Some Personal Stats

Merry Christmas, everyone, and happy New Year! I am lucky enough to be able to take a week and a half off from work, and so I am happily up in Washington, enjoying immensely my in-law-family.

And break-time means errands-I’ve-been-putting-off-time! Blood tests and standardized tests, oh my! Some stats I’ve collected on myself in the last week:

Christmas mornings observed: 8
Blood pressure: 93/48
Pulse: 55 bpm
Cholesterol: 202 mg/dL
HbA1c: 5.9%
GRE (Verbal): 720
GRE (Quantitative): 800

Diabetic or not, this week I feel like a winner. Bring it on, 2011!

Karmel Allison

Karmel was born in Southern California, diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of nine, and educated at UC Berkeley. Karmel now lives in San Diego with her husband, where she is loving the sunshine, working in computational biology at the University of California, San Diego, and learning to use the active voice when talking about her diabetes.