Thanksgiving always gives me a great opportunity to run into the diabetes police.  It also gives me a great opportunity to explain diabetes to just a few more people.  There always seems to be somebody new at Thanksgiving dinner, or somebody at work may have questions when it comes to Thanksgiving and diabetes, and whoever it may be, there is just usually more diabetes police at that time.  This year was no different. At work, when talking about Thanksgiving, people had questions, like what do I eat?  How much can I eat?  Can I eat pumpkin pie or apple pie?  I gave them all the correct...

Tonight when I was driving home from work, my blood sugar started to feel a little low.  I was on Interstate 95, so there was no way that I could just stop and test.  About 45 minutes before I left work, I tested and I was at 105.  First, you may be asking, why are you testing, don’t you have a Dexcom?  Yes, I do.  I finished my first Seven days with the Dexcom and it was starting to peel off because of a lot of exercising and moving around I was doing, so I didn’t extend it.  Anyway, back to the drive home. Before I left work, I stopped at the soda machine and bought a pink...

Since I have been diabetic, there is one thing that was constant and was very easy to understand, this disease is expensive.  One of the more expensive items is testing strips.  This is a question that we have all asked before, why do they cost so much damn money?  Well, why do they?  I know this is a business and they need to make money, I totally understand that.  I run a company myself, I understand the bottom line figure that is all so important to the CEO.  But, there has to be something that can be done to lower the costs of diabetes testing strips. What are these things that we...

Yesterday was the first day that I used my Dexcom.  I received the package on Friday afternoon, but had a softball game Friday night, and didn’t want to use it that night.  Saturday, I decided that I wanted to try and get as much feedback as possible from the DOC, which I did so thank you all very much.  Sunday was the big day, I was finally going to insert my first sensor. I am a former Medtronic CGM user.  I didn’t use it for very long, but I did have the CGM system and was not a big fan of it, so I just stopped using it because it wasn’t worth the pain and...

For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you may have read yesterday that I finally received a Dexcom. I have been wanting one of these for several years now and just have not had a chance to get one because of insurance reasons. With my new insurance, new as in January 2011, I was approved. The process was so simple and easy too. At my last endo appointment two weeks ago I told my endo I was interested in the Dexcom because I refused to go back on the Medtronic CGM because it was like stabbing myself with a dagger every time I wanted to insert a new sensor, which would fall off every 2-3...