The D-Log Cabin

Dear Miss Manners, Allow me to introduce myself. I am a wife, mother (to a very small child) daughter, friend, Chevy driver, lover of a...

I don't consider myself to be an uneducated hillbilly..by any means. My family has engineers and a physicist,computer programmers, a nur...

  This is my now 2 year old..hard to believe it's been that long! It was a rough first couple of weeks for him. After the 3 am c-se...

In 15 years I've leaned that diet coke and sugar free gum (together) taste like stinky socks. In 15 years I've learned to stand ...

What if diabetes were more like Choose Your Own Adventure & less like "I've been doing this for a decade and a half & I am...

"Hey, is that an insulin pump?" It is. "I've been trying to get my dad to get one. How do you like it?" I...

I used to think that getting any disease that restricted the intake of certain foods would be the absolute end of the universe. I've al...

On the day that I failed nursing school, I kissed my husband & son goodbye in the wee hours of the morning, climbed into my car, & ...

Life is chock full o' crazy right now, it's the 6th out of 8 weeks in the Med Surg/Mental Health rotation. I'm not going to pers...

Tort. Assault. Battery. Neglect. These are words that make every nurse(and nursing student) break out into a cold sweat, to re-evaluate the...

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...