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Fantasy Diabetes Device: Take My Autoimmue Disorder — Please.
Tell us what your Fantasy Diabetes Device would be. Think of your dream blood glucose checker, delivery system for insulin or other meds, magic carb counter, etc etc etc. The sky is the limit – what...
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Ode to a Type 3
Dear Ol’ Husband, You know how it makes me feel all weird and itchy when people get overly affectionate in public forums. Those elaborate declarations of love and devotion and you’re-the-best-ness...
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Overcompensation Nation
“It’s always safer to be on the high side than the low side.” It was one of the first things my pediatric endocrinologist told me after my diagnosis in 1990, and it’s a refrain I’ve recited to myself...
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I Can Do This!
I’m not a person who seeks out inspirational or motivational things. I don’t have any paperweights with words of wisdom engraved into them sitting on my desk, or posters of soaring eagles on my walls....
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The Home Stretch
This Wednesday, I’ll be 28 weeks pregnant, tiptoeing cautiously into my third trimester. It sounds insane, but I can’t believe I’m still pregnant — I keep waiting for someone to call this whole thing...
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Friends for Life — with a Stowaway
About two weeks ago, for the second year in a row, I joined thousands of others in a pilgrimage to Orlando for CWD FFL 2012. (That’s Children With Diabetes Friends For Life, for those of you who prefer...
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Having the Baby. And Diabetes, Too.
Several weeks ago, I insisted that I wasn’t going to bother with a birth plan. I may have been lying. I’m at 34 weeks now — too swollen and exhausted, it seems, to keep up with much of normal life,...
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Meet the Magpie*
In what’s becoming her signature style, she showed up unexpectedly — almost 4 weeks before her expected due date. But she’s arrived! Born at 11:08 AM on August 24. Six pounds and 5 ounces of sweet,...
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The Way it All Went Down
One year ago, if you’d told me I’d be putting my birth story on the Internet, I’d have totally thought you were drunk. But, what a difference a pregnancy makes. I feel like it’s important to share what...
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Taking Care of Two Babies
News flash, everyone! Having a baby is hard. And time-consuming. It’s amazing to me how I can spend an entire day doing nothing — and watching the Magpie do nothing — and end up so exhausted at the end...
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My Regularly Scheduled Diabetes
About 100 years ago, I wrote about how taking good care of diabetes and a baby feels like an impossible feat. Even impossibler than taking good care of diabetes alone. Time has passed, though. I’m back...
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Oh, the Technology!
I may have been quiet, but while I was holed up with my wee Magpie this past fall, I spent a lot of time on Facebook. And it seemed like every time I pulled up my timeline, along with cheesy “Repost...
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The Tinglies
My feet feel weird. I don’t know how else to say it, and for that reason, I’m not sure what to do about it. And I’m kind of freaked out. It all started with my “ring toe” on my left foot. (You know,...
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I Hate the Nightlife
It would make sense that low blood sugar and sleep deprivation share some of the same symptoms: confusion, a vague sense of instability, lethargy, hunger, uncontrollable rage unfairly aimed at the...
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The BioHub Brouhaha of 2013: An Animated Retrospective
So most of us know what happened last week with our super top-secret cure-that’s-not-really-a-cure exploding Internet DOC rage fundraising nonsense. And everyone has an opinion on the subject; most of...
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Meanwhile, on WhatToExpect.com . . .
I have a guest post, all about the glorious anxiety of complicated pregnancies, and how, even though everyone on earth these days has a pregnancy that’s complicated by something, it can still be a very...
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Biohazards at Work
When I’m trying to hang on to something that I really cannot lose, I put it with the one other thing that I really cannot lose (besides my child): my glucose meter. Sometimes it’s a necklace, or a wad...
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Diabetes Blog Week: Memories
I’m late, but I’m here! And that’s okay. I even have a personal Facebook message from the lovely Karen Graffeo, founder of Diabetes Blog Week, to prove it. Here’s Wednesday’s topic: Today we’re going...
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Forgetting About It
One of the diabetes things I complain about the most is the fact that it’s an unforgettable disease. From the piles of used test strips in my purse to the CGM alarms and daily low blood sugars, I’d...
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Things I’m Running Out Of
1. Test strips, usually. Ever since I went back to a non-pregnant-person’s blood sugar maintenance schedule (5 times a day instead of 10+), my pharmacy’s gotten very sneaky with the way they fill my...
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