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Sleep, Stress, and Diabetes
I’m not a “studies show this, studies show that” kind of guy, but I think this one is important: After just two weeks of a shortened sleep schedule, insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance developed in healthy volunteers…
When Can We Stop?
My lovely 70-year-old cousin has severe rheumatoid arthritis. She’s in constant pain and is in a nursing home. Her husband is in a different nursing home, so they never see each other…
Are People with Diabetes Sweeter?
Have you ever thought that people with diabetes are often gentler, more giving, maybe more passive — in a word, “sweeter” — than average? I haven’t found any scientific evidence for this idea, but in my personal experience with hundreds of people with diabetes, it sometimes seems true…
How Much Doctoring is Too Much for a Type 1?
This is a tough topic to write succinctly and coherently about. And no doubt I’ll hear back from some readers both agreeing and disagreeing. I am interested in what you guys have to say. So, up front, I apologize for any incoherence. I may be all over the map on this topic.
Searching My Brain for Something to Say
Searching my brain (or what’s left of it) this week, I couldn’t come up with one thing to write about. I could, however, think of several — none of which would make a full blog. Or not that I could determine. So consider this my occasional burst of cleaning out some of the things I have hiding in folders… and in the recesses of my brain…
Random Thoughts on My Diabetes and This Blog
What follows in this week’s blog entry is — for the most part — a nonnarrative about a few things regarding my self-management. Often I write about what’s happened in the past week or so, but the last week has been rather uneventful in my diabetes life. This morning as I took the dog on her hour-long walk, I tried but could not think of anything to write about this week. It’s a problem that doesn’t happen to me too often, because I can usually take a seemingly insignificant aspect of my life with diabetes and spin it out into a good thousand-word blog entry…
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