Participating in a clinical trial is truly giving of oneself. No matter how my story ends, I will never question my decision to have tried...
Category: Personal
Something I hate about myself has become essential to my diabetes care...
"Are you thirsty? Don't drink the bathwater, it's yucky. I'll get you something to drink." I walked into the kitchen, suddenly alert. With a sippy cup of chocolate milk in my hands
As I learned more about ways I would need to change my eating habits, I envisioned perpetual hunger....
I don’t see that the company ethos has an understanding of the aesthetic I really want—the user-friendly, this-wouldn’t-look-weird-next-to-my-Louboutins* aesthetic.
By taking the science from the world of the researchers and doctors into the world of the patient, we remove some of the alienation from our own bodies...
In the morning, I think of my father. Perhaps only for a moment, and perhaps it is not so much a thought as an evocation, an impression. But he is there with me in the bathroom there in the cool bottle of insulin, snug in my hand like an egg in a nest...
With his back to me the doctor said, “You know that you have diabetes, right?” "Excuse me?" I said...
And it wasn’t until I had to go without sugar that I came to realize it does so much more than simply sweeten our foods...