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I hate that title, because it implies that I dislike Symlin. That's not true. I like it a lot. Most of the time. The few times I don't like it are memorable. Take this experience from about a month ago. One of Symlin's main jobs is to slow ...
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Today is Diabetes Art Day. All you have to do (if you want to) is create something artsy-fartsy in the spirit of the day--to reflect, acknowledge and share what diabetes and art means to you and your life. Anything goes. Check out some examples on TuDiabetes and The ...
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Am I the last person on earth to embrace the wide world of podcasting? I will admit that I did not really "get" it. So what is a podcast? I guess the best way to describe it is that podcasting is to radio what blogging is to magazines and newspapers....
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It's 10:35pm on Tuesday evening; I still don't have anything to produce for DArtDay. I can't draw, paint or doodle. I thought about it. I thought about it some more. I asked myself, "What bothers me the most about living with diabetes?" I ...
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(Big huge thanks to Lee Ann at The Butter Compartment for encouraging everyone around the diabetes online community to participate in Diabetes Art Day! I'm already dreaming of another project myself, how about you?)
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Today (September 1, 2010) is the first "Diabetes Art Day", a really fun project that Lee Ann (with a little help from Cherise) announced recently.My niece, a creative genius, was over this weekend, and I recruited her to help me. ...
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Having a chronic illness like diabetes demands many things. We must count carbohydrates, monitor blood sugars, take medication (insulin or pills), become quite close with our medical teams. It is a difficult to balance on a good day. Diabetes is also very expensive. Even if you have ...
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For the past five years, as I struggled with the ups and downs and all arounds that diabetes brings, I believed daily scale watching held me accountable. Doing so would keep me in line, would keep me from tipping over into overweight territory, would work in line with my blood ...
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Kerri recently posted on the best type of motivation (for people living with diabetes). Which led me to a video from the World Diabetes Day organization that had the terrible tagline shown below. Several of us from the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) pointed ...
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My daughter has asked me to blog about her for a while now but I didn't want too. She is already such a huge part of my diabetes life, I wanted to give her a break from my blog but I had to blog about this...Last week was the ...
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Having only one person show up at the first local meetup for younger adults with diabetes (besides me and my husband) could have been disappointing. Positivity is something I often lack, though not in this case. To expect a huge turnout for an event only planned two weeks in ...
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The lab slip sat there, untouched. For days. For weeks. For months.
I knew what the results could mean. Poking my finger several times a week, several times a day. Taking medications with undesirable side effects, maybe even injecting insulin. And most of all, being the wife of someone ...
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I want to spread the word about Diabetes Art Day (September 1), a very fun idea by a super special person.Lee Ann Thill is an art therapist and a person living with diabetes. ...
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I visited the Tiniboy Lancet booth at the Children With Diabetes conference and was amazed at how small these lancets looked. In fact, they were so fine and so short that even with my reading glasses I really had trouble seeing them. Full disclosure: at my request, Tiniboy sent ...
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I had my quarterly endocrinologist appointment this morning. You know when you have those mornings when nothing goes right, this wasn't one of them! :)First of all, this is the entrance to the building where my doctor is located. It's pretty ridiculous! You have to check in before you ...
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My pod expired, time for a site change. I used my stomach the last few times; it needed a break. I decided to place the pod on my cheek. I usually never have any problems with my pod being there; this time it is killing me. It hurts. It's ...
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This is my third week posting about new sites that I've discovered in the Diabetes Online Community (aka #doc on Twitter). Each time I find a site related to diabetes I look at it carefully to make sure it's genuine and provides useful information or personal insight into life with ...
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Have you guys seen the new Lantus commercials pimping out insulin as a medication? It rubs me the wrong way, so to speak. "Insulin is the right choice for me!" I know type 2 diabetics use Lantus to better control blood glucose levels and before the insulin pump I took ...
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As I sift through boxes upon boxes of childhood memories, I think of the people who cared for me and supported me unconditionally through some mighty difficult times at home. Beloved teachers would wipe tears away, my sister's high school sweetheart wrote every week when he went away to college, ...
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Hallelujah! My home office is clean. Not only can I enter my office without tripping over random stuff, not only can I write in peace without the temptation of finding another room in the house without clutter, but I have room for doing other projects. You know, like maybe an art ...
