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December 4, 2008
Who’s familiar with the ICE (In Case of Emergency) program that encourages people to enter emergency contacts in their cell phone address book under the name “ICE” — like “ICE – Dad” or “ICE – Janie“? Then you add some brief notes about your medical condition in the address book entry. Funny to think that there are so many companies out there developing fancy databases and chipsets for medical emergency alerts when we all actually carry…
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AmyT on
December 3, 2008
That’s what it feels like, anyway. A millennium of skin malfunctions over here that are making my diabetes and gluten intolerance genuinely intolerable of late! (A TMI post? Read at your own risk)
The latest bout of troubles kicked off this summer when I took the new Abbott Navigator CGM sensor for a test drive. The very latex-y adhesive used to adhere that product to the skin did not get along with my skin at…
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AmyT on
December 2, 2008
OK, so it took me over an hour to read through this week’s 60-some-odd responses to the diabetes police. This was, in part, due to the head cold I picked up over Thanksgiving weekend. Blah. But the real reason was because the answers to this week’s Holiday Survival Sweepstakes query were so darn entertaining! I had to go back and re-read a bunch, and make notes for myself, because I am going to be using…
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AmyT on
December 1, 2008
Diabetes Awareness Month has drawn to a close. Of course, we can only hope that all the press releases and outreach programs have made a difference.
Before it’s all over I wanted to share with you this month’s JDRF Blogger Rountable, which features a set of us very vocal D-Bloggers answering topical questions each month. You guessed it — this month we talked about Diabetes Awareness efforts, and what that all means to us.
Some fave…
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AmyT on
November 24, 2008
I’ve been confused for a while about the controversy over “evidence-based medicine.” Some doctors think it is correct; others don’t. We patients take it for granted that there is solid scientific evidence behind the drugs and treatments our doctors prescribe. So have we been misled there?
The Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (yes, there is one!) describes it as “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of…
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