The D-Log Cabin

When J was being born, amid the crazyness of water breaking and contractions and epidurals and hourly blood glucose checks and being dragge...

In the beginning of my diabetes journey, a blood glucose reading was a thing written in stone, the Gospel truth. "What's your numbe...

I'm a little upset right now. (Warning: what you are about to read will probably disgust you...proceed with caution. And if you should...

Decisions are hard for me. Which is how I found myself staring at the Friends for Life schedule, 15 minutes before the focus groups beg...

1. It's called hypoglycemia. It's not called freak-the-heck-out-and-dial-911-itis. Unless I'm unconscious. 2. Stop asking me if...

He is the most interesting man in the world. The "he", fyi, is Ed Damiano...a biomedical engineer turned Artificial Pancreas gu...

Let's talk about Friends for Life. (was it exciting? Did anybody fall into the pool? Were there any Diet Coke drink-offs? Did the spo...

  ...he'll want some milk with that (just pretend it's milk,ok?)   Afterwords, you'll clean up the kitchen floor... ...

Most years involve some sort of surgery/body organ failure. (It's just how I roll, apparently) In 2012 it was my thyroid(6 months post C...

Here's a few of the things I'd love to see happen in this life of mine... 1. Win the lottery. (oh, wait, that will never happ...

Technology woes: I has them. On several fronts. You know how most of the US is finallllllly getting to transition to the new Omnipods? (a...

Several weeks ago, I got the chance to try out the My Sugr app (for a comprehensive review, you can read Scott's over at Scott's Di...

It's coming. Friend-for-life-itis: an uncharacteristic phenemena experienced by a person with diabetes, family member, or a health care ...

If you own an Apple Device, this post is for you. I do indeed love my IBabies(not as much as the human baby, but still, a lot). And I love ...

This year Diabetes Art moves up from the Wildcard choices as we all channel our creativity with art in the broadest sense. Do some “traditi...

Just like in the movie, today we’re doing a swap. If you could switch chronic diseases, which one would you choose to deal with instead ...

We don’t always realize it, but each one of us had come a long way since diabetes first came into our life. It doesn’t matter if it’s been 5...

Today we’re going to share our most memorable diabetes day. You can take this anywhere.... your or your loved one's diagnosis, a bad ...

Recently various petitions have been circulating the Diabetes Online Community, so today let’s pretend to write our own. Tell us who you...

Often our health care team only sees us for about 15 minutes several times a year, and they might not have a sense of what our lives ...