kickin it old school

DexCom dependent….

It’s been a week since that fateful day the DexCom died, and I’ve come to the realization that I have a problem: I’m a CGM addict, and being without my handy little Dex is causing serious withdrawals and some diabetes management issues. Before my CGM, I was a frequent finger-sticker. I used to test about [...]

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 [...]

Working out the workout thing.

If you ever want the chance to feel like a little kid again, splashing through puddles of mud will do the trick. I would know, because yesterday I competed in a 10K Mud Run with a group of friends here in San Diego. It was a challenging course - 10 kilometers of mud pits, tunnel crawls, [...]