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Diabetes Art Day: Strip Safely Edition. 27 Aug 2013 | 01:40 am
A long weekend’s worth of test strips for the Diabetes Art Day: Strip Safely edition. Managing a disease and making medication decisions based on data that’s built on shifting sand is scary. The po...
Sort-Of Guest Post: What Do You Wish Health Care Professionals Knew? 26 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
[Hey guys. This post was not written by me, but was instead written on my behalf. It's more streamlined and professional, and I didn't want to toss it out there without some kind of explanation or po...
More Willpower Than Carbs. 23 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
It’s been a week of strange and unusually clingy lows, and they are often to blame for a rough day of blood sugars, as it’s so easy for me to over-treat a low, causing me to bounce up too high, which...
Not What She Thought I Was Doing. 22 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm
When you get into the car after going for a run and see a blood sugar of this: … it’s way past time for glucose tabs. So when you reach into the Spibelt you’re wearing to retrieve the glucose tabs t...
Strip Safely: Taking to Twitter. 21 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
(Note that the banner looks like a test strip. Clever, eh?) Wednesdays are usually a diabetes-heavy night on Twitter, since it’s the night that the #DSMA conversation takes place (at 9 pm EST – chec...
Going Solo. 20 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Seven weeks is a long time. It’s a lot of garbage days (I hate, hate taking out the garbage, especially since we have a crew of vindictive raccoons who have made it their agenda to bust into the garb...
On Being An Athlete. 19 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
If this was college, and it was the night before the paper was due, I’d grab a dictionary and start feverishly typing the following: “Webster’s dictionary defines ‘athlete’ as ‘a person who is traine...
Roulette. 17 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
I test my blood sugars between 8 – 15 times per day, depending on trends, travel, exercise, food, and other variables. I correct highs. I treat lows. I make a lot of decisions based on these number...
Strip Safely: Managing Expectations. 14 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
I didn’t expect my pancreas to stop producing insulin. That was a monkey wrench tossed into my life just before starting second grade, leaving my childhood intact, but including synthetic insulin. S...
FFL: Social Media as Part of the Prescription. 13 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
At Friends for Life this year, there was a special panel discussing “Social Media & The Monster Under the Bed: The Latest Thinking on Fearing vs. Embracing Social Media,” focusing on efforts to valid...
