Monthly Archives: May 2012

Diabetes Moms

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there with diabetes. Raising kids and managing diabetes is a lot to take on. Happy Mother’s Day, also, to moms who are raising or have raised kids with diabetes. It turns out … Continue reading

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Diabetes Meal Plan – exchange system

The “exchange system” diabetes meal plan was introduced in the 1950s. I didn’t come on the diabetes scene until 1975, so I can’t comment on the early exchange days. For the first two decades of my diabetes life; however, we … Continue reading

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Check BG before Insulin before Food

Don’t you just love when life throws a good lesson in your face? I had that happen last night. I was talking to a patient on Friday about checking blood glucose. He was going on a pump for the first … Continue reading

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Diabetes Supplies

Once you have diabetes you become a pack mule. I recently got a call from a patient who learned this lesson the hard way. She was 2000-plus miles away from home when her pump stopped working. Another pump was shipped … Continue reading

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Social Media & Diabetes

I had to take a couple days off after blogging for a month straight. Nice to be able to do that. Not so much with diabetes. Funny thing is that managing diabetes every day is much easier for me than … Continue reading

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Survived!

The Health Activist Writers Month Challenge is over. Today we debrief. This was my second time participating in HAWMC, and it was still a challenge. We were allowed two “get out of blog free” passes, and I used them both! … Continue reading

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