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I’m off to see the Endo
Endo appointment on Friday. Appointment #3 with endo #4. I like her. I like her attitude. I think I probably ruined any chances for a stellar A1c for this appointment but I’m not going to sweat it. Oh,...
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My Smart Endo
Last week’s endo appointment was quite nice. I’m beginning to feel like she’s a friend, you know the kind – the one that stands in the yard chatting with you and you just know they’re listening, really...
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Spammy
I don’t get a LOT of spam – but I do get some… Some of today’s – - - Usually I do not learn article on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very pressured me to check out and do so! Your writing...
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I wrote to a newspaper columnist – about D
It is a first – oh, I’m wrong it’s my second time but… (First time was back in high school, a long time ago…) I wrote to a newspaper! For many years I’ve read the column, The New Old Age, in The New...
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Share and Don’t Share
Often our health care team only sees us for about 15 minutes several times a year, and they might not have a sense of what our lives are really like. Today, let’s pretend our medical team is reading...
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We, The Undersigned
Recently various petitions have been circulating the Diabetes Online Community, so today let’s pretend to write our own. Tell us who you would write the petition to – a person, an organization, even an...
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Memories
Today we’re going to share our most memorable diabetes day. You can take this anywhere…. your or your loved one’s diagnosis, a bad low, a bad high, a big success, any day that you’d like to share....
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Accomplishments Big and Small
We don’t always realize it, but each one of us has come a long way since diabetes first came into our life. It doesn’t matter if it’s been 5 weeks, 5 years or 50 years, you’ve done something...
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Freaky Friday
Just like in the movie, today we’re doing a swap. If you could switch chronic diseases, which one would you choose to deal with instead of diabetes? And while we’re considering other chronic...
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Diabetes Art – not really…
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou There are no art supplies in this house. I don’t...
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Over-d’d
Hmmm, almost a month since my last post – didn’t even finish d-blog week. Oh well. To be honest, I think I got tired of diabetes. Sure, right – aren’t we all tired of diabetes? Yes, of course. But I...
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Being Pregnant
Hoping my husband doesn’t look over my shoulder and have heart failure… NO, I’m not, but… Reading the d-blogs, and I read a lot of them, teaches me something new each day. I read lots of them. I read...
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We had to buy more orange juice
I used to drink orange juice like other people drink coffee. Many (many) years ago, I would get up in the morning, grab the frozen concentrate juice from the freezer, add the 3 cans of water, and mix...
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He didn’t give up…
As some of my readers (all 10 or so of you… I love all of you!) know, my younger brother saw a doctor at the beginning of this year and was told he was probably pre-diabetic, if not a full fledged Type...
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Throwing it out
In our efforts to “de-clutter” our home, I’m wading through piles and files of medical paperwork, most of it – not unsurprisingly – mine. With diabetes, as I’m sure with any chronic disease/condition,...
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Strip Safely – my thoughts
Strip Safely – scares the s*** out of me. Think about it. Right now our BG strips can give us a range of +/- 20 points percent either way. That’s ridiculous. It could kill me/us. We all love posting...
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Baking
I stopped baking in 2005 when I was diagnosed. First diagnosis was Type 2, then it was changed to Type 1 LADA a couple of years later. It’s not like I did a whole lot of baking. There’s only two of us...
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An Alexander Week
He could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. He went to sleep with gum in his mouth and woke up with gum in his hair. When he got out of bed, he tripped over his...
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Introducing my new morning carbs
Remember how I wrote about missing orange juice? Not any more. Following my latest bone density test, I’ve now been diagnosed with osteoporosis. It wasn’t a huge surprise as the first test said I was...
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The Amazing DOC
Do you realize how amazing you are – you DOC people? I do the charity stuff at our church office. I have a youngish man with lots of family issues and lots of needs. And in spite of a job, and working...
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