Health Activist Choice! Write about what you want today.
Hmmm...I kinda did that in my last post.
I'll talk aboutl ast night then.
Last night I went to hang out with two very good friends of mine. We were doing dinner and a movie. They invited another friend of theirs who is very nice. At one point during the movie, my friend moved and hit my insulin pump and we just kinda joked about it. The friend overheard and started asking lots of questions about my diabetes. Now, usually I like to answer these questions, but sometimes I get in a mode where I really just want to enjoy what I'm doing and not have to think about diabetes. I'm sure it was frustrating for her that my answers were pretty short and not very informative, but sometimes I just want to sit back and watch a movie and enjoy what I am doing, without diabetes getting in the way.
Just another moment where I wanted to be JUST Allison.
April 7, 2012
April 6, 2012
Haiku This.
Health haiku. Write a haiku about your health focus. 5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables. Write as many as you like.
No. I disagree with writing any sort of poetry...and reading it as well. I'm going to write about insurance.
Insurance can drive me crazy. I'm very very grateful to have insurance, don't get me wrong, but it can drive me batty. The thing on my mind lately with insurance is that you have to go with whatever brands they cover, not with what you work with the best.
I grew up with Kaiser and Kaiser covered Minimed and Lifescan products. LOVE all these products. Then I was under my own insurance. Covered the same stuff. Awesome. Then my work changed insurances and they wouldn't cover the specific insulin I was on, so I had to pay the higher premium to get the one that worked best for me. (Which we found out later it didn't matter...it was just one vial of insulin that was bad...but that's a story for another day) They covered different strips so I had to get a different blood testing meter...one that did not talk to my pump. But when I got my sensor, my Dr. wanted me to use the meter that talked to my pump so I paid the higher premium for the other strips, but by this point we realized that I could use either insulin, so I started using the one that was covered by the new insurance. So, at this point I'm still using the stuff that I used to with Kaiser, that I loved, just paying much more for it!
Then when I got let go at work and got a job at a different place, I had to wait two months before having insurance again, since I didn't want to pay 450 a month to have cobra. Awesome. Now I have to deal with setting up my new insurance. I am very grateful to have health insurance again, but now my insurance covers strips and a meter that I have never even heard of before. Who knows what else I am going to have to change.
Maybe it is just me, but I really like to use my certain brands that work well for me, that work together with all of my medical supplies. I wish that insurance didn't dictate what I'm allowed to use.
BUT I'm just glad to have insurance again and that nothing bad happened for those two months without health insurance!
No. I disagree with writing any sort of poetry...and reading it as well. I'm going to write about insurance.
Insurance can drive me crazy. I'm very very grateful to have insurance, don't get me wrong, but it can drive me batty. The thing on my mind lately with insurance is that you have to go with whatever brands they cover, not with what you work with the best.
I grew up with Kaiser and Kaiser covered Minimed and Lifescan products. LOVE all these products. Then I was under my own insurance. Covered the same stuff. Awesome. Then my work changed insurances and they wouldn't cover the specific insulin I was on, so I had to pay the higher premium to get the one that worked best for me. (Which we found out later it didn't matter...it was just one vial of insulin that was bad...but that's a story for another day) They covered different strips so I had to get a different blood testing meter...one that did not talk to my pump. But when I got my sensor, my Dr. wanted me to use the meter that talked to my pump so I paid the higher premium for the other strips, but by this point we realized that I could use either insulin, so I started using the one that was covered by the new insurance. So, at this point I'm still using the stuff that I used to with Kaiser, that I loved, just paying much more for it!
Then when I got let go at work and got a job at a different place, I had to wait two months before having insurance again, since I didn't want to pay 450 a month to have cobra. Awesome. Now I have to deal with setting up my new insurance. I am very grateful to have health insurance again, but now my insurance covers strips and a meter that I have never even heard of before. Who knows what else I am going to have to change.
Maybe it is just me, but I really like to use my certain brands that work well for me, that work together with all of my medical supplies. I wish that insurance didn't dictate what I'm allowed to use.
BUT I'm just glad to have insurance again and that nothing bad happened for those two months without health insurance!
April 5, 2012
Ekphrasis
Ekphrasis Post. Go to flickr.com/explore and write a post inspired by the image. Can you link it to your health focus? Don’t forget to post the image!
I don't really know where to go with this....
Yeah.
Ok, I can relate it to diabetes. Sometimes I feel like diabetes is taking over my life. And therefore I am faceless. Just like the woman in this picture. She is being taken over by the materials that seem to run her life. But someone is reaching out to her...mmmmaybe for help to get out of the craziness? Just like I use my friends to help me get out of the craziness.
It is a stretch.
What the heck does Ekphrasis mean?
On a funnier note....
Today I was at work and the lawyer in the office came up and offered me some chocolate just after he had offered the girl in front of me chocolate. As he walked away all of a sudden something thunked REALLY hard against my forehead! OUCH! What was that? Then I see my co worker pop her head up in horror! She had received chocolate from the lawyer as well and when she realized that it was dark chocolate, which apparently she doesn't like, she tried to chuck it at him...missing the further away him and hitting me right in the forehead from two feet away! I had a slight bump and complained of dizziness the rest of the day. The whole office had a good laugh out of it!
Maybe I won't have to go into work tomorrow...
The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012 (#HAWMC)
I don't really know where to go with this....
Yeah.
Ok, I can relate it to diabetes. Sometimes I feel like diabetes is taking over my life. And therefore I am faceless. Just like the woman in this picture. She is being taken over by the materials that seem to run her life. But someone is reaching out to her...mmmmaybe for help to get out of the craziness? Just like I use my friends to help me get out of the craziness.
It is a stretch.
What the heck does Ekphrasis mean?
On a funnier note....
Today I was at work and the lawyer in the office came up and offered me some chocolate just after he had offered the girl in front of me chocolate. As he walked away all of a sudden something thunked REALLY hard against my forehead! OUCH! What was that? Then I see my co worker pop her head up in horror! She had received chocolate from the lawyer as well and when she realized that it was dark chocolate, which apparently she doesn't like, she tried to chuck it at him...missing the further away him and hitting me right in the forehead from two feet away! I had a slight bump and complained of dizziness the rest of the day. The whole office had a good laugh out of it!
Maybe I won't have to go into work tomorrow...
The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012 (#HAWMC)
April 4, 2012
Why I Write...
I write about my health because… Reflect on why you write about your health for 15-20 minutes without stopping.
Hmmm...ok...well, I probably write about my health first and foremost because I keep on getting emails saying that "they" are having a blogging challenge and then "they" send send me little prompts to write about each day. I would have to say that that is probably the main reason. The first time I took the challenge it was because I had seen it on a friend's blog and figured, why the heck not? I think I wrote a blog about why I decided to do it come to think of it. This second time around I took the challenge because I had fun doing it last time and a lot of my friends told me that they enjoyed reading my blog...that they were learning so much. Personally, I like it when people leave comments for me to read!
I write about my health because it is easier to write about it than talk about it. When you talk about things, there isn't a backspace and you can't take things back so easily. When I write about things, I can take all the time I want in order to form a sentence. When I talk about it, I'm concerned that I'm boring who ever I am talking to, but when I write about it, the reader can stop reading at any point and they don't have to feel obligated to have to read what I am writing. No one is forcing anyone to come to my blog to read what I am saying. In fact, I have very little knowledge of who is actually reading this.
I write about my health because it is a type of therapy. I can think things through this way. I can learn more about myself and others can learn about me and what is going on inside my head. It feels good to get it out.
I write about my health because I like to inform people. This is what it is like to be me. If you care to learn what it is like to be me, then you can read it, if you don't care to learn more about me, then you don't have to read it.
I write about my health because it is such a huge part of who I am, but I don't like to make it look that way on the outside. I am Allison the Diabetic, but mostly I just like to be just Allison on the outside. Writing about it, I can be Allison on the inside, who has hard times being diabetic and has normal times being diabetic, who has great times being diabetic. There isn't a very long period of time that goes by where I'm not penetrated by the fact that I'm diabetic, but people can't see that on the outside. I don't want to have that blaring in people's faces, but sometimes it is nice to be heard.
I write about my health because I think that sometimes I can be funnier when I'm writing. I can also express deeper feelings and thoughts when I'm writing. I've been told that when people read my writing, they can totally hear me in it. It makes me happy that I am what I write.
Has it been 15 minutes yet??
I write about my health because everyone has health. Everyone has some sort of health problem, and if they don't, they will some day. We can all relate to the pain and suffering of having health issues.
I write about my health becauseI hope that it will help someone with their own problems that they are going through. Or that it will help someone better understand someone else and be more compassionate towards that person.
I write about my health...because I want to.
Hmmm...ok...well, I probably write about my health first and foremost because I keep on getting emails saying that "they" are having a blogging challenge and then "they" send send me little prompts to write about each day. I would have to say that that is probably the main reason. The first time I took the challenge it was because I had seen it on a friend's blog and figured, why the heck not? I think I wrote a blog about why I decided to do it come to think of it. This second time around I took the challenge because I had fun doing it last time and a lot of my friends told me that they enjoyed reading my blog...that they were learning so much. Personally, I like it when people leave comments for me to read!
I write about my health because it is easier to write about it than talk about it. When you talk about things, there isn't a backspace and you can't take things back so easily. When I write about things, I can take all the time I want in order to form a sentence. When I talk about it, I'm concerned that I'm boring who ever I am talking to, but when I write about it, the reader can stop reading at any point and they don't have to feel obligated to have to read what I am writing. No one is forcing anyone to come to my blog to read what I am saying. In fact, I have very little knowledge of who is actually reading this.
I write about my health because it is a type of therapy. I can think things through this way. I can learn more about myself and others can learn about me and what is going on inside my head. It feels good to get it out.
I write about my health because I like to inform people. This is what it is like to be me. If you care to learn what it is like to be me, then you can read it, if you don't care to learn more about me, then you don't have to read it.
I write about my health because it is such a huge part of who I am, but I don't like to make it look that way on the outside. I am Allison the Diabetic, but mostly I just like to be just Allison on the outside. Writing about it, I can be Allison on the inside, who has hard times being diabetic and has normal times being diabetic, who has great times being diabetic. There isn't a very long period of time that goes by where I'm not penetrated by the fact that I'm diabetic, but people can't see that on the outside. I don't want to have that blaring in people's faces, but sometimes it is nice to be heard.
I write about my health because I think that sometimes I can be funnier when I'm writing. I can also express deeper feelings and thoughts when I'm writing. I've been told that when people read my writing, they can totally hear me in it. It makes me happy that I am what I write.
Has it been 15 minutes yet??
I write about my health because everyone has health. Everyone has some sort of health problem, and if they don't, they will some day. We can all relate to the pain and suffering of having health issues.
I write about my health becauseI hope that it will help someone with their own problems that they are going through. Or that it will help someone better understand someone else and be more compassionate towards that person.
I write about my health...because I want to.
April 3, 2012
Superpower
Superpower Day. If you had a superpower – what would it be? How would you use it?
Man, since I love traveling, I think that teleporting myself anywhere instantly would be fantastic. I mean really...come on, who doesn't want to be able to do that? Or to be able to freeze time like Evie in Out of This World...wait...did I just date myself? Youtube it. Half alien girl who can freeze time. You will not be disappointed.
Speaking of dating myself...I'm a full 6 years older than the girl at work today who was complaining about being old...I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Hmmm...but seriously, I think that the superpower of being able to heal mental, physical and emotional infirmities would be what I would like to pick. That is totally a superpower worth having. Really...you can have all the money in the world and if you don't feel well, you have nothing...or you are willing to give up anything just to feel good again. It sounds so cliche, but true. When you have a loved one who is in any sort of pain, you just want to be able to take it away. My superpower would be to take that away. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to take away death or anything, but it would be nice to feel 110% all the time!
How would I use it? For the good of man kind...and possibly to put doctors out of business? Hmmm. Make having health insurance obsolete...fabulous...I hate having to deal with health insurance! Sounds like i'm going to ruin the economy even more...
Bail out, anyone?
The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012 (#HAWMC)
Man, since I love traveling, I think that teleporting myself anywhere instantly would be fantastic. I mean really...come on, who doesn't want to be able to do that? Or to be able to freeze time like Evie in Out of This World...wait...did I just date myself? Youtube it. Half alien girl who can freeze time. You will not be disappointed.
Speaking of dating myself...I'm a full 6 years older than the girl at work today who was complaining about being old...I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Hmmm...but seriously, I think that the superpower of being able to heal mental, physical and emotional infirmities would be what I would like to pick. That is totally a superpower worth having. Really...you can have all the money in the world and if you don't feel well, you have nothing...or you are willing to give up anything just to feel good again. It sounds so cliche, but true. When you have a loved one who is in any sort of pain, you just want to be able to take it away. My superpower would be to take that away. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to take away death or anything, but it would be nice to feel 110% all the time!
How would I use it? For the good of man kind...and possibly to put doctors out of business? Hmmm. Make having health insurance obsolete...fabulous...I hate having to deal with health insurance! Sounds like i'm going to ruin the economy even more...
Bail out, anyone?
The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012 (#HAWMC)
April 2, 2012
Inspired Much?
Quotation Inspiration. Find a quote that inspires you (either positively or negatively) and free write about it for 15 minutes.
So, I had this roommate in college, Shauna, (who is still one of my best friends) who loved motivational quotes and such. I aways made fun of her for this and found this for her one day:
~Jasper Carrott
I don't know who Jasper Carrott is, but pretty sure this is true. Laughter is the best medicine. It makes me feel so much better when I have a good laugh, especially when it comes a long with a good chat with one of my best friends...you know, when you talk and laugh for hours and say over and over again "I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard"? Yeah, I live for times like that. I'll smile for a while after leaving that type of situation. I love it. The way it makes your whole body feel good. That and sneezing...a good sneeze can just make you warm and fuzzy insdie. Insulin comes right up there as well, as Jasper says. A good old shot of insulin can take you from feeling like crap to not crap...after a while. It can take you from having to pee all the time, to not having to pee all the time. From feeling like you are going to throw up, to feeling less like you are going to throw up...to feeling normal again. Granted, it can also go the other way...all things in moderation of course...like too much insulin will make you want to cry, make you feel like you are going to die, make you feel like you want to die, make you sweat or think that you are losing your mind. But we can overlook that and remember the fact that it makes me feel better, makes me healthier and keeps me alive.
This clear liquid in a small vile keeps me alive...every day.
Yeah, Jasper, insulin comes pretty high on that list.
The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012 (#HAWMC)
So, I had this roommate in college, Shauna, (who is still one of my best friends) who loved motivational quotes and such. I aways made fun of her for this and found this for her one day:
I am very lucky that she put up with me, and that she still puts up with me! Now don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the motivational quotes and such, but I kinda like the demotivators even better...they are usually a lot more funny. Anyway, so I didn't really have any sort of favorite quote today to blog about. I tried to google "diabetes quotes" (I wanted it to have to do with diabetes so it would make it easier for me to come up with something to talk about for 15 minutes, but they were all pretty depressing. So I googled "funny diabetes quotes." I clearly didn't look for very long, but this is the first one that made sense:
"Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list."
~Jasper Carrott
I don't know who Jasper Carrott is, but pretty sure this is true. Laughter is the best medicine. It makes me feel so much better when I have a good laugh, especially when it comes a long with a good chat with one of my best friends...you know, when you talk and laugh for hours and say over and over again "I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard"? Yeah, I live for times like that. I'll smile for a while after leaving that type of situation. I love it. The way it makes your whole body feel good. That and sneezing...a good sneeze can just make you warm and fuzzy insdie. Insulin comes right up there as well, as Jasper says. A good old shot of insulin can take you from feeling like crap to not crap...after a while. It can take you from having to pee all the time, to not having to pee all the time. From feeling like you are going to throw up, to feeling less like you are going to throw up...to feeling normal again. Granted, it can also go the other way...all things in moderation of course...like too much insulin will make you want to cry, make you feel like you are going to die, make you feel like you want to die, make you sweat or think that you are losing your mind. But we can overlook that and remember the fact that it makes me feel better, makes me healthier and keeps me alive.
This clear liquid in a small vile keeps me alive...every day.
Yeah, Jasper, insulin comes pretty high on that list.
The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012 (#HAWMC)
April 1, 2012
Time Capsule
Time for the 30 Post in 30 Days again! You all excited? Probably since I have been MIA basically since the last one ended...mostly because life got crazy after being let go at work....stupid economy. Anyway, I'm going to try to stick to the promps this time:
"Health Time Capsule. Pretend you’re making a time capsule of you & your health focus that won’t be opened until 2112. What’s in it? What would people think of it when they found it?"
Hmmm....a Health Time Capsule? Clearly my health focus would be diabetes...I'd probably throw in a blood tester, insulin pump, syringe, insulin...you know...the normal stuff. Then I'd also clean out my purse and dump the millions of used blood test strips into it as well. It could be like packing peanuts or something? I'd probably then throw in some fruit snacks...those will be pretty nasty when they open it up in 100 years, but that's usually what I eat when my bloodsugar is low.
I'm sure when people open it up on 100 years they will think how crazy and huge everything is, because by then there will be electronic implantable pancreases that do everything for you. It will kinda be like how we react when we see old time cell phones. HA! Blood sugar testing will be obsolete, so they will think I'm slightly weird for throwing in all those old bloody strips.
The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012 (#HAWMC)
"Health Time Capsule. Pretend you’re making a time capsule of you & your health focus that won’t be opened until 2112. What’s in it? What would people think of it when they found it?"
Hmmm....a Health Time Capsule? Clearly my health focus would be diabetes...I'd probably throw in a blood tester, insulin pump, syringe, insulin...you know...the normal stuff. Then I'd also clean out my purse and dump the millions of used blood test strips into it as well. It could be like packing peanuts or something? I'd probably then throw in some fruit snacks...those will be pretty nasty when they open it up in 100 years, but that's usually what I eat when my bloodsugar is low.
I'm sure when people open it up on 100 years they will think how crazy and huge everything is, because by then there will be electronic implantable pancreases that do everything for you. It will kinda be like how we react when we see old time cell phones. HA! Blood sugar testing will be obsolete, so they will think I'm slightly weird for throwing in all those old bloody strips.
The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012 (#HAWMC)
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