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D-Blog Week: Celebrating Pump Prowess

By AmyT on May 15, 2012

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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Brushing Up On Advanced Pumping Techniques

By AllisonN on October 25, 2011

Ever indulged in a little pizza with the kids or Italian food on date night, gone to bed at a perfectly respectable blood sugar, but then woken up in the middle of the night with a sky-high number that has you racing for the bathroom?
If you have, then you’ve encountered a dreaded delayed postprandial spike, which happens when food takes longer than insulin to enter your system. Usually it’s the other way around. Fast-acting…

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