June 28, 2006

PWD living with kids & teens

This Discussion Forum is for discussion of issues when you, an adult with diabetes, have to deal with a child or teen (or grandchild), and the inevitable questions and interactions that you as an adult have with them.

What do you say (or not say)? Do (or not do) when there's an impressionable youngster around?

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Bill the diabetesdoc
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June 13, 2006

Books without website information

Steph and I have been at the ADA meeting in DC, where they have a large "Bookstore" stocked with all sorts of diabetes books (mainly those published by the ADA). This morning, I decided to thumb through the books, to see what they said about the Internet and diabetes websites.

Well, the simple answer is "almost nothing." Roughly 1 out of 20 mentioned either "Internet" or "Websites" in their indices. And only one had a substantive discussion instead of a list. And the substantive discussion basically said "there is an Internet with Websites. Don't trust the information you find on the 'net."

As if you could trust the information you find in books...

Bill the diabetesdoc
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June 11, 2006

My Diabetes: Day 245

Steph and I are at the ADA meeting in DC, where I had the opportunity to get my A1c done as a freebie from one of the vendors at the exhibit hall. As some of you might recall, I was diagnosed with diabetes last year, at which time my A1c was 11.1 (normal range up to 7). I've had subsequent A1c's with progressive improvement, but getting a 5-minute result (with Metrika's A1CNow+ device) for free just couldn't be passed up.

And the result was awesome: 5.9 -- which left me floating on cloud nine for a while... all those shots (2 shots of Lantus daily, 3-5 shots of Novolog/day, and zillions of fingersticks for blood sugars) have indeed done something.

Just like I've always told my patients.


Bill the diabetesdoc
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June 03, 2006

Good Ol' Daze

This Discussion Forum is for discussion of memories of the "Good Ol' Daze", back when insulin syringes were reused after boiling, urine testing was the way to go, and A1c didn't exist...

Some photos of devices from the good ol' days are at the Diabetes Monitor:

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Bill the diabetesdoc
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