Archive for February, 2014
Getting Labeled.
I’ve been working in the diabetes industry for seven years now at two different companies that both make innovative medications or devices for people with diabetes. And just like the products themselves, the people they make them for are also innovative. As in, they take the instructions for use with these products and basically throw […]
Time to shop around.
We were together for so long. We even did long-distance for the past 8 months. He’d send emails with my latest labs, I’d send smiley faces back as a thank-you. I was able to see him every three months, and it felt like we’d never be apart. Until I realized: I live in Portland and I’m […]
Meet the Rage Bolus’ Angry Cousin: The Rage Basal
We’ve all been there with the Rage Bolus. You know - the boluses you stack on top of one another when you have a stubborn high that just wont. Come. Down. Until it totally comes down - usually all at once when all of those boluses catch up with each other, sending you reeling into […]
The Descent.
All low blood sugars suck, but there are some that suck more than others. Like the one we’ve all had after Thanksgiving dinner where you bolused out of your ears to cover all that food, and then it turns out it was too much insulin so now you’re extremely full and have to eat again. […]
Kris Freeman - Kicking Cross Country butt this time around!
You might remember this post about Kris Freeman from a few years ago (have I really been blogging that long??) about pretty much the worst timing for getting a low BG ever (the Olympics). But, looks like he’s fine-tuned things for this run and upped his gadget game - and I ain’t talking about skis. Check this […]
Can I get a snow day off? From my diabetes?
I’m frustrated. This shouldn’t be news to anyone who is also living with this disease, because really, this is something we all say pretty much every day. This disease makes no sense in general, but lately it seems to be ever more obnoxious than usual (if that’s possible). I’m having that feeling that many of […]
That moment when…
…you realize you have four more days of you business trip left and you only packed a sum total of one-fourth of a bottle of Humalog. Sure, there’s your emergency “spare” bottle (an Apidra bottle that expired a month ago that’s definatley been stored in some too high or too low temps while in your luggage), […]
X-tra Cautious?
Recently, a friend who has diabetes posted on Facebook that she doesn’t go through the x-ray security machine at the airport beacuse x-rays, over several exposures, can denature insulin and render it ineffective. And as someone who has been on about 20 flights in the past 12 months and wears her insulin pump through every […]