Love is in the air! Ahh can you smell the sweetness. My blood sugar just sky rocketed just thinking about chocolate kisses and heart shaped boxes of candy from Whitman's! I have to say I am especially excited about Valentine's Day this year because it will be my first Valentine Celebration as a married woman! I was just married last April.... Read more
Well everyone, I am hooked back up to my CGM, and with brand new tape! I decided to use the Tegaderm HP tape that came in the package that Minimed sent me yesterday. I used the Skin Prep and the IV prep hoping that the tape would stick.
This is what it looks like now:
ISN'T WORKING!!! As you can see the tape is already... Read more
Ok, when I wanted to sign up to have the continuous glucose monitoring system 24/7, 365 days... I honestly thought this would not be such a hard task. I thought having it was going to solve all of my problems and poof I would start having better control!
I knew that there were some issues with CGM's and I know it is a piece of machinery... Read more
Ok this is really cool and I think you should all check it out. Sweettalk.org is a new diabetes talk show that is run by three really great people of the diabetes community.
Let me introduce you to them, Landileigh Nelson of Landileigh's Little World, Mike Lawson of What some would call lies and Jill of Confessions of a Catcher in the Rye... Read more
This past month has been really bad for me regarding the whole diabetes thing. About a month ago I took off my CGM because I honestly just couldn't handle the beeps, buzzing and the blood gushing sites because my mental state of being is just not all here right now.
I have decided to put the CGM back on tonite. My blood sugars have really... Read more