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.

Jul 24, 2008

One Side Effect from a Low Blood Glucose

Eric Lagergren

Before I begin this week's blog entry, let me state the following for people who may have found this link while looking for actual side effects from a low blood glucose: The subject of this piece isn't really (I don't think) a legitimate side effect from a low blood glucose. Instead, it's probably part of some personal quirk or idiosyncrasy. Who knows.

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Jul 17, 2008

Regarding the Diabetes

Eric Lagergren

This week marks one year since I started writing a weekly blog entry for DiabetesSelfManagement.com. That’s 51 articles (almost 40,000 words!), or blogs, or missives, or whatever you want to call them, about what it’s been like for me (for the most part) living with Type 1 diabetes. This week, I’d like to share some modified portions of an e-mail I sent to a friend a few days ago as a response to her asking how the diabetes was going.

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Jul 10, 2008

The Problem with Responsibility

Eric Lagergren

I’m not a child, so I do not have a parent who makes healthy diabetes meals for me and gets on my case about doing this or that to make sure I grow up healthy in spite of my Type 1 diabetes. Although I’m married, my wife is not my keeper; she loves me and she’s concerned about my health, but it is not her way to nag or pester or check in with me about my diabetes care, so I do not live with someone who asks me if I’ve exercised or if I’m watching what I eat or if I’ve checked my blood glucose or if I should really be out gardening without shoes on.

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Jul 03, 2008

The Sound of Diabetes

Eric Lagergren

I don't know where the title—and, of course, the subject—for this week's blog entry came from. Well…maybe I do. For the past week, our normally quiet neighborhood evenings have been permeated by the sounds of fireworks, a constant barrage of Black Cats, Saturn Missiles, and Roman Candles, which has no doubt influenced my thinking. While it's true enough that there's little correlation between the sound of diabetes and the fireworks' sizzles, whistles, fizzles, and explosions, when the phrase "sound of diabetes" popped into my head last night, I decided to run with it.

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Jun 26, 2008

The Positive Can Be Negative

Eric Lagergren

I returned to the gym on Tuesday for the first time in a couple of months. Yes, for all I've written and talked about my love of spinning classes (and that I'd even purchased cycling shoes and new cycling shorts in March), I've been on an extended hiatus from the local community college's recreation complex.

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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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