This Sunday morning has not had the greatest start to it so far. For one, I had a high blood sugar all night long. Partially my fault, and partially because a bad site. I changed the site this morning and my sugars are still a little high, but slowly coming down. I hate eating when [...]
All this press about all these new technologies and studies and companies joining up with non-profits to do this and to do that, and blah blah blah. At first when I read the post by Amy from Diabetes Mine about JDRF and BD joining forces, it instantly just reminded me of the post I just [...]
Today it is diabetes inventory day. How often do you do this? I usually do it once every 3 or 4 months just to see how much I have and how much I will need to re-order. Typically, I have a lot more infusion sets than I do reservoirs because I don’t change my site [...]
I was excited for a while to attend the Diabetes Research Institute’s 2.0. This conference shows me that the people working towards a goal are finally listening to us web diabetes bloggers. The list of attendees was amazing. Just to name a few, Kerri Sparling, Manny Hernandez, Allison Blass, Scott Strumello, Gina Capone, and Sara [...]
Here’s a question for you: Is diabetes a disability? This question came up while I was reading an article in the October issue of Diabetes Forecast. There is an article titled, “Cracking the Case.” Long story short, Jeff Kapche was denied a position at the FBI because of his diabetes. He filed suit against them [...]
MMM….Insulin. That’s what I said to myself today around 10:00 a.m. when a co-worker came up to my desk and said, there’s a package downstairs for you. I was starting to get extremely nervous because about 20 minutes before that, my pump beeped and said “Low Reservoir” and I was completely out of insulin. I [...]
I do attend a lot of conferences and do a lot of traveling so I was thinking about the checklist that I go through and how it has helped me with all of my traveling that I do. Here is my top 5 things to do to prepare for a conference, Diabetes style.
1. Make a [...]
Friday brought me another doctors visit. Let’s go through the checklist for the visit.
Insurance card, ID, meter, pump, clean socks, clean feet, food log, reasons for why I didn’t wear my cgm all month long.
Ok I have everything I need so now I can go to the visit, let’s check my sugar one more tome [...]