Recently I wrote a post asking, “Why Can’t Meters Tell Me My Blood Sugar?” It was prompted by checking my blood sugar on two…
Shakshuka is a traditional North African dish that is wildly popular in Israel. You can find shakshuka on the menu in just about every café in Tel Aviv. Shakshuka is generally eaten as a breakfast food, but makes a good meal at any time of the day.
As someone who has controlled her blood sugars with diet and medications for over twenty years, type 2 diabetes remains a mystery to me.
Although…
First things first: I am a big Project Runway fan, and you play no small role in that. You appear to be one of those rare people who is infinitely likable.…
“If you have all that inflammation, your blood sugar will be high. And if you still have pain then you probably still have inflammation,”…
And here’s where things get interesting for a cure-seeking diabetic: when scientists saw that cells were flooding islets with TNF-a, they decided to see what would happen if they changed the levels of TNF-a in mouse pancreases– and they found that changing the levels of TNF-a changes whether a mouse will get diabetes.
Now take a guess: we have a blaring distress signal, TNF-a, that turns on all the cells of the adaptive immune system, and we have a disease that is characterized by adaptive immune cells overreacting and killing the body’s own cells...
I have been extremely happy with the Omnipod and require less insulin than I used to because I never detach. I feel that my work outs are better now and I am more comfortable in my daily routine.
In April of this year, I decided sign up for run my first “Mudder” race called the Rugged Maniac. The Rugged Maniac is a 5K mud run full of military-style obstacles, designed by British Special Forces.
Last week while I was giving my 3-year-old son, Adam, a bath, he took his green plastic cup and began to pour water onto my hands. Several times he refilled…
Raising a child with diabetes is anything but easy, and comes with round-the-clock challenges. Leighann Calentine, author of D-Mom Blog has written a book, Kids First, Diabetes Second, which serves as a resource for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes. In the book, Leighann shares her family’s experiences with her daughter’s type 1 diabetes.
I had my blood sugar checked before being wheeled into the operating room. It was a little higher, but still fine – 136. I sent that information by mental text message to Jess. She claims she never got it.