One day last week my phone rang. It was a number I didn’t recognize, so I let it go to voice mail.
The caller left a message, and a few minutes later I keyed up my messages to listen: Medtronic was calling for me, mentioning my name specifically. They were calling on a U.S. holiday, no less — the 4th of July — because of an apparent question I had about one of the devices I was…
Welcome once again to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, where we talk all about navigating life with diabetes. In this edition, our host Wil Dubois (veteran type 1, author and diabetes community educator) takes on questions that may not only bring you to tears, but could also make you want to log some blood sugars! Read on!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Joey from New England, type 1, writes: Hey, I was looking…
Losing the ability to sense low blood sugars is one of the scariest things for those of us living with diabetes.
For one college student at Purdue University, that hypoglycemia unawareness led to an average of three ER visits a week (!) Even with a CGM, this young man diagnosed with type 1 at age 5 wasn’t able to avoid the insulin reactions because they came on too quickly. It got to the point where…
As we mark the Fourth of July here in the U.S.A., we thought this would be a great time to explore the idea of freedom as it relates to our dependence on diabetes apparatus.
Admit it: As free as we can sometimes feel about the flexibility modern diabetes technology provides, our devices also serve as a constant reminder of our illness, shadowing us wherever we go. Most of us, at one time or another, have…
Just a few short years ago, no one could have envisioned the Diabetes Online Community would become what it is today. And be moving in the collaborative direction it’s going…
Seriously, some likely would have laughed at the idea while shaking their heads in disbelief!
It used to be “Us versus Them,” in terms of the relationship between Pharma and people with diabetes (PWDs). There was little interaction; we didn’t know them and they didn’t…