It’s three in the morning, you had a bad day, nothing went right, now your child’s blood sugar is 46. You treat the low and you wait. “I’ll check again in a few minutes.” You look around. You aimlessly flip a few pages of a magazine. You reach for the remote and realize THAT is […]
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I have noticed recently, that when people refer to their ‘diabetes bag’; you know that ‘quick-grab-and-get-and-take-with-you’ bag full of just enough diabetes supplies to help you in your travels, that they call it something. You know, like a name. I found that very interesting. So today I would like to hear what you, in your household, call […]
I want to save you from some grief. Whether you have been at this for a week or over twenty-three years, there is something you should do, and many do not. Kind of hard to explain why people do not do this; but so many don’t. Labels. In this day and age it is so easy to […]
Have you ever suffered with ‘Diabetes Dropsies’? It’s a phrase I made up. It is just those times that, even though I know I know, I drop the ball. It just seems that there must be a full moon or something because when it comes to diabetes, I am having it a tad rough lately. […]
If you click the photo you will see a very short clip. It is from the movie Apollo 13, a classic directed by Ron Howard. What is very interesting about this clip, is something that you might think is standard operational procedure for people working at NASA. The ‘takeaway’, perhaps, is one does not have to […]
There has been much discussion about the recent NY Times article that included the writer’s opinion/research about devices, expenses surrounding diabetes, and more. You can read the entire article by clicking here. Someone asked me if I was going to chime in; and I AM going to chime in but perhaps not in the way that I […]