Transformation
We have fought with the enemy for as long as we can remember – millennia or perhaps eons. The war is as old as we are; older in fact. But, it does not define us. Indeed we do not think much of it. It...
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Beyond Avandia
It seemed like such an elegant solution at the time; activate the transcription of a glucose transporter in an insulin independent fashion. The goal of current diabetic treatments is to lower blood...
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A Rainy Day, The Pictorial Version
Today was my first ever (yes, it’s true) JDRF walk, and my second ever Taking Control of Your Diabetes conference. Both on the same remarkably rainy day! To be honest, I am exhausted– so rather than...
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Is Paula Deen For Real?
Hi Y’all,I’m from Texas, so that was genuine. I’m not making fun of Paula Deen. In fact, unlike practically everyone else in America right now, I’m giving Paula a big thumb’s up. I think she...
View ArticlePaula Deen’s Diabetes: Are We Getting the Right Message?
The blogosphere was thrumming about whether the Food Network’s down-home Southern queen, Paula Deen, has Type 2 diabetes. Yes, by now you know she does.It doesn’t bother me that she kept it “close to...
View ArticleSome scary diabetes statistics
Yesterday I took part in a tweetchat with Dr. Richard Bessar of ABC News. Joining the chat were representatives from the Centers for Disease Control, as well as many from major diabetes centers. The...
View ArticleSharing the Pain
Going to the doctor was never a pleasant experience, but at least it wasn’t nerve wracking. Sometime around the age of 50 or so, I began to realize that after the examination, there’s a second part of...
View ArticleA Whole LADA Confusion
I attended the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ annual meeting yesterday, the same folks who recommend that people with diabetes maintain a HbA1c of less than 6.5%. Held in the...
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Bob Marley’s Nephew Is On a Diabetes Mission
The first thing to know about Charles Mattocks is that his passion for educating people with diabetes is fierce; it buzzes at me through the phone line. Like his famous reggae musician uncle Bob...
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A Diabetes Dream Home
You’re welcome to use the bathroom in my house but please, don’t look up. As Jess and Mike learned on a recent Philadelphia visit, our bathrooms are something of a disaster zone: the ceilings have been...
View ArticleFoiled again
As someone who has controlled her blood sugars with diet and medications for over twenty years, type 2 diabetes remains a mystery to me.Although there are times when I know my sugars will be high (say...
View ArticleEating Up A Storm
A small post in the Science section of the New York Times caught my eye this week: it concerned the comfort food that readers turned to during last week’s Hurricane Sandy. Caught in the middle of the...
View ArticleType 1 and Type 2 Diabetes at the Same Time?
One thing I hear occasionally among type 1 diabetics is, “Well, at least I can’t get type 2 diabetes!” This reasoning makes sense if you think only about the two diabetes as two points along a single...
View ArticleMy Pre-Diabetes is Bringing my Son and I Closer Together
A few years ago, my GP noted that my fasting blood sugars were creeping up. Over the last few weeks, I started checking my morning blood sugar, and have found that it’s consistently in the 120s....
View ArticleThe Truth About Needles
I’m thinking about needles.About how, if you asked me twenty-seven years ago to stick a needle into my finger, two, three or four times a day, I would have found you mad. How the first time the doctor...
View ArticleThe Lie That’s Killing Us: Pre-Diabetes
Pre-diabetes is a lie. Pre-diabetes is Stage 1 diabetes. And I’m taking a stand now advocating that we call it what it is.Pre-diabetes doesn’t exist. And the lie we tell that it does does incredible...
View ArticleSleepwalking With Diabetes
So Monday morning I woke up, my nightgown marked with peanut butter. The thing is, I’m not a sloppy eater, and I didn’t have any peanut butter the night before. At least, I didn’t think I did. But that...
View ArticleMy Wake Up Call: Bydureon and Possible Cancer Risk?
Last week, I attended the Second Annual Diabetes Symposium at the Thomas Jefferson University. Surrounded by endocrinologists, nutritionists and diabetes educators, I sat through the lively...
View ArticleLife Without Byetta or Bydureon
Last October, I started an experiment to see if I could do without Byetta or Bydureon after I got concerned over reports of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer attached to the drugs.My fears may or may...
View ArticleWould the Marlboro Man Get Diabetes Today?
I just returned from Findlay, Ohio where I addressed 25 people with Type 2 diabetes. Most of them use insulin and most rely on Medicaid for their insurance.Yet Medicaid doesn’t cover the cost of enough...
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