I’m just here for the gloves.

January 6, 2015.Reading time 18 minutes.

It is 2015 and just so there is no confusion later this really is the year Marty came to in the future. Although that has absolutely nothing to do with this post. Honestly it has nothing to do with anything but somehow that picture has shown up on my Facebook feed a half-dozen times since […]

Purple Because Aliens Don’t Wear Hats

October 29, 2014.Reading time 21 minutes.

If you accidentally bolus 25 units of insulin when only 3.5 units were needed and each unit of insulin will reduce blood sugar by 50 points while every 10 grams of carbs would normally require 1 unit of insulin and your blood sugar was 300, keeping in mind fast acting insulin takes approximately 20 minutes […]

Size Matters

August 1, 2014.Reading time 9 minutes.

Last night around midnight I woke to check Sugarboy’s blood sugar. He uses the Animas Ping pump with Ping meter. The Ping meter uses the One Touch Ultra test strips. We have been using the Ping and One Touch Ultra meters for over 7 years. We love the Ping and feel pretty good about the […]

It’s Not You – It’s It

July 24, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

For at least the last three weeks my middles has been high. Above 200 almost consistently. So this is the end – the real end of the honeymoon stage. He was diagnosed almost a year ago – Aug 1st of 2013. A day that will live in infamy along with Feb 7, 2007 (Sugarboy’s diagnosis […]

Random Encounters

June 18, 2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

It wasn’t the first time I met someone with a diabetes connection while in line to get a latte, probably won’t be the last. Last weekend the daughter and I were in target. After checking out we stopped by the Starbucks located inside Target. (How ingenious is it to have Starbucks inside Target? If only […]