Archive for September, 2009
Sound the alarm…er, actually could you lay off for a bit?
I’ve heard the term “alarm fatigue” before, but I had not truly experienced it until last night. If you happened to catch me in a bathing suit these days, you’d assume I was part robot with the amount of devices I’m currently wearing on my body. I’ve got a CGMS sensor/transmitter unit on the side [...]
Date me, date diabetes.
The adorable guy walking next to me is talking, but I’m not processing what he’s saying. I’m 30 minutes in to a first date, and my blood sugar is dropping like a stone. I can feel the low creeping all over me – lightheaded, vision blurs, and a cold sweat breaks. I’m cursing the correction [...]
The Friday Run Down
Happy Friday everyone! Seems like Fridays are a special day in the blogosphere - its a day to give people a few fun thoughts to get them through those last few hours of work and off to the weekend - nothing too serious to think about! As such, I’m going to be trying my own [...]
The Analyst is in da house
Well, here goes nothing. The Dexcom 7 Plus arrived in the mail this week, and I am about to take the plunge in to full-time Continuous Glucose Monitoring. Get ready for data like nobody’s business. Deep breath - and go!
Let’s get real here…I run on coffee
Seems every time I touch on one of my favorite subjects, (Coffee! Yippee!), there’s a slew of questions that come in about coffee and BGs. When my buddy Richard sent me yet another article on the subject, I decided it was time to get a little further into this topic. The central question is “does [...]
‘Betes technology: it really is the little things
Ok, I know this looks like a gratuitous shot of my backside, but trust me, there is a purpose to this photo. This, my friends, is a testament to diabetes technology. This is an illustration of just how far we have come from the days of glass syringes and glucose meters the size of generators. [...]
(Ulnar) Nervous Breakdown
I recently visited my awesome hand doctor for a follow-up to the carpal tunnel surgery I had back in June. As I’ve mentioned in blog posts before, my decision to have carpal tunnel release surgery was based on the fact that I couldn’t sleep through the night due to numbness in my hands waking me [...]
South Beach ain’t got nothin’ on Bernstein
Yesterday I conducted a clinical trial using myself as the primary (and only) subject. Taking some hints from Dr. Bernstein’s The Diabetes Solution and general ‘betes gut feelings developed over 16 years of living with this disease, I forced myself to eat less than 30 grams of carbohydrates yesterday. And I am stoked on the [...]
Can’t see me…
“You don’t look like you have diabetes.” How many times have you heard that statement? People with diabetes get this all the time. It goes along with the other old favorite of “you don’t look sick…” Truth is, you can’t see diabetes on the surface (well, not unless you peeped my OmniPod somehow or examined [...]
Bring Back the Fanny Pack!
As you faithful readers know, the I Run on Insulin perspective has always been female, with me being the editor-in-chief/CEO/principal dishwasher at this joint. I’ve often wondered how guys with diabetes deal with having to carry all their diabetes crap without the assistance of a purse. My buddy Bram has had diabetes for 8 years [...]
