I’ve talked my boss into letting me split my late shifts twice a week which allows me to go play basketball at the YMCA over lunch, and I’ve also taken a couple of flatwater kayaking lessons and I’m planning on doing that a couple times a week. I got my bicycle tires all pumped up [...]
Continue Reading →If only I had nothing else to do… Right? Wrong – but anyways.
I sometimes feel like there are so many things that we deal with that sometimes my diabetes takes a back seat and I don’t give it the attention I need to in order to achieve better control. I mean, life gets [...]
Continue Reading →My exercise patterns of late have slowed down a lot. Some due to life changes (new job) and others just due to season changes, etc. With that I’ve felt a lot of pressure on myself to get moving again. I also recently read somewhere that type 1 diabetics are at 10 times greater risk for [...]
Continue Reading →I am feeling like my health, control, self discipline, eating habits, exercise habits (or lack of) and general state of health are just snowballing out of control.
I think that my blood sugars have been AVERAGING about 260 these days.
Recognition is the first step to stopping the bleeding I figure. Ok – so I [...]
Continue Reading →Ahhh, where do I even start. I’ve been “offline” for so long I don’t even know where I should attempt to bring you all back into my story.
April of 2005 created many memories that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. I celebrated my 30th birthday, 5 minutes after my [...]
Continue Reading →I’m in the all exciting state of Minnesota, and believe it or not, the snow has all melted and temperatures are starting to warm up.
We recently adjusted our clocks for daylight saving time, you know, spring ahead/fall back type of thing.
I made sure to adjust the time on my pump, moving it ahead [...]
Continue Reading →Yes, I’m still alive. Just been very busy lately. I promise, I’ll be back with more interesting stuff to read about…soon…I hope…
Continue Reading →Tested 42, grabbed a handful of glucose tablets, but with 3+ units still on board I headed to a nearby McDonald’s. I really should have stopped driving, but I didn’t feel that I had enough stuff in the car to pull me through the low with all that insulin still working.
I think I just [...]
Continue Reading →Monday nights are great for me.
I do a little bit of karate, then go play basketball for about an hour and a half.
I wore my heart rate monitor during basketball tonight. We usually play full court, but we were short on guys tonight and just played half court 3 on [...]
Continue Reading →My two year old daughter is sick, and was running one heck of a fever last night (103.1). Needless to say she was very uncomfortable, and didn’t sleep much. I think I MIGHT have gotten a grand total of about 45 minutes of sleep all night.
So, I’m tired as hell today. Toss in some [...]
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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“Diabetes is like being expected to play the piano with one hand while juggling items with another hand, all while balancing with deftness and dexterity on a tightrope”
— Marlene Less, 1983
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