I would like to wish you and your family a happy, joyous and safe Thanksgiving.  A special thank you goes to our men and women of the military stationed around the world in harms way. Be safe, strong and we’ll see you home soon. It probably doesn’t show enough in the video, but I truly [...]

Gary at Running with Type 1 served me up, so here we go! 1. Do you like bleu cheese?  Absolutely – especially on filet mignon. 2. Have you ever smoked?  Never, hate it and wish it was banned everywhere. 3. Do you own a gun?  Yes. 4. Favorite type of Food?  If we are talking [...]

Show me an Endo with diabetes and I’ll show you a multi-year waiting list to get an appointment.  If I hadn’t been at the end of my time in college for a finance degree when I was diagnosed, I may just have thought about being an Endo.  Yes, I know they do more than just [...]

@blogdiabetes I have been on twitter since before the first post hit on this blog more than a year ago.  Some might find that twitter is stupid, meaningless and really kind of high schoolish. I totally disagree and for good reason.  Having a few hundred followers/friends that understand exactly what it’s like to have diabetes [...]

According to the CDC, Diabetes as a leading cause of death first appeared in the top 10 list in 1932 as #10.  The leading cause of death is simply the main reason that is selected on a death certificate.  On November 14th, World Diabetes Day (WDD), I noticed this statistic on the WDD website, which [...]

Today, November 14, is World Diabetes Day.  Also, November is Diabetes awareness month.  I wish diabetes awareness were as popular as say, pink for breast cancer awareness, but you have to take what you can get.  Every day is diabetes day to me, my wife and my two daughters.  One mission for this very blog [...]

After looking at the instructions for my Medtronic MiniMed infusion sets, I came across some things that I found quite amusing.  I hope you do too. Warnings "Remove the needle guard before inserting the infusion set." – Um, really?  Maybe that’s why I…. never mind.  "The soft cannula must always be completely inserted to receive [...]

For those readers that are newer to Blogging Diabetes, I will say that I’ve been on an insulin pump for about 4 years now.  The entire time I have been using a Medtronic MiniMed 715 pump.  In each infusion set package from Medtronic, there is a small round disk that clips on to the infusion [...]

I am unbiased here on Blogging Diabetes. To prove it, I want to share some information about the JDRF UK AWARE campaign for the World Diabetes Day (WDD) on November 14th.  JDRF Activities The first is Leave a Message for Gordon Brown. We want to encourage people affected by type 1 diabetes to leave a [...]