Subheading for this blog post: Bird Poop, Cat Pee, Dog Drool and Other Challenges    It’s Diabetes Blog Week, day three!  Today’s topic is “one thing I can improve.”  This is an easy one for me: exercise.  I do not exercise enough.   My excuse is that I’m busy.  It’s a good excuse.  Between...

Okay, so let me clarify something: I’m a perfectionist with Type 1 diabetes. Of course I’m a control freak. But I’ve started to wonder whether my hypervigilance with diabetes care may have begun to bleed, if you will, into other areas of my life as well.  This occurred to me at midnight on Saturday, as I was surfing...

One great thing: My husband Mike runs marathons with type 1 diabetes.  He blogs about it, but he doesn’t boast about it.  He should.  Anyone who runs a marathon should feel proud.  Anyone who runs a marathon with diabetes should feel like such a winner.  It’s a feat. In order to run a marathon with diabetes you have to...

No, I’m not going to give you the typical symptoms like thirst, peeing a lot, losing weight, blurry vision and fatigue. I’m going to give you my 10 ways I know I have diabetes. Those 10 things I find myself doing only because I have diabetes. I find myself screaming, “How many carbs are in that pancake? You don’t...

I’m participating in this year’s Diabetes Blog Week.  Thanks to Karen Graffeo of Bittersweet Diabetes for organizing this event. Today’s topic is “find a friend” and asks us to introduce a blogger others may not know.   Many of you have probably come across Laura Houston’s blog, Houston We Have a...

I was invited, along with several other diabetes patient online influencers, to Sanofi’s corporate office in Bridgewater, N.J. May 1. It was the eve of their launch of iBGStar. iBGStar is the first FDA-approved blood glucose meter that plugs into an iPhone and iPod touch and is to be used with the iBGStar Diabetes Manager App. I...

Summer is almost here and recently I’ve been to some gatherings where food was being grilled and beer was being served.  I love beer.  I wanted to have a beer. Or two. Or three. When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, although I gave up carbs easily, I didn’t give up beer.  (What can I do?  I’m half Irish). During the winter...

It’s the end of the weekend, and Sunday night is spent as usual: folding laundry, tidying the kitchen, and organizing my work stuff for the next day. I just emptied out the pack I carried on a long coastal walk with my family today, and I found a handful of test strips at the bottom. In a two-hour period — the whole time of...

Person with diabetes or diabetic?  For me, it’s not really an issue.  I don’t have a problem with the word diabetic.  I do, however, understand those who find it offensive.  I bring this up now not because I want to get into the issue, but because of Sara Nicastro’s funny post on her blog Some Kind of Wonderful....

This morning while checking out the blogs on Diabetes Daily, I noticed a link to Prevention Magazine with the title 14 Fantastically Healthy Foods for Diabetes. I love Top 10 lists even when they’re top 14.  And if they have to do with food and diabetes, I’m sold. Most of the things on the list were not all that surprising to me:...