Personal Stories

Basal Testing: A New Kind of Torture

Just when I thought I’d experienced every indignity and inconvenience this disease could dish up, along comes basal testing.
I’ve had the Big D for almost seven years now, and I’ve always been told never to skip meals (a good thing too, because I need my meals!). At the same time, I know you’re supposed to [...]

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March 12th, 2010 | Categories: Diabetes Essentials, Personal Stories | Comments: (2)

Winning with Type 1 Diabetes – Bike Racing with a Bang

Following my series of interviews with Kris Freeman, I got a note from competitive cyclist Phil Southerland, founder of Team Type 1.  He wanted to let me know how well his group of athletes with type 1 diabetes have been performing so far this year.
Phil was concerned that the mainstream media coverage of Freeman’s challenges [...]

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March 10th, 2010 | Categories: CGM Adventures (Continuous Glucose Monitoring), Holy @#$! Amazing Stories, Products | Comments: (2)

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Kris Freeman: Closing Thoughts on Vancouver 2010

Admittedly, I’m a bit tardy here in publishing the final installment of my Winter Olympics conversations with cross-country skier Kris Freeman.  He has type 1 diabetes and was America’s best hope for a medal in his sport in Vancouver this year — but alas, things did not go well for Kris this time around.  He [...]

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March 8th, 2010 | Categories: Health 2.0, Holy @#$! Amazing Stories | Comments: (12)

Teens with Diabetes: Freedom is Their Secret Drug

In the past few weeks, the diabetes community has suffered several tragedies in losing young people to diabetes. It is shocking and upsetting when diabetes takes the life of anyone, but somehow more so when it cuts a young life so short. Moira McCarthy Stanford is a journalist, a long-time JDRF volunteer and mom to [...]

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February 25th, 2010 | Categories: Personal Stories, Self-Disclosure | Comments: (40)

Wayback Wednesday: Finger Lickin’ Good

Confession time: I test my glucose everywhere. I don’t care who sees. That includes the checkout line at Trader Joe’s, where some fellow shoppers looked especially grossed out the other day not simply by my drawing blood, but the act of licking my finger afterward. It’s none of their business of course (they don’t have [...]

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February 24th, 2010 | Categories: Diabetes Essentials, Self-Disclosure | Comments: (28)


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