Special for “hump day”: I’m revisiting this post from 2007, which I’ve referred to often whenever I second-guess myself about how to talk to my kids about living with diabetes:
Oh, Glorious Middle!
I’ve shared this tidbit with some of you already: whenever my girls and I are having a bit of relaxed fun, laughing and taking things lightly, my feisty 7-year-old perks up with a sideways grin and says, “Mommy, are you in the…
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Scott Johnson is one of my favorite fellow diabetes bloggers. Always has been. This post will show you why.
A Guest Post by Scott K. Johnson, of Scott’s Diabetes Journal
Amy’s guest post from Dr. Anne Peters last Thursday on “How to be a Good Diabetes Patient” sure ruffled some feathers. I wanted to take a stab at the other side of the story: How to be a good endo, from a patient’s point…
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Browsing through the latest issue of Wired magazine (my favorite print pub!), I stumbled upon a “reader rant” that stopped me in my tracks. A guy named Edward Aboufadel from Ada, Michigan, was responding to a recent article titled Living by Numbers, about our new data-driven lifestyles. He writes:
People who are really ‘living by numbers’ are type 1 diabetics, who struggle every day to keep their blood glucose in range with carbohydrate counts, insulin…
So it was time again for my A1C and other blood tests last week. Over-time, in fact. You know how I hate going in to the lab when I have to be fasting for lipid tests and can’t even have a latte on the way over in the morning. Ugh! And who ever said diabetics don’t mind needles?!
Anyway, I’d been saving the review unit A1c Now SelfCheck pack I got from Bayer a few…
Four years ago, I got really upset when my blood sugar surged. If you asked me then, I’d have sworn that in four year’s time, I’d have it all figured out and these surges would be a thing of the past – hah!! Thus, I bring you, from October 2005, an all-time favorite post headline:
Crap! High Blood Sugar!
Can I say “crap” here? Well, seeing as I’m the senior staff reporter, managing editor, and…