Today is my 8 year diaversary. I don’t celebrate or put much attention on it, but this year I have decided to talk about it a little more than that I usually do. 8 years ago from today, it was a Friday and I was extremely sick. I can still remember that day like it was yesterday. Having no clue or no idea what was wrong with me, while all my college football friends were out partying. I remember that it was recruit weekend, and I was supposed to have a recruit staying with me, but I had my roommate take him out instead, I felt bad. After throwing up for nearly 12 hours, one kid who...

The month of March has not been the best start of a month for blood sugar levels.  I have hit 300 every day so far this month.  Not just once a day, but for a few hours every day.  Morning blood sugars have been around 250-300 and when that happens it pretty much just screws up everything.  Dinners have not been anything out of the ordinary, and neither has breakfast or lunch.  I’ve just been in a diabetes rut, if you will, for a few weeks. I can’t seem to get myself out of it. A couple of weeks ago, I tweaked a lower back injury that I had back in college and it has pretty...

Have you ever heard the phrase, “Achieving Failure”?  I know, it sounds weird.  The phrase can mean something different to everybody, but I am going to talk about what it means to me and how I feel about it.  To me, it is very simple.  When you set yourself up for failure, you are making it so much easier to achieve that failure.  So it seems that the easy solution is to just not set yourself up for failure right?  Sounds pretty easy, but it’s not.  I’ve come up with a few ways that I have achieved failure with my diabetes and if I could just listen to my own...

Have you ever asked yourself that question?  ”Why do I not listen to myself?”  Now, I’m sure I’m not the only one who has weird, crazy voices in their head, but those aren’t the ideas I am talking about when I say listen to myself.  I’m talking about the good things.  Why, when I tell myself, “it’s time to ride the exercise bike”, I decide not to.  Or when I tell myself, “you don’t need that second plate” I still go and eat that second plate? If I could just actually listen to myself then I would be a far more...

You may remember last week I write about how I left my job at an interactive marketing agency to go back to running my own company full time.  There are a lot of risks that I have taken in doing so, but all risks that I am willing to deal with in order to reap the rewards.  One of the positive outcomes that I am already starting to see is better control of my diabetes.  Working at home with diabetes has become a lot easier for me than working away from home in an office. First, all my supplies are right here.  There were plenty of times in the past when an infusion set fell out, and I...

Obviously one of my main goals for 2012 has not been accomplished.  I wanted to try and post something every day for the entire year.  I knew it was going to be hard, but I didn’t think it was going to be this hard.  I also didn’t expect as many distractions as I have had over the last couple of weeks.  There’s been carnivals, fairs, festivals, sporting events, work, and just about anything else other than time to sit down and write.  A lot of my time lately has been spent planning.  My home office now has 4 whiteboards that are completely filled and each one is filled...