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AmyT on
January 20, 2009
The New Year has begun and you’re just brimming with hope and anticipation at a brand new YOU! Correct? But making those lasting changes can be very difficult when you’re striking out on your own and before you can say “Martin Luther King Jr. Day” you’re back to your old (not-always-so-desirable) habits… don’t I know it!
For just this reason, I have teamed up with an innovative company called Insulite Laboratories to bring you “NEW…
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AmyT on
January 9, 2009
A number of you asked about the OmniPod, so here you go: Below please find the third video in our Liberty Medical series on Insulin Pumping. This one’s all about “going wireless” — a personal fetish of mine, as you may know.
Again, this may not be ground-breaking news to you Type A-Personality Type 1 diabetics out there, but it IS new information for many PWDs, who’ve never had the good fortune to be…
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AmyT on
January 8, 2009
It still ain’t Wilford Brimley. Here I am in the second of our 3-part series on pumping. This one gives you an overview of different pump models.
When I watch these clips, I find that I look a little stiff here. Not nearly as smooth as, say… Nicole Johnson Baker (I wish). But hey, we started taping at 8am East Coast time, which was 5 o’clock in the morning for me. I’m lucky…
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AmyT on
January 7, 2009
I joked with the cameraman that it was the best video he ever made about urine tests.
OK, not all the video shorts I taped lately in collaboration with medical supply giant Liberty Medical (yes, the folks with that legendary Wilford Brimley commercial) mentioned the joy of urine tests. Our topics included “what is an insulin pump?,” “intro to pump features,” “new wireless diabetes systems,” “how to use your glucose meter data to improve your…
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AmyT on
January 2, 2009
So far, so good for these first few days of 2009. I’ve pulled out my detailed logging sheets and made a resolution to pinpoint exactly why my BGs are all over the map. Just committing to that feels good.
I may have mentioned that my glucose control slipped into the unacceptable these last few weeks as I’ve been riding the wave of the holidays: bit by bit allowing myself more carbs here and there, and…
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