# Welcome, introduce yourself here!
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145
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**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145 "2017-03-22T05:07:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Gary](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Gary)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/282 "2017-08-22T00:07:53Z")
> [@Annette13](#):
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> After a month of being terrified of food, eating carbless except for vegetables, taking medication and still having BGs too high during fasting times, I had to face the needle. My husband has been my champ through this whole process and even gave me the shot (low dose Levemir) every night while I worked on getting over that phobia.
Hi Annette, Welcome from another site newbie. As fate would have it I am also an insulin dependent T2, while this site seems to be mostly T1 there are a few of us T2 around.
Glad to have you with us.
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/283 "2017-08-22T00:20:26Z")
> [@Annette13](#):
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> Fast forward a few months…I am learning to celebrate the small victories, like two A1C tests in the 6’s
Two A1c’s in the 6’s, that is worthy of a celebration!
Greetings! Glad you found us. While this site has a bunch of T1s and Parents of T1’s, we have a growing group of T2’s. There are of course more similarities than differences, especially if you use insulin.
Here is a good recipe, my son who has D, and my non-D son love this one. It is quite low carb. We usually skip the fake sugar, and even when made with regular sugar is low carb and tasty.
> **[Keto Nanaimo Bars](https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/best-low-carb-nanaimo-bar-recipe/)**
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> The famed Canadian dessert gets a healthy makeover. These low carb, sugar-free nanaimo bars will blow you away!
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### Author:  [@Millz](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Millz)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/284 "2017-08-22T00:24:06Z")
Welcome Annette. It’s a big accomplishment to have 2 A1C’s in the 6’s just 6 mos after diagnosis (where you were over 12).
I’m glad you found your way here. I just mentioned to another member this weekend that “…we unlimited D’s need to support each other, we’re all in this together”. All of us!!
Lisa
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/285 "2017-08-22T00:45:22Z")
Welcome Annette!
> [@Annette13](#):
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> On a side-note, I am a sci-fi/fantasy fan, book-loving, documentary-addict, art-geek. I ride a motorcycle (when Michigan weather allows it), mentor a high-school robotics team, and sing really loud when driving–regardless of whether I am on my bike or in my car. Normally I am a pretty positive person, but the last 6 months have taught me a lot of humility (and empathy) in that department. I think it was a good lesson. At least that is how I have decided to take it.
That’s quite an awesome list of things to be involved in! I am a motorcycle fan as well although this past summer I sold my last motorcycle and decided I wouldn’t ride again until all my children were raised and on their own. I’m the bread-winner in my home and it was just irresponsible for me to do right now. There are so many crazies (I was driving a 1650 cc motorcycle and cars still didn’t see me) out there on the road in their boxes running me off the road, so I just handed in the towel for now. There is nothing more liberating than riding so my wife and I have talked about traveling the country on motorcycle when we retire…here’s hoping we keep that dream alive!
Very nice to meet you and I look forward to interacting with you in the years to come!
Harold
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/286 "2017-08-22T01:48:21Z")
> [@Annette13](#):
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> mentor a high-school robotics team
Almost forgot, my older son is on an FRC team (Lakemonsters 2635), great fun! Are you coaching an FRC team? That is really an intense spring season!
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/287 "2017-08-22T02:59:38Z")
> [@Annette13](#):
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> Hey all, I recently stumbled here.
Hi Annette,
Welcome here! Sorry about the circumstances leading to you being here, but glad you found us because this is a great place to learn and share. Whatever you are doing or trying, chances are someone here has done it and can provide information. Make yourself at home and ask or share!
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/288 "2017-08-22T16:46:28Z")
@Annette13, welcome!
I am really sorry about your diagnosis, and how much it must have spooked you this year. But I am so glad you found us!
> [@Annette13](#):
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> two A1C tests in the 6’s after being almost 12 when I was diagnosed in February and managing my insulin injections without having panic attacks.
These are major victories! Your A1Cs are awesome!
> [@Annette13](#):
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> food/exercise/medication balance to keep my BG 140 (or under) at all times
Do you have a CGM?
> [@Annette13](#):
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> I am a sci-fi/fantasy fan, book-loving, documentary-addict, art-geek. I ride a motorcycle (when Michigan weather allows it), mentor a high-school robotics team, and sing really loud when driving–regardless of whether I am on my bike or in my car.
Love your profile! Several of us are in the northern Midwest. I am in WI, and Lisa (@Millz) is in IL. We are book and art lovers here too, and my 12-year-old T1D son (middle school) is a coder! Hopefully, he will soon be in a robotics team 🙂
> [@Annette13](#):
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> I am a pretty positive person
My son’s diagnosis was difficult to accept too. This forum has made a huge difference to us in how we have learned to deal with it, both psychologically and in practical terms. I really look forward to your next posts!
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### Author:  [@Annette13](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Annette13)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/289 "2017-08-22T21:29:10Z")
I apologize for this being a little long, but I want to respond to everyone at once.
Many thanks to everyone for saying hello in return. I had to jump off and deal with something last night. To come back to all of you has been very hug-like. I appreciate it.
@docslotnick, @Chris, @Millz, and @Michel - thank you for the encouragement. I certainly am not down-playing the test results. I am very happy to have come this far (doctor is too), but I also know I have a long way to go. It does make me more confident that I can do this.
> [@Chris](#):
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> my older son is on an FRC team (Lakemonsters 2635), great fun! Are you coaching an FRC team?
Yes, yes, yes! My husband is a high school math and programming teacher and helped start our FRC team 10 years ago (we’re 2619 The Charge — we have the same “birth” year!). I went to watch their first competition and have been totally hooked since. It is one of the coolest things I get to do with my life. @Michel - I also work with our local FLL and FTC teams (middle school level for us in Michigan) in case you want any information for your son. What programming languages does he prefer?
> [@SLEE](#):
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> As fate would have it I am also an insulin dependent T2
Thank you for sharing. Learning that I would have to use insulin was more difficult for me to deal with than the initial diagnosis. It made me feel like I had screwed up and broken myself beyond repair. It took many meetings with my nutritionist/nurse to make me see that I believed a lot of very wrong things. I love that this forum is a mix of T1s, T2s and families because it puts a lot of things in perspective. And because D doesn’t follow some kind of exact pattern, and there is no manual, hearing what different people are dealing with and doing also keeps me learning and thinking.
> [@ClaudnDaye](#):
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> There are so many crazies (I was driving a 1650 cc motorcycle and cars still didn’t see me)
Wow. Yeah. I completely agree. Last August, a pick-up truck at a stop sign never saw me and turned right into me. I could see it coming and I couldn’t do anything to avoid it. A lot of folks were surprised when I bought a new bike this spring (bright red this time). I needed to do it for me. And maybe that makes me nuts, but I am not ready to give it up just yet.
@Michel - I am still learning the lingo/acronyms. I have no idea what CGM stands for but I saw a dictionary in the welcome FAQ and will get back to you. 🙂
Okay, I think I covered everything. If I missed you, I am sorry about that. I am sure we’ll connect again in time.
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/290 "2017-08-22T21:41:37Z")
CGM = Continuous Glucose Monitor. In the US that Means the Dexcom G4 or G5 or the Medtronic system.
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### Author:  [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/291 "2017-08-22T21:46:40Z")
@kenrick is at least a bit involved in a robotics program aren’t you @Kenrick ?
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/292 "2017-08-23T00:46:17Z")
> [@Annette13](#):
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> I also work with our local FLL and FTC teams (middle school level for us in Michigan) in case you want any information for your son. What programming languages does he prefer?
That’s really awesome! My son used a few learning languages for kids, then moved to javascript, and is now coding in java. I think this may be a stable language for him (although he and I are looking at Go and Kotlin right now).
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### Author:  [@kenrick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/kenrick)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/293 "2017-08-23T22:58:10Z")
Yeah! We do summer camps, host FLL and FTC competitions, and have a university club: [http://www.icebergrobotics.com/home/](http://www.icebergrobotics.com/home/)
If you want to go in any more detail on anything let me know 🙂 I am more of a coder myself. Java coding is the way to go for FTC!
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/295 "2017-08-24T03:08:28Z")
Unless you get into PL/SQL. Procedures, Functiins, packages, etc.
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/297 "2017-08-24T14:27:11Z")
Add some Powershell and you can do some great things in automatically loading your database.
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### Author:  [@TravelingOn](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/TravelingOn)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/298 "2017-08-25T08:58:08Z")
Hello! My name is Kim, I teach college, I am not a scientist, mathematician, or engineer and I don’t have diabetes. But my boyfriend (going on 17 years together, friends for 23!) has T1, diagnosed 11 years ago at age 26. We are in this together, and I’m presently the one in our family with the time to do the the forum reading and posting. 🙂
My boyfriend’s name is Eric, and he is also in computer security, but he is not the Eric of FUDiabetes fame. Which is confusing as hell to anyone I try to explain my-boyfriend-Eric+diabetes+this-guy-I-met-in-Vegas-at-the-Biohacking-village+FU-Eric+blood-sugar-management to (which has been coming up a lot lately, since I’ve been reading a lot of FUD).
I wound up here because I met Eric of FUDiabetes at a conference in Vegas and wound up attempting to extract a ton of dibe knowledge from him (and was successful)! Thanks for inviting me to the forum, Eric! Since, I’ve been trying to read up on all things T1 related here. (Goodness gracious, I’m to reply #485 or so in the swimming thread and it’s taken me three days! Thanks DM! You’re an inspiration!)
In eleven years of living with/loving someone with diabetes, I have to admit, coming to this site has made me both more happy and more defeated/sad than anything else. I think realizing that what we’ve been doing to manage T1 isn’t up to snuff (last A1C ~7+), and that there _is_ hope with experimentation and perseverance, is totally a double edged sword. We’ve been trying hard for more than ten years to get it under control, and Eric is a trooper and frequent BG tester and distance runner, but the general medical advice hasn’t really helped. And we’ve had access to purportedly excellent doctors in SF, NYC, and Orange County. Having an excellent doctor look you in the eye and tell you that it’s basically a disease you can’t outrun and that 190 is just good enough, just recognize that it’ll never be perfect, really sucks. We now have an endocrinologist in San Luis Obispo, CA (where we grew up and again live after years of moving around) and her NP who’s probably the best we’ve seen. But we’ve learned more from reading the posts and sports info here over the last week. Which is kinda sad, because, well, they’re doctors and instead of helpful info from them, it took me a meeting a random person at a conference that’s not even related to diabetes to get here! But I’m glad I did. Thank goodness I’m willing to chase anyone with a visible pump/CGM/interest in diabetes down and hound them for information!
Once I have my list of questions typed up and supported by a little pile of data (oh, carb counting, bolusing, exercise logging, chocolate milk recovery drinking, and BG, how often you’ve been running through my mind!) I will make a new thread with the hopes of getting those questions answered.
And thanks. Someone earlier mentioned that diabetes care is a full time job, and I agree. And I know that posting to a forum takes time to read, synthesize, and reply, and I appreciate everyone’s comments and willingness to lend an ear and a suggestion, and to spend their time participating in something like this. I look forward to getting to know everyone. (I’m also totally new at this online community thing, unless you count AOL in the 90’s and that was not actually a community). (Well, it might’ve been for you, but it was just a string of chat rooms for me. No offense to you if AOL was your thing!)
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### Author:  [@Boerenkool](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Boerenkool)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/299 "2017-08-25T09:03:53Z")
Hi Kim, welcome aboard!
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### Author:  [@Thomas](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Thomas)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/300 "2017-08-25T12:51:48Z")
> [@TravelingOn](#):
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> I’m also totally new at this online community thing, unless you count AOL in the 90’s and that was not actually a community). (Well, it might’ve been for you, but it was just a string of chat rooms for me.
Ditto.
lol
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/301 "2017-08-25T13:53:44Z")
> [@TravelingOn](#):
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> I think realizing that what we’ve been doing to manage T1 isn’t up to snuff (last A1C ~7+)
Kim, really glad you found Eric (no matter how). Sometimes life is a little random, but still works out.
Please don’t feel that you are failing with A1c’s in the 7’s. #1 that is where the doctors tell you that you should be. Many people on this board have A1c’s in the 5’s, and that is great, but not everyone can maintain those. There are many of us, who have loved ones with A1c’s in the 6’s and occasionally the 7’s and are comfortable with where we currently are.
I am willing to bet with a few adjustments your 7’s will become 6’s and maybe after some time, your 6’s will become 5’s. If you look at the research, while having a normal A1c is best, the worst increase in risk occurs above 7’s.
Hang in there, and really glad you met Eric and found us!
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/302 "2017-08-25T14:06:09Z")
@TravelingOn Don’t be depressed about consequences of a 7 A1c in the past. I’m sure my A1c was much higher than that for my first 30 years of D, and complications are something of which I have none.
Th fact that you are here and that you are committed to helping your boyfriend boxes very well for him. I’m sure with just a few minor tweaks 5.5 A1c’s are in his near future.
And Welcome!
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### Author:  [@Annette13](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Annette13)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/303 "2017-08-25T14:21:35Z")
@TravelingOn
I studied kung fu for years and sifu always only ever corrected 3 things when he was reviewing with each student. After observing all of my sehings doing the same thing, I asked why 3. He told me that anything more than 3 can be overwhelming and make students feel defeated. So, they pick the 3 most critical things. A lot of time those things will then help fix other issues.
So, please don’t feel like you and Eric are failing. You’ve made some amazing progress, and if you were given EVERYTHING you needed to adjust/change at the very beginning, it probably would have felt impossible. We’re all students at this and we’re all going to have “3 new things” to work on all the time. Just see it as that. You’ve gotten good. Now you can get better.
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