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Last Day to Share Your (Pre-)Holiday Stories
I realize that we haven’t hit Christmas yet this year. And Hanukkah begins tonight at sundown — so maybe you haven’t yet experienced your Best or Worst of the Holidays with Diabetes for this year. But we’re asking anyway: share a story for a chance to win!
The DiabetesMine ‘Tis the Season! Survival Sweepstakes closes for submissions tonight at midnight Pacific. The idea was to gather past experiences in advance, to share with each other and hopefully be reminded of a thing or two we might want to either try or avoid this year, to make the season more enjoyable.
As a reminder, here are the contest parameters:
The “Best Of” category: share your triumphs and successes, like deftly estimating the carb content of Aunt Mildred’s sweet potatoes, overcoming the cookie overload temptation, or your very best comeback to your annoying cousin Bob.
The “Worst Of” category: share your stumbling blocks or something you tried that didn’t work — and your thoughts on how you might do it better this year. Maybe a failed attempt at cooking sugar-free, underestimating the carbs in Uncle Al’s killer egg nog, or “losing it” over a comment by the “Diabetes Police“?
Two winners will be chosen in each category. Each will win a fabulous prize pack including:
- 30% off a two-month membership with Fit4D personalized diabetes exercise coaching
- A medical ID bracelet from HAH Originals with free custom engraving
- A free diabetes supply carry case of your choice from StickMeDesigns
- A booklet of coupons for free treats from Blue Bunny ice cream
- free samples of HealthiFeet Diabetic Foot Cream
Just to get the “juices flowing” I’m going to share a story of my own from last year:
So there I was in sparkling, decorated, shopper-packed downtown San Francisco, with my three little girls, feeling fuzzy-headed. We’d taken the BART train into the City and were so anxious to get shopping that we hadn’t really eaten lunch — just stopped at a hot dog cart, where of course I could only eat the dog and not the (wheat-laden) bun. Still, for some reason I had dosed for lunch (?)
Next thing I know I’m standing on a very steep Up Escalator in the middle of the most enormous Old Navy store you’ve ever seen, with my arms full of dozens of clothing items. I remember wondering why my girls were all grinning so happily. Then suddenly I was SITTING on the Up Escalator with all those unpaid-for garments. My oldest daughter, then 11, somehow managed to get me off the moving staircase and onto the Third Floor, where I began groping mindlessly in my purse: there was something in there I wanted… She had the presence of mind to note that my slurred speech meant I needed sugar. So she got out my glucose tabs and had me eat a few. The brain light went on again, just enough for me to go downstairs and wait in a horrendous line to shell out over $500 for clothing. I don’t know what I bought for whom or why. When we got outside, I finally ate something real, and the whole Old Navy episode seemed dreamlike: did that really just happen? Some street Santa then rang his bell near my head, and that woke me up good.
No: I never returned any of the stuff. But no: I also never went shopping with my girls again without eating a meal and testing carefully beforehand. Especially not with all that holiday razzle-dazzle — I could have easily lost my little one in the crowd, scary!!
Moral of the story: holiday shopping is not for sloppy diabetics. BG control always does come first, even before amazing bargains!
Now, your turn…
And a very Happy Hanukkah tonight to all those who celebrate!
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The “worst of” this year is my forced, continued dependence upon big pharma and insurance companies who have no interest in diabetes other than to soak us for as much money as possible. This is why a forced govt. insurance plan is absolutely needed. No way will diabetics ever get fairly treated otherwise.
Posted by: Jim | December 11th, 2009 at 2:02 pmHappy Hanukkah Amy
Posted by: Bennet | December 12th, 2009 at 8:35 amI was in the store shoping and I headr a lady in the isle next to me talking to another lady about a business that brings in residual income because it offer products that are natural and people like.
I also heard her talking about this supplement called Lelive and how it helps to lower sugar, pressure, and cholestrol level. I became very interested and took down the website address because people in my family suffer for all of the aforementioned.
I went to the website and saw the product and reviews on it. I became excited after so many people boasted about the product. I believe that it was God that had me to shop in that store that morning because it was not my usual shopping place. I took a leap of faith and signed up into the company and order me some of the products. Wow I was so amaze after a few of the people I gave the supplement to called me the thrid day and say they were feeling great, after they took their sugar test and their blood sugar level had dropped. My cousin was even happier after 1 month of taking the product reverse her cholestrol .
I do not care if I make another dollar from the company becaused their product have change the lives of the people I care about.
Try it for yourself http://www.ardysslife.com/lifeisgood89
Posted by: Venissa | December 12th, 2009 at 11:11 amI just wanted to say thank you to Jim for feeling the same way I do. He said it so well. Happy Hanukkah Amy.
Posted by: Carolee Parsons | December 12th, 2009 at 1:14 pmWell here we go another diabetic trying to reach the world. Glad lance has stepped up hope he will be better than most of the cheezy shots at getting diabetes on the map! My international book has changed more lives that I would ever imagined. Ask why? It is from the heart and trenches of the possible complications. Most sites do not want me to talk on theirs because i simply have done a better job than they have. Fighting diabetes should not be edited by money folks. Happy Birthday Jesus!
Posted by: Gregg | December 15th, 2009 at 4:05 pm