This just in: VeriChip Corp., leaders in implantable Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip technology, is planning to unveil a blueprint for the world’s first tiny implantable chip capable of measuring glucose levels in the human body — at a fancy-schmancy investors/press event in New York City on December 4th.

Hooray for readers! I hear a lot from you all, but don’t often get a chance to put faces with names.

But now two of the winners of our recent “Code Word for Low” contest have been kind enough to share photos of themselves with their extraordinary prizes (those Tshirts

This month, I’ve actually faced one the biggest health challenges of my life. And it had nothing to do with my own body. My littlest girl, who just turned 5 at the end of October, was experiencing chronic stomach pains, so the doctor suggested — in light of my own wheat allergy — that we try her on a gluten-free diet.

I’ve been tagged at least twice for the latest meme: seven random things about yourself. These memes seem to go round and round, and I’m not sure how much you all really want to know about how quirky I am. But here goes…

In light of recent events, as an adult with Type 1 diabetes, I’m feeling more disconnected than ever before. Thanksgiving was again quite the diabetic challenge, and wouldn’t you know? Only one person in my life even thought to ask about how I might struggle with it — and that’s a dear old friend who lives 3,000 miles away and hasn’t seen me in person for ages. This is one of those moments where I find myself brooding…

Who caught this bit in Newsweek earlier this month:

“During the time Andrew S. Grove spent at Intel, the computer chip company he co-founded, the number of transistors on a chip went from about 1,000 to almost 10 billion. Over that same period, the standard treatment for Parkinson’s disease went from L-dopa to . . . L-dopa.”

Happy Thanksgiving, All! Or should I say, Happy Xtra Large Plate O’ Food Day?

When you think of facing this holiday season of meals, meals, meals, don’t you sometimes wish you could just turn and RUN? Well, imagine how they feel…

Last week I received an email from a certain David Mark Bradley, a Type 1 in Manhattan, who also happens to be an artist — the real thing — whose show called “Blood, Icons, Clouds: Living with Diabetes” is now running at the van der Plas Gallery in New York. Coincidentally, the ADA was a partial sponsor, and some of the proceeds of the opening event went to its NYC “Step Out To Fight Diabetes” Walk late last month.

Well it’s about 8 months, maybe almost 9, since I started pumping insulin using the tubeless Omnipod system. Many of you have sent queries wondering whether I’m still on it, and still happy? The answers are: yes and yes.

Last summer I attended the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO. I went there, as usual, to learn as much about the diabetes community and industry as I possibly can. I also went there armed with a writing assignment for Diabetes Health magazine. I thought I’d compose an article on “Educating the Educators,” all about how CDEs get trained to help us. So I started interviewing everyone who had anything to do with diabetes education, from every angle — from AADE presidents to CDE trainees to family physicians to the head of the certification board to (of course) affected patients. What I discovered was a field facing a crisis.