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Team Hoffmanderson will definitely be saving the date
Will you? Come walk with us! We'd love to have you on our team. Click here to become a member of Team Hoffmanderson: http://www2.jdrf.org/goto/teamhoffmanderson
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It's hard out here for a pump
A few weeks ago, I noticed that my poor pump was looking a little beat up. Upon closer inspection, I realized "beat up" actually meant "cracked":See in the lower left-hand corner?I took note of it, and...
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Where's diabetes?
"I am coming to huuuuug you!"I love this picture because it captures one of L's best current things: the Frankenhug. If you ask her for a hug while any distance away, she will immediately raise her...
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D-Blog Week 2013: Bring. It. On.
OMG YOU GUYS IT'S HERE!I had SO much fun doing this last year, and I can't wait to participate again.You should sign up, too! Just head on over to Bitter-Sweet Diabetes and register to join the bunches...
View ArticleD-Blog Week 2013 Day #1: Share and Don't Share
Today's prompt:Often our health care team only sees us for about 15 minutes several times a year, and they might not have a sense of what our lives are really like. Today, let’s pretend our medical...
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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D-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 #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 #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...
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Drumroll 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...
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T1 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...
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¡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...
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It. 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...
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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...
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Oldies but goodies
I wish these could just have a new home! Alas, off to electronics recycling you go, meters....
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...
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Jumping 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 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...
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Ignoring 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.
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UPS, you're doing a bang-up job!
It wasn't like the package was anything important. Like, you know, medical supplies.
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And 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....
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That 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 Article"Blu blu blu CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP!"
My impression of an Animas Vibe reboot, as enacted just now on the phone with tech support.
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