Out of nowhere, time can slip away from us when a high or low blood sugar comes at us unexpectedly.
This happened to me the other day, hitting me like a sucker punch in the gut and stealing a couple hours of my afternoon.
Thanks to that Low, those hours are time I’ll never get back. Still, I’m so very grateful that I was able to eventually catch this hypo and treat it myself, and…
Apropos to Halloween last week, a doctor I know — who happens to be an endocrinologist — recently offered me a piece of hard candy. Casually. Without hesitation. When I smiled and noted that my “condition” keeps me off that stuff, he insisted I was being “obsessive.”
Surely one piece of hard candy won’t do much to your blood sugar, right?
Ummm, that’s what I take when I’m low. For me it’s a treatment, you know…?
The…
Ever wish non-diabetics could experience their own blood sugar crashes just to ”get” what it feels like for us people with diabetes, if even for a few minutes?
Well, some Pharma companies have gone to the trouble of building a “Hypoglycemia Simulator” for just this purpose…
No kidding. They really did!
Two different models of Hypo Simulators meant to mimic our hypoglycemia experiences were on the exhibit floor at the annual European Association for the Study of Diabetes…
It’s been a while, but we’re back with our ongoing series by and for loved ones of people with diabetes (PWDs), the so-called Diabetic Partner Follies. Today we’re proud to share a post written by Sandy Floyd, who lives with her type 1 husband Vince in the Philadelphia area and blogs over at A Diabetic Spouse. Vince was diagnosed at the tender young age of six months (!) and the complications he lives with bring…
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Despite having 10-12 hypos per month, Scott Bissinger had a problem remembering to carry fast-acting glucose with him. The reason? Lack of what he calls “the portability of glucose.” He knew there had to be a better way, and his proposed solution to the problem won him second place (and $10,000!) in a business venture competition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a senior majoring in Business Administration with…
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