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Day 1 – 2017 D-Blog Week
Really? The 8th Year?! How amazing! Today’s post suggestion: There are two. I chose “good things diabetes has brought into my life.” All the d people who have become friends through blogging and...
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Day 2 – D-Blog Week
Click here for the The Cost of a Chronic Illness – Tuesday 5/16 Link List Insulin and other diabetes medications and supplies can be costly. Here in the US, insurance status and age (as in Medicare...
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Day 3 – 2017 D-Blog Week
Click here for The Blame Game – Wednesday 5/17 Link List Having diabetes often makes a visit to the doctor a dreaded experience, as there is invariably bad news of one kind or another. And sometimes...
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Day 4 – 2017 D-Blog Week
Click here for the Throwback Thursday: What Brings Me Down – Thursday 5/18 Link List Today let’s revisit a prompt from 2014 – May is Mental Health Month so now seems like a great time to explore the...
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Old blog, new insulin pump…
If it wasn’t for D-Blog week (Karen, is it happening this year?), this blog would be blank. Really – it’s been a year? Sigh… But… There’s a new pump! The t:slim X2. (I had to investigate the correct...
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Insulin Pump Training
Way back in 2009, in order to use an insulin pump, my endo’s office required a series of classes. I got to skip one class as I showed up with my Omnipod sample pod along with tons of documents about...
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Pumping with Tandem t:slim X2
I began pumping with an Animas pump in 2009 and now… Pumping with Tandem t:slim X2! The delivery! Look at all this stuff! I did not read the manual. There are 348 pages for pete’s sake! (I hardly...
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Still pumping with the t:slim
And I haven’t given up! I thought it would be more difficult to switch pumps – it’s been many years of listening to Für Elise as a reminder that, “Yo, you are going to run out of insulin.” Thanks to...
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Damn! Resume!
I’m totally loving my T:slim. Love the screen. Love the info. Not a big fan of the refill process but – I’m getting better. Except for RESUME. When doing a cartridge change on the T:slim, you have to...
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About the anesthesiologist…
It’s difficult to be an advocate for yourself when it’s way early in the morning, you’re in the hospital for a colonoscopy (and because you have diabetes you get the first slot and so you show up...
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