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Happy Labor Day!
I’m at the beach, and you should be too! (Or whatever resembles a beach in your hood!) Back Tuesday, still having diabetes…..
Low carb love…
This past weekend was action packed – it involved one bar-b-que, one outrigger canoe race, one outdoor movie night, one 25-mile bike ride over the Coronado bridge, and, thanks to a certain awesome boyfriend of mine who happens to be a Top Chef-quality culinary artiste, several super low-carb meals that kept my BGs cruising nice [...]
Putting me back together…
Soooooo, two doctors appointments and approximately 9 kajillion x-rays later, I think I’ve got a plan for putting my body back together. Upper limbs first: My hand doctor was disappointed to hear that I still wasn’t at full strength in my right hand, a year plus after carpal tunnel surgery, so he immediately took some [...]
The first insulin patient: where we all began
Happy Friday party people. Most of you folks with the ‘betes know that insulin was discovered in 1921, and some of you might even know about the first diabetic patient to receive the life-saving hormone – a young girl from a powerful family by the name of Elizabeth Evans Hughes. But what you might not [...]
Calculation Station
Tuesday by the numbers: 48 checks of my CGM 2 correction bolus doses 4 boluses for food 1 basal rate reduction 1 f-bomb after realizing I didn’t need the basal reduction 6 finger stick tests 4 DexCom calibrations 3 Symlin injections 1 hour of working out 15 minutes being low for the first time that [...]
More Tour de Cure News!
Tour de Cure is on Saturday, and we’ve been hitting the news circuit hard! Here’s two more clips of me and other Red Riders promoting the event. Again, you have to click on the link to watch, as WordPress doesn’t seem to want to let me embed these two…. San Diego Channel 6 – click [...]
Check out the Red Riders on Channel 5!
Myself and a few other Red Rider (bike riders with diabetes) were on the Channel 5 Fox news here in San Diego yesterday. Rich, Art (yes, this guy) Steve and I tag teamed a promo spot for the upcoming Tour de Cure with Channel 5′s, uhm, very energetic news anchor, Chrissy Russo. Unfortunately, I haven’t [...]
Just kidding…
In honor of April Fools Day, I thought I’d publish a list of the top 10 “jokes” I’ve heard about diabetes….too bad most of them aren’t funny. 1.) Diabetes will be cured in 10 years. (The doctor who diagnosed me…..17 years ago). 2.) You can control diabetes with diet and exercise. (Did my pancreas hear [...]
I promise to tell the whole truth…
As most of you can tell from this blog, I’m pretty open about having diabetes. Even though there are often negative reactions when you “put it out there,”(“oh, you have diabetes because you ate too much sugar, right?”), it hasn’t stopped me from sharing my thoughts on the disease, or doing whatever I have to [...]
Happy Belated Valentine’s Day and Even Happier President’s Day!
I am not working today and I hope you are not either. I hope you had a lot of sugar-free on Valentine’s Day. And remember to thank these guys for not having to work today:) Back tomorrow with more diabetic gems for ya’ll.
