OK, so the honeymoon is over. There’s always that euphoria when you start using a new gadget or tool, and it always wears off over time. I’m still glad to have my new Dexcom — believe you me! — because it’s helped me out of a horrible motivational slump, and it’s made me realize how much of the time I had no idea what was happening with my BG levels.
So those are positives.
BUT……
Last week, the American Diabetes Association released the fifth edition of their Complete Guide to Diabetes. So what, right? What’s special about this new edition? We don’t usually even bother reviewing multi-author guides published by big organizations. True that. But we thought it was time to have a look-see whether an “everything-guide” like this can really offer anything of value to a long-time PWD?
The ADA’s Guide really is like an encyclopedia of diabetes. So…
I just had my full set of lab tests again – ugh. How ’bout you all? Hate it! But trying, as always, to look on the bright side of life.
This reminded me of an image our illustrious diabetes illustrator Haidee Merritt sent over recently for the DiabetesMine Sunday Funnies. Yup, that vial is just what you think it is:
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Welcome back to our Saturday event, the diabetes advice column Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
This week we’re talking food — yay! And also digging into the meaning of glucose targets for people living on insulin — less yay, but certainly important to understand.
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Clara from Indiana, type 2, writes: I heard that popcorn is a…
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This upcoming Sunday is National Cancer Survivors Day, a worldwide observance the first Sunday in June, dedicated to “showing the world that life after a cancer diagnosis can be meaningful and productive.”
We almost hate to mention it, but there is some question about a possible link between cancer and diabetes — and there are many people out there dealing with both. There’s no real proof that one causes the other, yet there are a lot…