By
WilD on
November 3, 2012
Happy Saturday! Welcome back to Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. For the first post of November, Wil puts his finger on a universal question for PWDs: Should we really poke our pinky finger with lancets? He also opines on the state of the market in comparing insulin pens versus syringes.
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Claudia, type…
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Roche Diabetes has just released the next generation of their popular Multiclix Gatling-gun-style lancing device. The new version, called FastClix (yes, with a capital C versus the older lancer, with lowercase c), features one-click lancing, a whole new system for advancing the six-lance drum to a fresh needle, and an improved counter to keep track of how many lancing needles are left in the drum.
Just how does FastClix stack up against its predecessor? Our…
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By
AmyT on
November 18, 2009
Courage and diabetes. This seemed an excellent topic to revisit on the second-to-last Wednesday of Diabetes Awareness Month. (Not to mention that I saw Wicked over the weekend with my oldest daughter )
Other than that I believe this post, from early 2007, needs no special intro:
What Makes You Think I’m Brave?
It’s happened many times over, and again yesterday. I just don’t understand it, really. Some less-intimate friend or acquaintance catches me poking…
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I neglected to mention that smack in the middle of our girls’ big birthday bash last weekend, I tested my glucose and got a whopping 424 (!) — the highest BG result I’ve had since hospitalization at diagnosis. Yikes!! Wait just a minute… this can’t be right. So I scrubbed my fingers with soap and hot water and tried again: 142. Can you believe it?
Well sure, there I was serving snickerdoodle birthday cakie (that’s…
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