Diabetes Logistics
Certain Uncertainties.
On Friday, it was announced that the company I work for – a mid-size pharmaceutical company – is being acquired by a monster-sized pharmaceutical company. We all knew this was coming – the headlines had speculated for weeks about which company it would be that bought us out, and our company had admitted to hiring [...]
The Right Stuff.
I was up in the Bay Area visiting family this weekend, and as many of you might know, San Francisco is a walking city. I’d packed quickly though, and brought my everyday purse along for the trip instead of a more comfortable travel tote. It’s a cool bag, but it only has one short shoulder [...]
The Holidays: An Annual BG Control Obstacle Course
I stopped by a local Target yesterday to grab some household supplies and was practically slapped in the face with an inordinate amount of Christmas decorations inside. After I finished shopping and walked outside to the parking lot, I noticed it was pitch black out and…..5:30pm. Folks, whether we like it or not, wintertime, and [...]
Dreams of Consolidation..
I popped in to the office of a customer yesterday, and heard the sound of laughter coming from the back room. I followed the sound, and found the diabetes education staff sitting around a table with their very pregnant boss. From the looks of the decorations, I had unwittingly crashed her baby shower! Luckily, these [...]
But I remembered the other 20,805 times…
Yesterday I went to lunch with a bunch of Tour de Cure folks to discuss some official business (we are the least official gang of goofballs that I know actually, but it sure is fun to say “official business.” Makes us sounds like pack of bike-riding ninjas. Which we are…). We sat down, perused the [...]
Now I gotta find a spot for that too??
They say people get runner’s amnesia: e.g. you do a long distance running race, practically drag yourself across the finish line, declare you’ll never participate in such agony again…and then sign up for another race the next day because “it was just so awesome….” Well, it wasn’t a day later (actually two years since I [...]
HA! Contain this!
One of the benefits of dating a thoughtful Physician Assistant who works at a bustling clinic is that as his diabetic girlfriend, I can make the request of “Honey, can you check and see if you can get me a sharps container from your clinic? Mine’s all full.” Not the request most chicks are making of [...]
Keep cool in an emergency? Or room temp?
You may have checked the blog here last Friday and found a whole lotta….nothing. I was unable to prepare a post on Thursday night for the blog because the power went out. In all of San Diego. I mean literally every, single, corner of the county lost electricity from 3pm in the afternoon to well into [...]
The Support Crew
This past weekend, I went to a bachelorette party in gorgeous Santa Barbara for a dear friend of mine. And although our trip could be titled “Awesome Girls Weekend,” the diabetes craziness that always happens on trips like this make me want to call it “The Three Ring Circus of Diabetes - And Friends.” The [...]
Adding it all up.
What’s that on the front seat of my car you say? Well since I’m a sales rep, that’s not just the front seat of a car you’re looking at, that’s my office! So there’s a laptop, a detail binder, the video I need to return to Red Box, my purse and all my d-gear. And [...]
