Tag Archives: diabetes

Check BG before Insulin before Food

Posted on May 9, 2012 by janekdickinson

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

Posted on May 7, 2012 by janekdickinson

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

Posted on May 4, 2012 by janekdickinson

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!

Posted on May 1, 2012 by janekdickinson

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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Word Cloud

Posted on April 30, 2012 by janekdickinson

 I followed the instructions for making this bigger, but failed. So get out your magnifying glass and check out my word cloud. Luckily, it’s the last prompt for Health Activist Writers Month Challenge.

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Hypoglycemia Symptoms in Six

Posted on April 29, 2012 by janekdickinson

Today’s prompt is to write a six sentence story. Since I’m just coming up from a low, I thought hypoglycemia would be a good topic. Originally I felt shaky when I was low; my parents would say my face got … Continue reading →

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The first insulin injection

Posted on April 28, 2012 by janekdickinson

Ok, truth: I don’t really remember my first injection. For the first year after I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, my parents (mostly my father) gave me my shots (injections). I was sent to diabetes camp for two weeks … Continue reading →

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Diabetes Challenges and Victories

Posted on April 27, 2012 by janekdickinson

Today’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge prompt is to list the 5 most difficult parts of diabetes and the 5 little, good things. Here’s what I came up with: Challenges: 1) Bubbles in my insulin. Why is that the older … Continue reading →

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Diabetes Tagline

Posted on April 26, 2012 by janekdickinson

Own it and get living! That’s my tagline for diabetes and for life in general. Being a victim gets us nowhere. Nowhere. If I threw all my favorite quotes into a bag and shook it, this is what would come … Continue reading →

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Diabetes Questions

Posted on April 23, 2012 by janekdickinson

Thanks to a blog post by Scott K. Johnson, I just viewed a public service announcement about the importance of asking questions, for patients with diabetes and their health care providers. This is something I routinely emphasize with people I … Continue reading →

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