doctors
Full disclosure.
There was relief from the dreary feelings of yesterday’s blog post after I went in for nerve testing Tuesday afternoon. They found a small increase in the carpal tunnel on my left hand, no sign of it in my right hand, and only a tiny bit of ulnar nerve irritation on the right side. Big sigh [...]
My first GP!
On Friday, I finally made good on my CDE’s reccomendation to see a General Practice physician about a few nagging issues that can’t be addressed by my diabetes team. It was an interesting experience, seeing as how I haven’t seen a GP since I was…not diabetic…which would be about 18 and half years ago. The biggest [...]
For tomorrow.
I had breakfast with customers on Friday morning and found myself (shockingly!) talking about living with diabetes. The doctors I was visiting that morning ran a busy primary care clinic, and were lamenting to me about their challenges of keeping their patients with diabetes well controlled. “What’s your A1c right now?” one doctor asked me, testing [...]
Lost in translation…
Last week, I blogged about a young man struggling with his diabetes, and parents at their wits end, desperate to try and help him manage his disease. There was an element of the conversation that particularly peaked my interest though, and that was the conversation sparked by me asking the question: does he have a [...]
Checking in…
If Hallmark had a line of cards called “For the Amazing Certified Diabetes Educator in You Life,” I’d be their number one customer. Friday morning I had my regular, every-three-months appointment with my CDE, and as usual I was reminded of why having a great health care provider is such an important part of diabetes [...]
Appropriate Leverage?
On Sunday morning, I woke up early to volunteer at the ADA’s local Step Out Walk to fight diabetes. I staffed the advocacy table, collecting emails from folks who would then receive direction on how to support legislation that protects people with diabetes in a variety of ways. It was a great day – we [...]
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 [...]
