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Gym-free, but not off the hook.
I haven’t joined a gym yet here in Portland, for a few reasons, the foremost being that I don’t have a job up here yet and I don’t feel entitled to spend on money on a gym membership when running and walking are free and I don’t have a steady income yet (plus those pesky [...]
My two best buds.
Wedding dresses aren’t exactly everyday attire. As we get closer to our wedding and I put my dress on for fittings with the seamstress, I’ve also realized that the undergarments that work best with a wedding gown aren’t exactly everyday attire either. Now is the part in the blog where I attempt to share a [...]
Diabetes Day-Makers.
There are a few things in our weird little diabetes world that give us an odd sense of satisfaction. Things that folks without this disease just can’t appreciate like we do. For example, seeing a fresh supply of insulin filling up your butter compartment. It feels so good. So…safe, in a weird way. Or changing [...]
Where’s the diabetes rosary when you need one?
Sometimes, I feel the need to confess my diabetes sins. Us folks with diabetes make choices all day, every day. We carb count, interpret numbers, plan ahead, look back, decide doses, and navigate the obstacle course that is Life with Diabetes. And sometimes, we knowingly don’t make the best choices. These are the times when [...]
Type 1 Moms: Changing diabetes education sixty seconds at a time.
I get a lot of random emails from folks asking for me to try this or that “diabetic” product, or to check out a website/event/book/totally-made-up-cure-for-diabetes-involving-bark-from-a- random-shrub-only-found-in-Peru. It’s part of being in the whole blogging world. But when I got an email from someone who signs their title as “Chief Type 1 Dad”, I just had [...]
Doggone wrong?
At first, I roll my eyes when I see the elderly man walk in the door of the Starbucks with a small poodle in tow. Why do people feel like they can bring their dogs anywhere? I wonder to myself. Why do they think their dog is different and should be allowed in restaurants? But then [...]
Yeah. That totally makes sense (except not at all)
I tried to solve for the following equation at lunch yesterday: Pre-lunch BG of 168mg/dL + Sandwich consisting of two large slices of bread, estimated at 20 grams of carbs each for a total of 40 carbs + 4 units of insulin for the carbs using a 1:10 ration + 1 unit of insulin for [...]
Yeah, I’d call that an occlusion…
I started a bolus for my Thai food last night, but a few seconds after the confirmation screen popped up, I heard the piercing beeeeeeeeeeep that a dying Omnipod makes. “OCCLUSION! BOLUS STOPPED” screamed the screen. I hit “confirm” which stops the pod altogether and it off my back. And there I saw not just a [...]
Sound the alarm (but with a muffler please!)
Diabetes doesn’t just affect the person who has it – the people around you are also subject to diabetes ridiculousness on a regular basis. And if you happen to be on a CGM and also share a life with a significant other, they are also being “alerted” to highs, lows, rises, and falls when you [...]
The opposite of exciting.
You know how people have that saying about something being really boring that goes “I’d rather watch paint dry.” Well, I’d like to modify that saying to “I’d rather sit around and wait for my blood sugar to come up so I can go running.” Last year, I made the switch from evening to morning [...]
