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 […]

Diabetes Anxieties Where There Should Be None

July 31, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

While diabetes doesn’t take a day off, I am in regards to a diabetes blog post that is – well mostly – I mean diabetes does have a way of sneaking into just about everything. I went today for my first boob squish. Turning 40 isn’t all about black balloons and jokes about being over […]

Normies

July 28, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

Who is a ‘normie’? Basic answer – a person whose pancreas produces insulin AND their body knows how to use it. Based on this basic answer anyone who has Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes or LADA is not a normie. I’m a normie. I wish I wasn’t but only because I’d like to take […]

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 […]

Taken Daily As Needed

July 23, 2014.Reading time 10 minutes.

So far this summer my daughter had two friends visit from CA, I took the kids and the dogs to CA to visit friends, my youngest had his first sleep-over in CA and diabetes was an asshat – not once but twice at two different sleep-overs, I was bitten by my cat while at the […]