Archive for March, 2009
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, [...]
Here’s to you, LRF.
If you have Type 1 diabetes, you know what its like to be bled dry. I’m talking about those days when you cannot, for the life of you, get anything to come out of those fingertips, no matter how hard you squeeze and poke. It might be because it’s freezing and you can’t get the [...]
Its the little things….
There’s so much inside information with diabetes - we have our own slang, inside jokes, and an entire medical dictionary’s worth of words that the non-’betic folk don’t know about (my best friend of 10 years just learned the word bolus - understandably, because why on earth would that come up in her daily conversation? Although maybe it should: [...]
It was only a matter of time…iPhone has a glucose meter app!
We knew it was only going to be so long before the iPhone had an app to help manage diabetes, and it looks like glucose meter company Lifescan beat everyone to the punch. The application allows you to upload blood sugar readings via Bluetooth or a cable connections. It appears to be the OneTouch ”Ping” model of [...]
More pizza with that Hippocratic Oath, Doctor?
I’m in Orlando right now doing some field rides for work, and today I witnessed first-hand one of the most broken elements of diabetes care in America: Primary Care Physicians. Before I continue this lamentation, let me explain that I don’t blame this all on the docs themselves, but rather on a system that has [...]
Judy has ALL her fingers!
Don’t get me wrong - I love doctors. I need doctors. My dad was a doc, both of my grandfathers were doctors, and I work in an industry that is all about loving doctors. But sometimes, I have to bristle at their bedside manner. And it usually has to do with conversations about diabetes. A [...]
I’m not eating that oatmeal…damnit
I have been in North Carolina for a few days for a pharmaceutical conference. Its been a great meeting with a lot of good content, and even better, at a 5 star hotel. I was little nervous however, when I saw the words “Continental Breakfast” on the agenda. We all know what that means - [...]
