Archive for August, 2013
Ouch. That’s all.
We spend plenty of time here on the blogs discussing the mental gymnastics of having diabetes, and how stressful having this disease can be in terms of the amount of brain space and worry it takes up. But the past few days I’ve had some more physical issues. I had a sensor on that seemed […]
Bent over backwards!
Seriously? How was I not slipping into Ketone-Land on the DKA Train with a cannula looking like THAT?! I changed my pump site on Saturday and was shocked to see the cannula bent in two places. It’s a little hard to tell from the photo, but if you look closely you will see that it’s […]
Do I take these devices, to have and to hold?
I generally use my blog for sharing stories and getting a conversation going with all of you folks about what’s going on in all of our diabetes lives. I don’t like to use my blog for crowd-sourcing, but sometimes, I just need y’all’s help. I’m having a bit of a wedding dress debacle. I’m completely […]
Smaller, and henceforth closer.
When I came back from our trip to Asia in April, I had the shiny, new Dexcom G4 waiting for me at home. Six months into using it, I love a lot of the new improvements on this device including the longer battery life and of course, the improved accuracy overall and especially in the […]
Hot tip for my fellow podders…
This post is short and sweet, because it’s about an extremely easy trick I just learned that actually works and really helps with Omnipod site changes. I’ve blogged many times about how I suffer from highs when I change my pod. The transition can be a bit rough for the first few hours into a […]
Keeping it personal.
My new gym offers a complimentary personal training session when you join, and although I explained to the owner that I don’t usually book those type of things because of my unique health situation, he encouraged me to take advantage of it. He even went so far as to poll his trainers to see if […]
Real Freaky.
We all have particularly poignant high and low blood sugars at times. These are the scary ones. The lows that make you consume an entire birthday cake in the middle of the night, and the highs that make you never want to eat anything containing a carbohydrate again. Highs and lows this bad often have […]
Holy. Aggressive. Vampire Cannula.
And you wonder why you were staying up in the high 200s all day? Is there even any insulin in that thing? In all seriousness, I knew something was up with this pod when it starting hurting at the insertion site when I ran. On each bounce of each step, there was a sharp pain […]
Trading Jabs…
I’ll set the scene for you: The time was 9:24am on Saturday and I’m standing about two feet away from a girl my age, holding up muy thai pads while she works a jab, cross, hook combo. It’s time to sweat out my Friday night at my new gym and I’m in my element at […]
New cinematic lows…literally.
I’ve been known to get a bit perturbed when diabetes isn’t accurately portrayed in mainstream media. Steel Magnolias’ dismal, scientifically inaccurate, totally depressing representation of living with diabetes is enough to make anyone get on a soapbox for hours to combat its tidal wave of BS. But my fellow diabetic friends, I’ve found a new gem that takes […]