All Nighters – Not What They Used To Be

March 30, 2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

When I was a teen I my friend Rita would spend the night often and we would sit in my basement bedroom singing and dancing to music from Def Leopard, Madonna, Poison, Bon Jovi, and other hits of the 80’s. On one such night we each put cheap sunglasses as we sang along with “Sunglasses […]

Shout out to Stephanie

March 26, 2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

I just had the best conversation with Stephanie who works for Universal Studios Online ticket sales in Orlando. I am trying to move Heaven and Earth to get my family to the Friends for Life Children with Diabetes conference in Orlando this July. We had attended the conference in 07, 08, and 09. Finances and […]

Shenanigans at TCOYD

March 25, 2013.Reading time 15 minutes.

Registration for TCOYD (Take Control of Your Diabetes) $25 Gas to get me and a local D-mom friend to/from the conference $14 DOC – meet-ups at the conference – PRICELESS After writing this post I realized it is really long – I hope you read it and check out some of the links but here […]

HAWMC

March 20, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

Greetings. I suck. (Yes I’m self-deprecating today) I haven’t blogged for an extended period of time. Sadly this comes at a time when I have also applied for a scholarship to the Stanford Medicine X ePatient conference (thus – if you are with the Medicine X scholarship department please see older posts and know that […]

WTFedness

March 13, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

Yesterday a FWD (Friend with diabetes) posted on a social media site about a low blood sugar before dinner. She included the phrase “WTFedness”. I didn’t find her low humorous but the phrase “WTFedness” cracked me up and I told her as much. Diabetes has been frustrating the crud outta me lately. Unexplained stubborn highs […]