The Jonas Brothers played San Francisco this week. We did not attend (tickets started at $92). But my three daughters have chatted up everyone at their school, everyone at summer camp, and everyone under age 14 within a 10-mile radius, I believe: they just cannot get over the fact that I actually interviewed Nick Jonas back in Spring of 2007.
Never mind that the interview was over the phone. And never mind that this was…
I’ve always been squeamish about trying alternate sites for my insulin pump. When Tiffany wrote about using her breasts back in 2005, I kind of shut down on the whole notion. Eeeeww! Just give me the belly and arms, thank you very much.
But now that I’m having issues with both skin irritation and lipodystrophy (overused infusion sites), I’m starting to eye the rest of my body for acceptable places to poke.
Insulet, the makers…
Question: How can you tell if the insulin in any given vial is still good before injecting it?
Answer: You can’t! You have to “test” it on yourself by injecting and awaiting the blood sugar results.
Isn’t that crazy?!
A reader emailed me a week or so ago asking why there is no litmus test — like a strip of test paper where applying a few drops of insulin would yield either green for “good”…
Happy Independence Day, All! Well now, this seems like a good day to talk a little about our “closet diabetes rebels,” aka the small — or not so small — things we all do to assert our independence over this stupid disease.
For my part:
1) It’s summer, for God’s sake, and I love sandals and flip-flops as much as anyone. Like Kerri, I universally ignore my doctor’s advice to “never wear open-toed shoes.” Are you kidding…
The Swiss medical device specialists at Debiotech and STMicroelectronics have announced the first “evaluation prototypes” of the unique “highly miniaturized disposable insulin pump” they’ve been working on for several years. As you can see, it’s literally the size of a credit card. I wrote about it last spring, lamenting that these things always take ages to make it to market.
Well, it seems they’ve “moved a step closer to market availability” this week with the…