I had my first appointment with a nutrition specialist on Friday of last week.
It was wonderful! She is a very neat lady who did not make me feel strange about the way I have been eating. She was very energetic and very encouraging.
We talked for a while about what had brought me to [...]
Continue Reading →Oh man. I’ve been dealing with a cold type of thing over the weekend, and I took some medicine for it this morning. I feel soooooooooooo disconnected. Like I can’t get my brain and mouth/fingers to operate together. It’s awful! I’m not sure which is worse – the cold symptoms or the side effects of [...]
Continue Reading →What gets you going? Positive feedback or the nay sayers? Are you the type that gets serious motivation to do something just because someone says you can’t? Or do you get going when you get some positive recognition?
I am the type that gets a real charge out of any positive feedback. It gets me [...]
Continue Reading →I am stronger than you Diabetes.
You will not break me.
Through whatever frustrations, confusions, inconveniences, angers or worries that you throw at me, I will prevail.
I will outlast you.
I will beat you.
I will win the fight.
I am stronger than you.
So put that in your pipe and [...]
Continue Reading →What a fun time I had with the test strip contest!
I’m glad that we were able to have some fun with my untidy testing habits!! And we also had a bit of fun with the general (lack of) quality of picture that my camera phone is capable of. 8D
So, you remember from the [...]
Continue Reading →A few more things about test strips that have wandered through the vast land of emptiness between my ears.
1) I found a test strip in my basketball sneaker. And it had a very worn look to it. Now I know it had not been there long, because like any “Good Diabetic” of long standing, [...]
Continue Reading →I know, I know – I shouldn’t have led you on with that title. I know you’re all anxiously awaiting my side of the story from my dietician appointment.
Well, it hasn’t happened yet.
It was scheduled for the 15th, but that was the day that I was puking my guts out, so [...]
Continue Reading →It seems like such a very strange thing to be looking at. I was diagnosed in April of 1980. That would be almost exactly 26 years.
How can one not have completely accepted Diabetes after 26 years? How can that be? Is it even possible?
But it seems that yes, it is very possible.
I [...]
Continue Reading →This picture was taken with the highest quality camera phone (note the heavy sarcasm) available.
We are looking at a very common scene that exists almost anywhere I spend a bit of time. This photo in particular is my desk at work. It is my little test kit pouch that lays open on my desk, [...]
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I’m beginning to think that the issue is quantity of insulin infused rather than the amount of time the new site is being used.
For this set change I tried yet another suggestion, which was to take my breakfast bolus on the old set. The idea was to give the new set [...]
Continue Reading →Scott K. Johnson
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in April of 1980, I recognize the incredible mental struggle of living with diabetes.
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