"Blu blu blu CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP!"
My impression of an Animas Vibe reboot, as enacted just now on the phone with tech support.
View ArticleThat disheartening moment post-endo visit
when you realize all your usually-miserable, incredibly high overnights are NOT incorrect basal rates:Which means, instead, that your body chemistry was completely changed by pregnancy and now you have...
View ArticleAnd then there were two.
In case you hadn't noticed the date stamp of my previous, last post, allow me to highlight that sucker for you:A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...Yes, friends, that would be October 9, 2013....
View ArticleUPS, you're doing a bang-up job!
It wasn't like the package was anything important. Like, you know, medical supplies.
View ArticleIgnoring the Faux Lows...
This is a pretty nice graph for the third trimester. I'll be sure to look at it next week when all my basal rates need to be blown up again.
View ArticleThe hand I was dealt
Kerri at Six Until Me just posted a well-wrought piece about living with diabetes and what the utter endlessness of it can do to you. It's beautiful, and you should read it: "Filling Back Up."A chronic...
View ArticleJumping ship to Animas
My Animas Ping arrived a little over two weeks ago, and I finally had my pump start on Monday. I'm still waiting for a few more days to pass before tossing out any opinions on the system - learning...
View ArticleDia-blame, pregnancy edition
I haven't been doing a lot of posting about BabyH #2, and that's really just because there's been nothing of note to report. This time around, there's been no previa, my diabetes has been mostly...
View ArticleOldies but goodies
I wish these could just have a new home! Alas, off to electronics recycling you go, meters....
View ArticleT1 on the 1
Yesterday, after I squeezed my giant self through standing passengers on a crowded 1 train, I plopped into the sole empty seat I could find and heard the middle-aged man to my left pipe up:Him: "What...
View ArticleIt. Is. HERE.
"Primary lithium batteries - forbidden for transport aboard passenger aircraft"PING! = the sound of me exploding with excitement.Yes! Yes! Shall we?!Why hello, you gorgeous thing you. I can't believe I...
View Article¡Viva Team Hoffmanderson!
"A cure is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall" -- I'm sure Che Guevara would have agreed with the sentiment.This December will mark my twentieth diaversary: twenty years...
View ArticleT1 in the neighborhood
I belong to a local parenting listserv here in Brooklyn. I feel a little ridiculous about how excited I was by the post that just popped up in my inbox:I was wondering if there are any parents of kids...
View ArticleDrumroll please...
As you might have noticed, my attention to BBB has been less than consistent as of late. The general busyness of life is always a factor in that, naturally, but the biggest problem is what is always...
View ArticleD-Blog Week 2013 Day #5: Freaky Friday
Today's prompt:Just like in the movie, today we’re doing a swap. If you could switch chronic diseases, which one would you choose to deal with instead of diabetes? And while we’re considering other...
View ArticleD-Blog Week 2013 Day #4: Accomplishments Big and Small
Today's prompt:We don’t always realize it, but each one of us had come a long way since diabetes first came into our life. It doesn’t matter if it’s been 5 weeks, 5 years or 50 years, you’ve done...
View ArticleD-Blog Week 2013 Day #3: Memories
Today's prompt:Today we’re going to share our most memorable diabetes day. You can take this anywhere.... your or your loved one's diagnosis, a bad low, a bad high, a big success, any day that you’d...
View ArticleD-Blog Week 2013 Day #2: We, the Undersigned
Today's prompt:Recently various petitions have been circulating the Diabetes Online Community, so today let’s pretend to write our own. Tell us who you would write the petition to – a person, an...
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