Eric Lagergren

Eric Lagergren was born in 1974 but didn’t give much thought to diabetes until March 2007, when he was diagnosed with Type 1. He now gives quite a bit of thought to the condition, and to help him better understand his life as a person with diabetes, he writes about it. Eric is the senior editor for the Testing Division at the University of Michigan’s English Language Institute in Ann Arbor.

Nov 13, 2008

Rambling About Diet (and Diet Coke)

Eric Lagergren

Regarding the diabetes, the past week's been pretty uneventful. Which I like. The only minor glitch in self-management happened yesterday at lunch. A pretty drastic blood glucose spike after lunch, actually, that gave me pause.

First, though, let me provide some backstory, although it's probably not really essential.

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Nov 06, 2008

Insulin Pumpers: Learn from My Experience

Eric Lagergren

For those of you who don’t use an insulin pump and who are not familiar with the nuances of pumping insulin, some of the content of this week's blog entry may either be cryptic or irrelevant, or both. My hope is that a nonpumping and unfamiliar-with-insulin-pump audience will be able to get the gist, however. So, without further ado...

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Oct 30, 2008

Check Check One Two

Eric Lagergren

I used to feel pretty guilty if I missed checking my blood glucose (bg). I used to. Lately, I've found myself ignoring, on occasion, the reminder from my insulin pump to check my bg two hours after a meal—and I don't feel badly about it. Of course, maybe I do: At times I feel guilty that I don't feel guilty about those occasions when I sometimes, just every once in a while…

…intentionally miss a bg check.

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Oct 23, 2008

Joe the Diabetic

Eric Lagergren

Okay, I know: The politically correct way of writing that headline would be Joe the Person With Diabetes. But it just doesn't have that ring to it. So, since I'm trying to create a meme that'll be picked up and plastered across Internet and talk radio and mainstream television media, to be debated and blogged about and used in political advertisements for next few national news cycles, I'm just gonna stick with Joe the Diabetic.

I am Joe.

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Oct 16, 2008

When the Paranoia Subsides

Eric Lagergren

How to read this week's blog entry:

1. Read last week's blog entry ("The Paranoid Moments") if you haven't done so yet. (I'm asking nicely.)

2. Read the comments several people wrote in response to last week's blog entry. (Please.)

3. Return to this page and read the rest of this week's entry. (That right there is sugar-coated!)

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Oct 09, 2008

The Paranoid Moments

Oct 02, 2008

A Week In The Life

Sep 25, 2008

Hypoglycemia’s Dangerous Enough

Sep 18, 2008

In Dreams the Future

Sep 11, 2008

Those Three Little Words

Sep 04, 2008

Diabetes Blog as Time-Saver

Aug 28, 2008

Beware Diabetic Complacency

Aug 21, 2008

So How Should I Presume?

Aug 14, 2008

Diabetes, Stomach Stuff, and Spousal Stress

Aug 07, 2008

Infusion Tubing Snag and Pump Site Rip-Off (Beep Beep)

Jul 31, 2008

The Interruption of Normalcy

Jul 24, 2008

One Side Effect from a Low Blood Glucose

Jul 17, 2008

Regarding the Diabetes

Jul 10, 2008

The Problem with Responsibility

Jul 03, 2008

The Sound of Diabetes

Jun 26, 2008

The Positive Can Be Negative

Jun 19, 2008

Moving Out of the Fast Lane

Jun 12, 2008

Eat the Shelf

Jun 05, 2008

Blockage Detected

May 29, 2008

This Sounds Familiar To Me

May 22, 2008

Blood on My Hands

May 15, 2008

What's the Buzz All About?

May 08, 2008

"It Turned Everything Upside Down"

May 01, 2008

A Letter to My Durable Medical Equipment Provider

Apr 24, 2008

Those Negative Inner Voices

Apr 17, 2008

Fifty-One On, One Off (Kinda)

Apr 10, 2008

Breaking Bad News

Apr 03, 2008

A Year of Helping Medical Students

Mar 27, 2008

P2P Diabetes

Mar 20, 2008

Looking Back

Mar 13, 2008

Taking It Off in Bed

Mar 06, 2008

Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Me

Feb 28, 2008

Welcome to Miami (Bienvenidos a Miami)

Feb 21, 2008

Mind Your Own Business

Feb 14, 2008

Forbidden Fruit

Feb 07, 2008

Diabetes In My Hierarchy of Needs

Jan 31, 2008

In Praise of the Diabetes Contact List

Jan 24, 2008

Do My Test Strips Define Me?

Jan 17, 2008

It's 3 AM. Do You Know What Your Blood Glucose Is?

Jan 10, 2008

What Causes Stress and Relieves It at the Same Time?

Jan 03, 2008

I Get By With a Little Help From the 19th Century

Dec 20, 2007

Ode to Diabetes, or Oh Diabetes

Dec 13, 2007

Before They Are Doctors

Dec 06, 2007

Diabetes, Beer, Dinner, and Medical Students

Nov 29, 2007

My Diabetes, My Family Centered Experience

Nov 23, 2007

Priming the (Insulin) Pump (Part 8)

Nov 15, 2007

Priming the (Insulin) Pump (Part 7)

Nov 08, 2007

Priming the (Insulin) Pump (Part 6)

Nov 01, 2007

What Are They Thinking? (I’m Thinking)

Oct 25, 2007

Priming the (Insulin) Pump (Part 5)

Oct 18, 2007

Priming the (Insulin) Pump (Part 4)

Oct 11, 2007

Drilling for Blood Glucose

Oct 04, 2007

Priming the (Insulin) Pump (Part 3)

Sep 27, 2007

Priming the (Insulin) Pump (Part 2)

Sep 20, 2007

Priming the (Insulin) Pump

Sep 13, 2007

Back in the Saddle

Sep 06, 2007

Health Care Without Crisis

Aug 30, 2007

Nothing Like Experience To Ease Diabetes Anxiety

Aug 23, 2007

Addicted to Your Self-Management?

Aug 16, 2007

The Ubiquitous Garden Metaphor

Aug 09, 2007

On Keeping a Diabetes Journal

Aug 02, 2007

A Diabetes Neophyte's Prologue (Part 3)

Jul 26, 2007

A Diabetes Neophyte's Prologue (Part 2)

Jul 19, 2007

A Diabetes Neophyte's Prologue (Part 1)

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