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Saying Something
Maybe you’ve seen that Department of Homeland Security campaign “If You See Something, Say Something.” It was very visible when I lived in New York City, and I hear it’s a nationwide thing. Well, I’m...
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Yet Another Unexpected Result
This has been a very strange week. Last week, I realized that I ran out of Victoza, which I have been taking faithfully for the last three months. But on Thursday night, I only had enough for 1/3 of my...
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Analyze This
I know for awhile I’ve been singing the praises of Victoza, but you know what? I still have diabetes and this is still a drug that I’m mixing in with a bunch of random variables so you can imagine that...
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Getting a Handle On Food, Fitness & Type 2 Diabetes
The American Diabetes Association is famous for the Tour de Cure bike series, and now they have launched a new series just for women! The first ride is this Saturday, September 13 in Southern...
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Cool Kids
Have you heard the Echosmith song “Cool Kids”? I love that song. I feel like it captures a lot of my feelings when it comes to, well, life. I think most of us have at one point or another felt like...
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God’s Country
I wanted to be prepared. I didn’t want to go to my appointment with lofty expectations, so this morning I downloaded my Dexcom to see what the latest numbers said. The 14 day average was 154 mg/dl. The...
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One Week As A PWD
Awhile back, I learned about Michelle Litchman — a nurse practitioner specializing in diabetes in Salt Lake City — and her Fakeabetes Challenge. The Fakeabetes Challenge is a one week challenge where a...
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Diabetic Living + TCOYD Recap
This weekend I drove down to Des Moines, Iowa for the TCOYD conference and for a meeting at the offices of Diabetic Living, one of the magazines I write for (I’m in their current Fall 2014 issue!)....
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The After
This is the part where I usually start fucking things up. I’ve lowered my A1C before. A quarter, a half, even a full percent. Now I’ve jumped one and a half percent and all I can think is: “How long...
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Wanna Talk To The FDA?
On November 3, there will be an unprescendented conversation between the diabetes community and the FDA taking place and YOU can get involved! DiaTribe wants to collect as much feedback from the...
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That Time I Ran A Half Marathon
So, I ran a half marathon on Saturday. I know, I know. I didn’t really tell anyone about it. I had a couple false starts this summer with other half marathons and I got a little gun-shy talking about...
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Walking A Mile
They say that you really don’t know someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Well, I’ve never walked a mile in the shoes of someone who has type 2 diabetes or gestational diabetes or someone...
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Happy World Diabetes Day!
Well, I almost missed it, but I’m here! Hoping everyone had a productive World Diabetes Day. I spent part of the day participating on the 24-hour long Twitter chat for World Diabetes, which was...
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Epic Lows
Have you ever wondered what it was like to have a low blood sugar last two hours? Well, let me tell you. It sucks. And it’s happened to me three times this week. It’s not a question of why I went low....
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Defending Insulin
The strangest thing happened to me at work the other day. I work a couple part-time jobs in retail, one that’s more or less permanent, and the other one that’s just for the holiday season. At the...
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Four Ways To Lower An A1C… But Not Gain Weight
The other day on Facebook, someone posted whether or not it would be possible to ever lower an A1C but also not gain weight. I’ve heard this a lot over the years about how it seems like weight gain is...
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2014: My Diabetes Year-in-Review
In 2014, I marked ___ years with diabetes: 20 Best diabetes experience… I’ve made several new diabetes friends in Minneapolis, which has not only made living with diabetes easier but also helped make...
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New Year, New A1C Result
Technically my endocrinologist appointment was on Monday, so not exactly in the new year, but close enough. And as I predicted, my A1C went up. I just can’t — okay, okay, never say can’t — I pretty...
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Top Posts of 2014
I thought it would be fun to reflect on last year’s blog posts! 1. My favorite post was The Case of the Possessed Dexcom Sensor. “That’s strange, I thought. When it was powered up, it prompted me to...
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Adverse Effects of the Rare and Unusual Kind
It was the burping. There are a lot of side effects that you hear about with medication. Headache, nausea, vomiting, gastrointestinal distress, mood changes. Death. (I still can’t figure out how that’s...
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