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Weird Together. | Six Until Me - diabetes blog
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By Kerri Sparling on September 30, 2013. I travel a bit and go to conferences and events where there are people who have diabetes, too. It can be kind of isolating, diabetes, so knowing other people who have it makes it easier to manage on all levels. Does that make sense? Yeah It’s like, ‘Hey, we’re weird together.’ And when you’re weird together, you get closer. I laughed, harder than I’d meant to. Yes, that’s it. That’s it, exactly, and a very eloquent description, at that. Er didn’t make their presen...
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Filling Back Up. | Six Until Me - diabetes blog
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By Kerri Sparling on September 12, 2013. It whispered in my ear two January’s ago, when a low blood sugar came too close to becoming terrifying. As I felt the whoosh of that bullet go by. I’d never felt anything like that before, that aftermath of fear and numbness. Then I marked twenty six years with type 1 diabetes. And I just wanted to outrun this disease, to stay ahead of it, to pretend that it can’t ever possibly catch me. S, with all the accompanying ugliness and arrogance, power and determination,...
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