If you have a question about insulin pumping, all you need to do is pick up a copy of the fifth edition of Pumping Insulin, the encyclopedia of all things pumps by the legendary husband-and-wife team John Walsh and Ruth Roberts. Their first edition was published in 1989, and Pumping Insulin is considered by many to be “the Bible” on insulin pumps. What makes John and Ruth such experts?
John is a Physician’s Assistant and…
Welcome to Day 2 of the third annual Diabetes Blog Week, hosted by Karen Graffeo over at Bitter-Sweet Diabetes.
The topic today: One Great Thing. Karen explains: “Living with diabetes (or caring for someone who lives with it) sure does take a lot of work, and it’s easy to be hard on ourselves if we aren’t ‘perfect.’ But today it’s time to give ourselves some much-deserved credit. Tell us about just one diabetes thing you…
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Right now, I’m on vacation. To be more specific, I’m on an insulin pump vacation.
Which, to be honest, it’s not much of a vacation (still have the ole diabetes to contend with!).
What is a pump vacation? It’s taking a break from wearing an insulin pump for short period of time. I’m not switching back to shots permanently, although I do know of people who have done so after taking a pump vacation. Sometimes…
If it isn’t one thing with diabetes, it’s another — from trying to figure out what the heck’s going on overnight, to the understandable paranoia that sometimes sets in. But we at the ‘Mine are here to support you! We’ve got another edition of our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Joanne from Maine,…
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 test your basal rates periodically to make sure your background insulin is doing what it’s supposed to. Admittedly, I…