By
AmyT on
December 17, 2009
Well, Hollywood’s done it again, trying to incorporate a character with diabetes into their storyline. This time, the entertainment industry has bestowed diabetes on one of the main characters in TNT’s new hit TV show, Men of a Certain Age. While the show has been receiving rave media reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times, the reviews on its star diabetic have been mixed at best.
For background: The show stars…
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By
AmyT on
December 14, 2009
By far the most positive thing that has come out of getting this stupid chronic illness is meeting incredible people. Who knew there were so many wonderful kindred spirits out there, before I began connecting with others who struggle all day every day with carb counts and insulin dosing calcs and potentially dangerous blood sugar lows?
What I’m getting at is that I had the chance to meet another of these kindred souls in the…
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By
AmyT on
December 7, 2009
How many diseases do you know of where patients are required to calculate exact dosing, up to half-a-dozen times a day, of a medicine so potent that mistakes could literally knock them out or kill them? I hate to be fatalistic, but after a few serious insulin flub-ups lately, I just can’t seem to get this thought out of my mind.
Of course we’re all just winging it. Carb-counting isn’t particularly exact, nor are our…
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By
AmyT on
December 2, 2009
I was chatting with diabetes investor / expert / friend Robert Oringer the other day, who has two teenage sons with Type 1 diabetes. “I’m obsessed with finding ways to prevent severe hypoglycemia,” he pronounced. I guess I knew this about him, but it reminded me of just how complex and scary blood sugar lows can be. Which led me back to this post, which, three years later, still rings true:
Hypo School
I have…
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