photo via me, the obvious best photographer of the century I have no recollection of how or why this picture of my cat ended up in this previously untitled blog post, but I'm rolling with it.  Anyways, hi! It's been about a year since I've last posted (I blame college, as usual), and wow has my diabetes been a certain five letter word lately. Part of the blame is on me; I definitely was not doing my finest carb counting. (Sorry I abandoned you, measuring spoons and carb labels.) Add messed up basals, ISFs that aren't working, that awkward month after spring semester, plus a wee ..read more

I wrote this a long time ago; like almost a year ago. Since then, I've been diagnosed with anxiety and depression which explains a lot that's going on in this post. I'm still publishing this without any edits from the last time I worked on because while I know there are so many benefits of CGMs, I also feel that it's important to talk about the negatives, so everyone with or without diabetes can understand the big picture; so people remember that CGMs, pumps, and logging still aren't a cure. They can cause issues on their own. Mindy also has a ton of great posts about issues with CGMs, si ..read more

My parents are pestering me to write a new blog post, so here mom and dad, this is dedicated to you. Also, I'm very aware that my last blog post made me seem a little unstable (To be fair, I kind of was at that point.) and well, that is college for you. Change is not my favorite thing on the planet, as I'm sure you all can tell by this point, but college has gotten much better for me since I wrote that post 4 months ago. (So don't worry too much about me, things are looking up!) Anyways, on to the excitement! I got a new pump! And a shiny, brand-new t:slim X2, no less! Are you waiting for the ..read more

I just wanted to pop in and say Happy New Year before I go back to my regularly scheduled blogging. 2016 was definitely an interesting year, to say the least and even though I know the new year is technically just another day, I'm still excited to see what it holds! I'll save you the recap and just quickly mention that my 2016 ended on a high note because I finally was featured on Beyond Type 1's instagram! I submitted my photo and story and after 6 or 7 months, it finally got posted! Meet @sarahspillerr "I live beyond by not being ashamed of my diabetes. This has allowed me to easily talk ..read more

Well hello everyone. Since I'm posting this you can now rest assured that I am still alive after my first (almost) month of college. Do I like it so far? Absolutely not. Will I survive anyways? Probably. My first weeks of college have definitely not been my favorite weeks of my life. Let's just say I cried and called my parents almost (sometimes simultaneously!) every day the first week. I still haven't finished my Diabetes for Dummies binder for my roommate and I'm running behind on everything else, too. That's college for you though, isn't it? Rush week was exhausting, but also super fun. I ..read more

I wanted to go ahead and update everyone on what's going on in my life, in case I go MIA on the blog for a bit. I began writing this while on vacation in Isle of Palms, which is a barrier island off of the coast of South Carolina. I love it because it's not too touristy, but is also not completely in the middle of nowhere. (Which is always preferable, for me at least.) My life is about to become crazy because I have so much going on. I came back from vacation Thursday because I leave for camp on today, so I had a day to unpack, relax, and then re-pack all of my things for camp. I get back fro ..read more

I got back from orientation a few hours ago and I am absolutely exhausted. I had so much fun, but there was so much to do, so I am inevitably ready to sleep for 12 hours and I already took a nap on the car ride home. Needless to say, so much happened at orientation that I couldn't talk about it all, but I'll try my best to talk about as much as possible! Day 0: (aka the day before orientation) My dad and I took the 1 1/2 hour drive to UGA from our house because I had an intake appointment for the Disability Resource Center. (Which will now be referred to as the DRC because 3 letters is easier ..read more

Okay, I have been having quite the trouble getting my new CGM. I'm upgrading from a Dexcom with Share to a G5, which you wouldn't think would be that big of an issue, but apparently it is. This all started about a month ago in the middle of June when my transmitter started giving my a low battery alarm. I figured I could call customer service and ask if I could upgrade, since I've had my current one forever and I would love to be able to see my CGM data on my phone. I called on the Sunday I started having low battery alarms and was nicely told to call back Monday during business hours, so ..read more

Disclaimer: I don't usually like to get involve in very opinionated things around the DOC, but today I felt like I wanted to get involved, so naturally, this post is really really long, so if you don't want to read it, please don't feel obligated. This is my own personal opinion on the possible FDA re-labelling of CGMs, so feel free to disagree because it is an opinion, but please don't be mean about it. (Even though I know the DOC isn't mean, I have to include that.) Oh and a final note: take my opinion with a grain of salt. Now, enjoy reading this too long and MLA cited post about why I don ..read more

Today was my third quarterly visit to the endocrinologist and as usual it was exciting and simultaneously unexciting because that's how endocrinologist appointments go. The night before, I introduced my little sister to Diasend because both of us are eternally lazy when it comes to logging and this program makes it easy to upload data from all of your medical devices onto one easy to read chart that my endo likes. (And it's a little important that the endo likes it, since she is the one helping interpret the data.) My sister has a t:slim, so she can easily plug in her pump and upload data. I f ..read more