By
AmyT on
January 15, 2013
Welcome to the PATIENTS FOR A MOMENT (PFAM) patient-centered blog carnival, founded in part by Leslie of Getting Closer to Myself. We are delighted to be hosting this month, with the New Year’s-inspired theme of Renewals.
We put out a call for patient bloggers to share anything fresh they’re planning for 2013, be it changing doctors, updating meds, new exercise routine, or just committing yourself to being more active in patient communities.
Personally here at…
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The other day, my dad told me that he’d recently hired a woman at his company who has LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults). She wears an insulin pump, and when he mentioned that I went off my pump this Spring and went back to taking multiple shots a day, the woman was apparently shocked and couldn’t figure out why I would “go backwards.”
It’s true that switching from a pump to multiple daily injections…
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By
WilD on
April 28, 2012
Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois, where our goal is to always “tell it like it is” — no matter what! We’re glad you’re here!
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Megan from Nevada, type 1, asks: Can you tell me how this whole “giving yourself a small dose of Lantus so you…
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Right now, I’m on vacation. To be more specific, I’m on an insulin pump vacation.
Which, to be honest, it’s not much of a vacation (still have the ole diabetes to contend with!).
What is a pump vacation? It’s taking a break from wearing an insulin pump for short period of time. I’m not switching back to shots permanently, although I do know of people who have done so after taking a pump vacation. Sometimes…
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