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What We’re Reading: Team Type 1 and the Tour of Rwanda

November 19, 2010

Team Type 1 — a professional cycling team based in the United States — is special: As the first and only team to field only riders with diabetes in a UCI (International Cycling Union) race, Team Type 1 is currently competing in the Tour of Rwanda…

Nothungry Oddlow

September 23, 2010

Saturday, July 24, began in the same way as many of my other Saturdays in the summer of 2010. Kathryn (my wife) gets up around six or six thirty to take the dog for her walk. I often wake up about fifteen minutes later, and the first thing I do, because I don’t have a thyroid, is go downstairs and take my Synthroid (levothyroxine sodium) with a large glass of water. Then I check my blood glucose. Read More “Nothungry Oddlow”

Follow the Diabetes Meme

September 9, 2010

Yesterday I read Kerri Morrone Sparling’s entry “A Diabetes Meme” at her blog Six Until Me. This morning, not really sure about what I should blog about, I decided to grab the questions from her blog and continue the internet meme… Read More “Follow the Diabetes Meme”

Beer, Breweries, and Blood Glucose

August 26, 2010

I enjoy good beer. Actually, I love good beer.

I live in a state with over 50 microbreweries, which isn’t something I take for granted… Read More “Beer, Breweries, and Blood Glucose”

A Benefit to Diabetes-Causing Genes?

August 20, 2010

Researchers at Stanford University have come to a surprising conclusion: That humans may have evolved to become more, rather than less, susceptible to a variety of complex conditions such as Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis… Read More “A Benefit to Diabetes-Causing Genes?”

Back to Blogging

August 5, 2010

Hi, again. It’s me, returning after eight weeks off… Read More “Back to Blogging”

The TRIGR Research Study

July 29, 2010

Yesterday, I received an exciting piece of mail: it was a letter from the TRIGR research team who has been following my son’s blood glucose and antibody levels since birth, stating that his most recent blood work shows that he tests negative for the antibodies associated with Type 1 diabetes… Read More “The TRIGR Research Study”

My Motivation

June 3, 2010

It is an absolute pleasure to be a guest blogger for DiabetesSelfManagement.com for the next couple of months. I have written numerous articles for Diabetes Self-Management magazine over the years and welcome this new opportunity to engage in a dialogue with other folks living with diabetes, with practitioners working with people who have diabetes, and with friends and loved ones who care about people living with diabetes… Read More “My Motivation”

You Thought We Didn’t Do What?

May 25, 2010

Saturday afternoon I was lying on the bed, reading a book, when it began. I got a pain here…then another one there…and then I began to sweat. Profusely. Next came the shakes, a fuzzy head and, finally, a bit of nausea… Read More “You Thought We Didn’t Do What?”

Oh, Right, I Have A Chronic Illness, Don’t I?

April 22, 2010

For almost five months now, the health-related aspects of my life (and these I have a few) have more or less faded into the background while the laser focus, not intentionally but inevitably, pointed at papillary thyroid carcinoma… Read More “Oh, Right, I Have A Chronic Illness, Don’t I?”

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