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Joslin Spider Web Log Project: Inward The Beginning......

I'm actually excited to last participating inwards the admission memories;  like injecting oranges as well as beingness deathly afraid to inject myself - So much as well as hence that my whole torso would literally milkshake when always I tried to laissez passer on myself an injection -And non beingness able to teach habitation until virtually Thanksgiving. But to a greater extent than ofttimes than non I holler upwardly wanting to teach habitation as well as wanting desperately to teach dorsum to the agency things were before .  And I intend that’s when I realized that you lot tin never teach dorsum to the agency things were earlier inwards life - Or your life alongside diabetes.  It was Halloween, 1977 as well as I was all of eight years quondam - And I've never missed celebrating a Halloween since. http://events.joslin.org/supporter/page/Joslin%20Blog-Project/National-Diabetes-Month.htm

Joslin Weblog Project: Moving Forward... One Desire It All.

I can't believe that this is the concluding calendar week for the our bodies GPS system , mapping out where our blood saccharide is currently in addition to where it needs to go. And all inwards nether five seconds.  Come to intend of it, then create CGMs - to a greater extent than on that later.  I shout out back when glucose meters get-go came out they took three minutes in addition to were the size of a VHS tape. Now a days I tin hold out out amongst friends in addition to nobody volition fifty-fifty realize I’m checking my blood sugar.  I shout out back the days earlier at that spot were glucose meters. I shout out back testing my urine in addition to burning my picayune fingers on the fizzy, urine filled test-tube. Not solely was it disgusting, it was damn inaccurate. I get upwardly to that fourth dimension inwards my life equally The Diabetes Dark Ages - And I never desire to larn dorsum at that spot again.  Going on the insulin pump was a huge g...

#Nedawareness Week: Nosotros All Know Someone

We All know somebody  We are smack dab inwards the middle of  National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (February 24th through March 2nd,) together with this year’s subject is “ Everybody Knows Somebody, ” together with that disputation is absolutely true.  I select friends amongst eating disorders ( some amongst diabetes together with about without,) together with I’ve worried nigh them together with I’ve tried my best to empathise their issues amongst food. We’ve talked amongst about of them at swell length nigh how they developed their eating disorders together with where they stemmed from.   And I’ve ever tried to empathise together with last agreement - And I’ve worried nigh them because they are my friends together with I dearest them. And our DOC friend LeeAnn Thill has helped me to ameliorate empathise eating disorders inwards full general - Including  Diabulmia, an eating disorder specifically affecting people living amongst Diabetes. ...

News Flash: Transitioning To Adulthood Is A Bitch

On Mon  night I received a PR unloosen inwards my inbox  about a UCLA Study in addition to honestly, I didn’t know whether to throw something against the wall inwards anger or express mirth out loud or practice both.  The UCLA Study is all almost children alongside type 1 having a tough fourth dimension making the transition from their peds endos to an adult endo.  They followed children for years in addition to noticed this SHOCKER: Young adults alongside diabetes have got a actually fossil oil fourth dimension transitioning from their peds endo to an adult endocrinologist. YA THINK?  When I posted the link on Facebook other one-time children alongside diabetes chimed inwards in addition to agreed that this data was:  A. Nothing new B. Infuriating in addition to comical at the same time C. Bullshit  Had those conducting the written report taken a piffling fourth dimension to  listen one-time children alongside diabetes who are s...