Healthcare
Eyes on the prize.
Nervous nellie over here. I have my annual eye exam this afternoon, and this appointment, more than any other doctor I see make me more anxious than anyone else. Why? Because I’m always wondering if THIS is the year that I start to see a diabetes-related complication. Is this the year that retinopathy has crept [...]
The Time is Now.
Wow. Friday. FINALLY. I know this is usually a good day for most of us, but for me, this is a particularly important Friday. Today culminates two weeks of pharmaceutical sales training and testing with my company to prepare me for moving into a sales representative role here in San Diego. And after two weeks [...]
Those CDEs know a thing or two about diabetes….
Whew. It’s over. I saw my CDE, I faced down my A1c, and I finally feel like I have some clarity on my numbers. And most importantly, I have some concrete things to try that should help me even out some of this swinging. So let’s start with the big reveal – what was this [...]
Yep. Still on insulin.
“And how long have you been taking the insulin?” a nurse asks me over the phone. I pause. Restrain the urge to hang up. “Again. I have type 1 diabetes so my pancreas does not produce any insulin. I have been taking insulin since the day I was diagnosed, 17 years ago.” “Wow!” the nurse [...]
Coverage.
Sitting on the couch with my roommate last night, American Idol playing on the TV, we started musing about our late 20s and how we felt that we needed a change. Both she and I have lived in the same house for 4 years, been at our current jobs for just as long, and are [...]
Past Post: The Case for Pharma Reps
Before I was a real-live blogger myself, I had the chance to guest post for the original dia-blogger herself, Amy Tenderich, author of the well-know and well-respected DiabetesMine blog. She and I met when she was the guest speaker at the inaugural Celebration of Strength Luncheon for Women with Diabetes, hosted by the Behavioral Diabetes [...]
Wired for success
I know some of the time on this blog (ok, a fair amount) is spent venting about the annoying side of diabetes. But every so often, I am blown away by the modern technology that we have available to manage this disease. I’ve had diabetes 17 years, and when I was diagnosed, there were two [...]
Luck of the draw.
“You test how many times a day?” The nurse at the Blood Bank says to me, disbelief covering her face. “10 – 15 times a day. Well actually less now because I wear a continuous glucose monitor. But its up there for sure. The nurse shakes her head. “Wow. I have never heard of anyone [...]
Ain’t nothin’ “pre” about this…
“Ok, so pre-diabetes…glucose of 186, were you fasting?” chirps the nurse in front of me. “Uhm. What? Wait. No. But, hold on. I told you when I sat down I have Type 1 diabetes. I don’t have pre-diabetes. There’s nothing “pre” about my diabetes. It’s an incorrect statement to check that box” I say back [...]
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 [...]
