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All I Want for Christmas is a New Pancreas – Guest Post

Earlier this week, the lovely Kerri Sparling over at SixUntilMe put up a guest post I wrote about holiday food. Now, with her permission, I’m reposting it here. Enjoy! December is scattered with diabetic land mines, and things only get worse on holidays themselves. In my case, that’s Christmas, an...

What A Diabetic Sees When She Sees Circles

...left forearm). So in response to the topic Catherine Price brought up earlier this week, How To Know When Diabetes Is Taking Over Your Life, I offer this reply: when you begin to see your diabetes in works of fine art. And speaking of testing… this morning I have a...

Type 1 Diabetes and Congress’s To-Do List

...prefer a little less “expressing” and a little more “funding.” Also, looking at the list of items on their agenda makes me want to try to insert one of my own, just to get it through. For example: “H.Res 922 – Recognizing and honoring the fact that Catherine Price is...

First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Approved for Use Under New NIH Guidelines

The National Institute of Health (NIH) announced the approval of the first 13 human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines for use in NIH-funded research under the NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research adopted in July 2009. Read Catherine Price’s blog on this Issue Children’s Hospital Boston developed 11 of...

Diabetes in Antiquity

I don’t want to start a war of the nerds or anything, but since Catherine Price brought up her love of Latin, it seems like a fine time to confess that I too am a language mega-dork. In college and grad school I studied Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, and Ancient...

Pioneer Woman, Meet Diabetic Woman

A big hurray to Catherine Price, whose wonderful essay on being a type 1 diabetic appeared in yesterday’s New York Times Well Blog. It’s a beautifully written piece, and Catherine describes life as a type 1 just right. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend doing so. And...

Interview with Kevan Herold: Doctor, Researcher, and Diabetic

...Type 1 diabetes that is now in development for treatment of patients with Type 1 diabetes. His clinical interests are in management of diabetes and complications of diabetes, as well as other Endocrine diseases. Catherine Price interviewed Dr. Herold for A Sweet Life. What’s the story of your own diagnosis?...

Feed Me Chocolate

...too painful to say good-bye to them again tomorrow. So, following the lead of Catherine Price, I decided to go for dark chocolate. Until yesterday, to me dark chocolate had always been something I associated with huge disappointment. What was worse as a kid then getting your hands on some...