So I have been a Dexcom user since they were FDA approved, paying out of pocket for several years before insurance started kicking in for it. And I was part of the FDA approval study for the M...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2012/12/in-which-i-run-over-my-pancreas.html
So tomorrow is my quarterly fasting blood draw. Does anyone else get the feeling they're "off the hook" for a few days right after their a1c gets taken? (Or am I the only bad diabetic out the...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/12/poetry-parody-if-e-houseman-had.html
OK, as long as I just accidentally posted a camp blog update on this site, I will actually do a quick update. At times I’ve wondered, if I were more active, if I didn’t have a desk job, woul...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/09/construction-experiment-or-diy-diabetes.html
On Saturday I went to the TCOYD event in Albany. My husband and I had gone last year to Providence, but it’s nice to get a refresh of the camaraderie and spend a day around other people who ...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/06/tcoyd-albany.html
Typical conversation between my euglycemic, rational, brain and the hypoglycemic version: EU-BRAIN : Hey, Dex just beeped. Check it out. LOW-BRAIN: Nah. You have got to pee. NOW! EU-B...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/05/eu-brain-versus-low-brain.html
So I’ve been fighting really high BGs since Friday evening. I’m talking average of 300 high – about double my usual levels. Not helped by bad allergies/possible sinus infection, either. 2...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/04/wanted-day-off-will-pay-anything.html
So in my last post , I talked all about the ten clues that your insulin might be going bad. On the way home friday, I stopped at the pharmacy and exchanged two dead bottles (both different lot ...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/02/eleventh-clue.html
The suspects Over the past few years, I’ve had a great deal of practice at identifying bad insulin, unfortunately. So much practice that I’m about to give up on Apidra entirely. When ...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-identify-bad-insulin.html
Simplify. Solve. Repeat. 127bg + 20g carbs - 4 units insulin + 3 hours housework = 232bg 232bg + 40g carbs - 3 units insulin + 30 minutes sitting in car = 180bg 180bg + 10g carbs + 5 min w...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-i-will-never-get-a-in-diabetes-math.html
I have an infusion set in, that was due to be changed this morning. And it hurts! It gave me that stinging-sore, probably-bent-the-cannula feeling going in, and it’s being doing the itchy, ...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2011/01/diabetics-dilemma.html
When you glance at your monitor before shutting off the reading lamp, and it has you 98 and dropping, even though less than an hour ago your fingerstick was 130 and you haven’t bolused since di...
This is Every Day
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2010/09/diabetes-art-day.html
This is a copy of a letter I plan to mail out once I calm down. Apparently I have to choose between the friendly-but-incompetent pharmacy that keeps giving me bad insulin, or the effective-but-...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2010/05/insulin-nazi.html
For some reason blogspot keeps saying I have no "unmoderated" comments, but a friend said she posted last week and comment never went anyplace... If you commented on that post please try again on...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-dying-apridra-comments-were-eaten-by.html
NOTE - blogspot decided I don't need to see any comments for some reason. I had to turn off comment moderation. Any comments on this post went into some kind of black hole, so please recomment if...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-your-apidra-dying-early.html
So I just got in the door from work, and Numbers Two and Three Sons meet me at the door. "Puzzle got a mouse." What, in the house? "No, outside. We brought her in and put her in her crate. The m...
I broke an almost-new bottle of insulin this week. It had been opened less than 48 hours, had only 150 units removed. It wasn’t an accident or a cat attack, though. The short story is it brok...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2010/02/losing-it.html
Site change day. Given my more or less complete zombie state in the mornings, I was quite proud of myself for remembering. I shut off the alarm clock, took my synthroid, checked my BG (114) and f...
I did it. After several months, tonight I finally started the beta test of my logging software. This is the idea I pitched last spring for the DiabetesMine design contest, which I've been using t...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2009/11/turning-d-blog-day-into-d-log-day.html
Back in college, I had a friend who was a pretty good juggler. Sometimes, he would start off with just 2 or 3 objects, and we'd toss more and more in, until eventually he'd have maybe 7 or 8 item...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-somebody-make-this-movie.html
This is where I send myself when I'm in desperate need of a "Mommy time-out". The Castle Room, with elliptical decorated for effect: Close up of the doors to The Crawlspace of Unfinished Projec...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-you-build-it-nothing-to-do-with-d.html
I'm trying a vlog today from my "castle room", the room over the garage the kids and I turned into the perfect reading nook...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2009/09/comments-from-castle.html
What the weather forecaster says: "Increasing clouds tonight with scattered thunderstorms, some severe. Lows around 70." What a PWD hears: "Increasing clouds tonight with scattered thunderst...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2009/08/come-again.html
Okay, okay, it's not that kind of magic brownie. I was always too much of a goody-two-shoes to ever try anything stronger than alcohol. But this particular magic brownie was I think even better t...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2009/08/magic-brownie.html
Back when I started blogging in Sept 2005 it was out of a sense of desperation. Was there anyone else out there who knew what I was going through? All the reading I had done on type 1 talked abou...
http://drjekyllandmrslow.blogspot.com/2008/11/its-d-blog-day.html