The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
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Diabetes blog encouraging women with diabetes to live their best life
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
Someone who could be next might be reading and may make a determined push in their life to make themselves less vulnerable. We should never minimize the power of wise personal decisions. They often make all the difference ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
One day you'll look back and see that what you can do actually surpasses the actions of those who haven't been challenged by one of the most silently gruesome and exhausting chronic illnesses out there ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
As a kid, it was annoying for me to hear adults tell each other about how their job was the hardest and the diabetic kids were just living it up as normal kids. I did the teenager eye-roll, which was invented precisely so that kids would have a way of physically coping with the desire to throw something across a room when adults showed they forgot what being very young was ever like. Kids don't have an absence of suffering, they just show it differently ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
It’s been tricky managing my daughter’s diabetes alongside my own. Here are some things I’ve found particularly challenging: There’s Only So Much Room Up There There’s only so much space in my head and I’ve always hated taking notes and logging information. I have lower conscientiousness–in the form of organization skills than I’d like so ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
To stop fearing discomfort we can arrange for it and face it head-on. This is easier than being thrown into the deep end against your will and will result in a better grasp of what we’re made of. To put this in context and why I write about it on a diabetes blog, let me ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
2 Reasons Why I Split My Basal Insulin Dose More Even Coverage The first reason is obvious and common–it helps provide better “coverage”. However, I take Tresiba and most providers do not encourage splitting the dose of that insulin due to its approximate 42-hour action profile. When I took one dose, I had an extreme ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
We should first define the scare tactic. I think that a scare tactic is the use of a lie or deception with the intent to provoke fear of a negative outcome in order to motivate or manipulate behavior. Many diabetes “scare tactics” aren’t scare tactics, at all. If one shares a truth, however vague and incomplete ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
“A disturbance in the force” is how I like to approach the topic of feeling lows. I think that for me, it accurately describes subtle symptoms of lows that are not immediately obvious. For example, most of my lows start out with certain symptoms and then those symptoms evolve with increasing severity. But sometimes symptoms ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
Too many people seem to go overboard on Easter candy, in my opinion, and as a result, their kids do, too. The effects of sugar are such that if your child has any major stress happening, they might be tempted to sneak candy in when you’re not looking and this can wreak havoc on blood ..read more
The Girl's Guide to Diabetes
5y ago
And yet, my 9-year-old daughter, who I measured this morning, has officially grown 2.5 inches since she started eating very low carb 4.5 months ago. Things that make you go “hmmm ..read more