Endocrinology (3 unread)

• Busy

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 11:17pm CET

  I am sitting inside of the Kansas City, MO airport; I decided to blog from my iPhone. -Saturday I traveled to Kansas City, MO. I had the oppurtunity to visit my Aunt; she isn't doing well. The cancer is eating at her bones. I am still prayerful for her and ...

• Thank You to All My Friends at Diabetes Daily

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:30pm CET

  I am now a real Diabetes Daily family member and am absolutely thrilled to be here. I am off to a great start with all of the wonderful friends I have already made and all the new ones I am looking forward to meeting. Many of you already know me as ...

• Diabetes Role Models

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 7:58pm CET

  Do you have a diabetes role model yet? Role models are a key ingredient in helpings us to reach greater achievements in life. Although many people associate role models with their career or personal aspirations, I believe that role models have just as much place in inspiring us to live ...

• The Fresh Lunch Challenge (Part 1)

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 8:19pm CET

  I never imagined I would be cooking lamb burgers at six o'clock in the morning.  Always one to complain about food being too salty, that effect was intensified following my recent hospitalization.  When I returned home, everything from precooked breakfast sausage to a favorite frozen entree tasted like salt.  Even ...

• Whole Wheat Bread? You Ain't No Rye!

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:48pm CET

  Today, science has landed a solid blow against whole wheat's status as Best for Blood Sugars. Researchers at Lund University have discovered that bread made from rye flour provides better control than whole wheat bread and rye bran. And it keeps mice skinnier. ...

• Snowboarding and Diabetes

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:00pm CET

  Last weekend I went out to Denver to celebrate my friend Candice's 30th birthday and visit some friends from college.  I was a little apprehensive about leaving Leah at home for a couple days, but I knew that she was in good hands and that I'd have a good time.  ...

• Guest Post: Why not make diabetes just like knitting?

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:00pm CET

  I would like to introduce to some and re introduce to others, Karen of Bitter-Sweet Diabetes Blog.  I met Karen via Twitter (Karen_mst) a year ago; she had me at her first tweet.  Trust me when you read below, you'll know why.  Thank you, Karen--Hugs. --------------------------------...

• The 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 7th, 2010, 1:04am CET

  Amy has announced the opening of the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge, and created this really neat little video to kick things off (I love this!)I love that Amy has had such great success with this contest.  Because of that great success, it keeps ...

• 24

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 5th, 2010, 6:19pm CET

  Tomorrow marks the 24th anniversary of my husband's type 1 diabetes diagnosis.  I fell in love with this man who happens to have type 1 diabetes...wow, almost fourteen years ago now.   A couple of years ago, I wrote about his diagnosis with the help of his parents.  A ...

• That Is Not Pocketable

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:59am CET

  Chapstick is pocketable.  A small swiss-army knife is pocketable.  A mini-flashlight is pocketable.  Insulin pens are not pocketable.  I have been using an insulin pump for a long time.  Before I started pumping, they did not have these giant portable all-in-one "solutions".  These ...

• Oprah Winfrey Highlights Life After Thyroid Cancer for Film Critic Roger Ebert

  Found on Thyroid Disease About. Posted: March 4th, 2010, 4:44pm CET

  Earlier this week, America's favorite "I'm cured but not really" thyroid patient, Oprah Winfrey, featured a heroic thyroid patient, the amazing Roger Ebert -- who is both film critic and thyroid cancer survivor -- on her show. Ebert shared his 2010 Oscar® picks, and allowed Oprah to follow ...

• Guest Post-Community

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 4th, 2010, 1:00pm CET

  Shannon is a diabetes advocate and the creator of LADAdeeda.com a blog about her life with diabetes; she was diagnosed 10 years ago.  I was drawn to her for a few reasons but one the one that stands out the most --she lives with Type 1/LADA.  Reading about another young ...

• Without Diabetes

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 10:22pm CET

  (Please excuse me - writing with prompts has been easier than without lately - so I must explain that I am answering a question posed by Duncan Cross for the next edition of Patients for a Moment.  He asked, "Who would you be without your illness?".  This is ...

• An Update on Natural Desiccated Thyroid Drugs: Where We Are as of March 2010

  Found on Thyroid Disease About. Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 5:59pm CET

  If you go to your local pharmacy to get your prescription for Armour or Nature-Throid filled, will you be turned away? As of early March, 2010, the situation is still in flux regarding natural desiccated thyroid drugs. I had a chance to speak with Dai Jinn, Chief Pharmacist ...

• Just the facts

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 1:16pm CET

  I hate to write in bullet points, but I am realizing that if I don't try to write at least that much nothing will get written before I leave.... for Haiti before dawn on Friday morning. I am totally excited and totally nervous. The site we are staying at ...

• Roast Chicken with Garlic, Lemon and Thyme

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 1:00pm CET

  This recipe was created during a challenge I gave myself a while back to use only the food in my pantry for our meals for the week.  Since then, it's been on regular rotation in our house.  It's so delicious and makes your house smell ...

• Let me check

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 1:00pm CET

  I am trying not to buy any Reese's peanut butter cups because it would go against what I am giving up for lent. So, I decided to Walgreens to get gum, diet sunkist and mints  to help me fight the candy cravings.  I went to the check out stand, placed everything on the counter....

• Guest Post-Community

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 1:00pm CET

  Shannon is a diabetes advocate and the creator of LADAdeeda.com a blog about her life with diabetes; she was diagnosed 10 years ago.  I was drawn to her for a few reasons but one the one that stands out the most --she lives with Type 1/LADA.  Reading about another young ...

• Remembering to Take Your Thyroid Pill

  Found on Thyroid Disease About. Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 11:12am CET

  More than 100 thyroid patients have shared their advice, ideas, and creative suggestions on how to remember to take their thyroid pills every day. From turning the pill bottle upside down, to keeping the thyroid pill bottle on top of the coffee pot, patients have some of the ...

• It's Not Just The Diabetes

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: March 1st, 2010, 8:38pm CET

  Living with diabetes is hard.  But today reminded me that it is not just the diabetes that makes living with diabetes hard.  It is all the extra crap we deal with around our diabetes that is almost more of a headache than managing blood sugars and insulin doses....