Making Sense of Diabetes Compilation Video
This video is awesome. Not only because Manny did such a great job editing it, but because our stories our powerful. Take a look – I think you’ll enjoy it.
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Happy D-Blog Day!
Today is a special day for me. Today is D-Blog day (the 5th annual! (special thanks to Gina Capone)! Today is a day where I am especially thankful for all of you in the DOC (Diabetes Online Community). The DOC…
Do You Know Diabetes?
I keep thinking about the Heart of Diabetes initiative that the American Heart Association has been working on. The more I think about it, the more I believe in what they are doing. This is a large national nonprofit organization…
Burn-A-Thon? Gold’s Gym & The ADA
I picked up a flyer about this at the local ADA Expo last weekend. I think it is a great thing that Gold’s Gym and the ADA are doing, so I wanted to help spread the word a bit.…
Lunch With George
George and I collaborated on a video for the Making Sense of Diabetes initiative happening at TuDiabetes. It was a LOT of fun, and I hope you get a kick out of it too.
It Cuts Both Ways
November 1st marks the start of Diabetes Awareness Month. As I think about what that means for me, I start to feel a lot of emotion and anger towards diabetes, and what it means to live with diabetes. In my…
It’s Amazing Really…
I had a low blood sugar. I’m recovering and am starting to feel better. I exercised incredible restraint in how I treated it, but still managed to eat at least two full meals worth of stuff. While vacuuming down all…
Experiments, Wake Up Bolus, Breakfast, and Exercise
I was really fighting the blues through the tail end of last week and through the weekend. Really bad. What really kicked it off for me was some job stuff that I thought was going well, but wasn’t. So once…
I Feel Amazing!
I exercised today for the first time in a long time. It sucked hugely while I was working out, and I hated almost every second of it (ok, it wasn’t THAT bad). I’m very sure I will hate it even…
Diabetes & Heart Disease (A quick “post-trip” vlog)
David Mendosa was also scheduled to attend, but was unfortunately not able to make it. It sounds like we will be working with David on this project as it matures though. I value David’s input, insights, and experiences, so I’m…
A “Wake Up” Bolus?
Is there something more than Dawn Phenomenon? The dawn phenomenon is typically described as the body releasing a handful of hormones overnight that cause some insulin resistance. You see this as higher blood sugars in the morning, even though you…
Set Change Struggles
I am all for pumping. It allows me to deal with my dawn phenomenon, where at 3:00 AM my body needs 50% more insulin than normal. It allows me to be very precise with my insulin doses, does all the…
Stuck, Stuck, Stuck. Suck, Suck, Suck!
I need to get something off my chest. I am in the worst shape of my life. With major changes in my life routine since my work with Cozmo stopped, I haven’t kept up on my exercise at all. In…
Newly Dx Week: Think Like A Pancreas
A bunch of years back I spent some time working at an ISP (Internet Service Provider). I had the opportunity to take a bunch of training courses. One of my favorite courses was called “Think Like A Router”, and it…
Newly Dx Week: The Born-Again Diabetic & Taming The Tiger
Like Amylia, I was diagnosed young. At five years old I didn’t know anything about what was going on, and at 34 years old now, I honestly don’t remember much about things that far back. I can only imagine the…
It Wasn’t The Insulin… Literally
I figured out what put me in the hospital. I actually figured it out a few days ago, but I was so embarrassed that I didn’t want to talk about it. After a short talk with one of my board…
I Didn’t Have A Chance…
If you include my initial diagnosis back in 1980, then Thursday, 9/3/09 would be the third time in my (nearly) 30 year diabetes “career” that I was admitted to the hospital for DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis). While more than once…
Always On Guard
I talked on Monday about all the driving I’m doing now, and how the reach of headlights has some parallels to our blood sugar testing. Another similarity struck me as I was driving through Wisconsin. It was just about dusk…
Headlights
I am glad to say that I’ve found some work. It is not diabetes related, but it seems to be paying a couple of the bills and gives me a lot of flexibility. This job involves a lot of driving. …
It’s Never Just One Thing
I’m having a really crappy blood sugar day. I know it happens to all of us, but that doesn’t make it any easier. I know that I sometimes I cause my own bad days, especially when I can’t contain my…