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The Basal Finagle.
There was a time when my “basal rates” consisted of a split-dose injection of Lantus: 12 units in the morning, 15 in the evening. That was it. 27 units of Lantus. I’d use my Humalog to bolus for meals and take correction doses, but there were no changes to my background insulin. My how times [...]
Trashy people.
Every once in a while, my pump site change day falls on the same day as when I change my DexCom sensor. And Holy Trash Pile Batman, I am always shocked by the amount of garbage I produce between these two devices. On the one hand, it’s kind of impressive that two small pieces of [...]
The Tape Wars
At any given time, my body may looks like a canvas for dried glue artwork. The adhesives on my insulin pods and my DexCom sensors often leave behind a sticky signature, and sometimes it can take quite a bit of work to get it off. I change my pod every three days and my sensor [...]
Pumped up.
Sometimes I feel like I should start another blog call Diabetes Mysteries, because there’s so many subtleties and nuances to this disease. Diabetes is picky little diva, isn’t it? The latest mystery on my mind is pump infusion changes, and the obnoxious high blood sugars I’ve been having with them. I love most everything about [...]
The Real Snooze Button.
I’m a person who places a high premium on sleep. In other words: I love my shut eye. And since I’m regularly out of bed in the 5am - 6:30am range most days of the work week, I relish weekend days when I don’t have to set an alarm, and I can catch zzzz’s to [...]
Lite or Regular? Same same apparently…
I use Freestyle test strips because my OmniPod pump controller doubles as a meter. It’s great because I don’t have a carry yet another device to check my blood sugar. I have an awesome (for the most part) mail-order pharmacy that dutifully ships me 300 test strips a month. I used to test 10 times [...]
Leaning Tower of…D-Stuff.
I went to dinner the other night with a group of friends, including my friend John who’s also a Type 1. As most diabetic dudes know, finding a place to carry all of your devices without using a man-purse can be quite the challenge, and John often ends up setting down his electronics in a [...]
In praise of what we have right now.
I know Monday’s post about running with diabetes wasn’t exactly my most uplifting writing, so I want to take a minute to acknowledge something very important and very positive about that run: at least I had the technology to know where my blood sugar was and I had tools to do something about it. The [...]
And for that, we thank you.
I’m the first to admit that sometimes d-blogs are a place for…grumbling. Many posts can come across as complaining because we have such specific, and oh-so-frustrating struggles with this disease on almost a daily basis. Sometimes I look back at a week’s worth of post and wonder if I have anything positive to say! Which [...]
Pardon my Hardware.
“I’ll have a grande iced coffee with no swee-” BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!! Yep. That was me. There I was, ordering from the 12-year-old-half-goteed barista at Starbucks when my OmniPod decided to occlude. For those of you non-Pod people, when the OmniPod occludes, the warning is just one long, loud, continuous beep. The trouble is, if you’re not near the [...]
