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This is 40

No, not the Judd Apatow movie. I’m talking about me and my blood sugar. It’s 40 mg/dl, 37 mg/dl by one measurement, and now that I’ve pounded the requisite glucose tablets, I figured, what the hell — why not find out what a blog post looks like when your brain...

The Health of My Whole Person

...I put off when I’m under pressure from teaching responsibilities and what Catherine Price calls “that loaded backpack we carry through our days” — the constant responsibility of a life with Type 1 diabetes. From September to May, my focus on work is intense. I take my diabetes seriously, too,...

Taking A Break From The Emotional Stress of Diabetes

It’s been a couple months since I’ve blogged, mostly due to the fact that I was trying to make the deadline for my book about vitamins, which was due in May. During the push, I felt the need to narrow my life down to the essentials: book writing, feeding myself,...

Cortisol and Diabetes

So, as I previously mentioned, I have been doing a bunch of tests to try to figure out why my cortisol levels have been high. Cortisol is a hormone that most of us hear about primarily in reference to stress — it’s important in the fight-or-flight response — but it...

10 Best Diabetes Stories of 2012

...increasing rates of diseases like type 1 diabetes in developed and developing countries. However, proving the hygiene hypothesis or finding the mechanisms by which it might operate has been very difficult. Faustman Lab Research: How Excited Should You Be? by: Catherine Price Interestingly, in both mice and humans, BCG itself...

Diabetes and New Year’s Resolutions

So, it’s almost the new year. I’m sitting in my newly cleaned living room in my new (to me) house, simultaneously half-watching a basketball game with my husband while contemplating the year ahead. If the following post contains many sports metaphors, you’ll know why. 2012 has been a stressful one....

Diabetes and the Quantified Self

Today I went to a talk by an academic colleague about the Quantified Self movement — that is, a community of people who use technology to track their health. The speaker was focusing in particular on technologies that tell women when they’re likely to be fertile by tracking their body...

Diabetes and a Life: Is It Possible to Have Both?

...low price and quick turn-around, you’ll sacrifice quality. If you want it to be super fast and high quality, it’ll cost more. If you want quality and a low price, it’ll take more time. You need to prioritize. The same is true, I’ve decided, with diabetes management and the rest...

Winter and diabetes: what’s a girl to do?

If you, like me, live on the east coast of the United States, you may have noticed something: winter’s here. After weeks of flirtation (oh, I’m 65 degrees and sunny! Oh, I’m a hurricane that devastates the eastern seaboard and yet leaves foliage on the trees!) it is now decidedly...

The Holiday Season’s Must-Read: Diabetes Diagnosis Stories

...Strength: Diabetes Diagnosis Stories Type 1   It’s Always Something by Alex O’Meara A Kid, a Cabin, and a Cure: Owning Diabetes by Karmel Allison Sweet Siphon by Catherine Price Getting a Grip on Diabetes by Sysy Morales The Danger Within by Michael Aviad Surprised by Strength: Diabetes Diagnosis Stories...