Archive for October, 2013
Happy Halloween!
Our furry little skeleton would like you to have a happy and safe Halloween! And remember to bolus early and bolus often with all that candy around.
The real work is here.
For me, it actually wasn’t that hard to get my A1c down from 8% (after our return from our Asia trip) to what it is now: 7.2%. This was was accomplished by macro changes, some of them forced due to being back in the United States. For example, I went back on my pump after […]
Namesake.
Sometimes there are things in life that we have always just assumed we’d do, but never realized the way it would feel until it happened. Thursday was a day like that for me. After 30 years of being Alexis Pollak, I went to the social security office and changed my name officially to Alexis Pollak […]
Spoke too soon.
Harrumph. I spoke too soon. The trouble with A1c Now home tests is that they aren’t completely accurate. Blood work from your doc’s office is much more reliable, and yesterday, my real A1c came back. After getting all excited that my home test showed me back in range at a 6.6%, the real results revealed […]
Is it just me….
…or are fun size candy bars PERFECT for treating a low? Gotta love Halloween time!
It’s all in the (crummy) timing.
Diabetes has a way with horrible timing, doesn’t it? There was this incident for fellow blogger Karmel Allison yesterday, which by the way, could have happened to any of us and actually was oddly appropriate given the subject matter President Obama was covering at that moment. (Karmel, I’m just glad you are ok!) My latest […]
Trashtastic.
It never ceases to amaze me that a simultaneous pump site and sensor change can produce this much trash. Trashy people, us high-tech Type 1s….
PWD Hunting in the Park.
Now that the dust has nearly completed settled on what can only be described as The Busiest Year Ever, I’m looking to get more involved with the diabetes community here in Portland. During the summer, I looked to see if there was a Portland meet up with Insulindependence (IN for short). The IN crew is […]
Best low-carb swap ever.
My biggest food weakness is easily macaroni and cheese. I love the stuff so much that every year on my birthday, I go to my stepmom’s restaurant and order the “pasta al forno” which is a dish of penne pasta with gorgonzola, bacon, Parmesan and leaks baked in the wood-fired oven. I like the gourmet […]
Boo yeah! Back in range!
My endo appointment is rapidly approaching (I cannot believe it’s already been three months since the last one - it’s like I had a lot going on or something…like a wedding…). Since I’m still seeing my old endo back in San Diego (yes, I moved to Portland in April but because I have no less […]