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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Diabetes Moms
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there with diabetes. Raising kids and managing diabetes is a lot to take on. Happy Mother’s Day, also, to moms who are raising or have raised kids with diabetes. It turns out … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, moms of kids with diabetes, moms with diabetes, Mother's Day
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Diabetes Meal Plan – exchange system
The “exchange system” diabetes meal plan was introduced in the 1950s. I didn’t come on the diabetes scene until 1975, so I can’t comment on the early exchange days. For the first two decades of my diabetes life; however, we … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, diabetes diet, diabetes exchange system, diabetes meal plan, exchanges, food, nutrition
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Check BG before Insulin before Food
Don’t you just love when life throws a good lesson in your face? I had that happen last night. I was talking to a patient on Friday about checking blood glucose. He was going on a pump for the first … Continue reading
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Tagged blood glucose monitoring, diabetes, high blood glucose, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, life lessons, low blood glucose
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Diabetes Supplies
Once you have diabetes you become a pack mule. I recently got a call from a patient who learned this lesson the hard way. She was 2000-plus miles away from home when her pump stopped working. Another pump was shipped … Continue reading
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Tagged be prepared, diabetes, hypoglycemia, insulin pump, low blood glucose, supplies
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Social Media & Diabetes
I had to take a couple days off after blogging for a month straight. Nice to be able to do that. Not so much with diabetes. Funny thing is that managing diabetes every day is much easier for me than … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, HAWMC, routine, social media
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