Diabetus Overwhelmus
It’s no secret that I have been writing about diabetes, in one way or another, for a long time. About half my life, actually. And I’ve had the disease itself for about three-quarters of my life....
View ArticleFriday Five
Hope everyone is enjoyed their short week! It was pretty busy now that I am back in school (my fourth semester), so I thought I would do a little update bullet point style. As I just mentioned, I have...
View ArticleIs This Thing Still On?
Hello. It’s me. I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to… HA. Just kidding. But it has been awhile, hasn’t it? Nearly a year! And ironically (or fortuitously) the break came on the...
View ArticleHow Low Should I Go?
It’s a question as old as time: To carb, or not to carb… For the past 22 years, the answer has been a resounding “CARB!” and believe you me, I have never held back. Of course, I’ve also only had one...
View ArticleNoncompliance is real and it is a problem.
When you hear the term “noncompliant,” what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Every so often, I find myself observing a conversation or reading a blog post denouncing the term “noncompliant...
View ArticleEvery Six Months.
I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that it’s taken me 22 years to hear a “Well….” from my ophthalmologist and a recommendation to come back in six months. Let me back up. As most of you...
View ArticleSelf-Reflection: Is Low Carb Worth It?
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how I was thinking about joining the low carb club. While I logically, critically understood that low carb was going to be better for my blood sugars (because when you...
View ArticleHiding Under the Bed
I didn’t mean to go so long between blog posts. I have a couple of review posts planned, but they are still unwritten. For the post part the very end of August and beginning of September seemed rather...
View ArticleRiding the Waves with Sugar Surfing
Did I ever mention I organized a Sugar Surfing workshop for Dr. Stephen Ponder? No? Okay, well, let me start at the beginning. I started following the Sugar Surfing page a couple of years ago (like...
View ArticleGreen Light.
I didn’t have that far to go. When my A1C came back at 7.1% in July, I could see not only from the lab result but also from my Dexcom graph that I was hovering just above my goal of an A1C under 7%....
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