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Facing the Fears of Diabetes: 3 Strategies that Help
Living with type 1 presents numerous challenges, stresses, and fears. The list includes hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, complications, early death, injections, burnout, body weight, being judged, pregnancy, money, data, wearables, and insertables. Whew … That’s an...
Daily Self-Care Practices
Are you interested in a low-cost, high-return difference maker for your diabetes? Daily Self-Care Practices! Mindset influences our bodies, including our diabetes. I've found that a daily commitment to self-care practices positively influences my mindset. While many...
Sugar Free
Sugar Free. That was my nephew Alec’s nickname on his high school baseball team. One of the coaches called him “Sugar Free” because he played with type 1 diabetes. It was fun … and a reminder that he played with type 1. We loved it When it comes to food, sugar free...
Five Months Later … +1
I cycled outdoors last week … five months to the day after my biking accident that resulted in a fractured left hip. The decision to get on the bike was spontaneous, as I was home alone with time to kill. It was a beautiful spring day with blue skies, temperatures in...
2022 Diabetes Wellness Review – Mind
This is the seventh post reviewing a spoke, or Cluster of Help, in the Diabetes Wellness Wheel. Below is the wheel with my standards, 2022 assessment, and adjustments for 2023 for Mindset. Diabetes Wellness Wheel Mindset can be a difference maker … especially...
Dexcom Ads
This week I attended a JDRF in-person meet-up in Kansas City. It was my first since Covid, and it was good to see over 30 type 1s in a room talking about diabetes. The meeting was about the new Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor and was presented by two local Dexcom...
Time & Place
Early in my life, I kept my diabetes mostly a secret … only sharing it with those I trusted to not judge me for having diabetes. I wasn’t alone. Others, including a childhood hero, Ron Santo, did the same thing for the same reason. Over the past two decades, I’ve...
2022 Diabetes Wellness Review: Education
This is the sixth post reviewing a spoke (or cluster of help) in the Diabetes Wellness Wheel. Below is the wheel with my standards, 2022 assessment, and adjustments for 2023 for Education. Diabetes Wellness Wheel Living with diabetes is better with education. Remember...
The Marketing of Diabetes
This past weekend I went to the grocery store for several items. As I walked toward the aisle for lettuce, I noticed a display of cans with an ‘A1C’ prominently labeled on the front. Does this drink help someone with diabetes with their A1C? I doubt it. Does this...
Scripts
Living well with diabetes requires insulin and technology to deliver it. And the rapid innovation in medications and devices provides additional ways to improve living with diabetes. Most of the time, they require prescriptions. The process can be time-consuming,...
2022 Diabetes Wellness Review: Friends & Family
This is the fifth post reviewing a spoke (or cluster of help) in the Diabetes Wellness Wheel. Below is the wheel with my standards, 2022 assessment, and adjustments for 2023 for Friends & Family. Diabetes Wellness Wheel Living with diabetes is better with support...
Driving Diabetes
I’ve been traveling away from our home in Kansas City for the past month. Kendra and I viewed parts of the U.S. in a way only seen when driving. From Kansas City to St. Louis for a 60th Birthday party, then to Oklahoma City’s Bricktown and the 50th anniversary of...
Lessons on Patient Experience From a World Class Retailer – Part II
Last week I posted about a fabulous experience buying jeans at Nordstrom. Here is the second part of the topic that delves into the customer and patient experience. That post ended with this question: What if our experience with endocrinologists, educators, medical...
Lessons on Patient Experience From A World Class Retailer – Part I
Kendra and I visited our son, family, and friends in Phoenix recently, and one of our stops was at the Nordstrom store in Scottsdale. I was shopping for a pair of jeans when a salesperson approached and asked if I needed help. He asked a few questions, and then we...
2022 Diabetes Wellness Review: Exercise
This is the fourth post reviewing the exercise spoke (or cluster of help) in the Diabetes Wellness Wheel. Below is the wheel with my standards, 2022 assessment, and adjustments for 2023. Diabetes Wellness Wheel The benefits of exercise to the human body are well...
2022 Diabetes Wellness Review – Nutrition
This is the third post reviewing one of the spokes (or clusters of help) in the Diabetes Wellness Wheel. Below is the wheel with my criteria, assessment of 2022, and adjustments for 2023 for Nutrition. Diabetes Wellness Wheel Nutrition is the foundation for living...
Altitude, Attitude & Turbulence
This week Kendra and I are on a road trip from St. Louis to Phoenix to spend time with our son, Connor, do baseball Spring Training, and visit with friends and family (that seem numerous this time of year in Arizona). Usually, we would fly, but Kendra and I had...
Kelly’s 51st Birthday
This site is dedicated to my sister-in-law, Kelly, who died due to complications from type 1 diabetes. Her 51st birthday would have been this week. Her sisters, brothers, and father recognized the day with her birthday ritual … angel food cake topped with whipped...
Dream Foods & The Fertile Crescent
Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel is a history of earth’s continents with theories on how one of them came to exert influence on the others. With the help of guns, germs, and steel, Eurasians introduced their language, writing, technology, and domesticated...
Gratitude – Noah Gray (Super Bowl LVII)
Today is Super Bowl Sunday … as a lifelong fan, I’m all for the Kansas City Chiefs. (Hey, I remember their first two Super Bowls!) As pumped as I am about the Chiefs being in the big game, I’m more inspired by one of our players. As the game is played, Type 1 diabetes...
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