Blog Archive

2021
  • 04/20 | The Night I Almost Died
    Like all Type 1 diabetics, for me occasional lows are just a part of life. In the struggle to get...
2020
  • 11/14 | National Diabetes Month
    “I feel like my entire life has been shaken up. It’s amazing how much can happen in...
  • 09/29 | Insulin 102
    This is a follow up to last week’s blog, if you haven’t yet, make sure you read it...
  • 09/22 | Insulin 101
    A comment from a friend recently reminded me how little many people understand about Type 1...
  • 09/14 | The Cure
    Forget the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes? Read this blog to refresh your memory! As...
  • 09/07 | One Year
    It’s been 1 year since I started this blog. I’ll admit that I’ve had many...
  • 08/30 | 1+1=5?
    One of the most constant things about being a Type 1 diabetic is how inconsistent blood sugar (BG)...
  • 08/22 | What We Want You to Know
    As I have mentioned before, I am very active in the Type 1 diabetic community not only on social...
  • 08/16 | Planning
    One big adjustment for me as a Type 1 diabetic was having to learn to plan. It’s not that a...
  • 08/05 | My Diaversary
    Today is my diaversary. It has been 14 years since I began my journey as a diabetic. For the last...
  • 07/25 | Everyone is Unique
    Everyone is unique, that is a concept we are all familiar with. It is no different in the Type 1...
  • 07/15 | The Blessings
    Since the purpose of this blog is to give a glimpse into daily life with T1 diabetes, many of the...
  • 07/11 | Diabetes Technology Part 3 – When Used Together
    This is the third of a three part series, you can read part 1 here and part 2 here My last two...
  • 07/03 | Diabetes Technology Part 2 – Insulin Pumps
    This is the second of a three part series, you can read part one here. The last blog was all about...
  • 06/27 | Diabetes Technology Part 1 – CGM
    I know that if you aren’t familiar with T1 diabetes, you might think it will be hard for you...
  • 05/06 | Let Us Eat Cake!
    Yes I haven’t written a new blog post for months! Honestly this blog hasn’t been...
2019
  • 12/10 | Insurance
    Health insurance battles. They are something we have all had to deal with (at least those of us who...
  • 11/12 | Extra Challenges
    T1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, where the body mistakenly attacks healthy cells (in this case...
  • 11/12 | World Diabetes Day
    November is National Diabetes Awareness Month (#NDAM). It’s used as a time to educate and...
  • 10/29 | Learning the Language
    Like many diseases, T1 diabetes has its own lingo and language. Here is a guide that will help you...
  • 10/18 | T3 diabetes
    Most people have never heard of Type 3 diabetes because it isn’t really diabetes....
  • 10/04 | All About Basal
    Before I was a T1 diabetic, I thought that having diabetes meant taking a shot of insulin before...
  • 09/21 | The Lows
    Low blood sugar (BG) is probably the most dreaded aspect of having T1 diabetes. Low BG happens when...
  • 09/20 | What the Type?
    Although pretty much everyone has heard of diabetes, many people don’t understand the...
  • 09/19 | Community
    The T1 diabetic community is unlike any I’ve ever heard of or experienced for any other...
  • 09/15 | Sleep ?
    T1 diabetics (and the parents that take care of T1D kids) regularly loose sleep at night when BG...
  • 09/12 | Burnout
    Diabetes burnout. It’s a real thing and all T1 diabetics go through it at times. Having T1...
  • 09/12 | Getting High
    Saying that I’m high is something I will do without even thinking about it until I see a...
  • 09/11 | Eating is Complicated…
    Food. It’s probably the biggest challenge for a T1 diabetic. We have to count the carbs in...
  • 09/10 | The Stubborn Highs
    Last night I had a dream that my BG was in the 400s and it would not come down! Normal BG is 80-100...
  • 09/10 | The “Pain” of T1 Diabetes
    “I could never be a diabetic and poke myself with needles all the time.” It’s...
  • 09/08 | How I got here
    On August 5, 2006, I ended up in the ER really sick and found out that I had diabetes. I was...
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