Right now, as I type, I have a knot in my stomach. It’s a familiar feeling, often accompanied by an inability to take deep breaths, that is my body’s way of telling me that I am very stressed out. The reason, in this particular case, is that my husband and I have decided to move back to the east coast, and are going to be...

I always imagine that diabetics who work in offices have a relatively easy time dealing with low blood sugar. If they start to feel shaky or sweaty, they can get up, go to the bathroom, test, and then return to their seats–perhaps drinking some juice or munching on chocolate if they did in fact have a low blood sugar reading. The...

Hypoglycemic “incidents” are not funny when they happen. Most often, they are scary and embarrassing, if not downright humiliating. After a while, though, you can usually look back on the event and find some humor. Sometimes it takes a few days, sometimes a few years. The “Celery Incident,” detailed below, festered...

Great personal news: my piece in Popular Science about anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies (currently best known as teplizumab) and Type 1 diabetes was just featured on the New Hampshire Public Radio show Word of Mouth. (You can read about the segment, and listen to the interview, here.) It’s always great to get to talk about something...

I remember when I was 10 years old, I told my friends (and enemies) to watch out: when my blood sugar got low, I turned into a non-green version of the incredible hulk and became very strong and dangerous. Well….it was partially true. I certainly got cranky. John Strishak’s post reminded me of my “incredible hulk”...

As of Saturday, March 6, at 10:40 AM, I am one step closer to having my robot pancreas. I have, through a combination of landing the best endocrinologist in the Kaiser system and being a persistently squeaky wheel, gotten my Medtronic Minimed Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. I am phenomenally excited about this development, and not...

One of my big health goals this year is to reduce my total daily dose of insulin from an average of 37 units to about 30 units while keeping my average blood glucose level about 90 mg/dl. The strategies I am using to do this is exercise, losing about 5 more pounds, building muscle mass, and eating less than 35 grams of carbohydrates...

Here’s something I don’t like: the idea that a piece of technology I rely on to keep me alive could somehow kill me. I’m speaking not of Toyotas, but of insulin pumps — according to this piece in the Wall Street Journal, “the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has seen an increasing number of...

A friend of mine recently happened to run into a woman she hadn’t seen in a long time. The other woman had lost weight, and my friend complimented her on how slim she looked. The woman replied: “Well, you know, I was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.” My friend was shocked, and expressed her sympathy. Still, she couldn’t...

Yesterday I had the chance to participate in a focus group for a computer program for a CGM. I love focus groups like this — you get a glimpse of upcoming diabetes products, you have a chance to provide feedback to improve it, and at the end of the hour, they hand you an envelope with $100. It’s a pretty great way to spend...