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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Two A1cās in the 6ās, that is worthy of a celebration!
Greetings! Glad you found us. While this site has a bunch of T1s and Parents of T1ās, we have a growing group of T2ās. 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.
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Welcome Annette. Itās a big accomplishment to have 2 A1Cās in the 6ās just 6 mos after diagnosis (where you were over 12).
Iām glad you found your way here. I just mentioned to another member this weekend that āā¦we unlimited Dās need to support each other, weāre all in this togetherā. All of us!!
Lisa
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Welcome Annette!
Thatās 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 wouldnāt ride again until all my children were raised and on their own. Iām 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 didnāt 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 retireā¦hereās 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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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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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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@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!
These are major victories! Your A1Cs are awesome!
Do you have a CGM?
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 
My sonās 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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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.
Yes, yes, yes! My husband is a high school math and programming teacher and helped start our FRC team 10 years ago (weāre 2619 The Charge ā we have the same ābirthā 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?
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 doesnāt 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.
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 couldnāt 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 weāll connect again in time.
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CGM = Continuous Glucose Monitor. In the US that Means the Dexcom G4 or G5 or the Medtronic system.
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Thatās 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).
Yeah! We do summer camps, host FLL and FTC competitions, and have a university club: 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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Unless you get into PL/SQL. Procedures, Functiins, packages, etc.
Add some Powershell and you can do some great things in automatically loading your database.
Hello! My name is Kim, I teach college, I am not a scientist, mathematician, or engineer and I donāt 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 Iām presently the one in our family with the time to do the the forum reading and posting.
My boyfriendās 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 Iāve 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, Iāve been trying to read up on all things T1 related here. (Goodness gracious, Iām to reply #485 or so in the swimming thread and itās taken me three days! Thanks DM! Youāre 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 weāve been doing to manage T1 isnāt up to snuff (last A1C ~7+), and that there is hope with experimentation and perseverance, is totally a double edged sword. Weāve 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 hasnāt really helped. And weāve 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 itās basically a disease you canāt outrun and that 190 is just good enough, just recognize that itāll 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 whoās probably the best weāve seen. But weāve learned more from reading the posts and sports info here over the last week. Which is kinda sad, because, well, theyāre doctors and instead of helpful info from them, it took me a meeting a random person at a conference thatās not even related to diabetes to get here! But Iām glad I did. Thank goodness Iām 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 youāve 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 everyoneās 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. (Iām also totally new at this online community thing, unless you count AOL in the 90ās and that was not actually a community). (Well, it mightāve 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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Hi Kim, welcome aboard!
Ditto.
lol
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Kim, really glad you found Eric (no matter how). Sometimes life is a little random, but still works out.
Please donāt feel that you are failing with A1cās in the 7ās. #1 that is where the doctors tell you that you should be. Many people on this board have A1cās in the 5ās, and that is great, but not everyone can maintain those. There are many of us, who have loved ones with A1cās in the 6ās and occasionally the 7ās and are comfortable with where we currently are.
I am willing to bet with a few adjustments your 7ās will become 6ās and maybe after some time, your 6ās will become 5ās. If you look at the research, while having a normal A1c is best, the worst increase in risk occurs above 7ās.
Hang in there, and really glad you met Eric and found us!
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@TravelingOn Donāt be depressed about consequences of a 7 A1c in the past. Iām 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. Iām sure with just a few minor tweaks 5.5 A1cās are in his near future.
And Welcome!
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@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 donāt feel like you and Eric are failing. Youāve 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. Weāre all students at this and weāre all going to have ā3 new thingsā to work on all the time. Just see it as that. Youāve gotten good. Now you can get better.
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