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Hi! I'm Laddie Lindahl. I've had Type 1 Diabetes since November 1976. This blog will highlight the stories and opinions of several women whom I've grown to like and respect through our interactions in the diabetes online community.
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1y ago
I have completed 15 days of Dry January 2023. Dry January began in 2013 as a campaign sponsored by Alcohol Change UK to encourage people to abstain from alcohol for the month of January. Ten years later the number of ..read more
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1y ago
I am a senior on Medicare and in a few weeks will have lived with Type 1 Diabetes for 46 years. Stacey Simms is the mother of a son Bennie who has had Type 1 diabetes since the age of ..read more
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2y ago
There is a nursery rhyme about going to St. Ives in which there are seven wives, seven sacks, seven cats, etc. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives Each wife had seven sacks ..read more
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2y ago
I probably write about Control IQ more often than I should. Some people with Tandem pumps love it and others hate it. I never love it but I often appreciate the benefits of a computer algorithm helping me out with ..read more
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3y ago
I recently filled out a long diabetes survey where I had to rank the potential benefits of a hybrid artificial pancreas system. One of the choices was a good night’s sleep. I think I rated that as Benefit #2 and ..read more
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3y ago
Laddie: Today’s blogpost was submitted by my Arizona D-friend David Bernstein. David was diagnosed with diabetes nine years ago. After four years of frustration and ineffective treatments, David learned that original Type 2 diagnosis was a mistake and he was ..read more
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3y ago
How good do we have to be? Or maybe I should ask how good do I have to be? Because what is good enough to keep me healthy might not be good enough for you. Diabetes complications can be a ..read more
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3y ago
I purchased my first Tandem X2 pump in December 2016. Shortly after that in April 2017 I transitioned to Medicare. Thus when my original pump went out of warranty in early December 2020, I was free to choose a new ..read more
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3y ago
I activated Control IQ on my Tandem X2 pump in late January. After two weeks I wrote a blogpost sharing my goals for the system: “Unlike some seniors who are askance at letting a tech device control their insulin, I ..read more
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4y ago
A while back I started a blogpost with the words “tangled” and “intertwined.” The emotions prompting those words were powerful but I abandoned the post in favor of laziness. Last Saturday I “attended” a virtual session at Friends for Life ..read more