Something else that struck me from my recent interview with D-psychologist Jessica Bernstein was her observation that “we diabetics tend to not see ourselves as part of the larger chronic illness community — which is unfortunate because we miss out on a lot.” I am sure she is quite right. And yet…
It’s simply human nature to listen to that nagging little voice that says: “Unless somebody is living with MY disease, they can’t possibly…
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…
I know, I know, this is a diabetes blog. But those of you who follow me regularly are probably aware that a new chronic illness has entered our lives — Lyme disease. My husband was diagnosed shortly after we returned from Germany last summer, and it’s turning out to be a much more formidable opponent than we originally thought.
Here are some things I have learned:
1. The disease is named after the village of…
My 12-year-old daughter’s become obsessed with a website called FMyLife, if you’ll excuse the expression. It’s a collection of mishaps and hard luck stories that might not be a bad model for the StupidDiabetes.com concept we discussed here, come to think of it.
But what I wanted to point out was an entry about diabetes that she found the other day, from a kid who reports that he got suspended from school for “shooting up”…
As a sort of addendum to this Monday’s post, I can’t believe I wrote the following testimonial four whole years ago. Ever more confirmation that the more things change, the more they stay the same:
Diab-entity Crisis
Sometime in the middle of last week, as I was gazing at my blog banner and mulling over my next post, I had a kind of out-of-body sensation for a moment: Am I still the same person who…
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