If you follow The Life of a Diabetic on Twitter, then this post is not going to sound like much of a surprise to most of you. My blood sugars have been crazy over the past 2 months, even 3. I haven’t seen my endocrinologist since October, which I was seeing her every month for [...]
Every time I go to a restaurant, I tend to get a little mad. There may be a few reasons why, but primarily it is because I may not be in the mood to drink water, diet Coke / Pepsi or un-sweetened iced tea. But, guess what, those are the only options. With so many [...]
Being diabetic, we all know that we need to eat healthy and exercise. Well why is it so difficult to actually follow through on this? I have said plenty of times that this is the time that I am going to cut back on my bad eating habits and increase the good eating habits. I [...]
This past weekend I went up to Daytona Beach, FL for the Daytona 500 race. This was my second consecutive year going. I met a guy up there who said that he has gone to 42 straight, this year’s was the 52nd so he only missed the first 10 races. That sounded like a great [...]
My lack of sleep over the past few weeks is finally starting to catch up on me. I seem to always be dragging and not at full strength. I am getting a lot of work done and staying focused on my work, but as soon as I step away from my desk, I can’t seem [...]
As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, Sunday was just very blah. Even after I posted the blog, it didn’t get much better. My blood sugar hit a high of 465, right before I was to go to dinner. I took almost a 17 unit correction and knew I wouldn’t be eating for about another 30-45 [...]
Last night I started to think about some things, usually not good when I do this kind of stuff. Diabetes makes me think a lot. Let me exaplain the background of the story first and why it came about. Over the last, I’d say 2-3 weeks I have fell in love with this new bbq [...]
Growing up I always had dreams of owning my own business in New York City in a big high rise building. When I was hit with the diagnosis of diabetes when I was 19 those dreams still were there. After a few years of having diabetes and realizing what the insurance side of diabetes was [...]
I have been extremely busy since the end of the year up until just the last couple of days. I was either sick, spending time with my family up north or just doing regular holiday type things. During this time I decided to step away from the computer and take a break, just get away [...]