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Starving for Enlightenment
These basal tests are really starting to get to me. On first glance, it feels like a carefully planned eating disorder. You skip meals, poke yourself repeatedly for blood, and then binge because you’d...
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Cookies for Breakfast
Yes, you read that right. I made cookies on Sunday that are supposed to be my breakfast for the remainder of the week. However, the carb count is still to be determined, so it’s throwing my breakfast...
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Wordless Wednesday: Waste Not?
The final piece of my deductible spending arrived today. Yup, that’s 1000 test strips right there. Since I seem to be going through a vial every 2 days, this may last me three months. Maybe. But...
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“You’re a Challenge…”
My endocrinologist highly discouraged trying to get pregnant until at least another A1C round. Then reminded me that the only reason my A1C corrected itself like that was because I ran hypoglycemic...
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I have a drinking problem…
You know… I’ll admit it. I used to love the occasional hypoglycemic episode. The off chance you could “cheat” your diet and have something super sweet, like a Reese’s peanut butter cup, or a handful...
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Shots were never this complicated
I was a child with diabetes in the 80s so I had my fair share of analog technology to assist me with control. Ketone strips that were used to find high blood sugars rather than glucose monitors that...
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Why Dance?
I stumbled upon a really neat non-profit based out of San Francisco this weekend. A couple of my friends participated in and/or watched April Follies: a same sex dance ballroom dance competition held...
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Sick Ward
I’m at the tail end of a bad cold, which has left me with a cloudy head and hacking, dry cough. (So – I wouldn’t be able to sleep anyway. Hey, look, my blog!) My blood sugar average has been hanging...
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Narrowing the Options
It’s a slow day at the office, so I’ve been using my time to research/read up on the Animas Ping and any additional information I can get on the 530G. (Because their specs aren’t on the interwebz...
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#Dblog Week Day 1: Test 1 2 3… is this thing on?
Let’s kick off Diabetes Blog Week by talking about the diabetes causes and issues that really get us fired up. Are you passionate about 504 plans and school safety? Do diabetes misconceptions irk you?...
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Musings of a New D-Parent
Just a random assortment of new mom w/D thoughts. 1) Between Bean’s middle of the night wake ups, my cranky CGM, and my leaky boobs, I get approximately 3 solid hours of sleep per night. My Dawn Effect...
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Well, that’s over with…
Both Bean and I had the day off today. (I from work, and daycare was closed.) We braved the rain and finally made it to the Lab. Yes – it was TrialNet day. Finally. Part procrastination, part...
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Dizzy, Spinning, and 54
If you are a PWD and haven’t heard of Kerri at SUM, I sincerely question your Googling skills. I catch a lot of her posts on Facebook and she re-shared a blog post today from 2012 that stopped me on...
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