Black Hole

April 1, 2013.Reading time 6 minutes.

Today is day one of the Health Activists Writers Month Challenge. The HAWMC is a month-long even put on by WEGO Health. Each day there is a new prompt health activist bloggers are asked to write about. Even though today is day one it is not to late to join in on the fun – […]

HAWMC

March 20, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

Greetings. I suck. (Yes I’m self-deprecating today) I haven’t blogged for an extended period of time. Sadly this comes at a time when I have also applied for a scholarship to the Stanford Medicine X ePatient conference (thus – if you are with the Medicine X scholarship department please see older posts and know that […]

Ghosn’s Vs. Diabetes

February 20, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Tip of The Iceberg

February 18, 2013.Reading time 6 minutes.

We recently celebrated Sugarboy’s 6th diaversary (anniversary of the day he was diagnosed with diabetes). Why do we celebrate such a thing? We celebrate life. Sugarboy was in DKA at diagnosis (diabetes ketoacidosis – very serious and dangerous – life threatening actually). We spent 5 nights in the hospital getting Sugarboy better and learning how […]

First Ones Free

November 5, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

Day 5 of National Health Blog Post Month Hi my name is Christina and I am a Health Activist. I started out sharing just a couple of thoughts a month. It was easy really, someone would say something stupid and I would react. Then I found that I wanted to share more. I tried to […]