When I converted over to an insulin pump roughly four years ago, little did I know that syringes would never go away.  I have written here before some of the reasons I miss my syringes and my insulin pen.  With injections there’s no unknown.  You fill the syringe, you grab some skin and inject.  When [...]

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 [...]

Because it’s Friday and I’m in a good mood, here are a few fun ones for correcting a low blood sugar.  Over correcting is simply treating a low blood sugar with too many carbohydrates where you end up with a high blood sugar.  It’s like going from 40 to 300. 
You know you’ve over corrected [...]

1. Introduction
2. Caffeine
3. The Diet
4. Progress
So far I have discussed what the plan and goal is, the amount of caffeine I was drinking and the new diet I have started.  This post will discuss the progress I’ve made in a very short time.  Just to recap, I started with a goal of getting my blood [...]

1. Introduction
2. Caffeine
3. The Diet
4. Progress
This is the first post in a series about what I’ve been up to.  Things here have been quiet for a little bit and here are some details explaining why.
My goal for a long time has been to get my A1c and diabetes in general better under control.  I have [...]

One of the hardest things to get information on when it comes to diabetes has been how to properly dispose of used diabetes supplies like lancets, test strips and syringes.  Well that and the impact caffeine has on blood sugars, but let’s stick to the disposal issue.
While doing some research, I came across this [...]

I know I’m a little behind the news flash on this one, but I want to make sure that all my readers know about this recall.  Medtronic announced a voluntary product recall for all of the Paradigm Quick Set (mostly in U.S.) infusion sets that have a reference number of MMT-396 to MMT-399 along with [...]

For the last few years I have been consumed by work, my first and second daughter being born and relocating from Virginia to Maryland.  I have always been healthy, give or take 10 pounds or so.  I’ve been working out since my mid-teens and at times heavier/more frequent.  For a long time now, it’s been [...]

It’s been over 40 years since we put a person on the moon.  We have nano technology that is way beyond me.  I can fit about 5,000 songs on my iPod nano which is almost paper thin.  Apple has a laptop that fits into an envelope.   There are cars that can run without gas.  We [...]

This is a guest post submitted by Lorraine who is doing an excellent job managing her son’s (Caleb) type 1 diabetes.  I met Lorraine through twitter, which is an excellent medium to talk real-life diabetes.  From our first few conversations, I knew that she was doing a lot of things right for Caleb and keeping [...]