:00 AM.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
Why I Want to Become a Certified Diabetes Educator
I want to study to be a diabetes educator because I want to help other people beat the apathy they sometimes have to take care of their diabetes. Sometimes it just happens. Not everybody is as motivated as I am to take care of his or her diabetes. This is why I tell myself I want to study diabetes education for both type-1 and type-2 diabetes. Many people are nowhere near as motivated as I am to take care of themselves. Obviously, my medication is a huge part of my treatment because I feel good daily instead of as terrible as I felt in high school and up until my 20s.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
Infusing Can Improve Diabetes Control
By infusing, you are taking your life into your hands. It is a great way to manage diabetes but also, you must be wary of making sure you have a working set every single day you use it. My infusion set model is the silhouette model infusion set. I have a round device with three prongs on it because the connector then inserts into the set itself. Super-strong tape makes up the other portion of the device. My machine is the 630G system because I upgraded to a color screen as well as more readable screens in general.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
How to Improve Diabetes Control
Improving diabetes control with an insulin pump is one of the easiest solutions to diabetes management in the world. Shots are bad because you get peaks at exact times—you have to eat no matter what. The pump gives you any time flexibility. Basically, shots are about the act of eating or die trying. This is why shots don’t work for me. Back in junior college, I had a hectic lifestyle. In college, I strived to make it less hectic as I went to school in San Francisco. I was taking meds for most of college but there was one quarter or so I decided not to do meds. It was not too difficult, but rather than mess myself up, I went back on the meds.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
Iron Deficiency: One Woman's Story
It had been an unusual year in my life. I had changed jobs, changed social circles, had my adult children move home. The previous year I had been leader of two different bands, and my life had been immersed with music, but I had stepped out of both—a huge change. I’d had car troubles repeatedly—was in a collision with a deer which totaled one vehicle and left me healing from whiplash while the replacement vehicle I purchased for cash blew its engine after only six weeks. Worse was the sad reality that nine people within my social circle had died in a fifteen-month period. I was exhausted. A year of relentless stress had taken a huge toll.
By Leigh Macfarlane8 years ago in Longevity
Diabetes Anniversary and Its Solar Return
Every May I look forward to giving myself plenty of treats as well as incentives to keep on fighting the good fight in order to get an average of 135 and then being able to eat whatever I want to. I have cut cornflakes out of my diet completely for one. I managed to nail good middle of the night ones this evening. But I was low at lunch at 101, which I count as low, and it forced me to eat lunch without insulin so I went up to 260, and I was able to get myself down to 216. I’m going back to the meds at an 8 PM schedule, or even perhaps the meds at a 9 PM schedule.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
The Truth About Being on Sick Leave
Every once in a while, you might find yourself having to time off sick for illness. Sometimes it might be for a day, other times it could be for a couple of weeks or more. If like me, you don't often get ill, this can be a pretty strange and sometimes soul-crushing experience. Maybe not so much as being at work during a particularly bad time, but soul crushing nonetheless.
By Lynsey Spence8 years ago in Longevity
Living With Hearing Aids
I'm 37 and I’ve had hearing aids full time for around 17 years, but have been deaf for much longer. We first noticed I was deaf when I was 8 years of age. There was a theory that the chicken pox I had at the time killed the nerve in the right ear, though this idea was confusing when my earing became better in the right and less in the left.
By John A. Cole8 years ago in Longevity
