Halloween diabetes

Halloween Reflections: What is Bolus-Worthy?

By AmyT on October 30, 2009

One of the wonderful things about the online diabetes community is our ability to create our own language. We have SWAG Bolus, Rage Bolus, Real People Sick, and one of my favorites, bolus-worthy.
With the full holiday season just around the corner (everyone got their Halloween costume ready?), we PWDs are going to be inundated on an almost regular basis with folks offering up the sugary sweets that come with this loathsome time of year. …

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What’s Really Scary on Halloween

By AmyT on October 31, 2008

I love dressing up in costumes, and the whole aura of Halloween festivities.  But I don’t need to remind you fellow PWDs why this holiday is really scary: it’s the #$%@ high-fructose-corn-syrup-laden store-bought candies, that’s what. They’re everywhere at this time of year, just begging to be eaten.
As author and advocate Laura Plunkett (mother of a Type 1 child) writes: “I drift through the supermarket aisles getting angry. Did they make up this holiday…

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