Archive for April, 2009
It depends.
Ok. Its over. Big sigh of relief. I went to see the Endo today and my number is down. Thanks to the encouragement of some of the readers here, I am going to just come clean and write it down: I went from 7.5% back in January down to 7.2%. Not exactly at my goal [...]
Batter up.
I have an appointment with my Endo on Thursday, and I gotta say, for the first time in a while, I am nervous. I see my doc (or rather, a CDE Physician’s Assistant) regularly, so its not that I don’t know what to expect. I am also a meticulous logger for the weeks pre-appointment. I [...]
Seriously, what would I do?
With Tour de Cure being such a success this year and all the recent news on stem cell research, I got to seriously thinking the other day: what would I do if I was cured of diabetes? Like, today. Diabetes has been a part of my life for almost as long as I can remember. I [...]
Great Success!
Wow. That is the only word that comes to mind when I try to sum up the Tour de Cure experience this year. The whole event had an energy to it that I can’t explain. There was a sense of support, of community, of camaraderie that I can’t even put in to words. As a faithful [...]
Tour de Cure is TOMORROW!
Here we go everybody - after months of hard work, Tour is finally upon us. We have more riders registered and have raised more money so far than ever before - how’s that for a recession! This week has been totally nuts. Tuesday we filmed Fox 5 news live, and Thursday we did NBC and [...]
Hard to swallow
Last weekend I went to Palm Springs for a bachelorette party for one of my best friends (just thought of another blog post: Insulin Titration for Tequila Shots: A User’s Guide…) and its safe to say that we tore it up. We sat down to breakfast at the hotel on Sunday morning, recapping the night while we [...]
Weight a minute - that’s not fair!
Weight and diabetes - they go together like pumps and infusion sets. In fact, whenever you see a story in the news about diabetes, its almost a guarantee that weight will be mentioned too. Part of that rests on the fact that the vast majority of people with diabetes have Type 2, which is closely [...]
People with diabetes: we’re hooked up like a tow truck
With Tour de Cure coming up, we’ve been doing a blitz of media appearances. I love being a spokesperson for Tour, because talking about how cool this event is and diabetes is second nature to me. Its like someone asking a person without diabetes: “What’s it like to be you all day?” Easy peasy question! [...]
