{"id":3804,"date":"2015-05-12T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2015-11-02T05:25:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T05:25:30","slug":"clean-it-out-diabetes-blog-week-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/12\/clean-it-out-diabetes-blog-week-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean it out &#8211; Diabetes Blog Week, Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bittersweetdiabetes.com\/p\/2015-diabetes-blog-week-topics-posts.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blogweek6.jpg\" alt=\"blogweek6\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blogweek6.jpg 250w, https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blogweek6-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s blog week topic is &#8216;Clean it Out&#8217;:<br \/>\n<i>What is in your diabetic closet that needs to be cleaned out?  This can be an actual physical belonging, or it can be something you&#8217;re mentally or emotionally hanging on to.  Why are you keeping it and why do you need to get rid of it?<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>But first a little music<\/h2>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t feel like you have to play this).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y6avIeGsaFs?start=88\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nPendulum, live at the B.I.C. 7th December 2010.<br \/>\nThis could have been my best gig ever.<\/p>\n<h2>Back to the story<\/h2>\n<p>Before I clean out my closet I should say that I know much of the current thinking about how Type 1 starts: the genetic markers, the illness, the gradual destruction of beta cells.<br \/>\nSo beta cells are destroyed by those nasty dazed-and-confused appalling marksmen Super T Cells?<br \/>\nSo diagnosis potentially happens when 80% of beta cells have been destroyed?<br \/>\nSo if you kept your kid in a bubble and they never got ill, their beta cells wouldn&#8217;t get destroyed then they&#8217;d never get Type 1 right?<br \/>\nBut you can&#8217;t keep your kid in a bubble and they will get ill and if they&#8217;ve got the genetic markers for Type 1 then a diagnosis seems almost inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>I know this.<\/p>\n<p>But I feel this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On 7th December 2010 I took Amy to her first ever gig, to a see Drum&#038;Bass\/Dance act named Pendulum. It was a heavy gig, laser lights everywhere, everyone dripping, it was probably not a normal only-just-10-year-old&#8217;s first gig.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d been looking forward to it forever, both playing their albums at every opportunity, counting down the minutes.<br \/>\nDays before the gig Amy got the sniffles, it never went away and if we didn&#8217;t have gig tickets we&#8217;d never have gone out that night.<br \/>\nBut we did.<br \/>\nIn the hall there was no water to be had and from memory fizzy full sugar drinks were the only thing keeping her awake. We both had a lot. It was so hot, both our thirsts were raging and the drinks never solved that. It also annoyed me that we missed a couple of songs because she needed the toilet.<br \/>\nBut it was a incredible gig and it would be rated as my best ever if it wasn&#8217;t tinged in sadness.<\/p>\n<p>The following days saw Amy get worse, never getting out of this &#8216;cold&#8217; she&#8217;d developed. She was probably really tired because of the gig too, right? That would explain her sleepiness, right?<br \/>\nChristmas arrived and everything was a whirlwind.<br \/>\nAll these late nights, that would explain her tiredness wouldn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nWithout regular meal times she drank whenever she chose, that would probably explain the getting up to go to the loo often don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>We never saw anything wrong with any of this.<br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t know what we were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks after the gig Amy was diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p>To recap then, it&#8217;s only when those beta cells get to a certain level that the condition develops?<br \/>\nOn that night, if we hadn&#8217;t gone out, if her body hadn&#8217;t got so run down, then possibly, just possibly she wouldn&#8217;t have lost so many beta cells in the following weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>A clean closet?<\/h2>\n<p>My closet doors are open, but it&#8217;ll never be clean.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s blog week topic is &#8216;Clean it Out&#8217;: What is in your diabetic closet that needs to be cleaned out? This can be an actual physical belonging, or it can be something you&#8217;re mentally or emotionally hanging on to. 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