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This is what diabetes looks like

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Long time no blog! Happy Diabetes Awareness Month, I hope you're wearing plenty of blue. I have a bit of a habit of checking out when the going gets tough with my diabetes. I usually want to write but it's all a bit too hard. This leaves my blog looking pretty squeaky clean and like I've always got everything under control. Well I haven't but I'm trying again. Let me show you what diabetes looks like. First it does this Change your pump settings after months of laziness and then it does this And these are everywhere because your sugar meter case broke The green target zone was becoming uncharted land Uninterrupted sleep is overrated  My current set is taped down using a bandaid because it lost stickiness the day after I inserted it. There's chocolate wrappers and juiceboxes on my bed from the hypos of finally adjusted basal rates (I'm getting more insulin because my sugars are high). My meter case doesn't have an inner co...