Skittles

It’s been a long time since I’ve talked about my struggles with type 1 diabetes on this blog.  No doubt if you’re part of the DOC (diabetes online community) that is part of my Twitter possee (Twosse?!) then you’re probably sick of hearing about real estate and wondering “are you ever gonna talk about your [...]

Loving Life

No doubt, I’ve been inundated these last 30 days. And updates to this blog seem to be the thing that slips off the radar first when I’m the busiest.  I keep thinking that things will slow down, but for some reason my calendar is all fired up and things are getting booked left and right. [...]

Dexcom Is Putting Out There

I have had a couple of meetings with Springfield’s Dexcom rep this week and I’m getting really excited about what they have planned for Springfield.
I have been Dexcomin’g it for approximately 15 weeks now.  My hemoglobin A1c dropped from a 9.4% to a 6.8% and shocked not only me, but my family and friends too.  [...]

Diabetes Hits An All New Low

It was a perfect summer evening.  It was approaching 7 o’clock and the storm clouds were mounting in the background to brew up a nice little thunderstorm.  My husband and I were sitting on the front row of the bleachers in field number 2 of the Cooper Sports Complex.  My oldest son’s third grade baseball [...]

The Boy Had The Guts To Ask

Everyone was staring, but the little boy had the guts to ask.
We were at lake party recently and it was extremely hot outside.  I was very nervous about getting into my swimsuit as it is difficult to hide both the Omnipod insulin pump and the Dexcom Seven Plus continuous glucose monitor sensor.  But, with the [...]

Sweet Perfection Doesn’t Make It Go Away

I love perfection.  Especially when it comes to my blood sugar readings.  Yesterday, the Dexcom planets all aligned with the center of gravity for me and gave me perfection for a good 12 hours.  Although this is not a completely rare sighting for some diabetics, it can be for me. But my sugar readings stayed [...]

Dexcom’ing It

Why wasn’t I issued one of these when I was first diagnosed with diabetes?!
This amazing piece of diabetes technology is the Dexcom Seven Plus continuous glucose monitor and it has pretty much changed my life in these last two weeks.  It is a glucose sensor that I wear attached to my body (currently on the [...]