I have documented my testing strip sagas throughout the years here on this blog. (Sidenote: still can’t believe that I am saying years about the blog).  I was using One Touch Ultra when I first started blogging, but then switched over to Freestyle Lite for a couple of years because I just liked the meter better.  Just earlier this year, my insurance company decided that my Freestyle Lite strips would be $150 for a 90 day supply and One Touch strips would still be only $50.  So I did what was in my best interest and switched back to the One Touch strips.  The only One Touch meter...

I have tweeted and posted a few times lately that I am switching back to the One Touch Ultra strips from my Freestyle Lite strips because the insurance company is charging 6 times the amount, $25 as opposed to $150.  I had an older One Touch Ultra Link meter from about 3 years ago that I had used a few times, but of course the battery was dead in it when I went to use it.  I was looking all over my house because I knew I had to have had another One Touch meter somewhere around the house.  And then I found it. This nice, small, convenient blue One Touch Ultra Mini meter.  I was all excited...

I find that I don’t do as much reading offline about diabetes as I would like. When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, I read close to 5-6 books in less than a week, yes a book a day! There was so much that I wanted to know and so many things that I NEEDED to know about diabetes to live a healthy, long life. I’ve decided to dedicate myself to reading more diabetes books. Most books out there now are for people that are newly diagnosed and are educating them on diabetes. I would like to see more books about living with diabetes, real life stories, not just books from...