doctors
Logging my frustrations.
I’m seeing my CDE on Monday for my normal appointment, which I have every three months like clockwork. I had my A1c blood draw on Monday in preparation for the visit, but I won’t be able to get those results (even with my super-stalker skills) until tomorrow at the earliest. In the meantime, I’ve started [...]
When is “I heart my CDE” day again??
Big sigh of relief – my endo appointment has made me feel so much better about my recent, unchanged (did I mention stagnant, aggravating, un-budging, and stubborn?) A1c. My CDE knows me pretty well, as it was the first thing he addressed after walking in the room. He knows that I’m hard on myself about [...]
Blame it on the ‘betes…as usual.
I hit the snooze four times this morning (sorry room mates!). Did. Not. Want. To. Get. Up. Not that I’m normally bounding out of bed every morning at 6:30am, but four snoozes is totally gratuitous. Why am I so groggy? I wondered as I ambled to the shower. As soon as I returned to my [...]
Logging and jogging…
Yesterday I stacked up three (count ‘em!) doctor’s appointments in a row because all of those docs happened to be in the same building. I went to see my CDE first (along with my 5 pages of excel data as noted below), then the hand doctor for a post-op, then the knee doctor for a [...]
I didn’t get an “Analyst” title for nothin…
Endo appointment is tomorrow morning and the dreaded A1c shall be revealed – wish me luck! (Also wish my doctor good luck because this is one of 5 pages of Excel spreadsheet logging….he’s lucky I didn’t run a pivot table on this data).
My Endo’s waiting room – like one giant diabetic hug.
I love the waiting room at my Endo’s office. I popped in there this morning to get my blood drawn for my A1c (aaaaahhhh!!!) in preparation for next week’s visit. I look around the room and share smiles with other people with diabetes. I see girls like me in their 20s dressed for work, with [...]
Bernstein and the Carb Conundrum…no that’s not the latest Berenstein Bears book…
Most people with diabetes have a relationship with carbohydrates. Let’s face it, as far as food goes, carbs are where the impact occurs. No one ever ended up with a BG of 300 because of chicken. But, living without any carbohydrates is damn near impossible, not to mention boring, and, by many accounts, unhealthy, right? [...]
More pizza with that Hippocratic Oath, Doctor?
I’m in Orlando right now doing some field rides for work, and today I witnessed first-hand one of the most broken elements of diabetes care in America: Primary Care Physicians. Before I continue this lamentation, let me explain that I don’t blame this all on the docs themselves, but rather on a system that has [...]
