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...

What are the rewards for the things that we do?  There are a lot of rewards  that come with blogging and helping other diabetics out.  That is one of the main reasons that I continue to do this.  It also helps me cope with any issues that I may have, but I know that it is helping others too.  From time to time it is great to see physical examples of the appreciation of the work that you do. So, now let me get to the point of this post.  Every Friday at my job they send out a company newsletter highlighting some of the work that we have been doing for clients as well as spotlighting...

On Friday at work I had a quick discussion with one of my co-workers about diabetes.  He knew enough about it, but not everything there was to know.  We had a quick chat about how I need to lose weight in order to get my diabetes under better control.  Him and I both eat at this pizza place near the office, which has the best pizza and meatball subs I’ve ever had!  He came up with the idea that we should both try and lose 10 pounds in the month of April.  I said Deal! The way we are going to do it, which we may not make the 10 pounds, but we made a deal that we won’t eat...

Ohhh man. Today was the office potluck lunch for Thanksgiving and I thought at first it was going to be bad news because i am trying to eat healthy until Thanksgiving actually comes. Luckily by the time that i got up ther to eat there was not a lot of food left so i did not each much. Potlucks are always difficult because you have people like me thAt are diabetic then you have vegetarians, or vegans, or those that have a gluten free diet, or allergies. I don’t really care too much because if i want to eat something then i will eat it and just take insulin for it. This is a short post...

Earlier today I had to go to a client meeting and knew it was going to be about a 40 minute drive there, an hour meeting and then about another 40 minute drive home.  Whenever I have to sit it on meetings, I get nervous that my blood sugar is going to get low, and I hate pulling out Skittles in the middle of the meeting because people look at you weird, like are you serious, in the middle of a meeting you have to eat?  If they knew I was diabetic, then there would be no problem, but I don’t introduce myself as, Hi Im Chris, nice to meet you and I’m diabetic.  If I feel my blood...

Working for two straight days, I’m definitely not used to this.  I haven’t worked over 16 hours in a two day period in a very long time.  This makes managing and planning things out for my diabetes a lot more important.  For the past 9 months, I have been on my own schedule.  When I was consulting with Volvo, I was making my own hours and when I worked from home I obviously made my own hours.  I haven’t worked a salary job since I worked for that joke of a diabetes, well it’s actually like a pet store now, but that’s besides the fact.  I love my new job, it...