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The time when everything turns Pink
If someone said three years from now You’d be long gone I’d stand up and punch them out Cause they’re all wrong I know better Cause you said forever And ever, who knew? -Pink, “Who Knew?” A woman...
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September comment contest
After such a somber post yesterday, let’s lighten things up a bit and award some great prizes! Shall we? I have nothing to give away, but remember: the greatest prize is the satisfaction of knowing...
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What would you say?
As I’ve mentioned before, I tend to keep my personal Facebook page, well, personal. Everyone that I call a “friend” on the social networking site is someone that I trust and would truly call a friend...
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Wednesday Twofer: Bummed
Why not think of this as two weeks’ worth of Wordless Wednesdays? (try saying that five times fast!). Though, because I tend to be incredibly verbose, I’ve given up on the Wordless part. Anyway, here’s...
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Numbers
My youngest son — for the purposes of this blog I’ll call him Z — is obsessed with numbers. On Saturday night, he had a ball pressing the numbers on my phone’s calculator app. It kept him entertained...
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Short-changed
If it seems I’ve been a bit bitter about the length of my infusion set tubing, I am. For good reason, too. It never seemed to measure up to the package label. So I decided to put it to the test: My 32...
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Twist and shout
Over the past year or so, I’ve been finding it much more difficult to put infusion sets in certain parts of my body — namely, my lower back and upper butt. The routine used to go like this: I’d twist...
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Wordless Wednesday: Bloody O’Riley
It’s only Test Strip wasteland…Filed under: Wordless Wednesday
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Let it be
When I sense a friend’s in trouble The urge to help comes over me, She didn’t ask, so I just need to Let it be. And while she looks for light in darkness, I want to give advice for free, But by trying,...
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Much ado about nothing
This is probably my eighth attempt at writing a blog post since the end of October. I’m going to try to force this one out, which means it’s probably going to be pretty lousy – as most of the “forced”...
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Another year forgotten
I’ve never been good at keeping records. I don’t mean the day-to-day blood sugars, but the records of real moments of significance. Just before I started writing this post, I began a post (one of many...
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Decisions, decisions
This process makes it easy, but I really wish I could find some more choices…Filed under: Diabetes, Humor, Insulin pump, Type 1
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White men can’t sympathize
“See. if I’m thirsty. I don’t want a glass of water, I want you to sympathize. I want you to say, ‘Gloria, I too know what it feels like to be thirsty. I too have had a dry mouth.’ I want you to...
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Independence
Ask yourself… Are you willing to cede control of your diabetes? Does a machine that does some things automatically, on your command, empower you, or take power away? How does a machine that makes...
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WWednesday: The broken ones
What do you do with the broken ones? I generally transfer my glucose tabs to the smaller tube, but it’s hardly worth the dusty mess.Filed under: Wordless Wednesday
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Tandem issues voluntary cartridge recall
Passing along this announcement from Tandem for anyone who uses the Tandem t:slim. None of this was written by me (as you can probably tell). - – - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tandem Diabetes Care Initiates...
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Who, me?
I’d never been invited to anything before as a result of my participation in the DOC. So when the Direct Message came early in December, after over a month of silence on this blog, I was a bit...
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What’s in a name?
The “Medtronic Minimed 530G with Enlite” has got to be the longest, most convoluted name for an insulin pump. Within the first moments* of the Medtronic Diabetes Advocates Forum**, I sent out this...
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Advocate.
Warning: This is one of those posts where I’m going to dig deep inside of my head, grab a collection of thoughts, and try to make some sense of them. It’s completely unstructured, and as I start...
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