Today, I am 34. On this date in 1995, I started taking insulin to treat the type 1 diabetes I'd been diagnosed with some weeks before. Unlike a lot of diabetics of my acquaintance, I don't know my actual diagnosis date, so I count from my birthday instead. It's a good date to use, anyway, since World Diabetes Day (November 14) falls in the same ( Read more... )

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I set a crazy fundraising goal for the 2008 JDRF Walk for a Cure, $3000, but you all, my family, and my coworkers ended up contributing $2540 $2640--85% 88% of that! Absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much!

Edit: I forgot the $100 Lindsay raised with her awesome beer auction on Halloween.

Hello friends! I am again participating in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk to Cure Diabetes being held in San Diego (at UCSD) on Sunday 26 October. I am building a team of my coworkers and anyone else who would like to support this cause by doing a little 5K with me. If you are interested in

• joining me in walking,
• donating to the ( Read more... )

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The message I have been trying to preach as a someone who has become a better diabetic over the years is that measuring your blood glucose more often is THE way to manage/improve your diabetes. But I've been assuming that your doctors tell you what to do with those numbers--isn't that their job? Amy at Diabetes Mine made me realize that they don't ( Read more... )

Today is Type 1 Diabetes Awareness Day. To mark it, I would like to share some facts about this condition and my life with it.

• Only about 5% of the people diagnosed with diabetes are type 1. That's around 6.8 million of the 135 million worldwide. Most diabetes-related advertising/journalistic writing is NOT geared toward me.
• There is no cure for ( Read more... )

Good: my blood sugar numbers have been stellar lately. My meter tells me my 14-day average is 139, which in the past has corresponded to an A1C of ~6, which is very good. In the past, though, I've had lots of lows bringing that average down, while the last few days my numbers have been consistently in the low 100s. The most recent numbers on my ( Read more... )

This is too long to go to twitter, so I must post here. Best diabetes song ever, the title track of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik:
Blood sugar baby
Shes magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
Shes magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
Shes magik
Sex magik sex magik
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Insulin pumps made TechCrunch today. That's my pump in the picture, there, and everything Amy Tenderich says about pumps (except the beeping) is true. ...have you seen these things? They make a Philips GoGear Jukebox HDD1630 MP3 Player look pretty! And it’s not only that: most of these devices are clunky, make weird alarm sounds, are more or less ( Read more... )