JOYFUL DIABETIC

Education to learn about diabetes has been a guiding principal for my life over the past 30 years. In the past few months I’ve discovered Healthy Humans (www.healthyhumans.com), an organization that is creating a new paradigm in health care. In our current era of illness care, it’s exciting to find a group dedicated to preserving [...]

I’ve now had my blog site for nearly a year and there are very few comments from others visiting my site. So, I began looking for reasons for this and discovered that it was challenging to find out how to make a comment. At the bottom of my posts on the home page there was [...]

Since my wife and I recently purchased a Flip Video camera, I was motivated to create an entry in the Tu Diabetes video competition. I am a rank amateur as a video person, but the camera is so simple to operate I naively thought I could easily create a good video. The contest involved creating a [...]

Before heading out for my daily walk today, my BG was 214! I’d had my normal protein shake with fruit and some coffee with zero carbs, so what’s the problem here? During my walk, I had the “duh” moment…some illness was trying to get into my body and my BG showed it. Non-diabetics have limited [...]

My sugar was at 97 last night at bedtime. I had stopped all eating at 8PM due to a fasting blood test this morning and was concerned about going low during the night. I don’t like going low due to the negative impact on my body, so I thought about appropriate actions I could take. [...]

I sensed that my sugar was low while I was attending a meeting last week and had forgotten to bring my test meter. Since I had a speaking role at the meeting, I needed to take immediate action. I ate a small piece of cake and quickly felt the sweat leaving my skin. When I [...]