LifeAfterDx--Diabetes Uncensored

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Asante Solutions and the wonderful, delightful, innovative Snap Pump 2006-2015 REST IN PEACE

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This isn’t a goodbye, but rather an official acknowledgement both to you readers, and to myself, that I’m on a diabetes blogging hiatus. This isn’t really news to anyone, as my mother poin...

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I just had to share this image from one of our sisters. As you might guess, she’s a scientist. A scientist determined to have the perfect Thanksgiving bolus tomorrow. (Note the purple pump dow...

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So it's World Diabetes Day today. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to wish anyone a "happy" World Diabetes Day. Somehow that seems… well, wrong. But I got to thinking that while the purpose o...

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Download of CGM the last week of MDI therapy: First week on the Snap pump: OK, I know. There's still a lot of work to do, but it's off to a hell of a good start!

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Getting one wasn’t a Snap at all. It took me 1 year, 2 months, 13 days, and 7 hours; but I finally have a Snap of my own and I’m pumping again!

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I was finally beginning to feel my old self again. Instead of making energy to do things, I had energy to do things. I could read books without falling asleep after two paragraphs. My attitude w...

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The email was from one of my sisters. Not one of my two biological sisters, but from one of my thousands of genetic sisters. The subject line was: Essay Challenge! As I love to write and love ...

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Guess what came in the mail?

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The head nurse regarded me carefully with her steel-blue eyes. “You’re looking rather pale,” she said, “How do you feel?” Actually I was feeling fine, but when you’re presented wit...

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I’ve lost something. Me. Everyone else says they can see me. But I can’t seem to find myself. It’s an odd sensation. There’s really nothing wrong, but nothing feels right, either....

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It was an odd call, to say the least. On the other end of the line was a nurse who works for my patient’s health insurance company. They were trying to decide whether or not to deny my patient...

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My iPod alarm goes off, playing the funky Xylophone beat that greets me every morning. Of course, it’s not morning. In point of fact, it’s three in the afternoon. Has another hour past? I ...

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Tonight without CGM for the first time since 2005 thanks to piss-poor customer service from Dexcom and a greedy insurance company. Insurance refused to replace until transmitter low bat "warning...

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I was ambushed in the hallway not ten paces from the door. I had slipped in the ambulance entrance because that’s the most likely way to get into the building and to my office without being se...

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I can’t believe I just taxied right off the fucking runway. One moment I’m headed for the terminal, the next moment we’re off in the grass, my landing gear is mired in the mud, and the pla...

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The bullet hit me just below my rib cage, punching out a huge section of my liver and collapsing my right lung. Waves of pain rippled round my chest like a stone thrown in a still pond or echoes...

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I’m standing in the kitchen, but I haven’t a clue why I’m there. Again. I mean, I got up out of bed and came in here for some reason, obviously. I scratch my head distractedly and dislo...

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Last night I dreamed of airplanes. Again. Every night I dream of airplanes. Every night for the last seven nights, anyway. Big ones. Little ones. New ones. Old ones. But my dream planes ar...

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© 2014 Mitts off all you copy-pirates, copycats, and plagiarizers.

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Being a glutton for punishment, I went to the exchange again today and here’s what welcomed me: For those of who, you like me, don’t speak Spanish, it translates roughly to “At th...

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I was born in Missouri. I know that they call themselves the “show me” state, but I never thought that meant that I’d be required to show the federal government that Big Mo has been par...

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So last weekend I went to my State’s exchange where bright, colorful graphics in yellow, red, and turquoise and bold type fonts assured me that not only will I “Be Well,” but that I’v...

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There was a green piece of paper stapled to my pay stub. Never a good sign. Well, I thought, at least it isn’t pink. Yes, my job was safe—it was my health insurance that got laid off. The...

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