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An Unexpected Connection
Today is the first day of Diabetes Blog week. Each day we have a prompt and are called to post a response. You can read all responses at my friend Karen’s site Bitter~Sweet. Also, please remember RABlog week will occur in September. I hope you join the fun then as well. Prompt Diabetes and the Unexpected – Monday 5/15 Diabetes can sometimes seem to play by a rulebook that makes no sense, tossing out unexpected challenges at random. What are your best tips for being prepared when the unexpected happens? Or, take this topic another...
read moreDBlog week is coming
Next week on May 15, 2017 the annual DBlog week begins. I and most bloggers in the diabetes community will be writing five daily blogs about diabetes. This is the 8th year for DBlog week and it just keeps getting better. Daily Prompts and More As of this writing the daily prompts have not yet been released, but I anticipate bloggers will find a way to discuss the cost of diabetes, the emotional burden of a chronic condition and maybe even diabetes technology. Last year we had over 100 bloggers who signed up for the event and those...
read moreReview of the Medtronic 630G Insulin Pump
I am going to break with tradition and state my recommendation at the outset I love the Medtronic 630G. However, please read the entire story because it is worth knowing my full experience with the pump. Because like with most things there are both good and some not so good parts to owning a new piece of technology. Getting started When the 630G arrived, there were all kinds of warnings about leaving the pump alone until you call the local trainer. So I immediately picked it up and started messing with it. I also called my local...
read moreOops I did it again
In the fall of 2016 I fell and broke my ankle. It felt awful, but I walked around on it for several days until my regularly scheduled visit to the Podiatrist. I asked if he would take a look at it. He x-rayed my ankle and sure enough I had broken the Fibula. The prescription was a boot for a few weeks, it would heal and things would be fine. Before the New Year, my ankle was well healed. To the extent that any break can be small, this was a small issue. More an annoyance than a real problem. Sheryl, and I often said, wow we dodged a...
read moreMy Insulin Pump is How Old?
Wait, my insulin pump is how old? Has it been five years already? I thought I had another year before it was time to obtain a new pump. I was wrong. In January I made an inquiry to Medtronic about my warranty and sure enough my warranty was due to expire on January 23, 2017. Wow five years went by fast. It is a big deal to change insulin pumps and this time I intended to change brands so it was important to get moving. Last year following the Medtronic / United Health Care agreement; I intended to use the Accu-Chek pump provided when I...
read moreI am a prick when I am low
I have been many things, husband, father, coworker and patient. I am also a person with type 1 diabetes. I have lived with type 1 for 42 years and I have to admit I am at least one more thing. I can be a prick when I am low. It’s true. I acknowledge it. Of course I often prick my finger to test my blood sugar, but I am also a prick Low Blood Sugar? Having a low blood sugar is like being in an automated car wash without a car. Having a low blood sugar feels like all the stimuli are coming at one thousand miles per hour and yet all you...
read moreValentines Day Letter to Sheryl February 14, 2017
Dear Sheryl. When I saw you for the first time sitting in the 4th row of that US government class 43 years ago, you were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Today when I see you, I am still captivated. One would think that after 39 years of marriage I would know you, and yet you remain a wonderful mystery to me. As we grow older I realize your strength is unbending, yet when we decided to marry I thought I was strong and you would rely on me. I could not have been more wrong. Through the years my love for you has grown more than...
read moreRemembering Mary Tyler Moore
I took over a week to write this blog because of the passing of my friend, Rose Schonberger (Shosh). I actually almost had it competed when I heard about Shosh and I had to put this down to focus on my many thoughts about Shoshana. I realize this is old news, but for my blog I do more reflection than news, so I hope this reflection adds to the reader’s remembrance of Mary Tyler Moore. For me, Mary Tyler Moore represented what it meant to be both successful and a person with Type 1 diabetes. My parents and I watched her program each week...
read moreThe war on RA: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
Part 3 of the war on RA was posted on January 29, 2017. If the war seems difficult for the majority of us, it can be overwhelming for the youngest of us who suffer from juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The American College of Rheumatology estimates there are about 300,000 children in the United States who suffer from JIA. According to the American College of Rheumatology, there are four subvariants of the disease: oligoarticular JIA (most common), polyarticular JIA (most like RA); and enthesitis-related JIA. Recently a former subvariant...
read moreTwo icons of the diabetes community
Yesterday January 25, 2017 we lost two of the most important people in the diabetes community that I know of. One, Mary Tyler Moore, you probably heard of. I was writing about my feeling regarding Mary Tyler Moore and her amazing accomplishments both as anj animal rights and diabetes advocate when I received news that a second, and in my case more important, person passed in our diabetes community. Since you have heard much about Mary Tyler Moore, I will save that one for later but I have to tell you about the second one. Rose Schonberger...
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