I can cross “tour an insulin manufacturing facility” off my bucket list. It was absolutely mind-blowing. There is a lot of science involved, much of which I am not quite bright enough to understand. But the basic idea is that they…
I recently returned from a short trip to Indianapolis, IN for a visit with Lilly Diabetes*. They hosted a summit with about a dozen people from the diabetes online community and gave us a chance to learn more about what…
Happy 33rd diaversary, Scott! Today is not about doing great with your diabetes management. Like everyone else with type 1 diabetes, you have your ups and downs. Today is not about surviving another year. Like many others with diabetes you…
I’ve been clawing my way out of an exercise funk that started around the first of the year. It’s been a terrible fight so far, and full of speed bumps. About eight weeks ago I started getting back to the…
I’m honored to introduce you to Laddie (@MNAZLaddie on Twitter). When the weather here in Minneapolis is nice, she lives here. The other 11 months of the year she migrates to more a more hospitable climate in Arizona. Okay, I was…
It’s hard to explain how badly my confidence was shaken after that bad low on Christmas Eve. I went from a lifetime low A1C of 6.9 in November, to a two-year high of 8.0 in February. Scared? Yeah. Running high?…
I wake up to treat a low. I have five glucose tabs, wait until my BG is back up, then fall back asleep. I’m low again thirty minutes later. I go downstairs and exercise great restraint by eating just one…
I’m looking at three right here. If you had to guess at a lifetime tally, how many hours of sleep has diabetes cost you?
Last posts in this series: mySentry Trial: Starting Up, mySentry Trial: Wearing the Sensor, & mySentry Trial: The mySentry Unit I’m still wearing my old Cozmo pump. It’s long past its warranty period. There are so many cracks in it that I…
A few fun posts this time around! Thanks for stopping by! 2/15/13 – After Thoughts: Bill King – at Diabetes Social Media Advocacy 2/15/13 – Diabetes Blog Weekly Update #20 – at Diabetes Monitor 2/14/13 – My thoughts on a…
Hope is a strange thing for someone who has lived with diabetes for as long as I have. It’s there. Deep inside me somewhere. But it’s dormant; smothered to sleep by decades of failed promises and premature excitement (usually involving…
A small group of people who I highly respect asked for some help in spreading a message. If any one of these folks asked me, individually, for help, I’d not hesitate. So when they approached me collectively talking about how…
Today I’m hosting a guest post from Peter Smith, Account Manager at Ginger.io. They won Sanofi’s Data Design Diabetes Innovation contest in 2011, and are partnering with Sanofi to bring this interesting technology to more people living with diabetes. Maybe…
Lots of news to spread today! Buckle up for some bullet points. Are you near the Washington, D.C. area (Crystal City, VA, specifically)? Come to the CWD Focus on Technology regional conference and expo happening next weekend, February 1-3, 2013. Sebastien Sasseville is…
I’m a bit overdue for one of these posts, so the list is long. 1/11/13 – Diabetes Blog Weekly Update #16 – at Diabetes Monitor 1/11/13 – After Thoughts: Jonny White & Oliver Brown – at Diabetes Social Media Advocacy…
Lee Ann Thill is one of my favorite people around. She is super smart and plugs into the emotional side of life with diabetes with experienced perception. She’s been wrestling with type 1 diabetes for a long time. She get’s…
December 24, 2012. Christmas Eve day. I felt blessed to get in a couple hours of basketball, even on a holiday. We played hard. I had a lot of fun and wore myself out quickly. Blood sugars were pretty normal…
I recently mentioned using toupee glue to keep my Navigator CGM sensors attached. With all of the packing and unpacking from our recent move, I found it! You’re looking at a genuine bottle of “Ultra Hold” toupee glue. This internet…
Last posts in this series: mySentry Trial: Starting Up & mySentry Trial: Wearing the Sensor The mySentry device is a remote display station for the Metdronic Paradigm pumps. Retail price is $3000, and I’m not sure whether people have had…
Well, not the whole day. Just the past five hours. Do you have any idea how much work I planned on doing in those five hours? A lot. Any guesses on how much I actually got done? Not much. I’m…