Category: Living

Eating Abroad with Diabetes – Hong Kong

For the past year I’ve lived in Hong Kong, and while it is not exactly China, it is Cantonese. And there is a Cantonese saying, “Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is edible.”
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Home Alone With Diabetes

I woke up drenched in sweat, the sheets cold and clammy beneath me. I grabbed my phone and stumbled down the stairs, gripping the walls for support. Subconscious reflex led me to unlock the front door after I made it down the stairs.
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Donate to Help Haiti

The situation in Haiti continues to be dire, and there are hundreds of thousands of diabetics in Haiti who need help. The Haitian Foundation for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases is working to get supplies and medicine to those in need.
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Brave New World of Avatars

What if the avatar universe underwent an expansion and made room for different physical attributes and abilities?
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Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes Accounted for $218 Billion in Costs in 2007

A new analysis funded by Novo Nordisk's National Changing Diabetes® Program, found that the cost of diabetes and pre-diabetes reached $218 billion in 2007, with the exploding number of cases of type 2 diabetes responsible for the majority of the costs. According to the study, diagnosed type 2 diabetes accounted for $174.4 billion of 2007...
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Tethered To The Body

Although we are both aroused, I cannot be completely caught up in the moment, because I’m calculating what to do with the pump and when...
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Diabetes As Referred Pain

It turned out, as well as being unable to control her blood sugar on a consistent basis, her blood sugar monitoring became unwieldy. Over time she was testing herself so often—fifteen or twenty times per day—her fingertips shriveled and toughened with scars.
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