Archive for August, 2009
One order of fried insulin, coming up.
Yesterday I took to the streets of south bay San Diego for Bike the Bay, an annual cycling fun ride that takes you through 22 miles of America’s Finest City, including riding over the Coronado Bridge. The views were breathtaking and the ride was early enough that no one was roasted alive in this insane [...]
Micro Indeed!
I was thinking about pumps a lot yesterday – must have had something to do with the blog posting on my fave dia-blog and the fact that my partner in kickboxing last night also has diabetes and was rocking the Animas Ping. And lo and behold, I came home to a package sitting on my [...]
Dia-Likable
Not sure if it was the good night’s sleep I got last night or the fact that this week has been filled with things I am thankful for (read: this means you all my awesome friends – I have it so good!) but I just felt like writing a different kind of post today. Strange [...]
I gotcha dude!
I had an awesome lunch today with my buddy Dino, who is also a Type 1 diabetic. He and I met through the San Diego diabetes community at an event called Breakfast Blend. Breakfast Blend is a monthly get-together held at the beach by the dudes over at Insulindependence.com, and it’s just a crew of [...]
And if ya don’t know…now ya…still don’t know…
Inexplicable things happen all the time with diabetes. Sometimes good things happen – like dinner with my best friend Friday night. I tested before, during, and after our carb-heavy meal, and the BGs went 157, 156, and 156. If diabetes was a poker game, I had a royal flush of stability that surprised the heck [...]
13.1
Heart disease and stoke account for 65 percent of deaths in people with diabetes… It’s Sunday morning and its early, but me and my friends have been up since 4am. We walk towards the starting line of the AFC Half Marathon. My heart is beating fast – part nervous, part excitement. “Ready?” I ask my [...]
Solid as a Rock…
Looks like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has taken a break from battling scorpions and professional wrestlers to be the new national ambassador of the Diabetes Aware campaign – a Novo-sponsored awareness project aimed at reaching the 24 million people in the US living with diabetes, and especially at the estimated 6.2 million who are unaware [...]
Trial and error-and success!
Logged my last training run for the Half Marathon yesterday and I felt surprisingly good! I’m not saying 10 miles was easy, but it was doable, and I haven’t been able to say that before. Of course, the diabetes management of training for this race has been half the battle. After playing with my basal [...]
Are they made of gold or something?
I’m leaving for a business trip on Monday at the crack of dawn, so of course my compulsive over-planning self was busy to-do-listing my life when I realized uh oh….I am almost out of test strips. I checked the calendar. August 5th. 7 days until my next shipment, and even if I put a rush [...]
Public Safety? Think again.
My friend John has had diabetes for 28 years. He’s considered an expert on the topic, not only from a “street cred” perspective, but also because he’s a bona fide authority on the topic. He also heads a leading diabetes research company that focuses on islet encapsulation technique to facilitate islet transplants. Literally, the man [...]
