The holiday season will hit in just a few weeks, and we’re prepping our pumps to handle the onslaught of holiday cookies and big family dinners involving waaaay more food than necessary. But diabetes isn’t the only thing that can make big meals a challenge. For some people, a condition called gastroparesis can cause more trouble than just worrying about post-prandial spikes from overdoing the cranberry sauce.
Gastroparesis is complication of diabetes, and you might…
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AmyT on
January 6, 2011
Complications: preventing them is the motivation behind almost everything we do in managing our diabetes. Yet how much do we really know about how to live with them? After all, life doesn’t stop with a diabetes complication.
I’ve been thinking that even if you’re diligent with your diabetes management, that isn’t necessarily a guarantee (nor is it easy!). You could have amazing BG control, but still develop some damage. Totally unfair, right? This is the…
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AmyT on
October 11, 2010
One of the funner things that came out of last week’s Health 2.0 developer’s conference in San Francisco was also one of the most unexpected: a new approach to making health stuff “sexy”…
Roni Zeiger is Chief Health Strategist at Google, where he helps lead the Google Health PHR application and all sorts of health search efforts; Alexandra Drane is President and Co-Founder of Eliza Corporation, which develops interactive communications programs for healthcare companies. Who…
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AmyT on
January 29, 2010
Earlier this week, I got word that a woman who called herself “Goddess” online has passed away. She had over 6,000 friends on the DiabeticConnect community site. To be honest, I didn’t know much about her other than the tips and questions she posted very regularly. Still, it’s the oddest (and saddest) sensation when any life disappears like that.
Another member sent a query saying there still seemed to be activity on Goddess’ profile, and…
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