Archive for October, 2012
The Second Global Diabetes Summit is coming up!
November 14th marks the beginning of a busy few days in the world of diabetes. And by busy I mean that the most talented, smartest, most-likely-to-find-a-damn-cure-already minds will be gathering at Ohio State University for the Second Global Diabetes Summit November 14th - 17, just in time to kick of World Diabetes Day. All the […]
Bugging out…or in?
Well. This is a new one. Last night I crawled into bed and went to calibrate my CGM with a fresh finger stick reading. I clicked in to the Dexcom and saw this guy: That’s a tiny bug. Trapped inside my CGM. The poor guy […]
Yep. This is a diabetes house.
Jacob: “I’m going to the living room to play some video games.” Me: “Ok cool.” Laughter coming from the living room Me: “What’s so funny?” Jacob: “You have to see this.” I get up from the office and go to the living room… Jacob: “I’m not sure which one to use….”
HEY!
I only asked for ONE of you blood drops to show up here! What are two of you doing here? Diabetes: turning fingers into gross little Swiss cheese replicas since the beginning of time.
Squashing the carbs.
I’ve heard for years that spaghetti squash can make a great substitute for traditional pasta noodles, but for whatever reason I’d never tried it. Until Tuesday night. Which is when my world was rocked. Look, nothing is ever going to truly replace the carby deliciousness of regular pasta, but this squash business is the best […]
Those moments in the dark.
It’s a funny kind of loneliness when diabetes wakes you up in the middle of the night. There’s the shzzz shzzz of the Dexcom vibrations that pops into your dreams and brings you back into a state of awake. It’s a blurry awake for a few seconds though. Then you remember that you have diabetes […]
Better with friends.
Every once in a while, something happens with your diabetes that you can’t quite believe. And you should believe it, because diabetes is one unpredictable, sneaky SOB, but for whatever reason, it’s still surprising. Like going from a BG of 303mg/dL to 46mg/dL in an hour. Which is what happened to me on Saturday. I […]
I can relate…I guess…
You can file what I’m about to write about here under “related to diabetes but seriously random.” Do you ever have the following conversation?: “I have diabetes.” “Oh really? My dog has diabetes too! I have to give him insulin shots every day. And sometimes he gets real real tired. Like won’t go work a […]
You know you had a bad night when…
…you stumble into the bathroom in the morning and find a water bottle and your ketone test strips on the counter. And you swear you never slept for more than 10 minutes at a time before you had to get up to pee/chug a bottle of water/check your pump AGAIN to make sure the new one […]
Fol(low)the leader.
We all know the likely culprits of lows: over-shooting a carb count and over-bolusing is a big one. Intense exercise or extended exercise is another. Sometimes being ill can cause wide swings in BGs which we over-correct and then bottom out from, especially if you can’t keep anything down. But there’s one major predictor of […]