Where The Hell Is My Dinner?!
I played basketball tonight, and it was miserable. I was looking forward to playing basketball tonight. I had been on the road all day, and was tired of the inactivity. I was hungry, so I stopped at a Perkins for…
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One Great Idea, One Catchy Name
I got an e-mail yesterday from Monica. Monica is 15 years old and has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 13 months old. Monica has a great idea, and she needs our help. www.ZipTheCure.com With Zip The Cure,…
What’s That Thing on Your Arm?
Yesterday I didn’t get into the gym until around 8:30 PM. I had been in the car all day. As I was getting close to the gym I started really feeling excited about lifting weights (I know, weird, right?). I…
Slow Down?
Back in the day, I could read ALL of the diabetes related blog posts in a couple hours. Now? I can’t read all of the diabetes related blog posts no matter how much time I have. There are just too…
What Do You Mean It’s Closed?
Is it bad blogging etiquette to post something on Thanksgiving? Maybe so, but given why I need to post this today, I think you’ll forgive me. Today, Thanksgiving, is the first weekday that I’ve NOT worked out since October 19,…
One Day, One Dollar AND The DiabetesMine Holiday Survival Story Contest
Hi everyone! I wanted to share some news on some really neat and worthwhile things happening around the blogosphere. One Dollar, One Day First, the folks at “Fight It!” are kicking off their “Fight It! Friday” fund-raising efforts today. The…
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.
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…