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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....
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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...
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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...
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My impression of an Animas Vibe reboot, as enacted just now on the phone with tech support.
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