Ok, they got me with the promo. “This is your brain. This is your brain after making poor food choices. Next on The Doctors.” The image…
I’m thinking about needles.
About how, if you asked me twenty-seven years ago to stick a needle into my finger, two, three or four times a day, I would…
I took my figure skating test two days ago, on Sunday, as planned. For me, it was a rite of passage as a skater and a crystallizing learning experience.…
The fear and frustration of diabetes fences me in. It has slowly worn me out. I have to get back to the girl I was before all this diabetes shit started. The girl who feared nothing, except being weak. The girl who always accepted a challenge and was ready at any time to go on any journey that presented itself.
I haven’t talked all that much about Jamie, our 8-year-old son, in these posts, but not because Bisi’s diagnosis doesn’t affect him. He has had to…
One of the great pleasures of my diabetes life is playing with new gadgets and getting to try out novel and more effective medications. I know that…
The European Commission has granted Marketing Authorisation in Europe for Sanofi's new type 2 diabetes treatment, Lyxumia (lixisenatide).
Lyxumia is a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. GLP-1 is a naturally-occurring peptide hormone that is released within minutes after eating a meal.
Two weeks into Sacha’s use of the Dexcom continuous glucose monitor, and the excitement is over. Yes, the CGM is great. No, it didn’t…
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…
Last night I went to bed at around 10 p.m. I was tired and needed to get to sleep early since I had a 20 mile run ahead of me in the morning, which I planned…