Remember those fun educational toys from the past like Legos, Lincoln Logs and Speak & Spell, that not only were cool to play with but also taught us something?
Well soon enough, we PWDs may have one of our own: the new Hemoglobin A1C action figure!
Wait… a toy HbA1C?! Yep, you read that right. There could soon be a toy based on the three-month average test that those of us in the Diabetes Community…
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine — the first edition of the New Year, so Happy 2013 to all!
Your host is veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, he explores in detail a question about how reliable the A1C test is and how much we should really rely on it in gauging our D-health. Good question!
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Toby, type 3…
A few weeks ago, I was reading around on one of the many diabetes message boards of which I’m a member. I spotted a thread that included a note from a woman who wrote that her A1c has never been above 7% in 40 years of living with type 1 diabetes. Rather than responding directly, I tweeted, “I want to die a little.”
Why the strong reaction? Because in the 18 years I’ve had type…