Category Archives: Diabetes

Diets Suck

I have never in my life been on a diet. I was blessed for many years with a metabolism that kept me very skinny without requiring me to do a lot of work. I was pretty sure that this would be the case for my whole life. Wrong. Somewhere around 25 things started slowing down, [...]

My Insulin Pump

I wear an insulin pump and it keeps me alive. If I didn’t have it, either I would die, or I would have to give myself a bunch of shots during the day. So it is pretty much the most important possession that I own, in a lot of ways. It is a really good [...]

I’m Twisted

Now let me preface this by saying that I wouldn’t ever actually do this. Now, that having been said, I was at Schnucks today getting some food for lunch, and there was a sign up that said there was a mobile diabetes testing van coming by tomorrow to check blood sugar to determine if you [...]

Normal

I think that I am a pretty normal person. I mean, I have some pretty odd personality quirks, but if anything, I think that makes me even more normal. What is it to be human if you aren’t a little weird, right? So yeah, I’m a little strange, but I’m mostly “normal”. Except for one [...]