Substitute teacher abuse is a national pastime for American teenagers. The worst example of sub-abuse at my school was when a student, Kevin Miller, crept away from his 2nd period Algebra class, rushed down six flights of stairs, and laid face down in the grass below his classroom window. Kevin’s friend, meanwhile, raised her hand...

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...

All the news and talk of healthcare recently has started me thinking; I have not read the healthcare bill, and I don’t have any answers for Congress, but there is one particularity of my experience that I think is worth sharing: I have Type 1 diabetes, and I work for a start-up. For those of you who aren’t intimately familiar...

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...

About 3 years ago, I backed our Toyota Prius into our neighbor’s Volkswagen Jetta. When I felt the thud and screech of the collision, I panicked, jerked the shifter into Drive, pulled forward, and yanked the back bumper off of my car. I was sure that I had a $4,000 repair on my hands, but fortunately, Priuses are a joint venture...

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...

Dear Oprah, I’ve been thinking about what I said to you and Gayle in my last letter. You know, about doing another show on diabetes. One where you don’t scare anyone and you actually have a few diabetes experts on. I’ve heard from a lot of people that they would really love that. They’d also love to see some...

I give Oprah two thumbs up for the intervention she attempted a few days ago on her Oprah Winfrey Show, “Diabetes: America’s Silent Killer.” She reached her arms out as if embracing the 80 million Americans who have diabetes and pre-diabetes, and declared it’s time for a wake-up call. I hope it will be for...

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The beginning of this diabetes life I woke in my parent’s house screaming in pain. I was having the same excruciating leg cramps I’d been having for almost three months. Home, on a winter break from college, my parents and I bundled into the car for what we thought would be a routine doctor visit.  A few simple blood tests later...