When our six-year-old daughter, Bisi, was hospitalized last summer after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, part of the torrent of information we learned is that some patients have a diabetes honeymoon period, where the pancreas starts working again—though not perfectly—after diagnosis.
Tag: Diagnosis
It all started when Bisi drank all our profits at a Sunday afternoon lemonade stand on Block Island.
Well, it had really started a while before…
This past weekend was my ten-year high school reunion in Columbus, Ohio. It’s 2:45 A.M. PST and I just got home from the airport, so I don’t…
Book Review: After the Diagnosis: Transcending Chronic Illness by Julian and Betsy Seifter
Having lived my way around and through a type 1 diabetes diagnosis is helping me set my course as I begin to cope with Parkinson's...
Getting back into climbing is like getting back into anything, I suppose. You decide you’re going to do it and you throw yourself back into it. …
With his back to me the doctor said, “You know that you have diabetes, right?” "Excuse me?" I said...
A nurse tested Nate's blood glucose level, turned around, and walked out without a word. When the doctor came back in, I wanted to run away...
“This seems to be type 1, and not gestational diabetes,” my new endocrinologist said, “and we’re treating two patients here: you and your baby.”
The current standard allows a HbA1c measurement to be within 8% – which means that a level of 6.5 could actually be a 6.0 or a 7.0...