Am I too young to be concerned about heart problems?

With long term diabetes it is said that you are at higher risk for heart problems. I think the statistics are somewhere around 6 to 10 times higher risk than a non-diabetic person. Add in my excellent (NOT!) dietary habits and the fact that I’m [...]

…really full, but HAD to eat/drink something because your blood sugar is low?

What an uncomfortable feeling! Talk about looking for something that has the most “bang for the buck”!

As strange as it sounds, even glucose tablets feel like they are going to be the calorie that makes the stomach explode.

I imagine that [...]

I’ve been waking up high a lot lately (say that to a non-diabetic and see what they do…).

I’ve got an idea as to why, and it doesn’t have anything to do with basal rates or the dawn phenomenon or anything like that.

I mentioned in a previous post how managing diabetes requires many “mental [...]

In a post a while back I was talking about how I run high for a while right after changing my infusion set.

I mentioned the problem to a couple of educators and clinicians, and they suggested making sure I am inserting the set into a very “fresh” site/location – something that doesn’t have [...]

I was just thinking back on something I got a little kick out of a few years back.

I spent a couple years working for the Federal Reserve Bank here in Minneapolis. It was a really neat experience! I got to tour the vault and the cash shipping/receiving area – talk about impressive!!

Before I [...]