Diabetes Self-Management Blog
Jan Chait

How Much of Too Much Isn’t Enough?

I coulda sworn three extra infusion sets would be enough for a change and an emergency over a four-day trip. I was wrong…

Jan Chait

ReCALC…ulating

Hi Honeys, I’m home. (Yawn!) My husband and I went on a whirlwind tour of Virginia and South Carolina, visiting friends and family. I almost had to stay in Virginia…

Jan Chait

Hittin’ the Road With Flatt and Scruggs

Heaven help me, I just bought a Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs album. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but country music just isn’t my thing. So why did I buy it? Well, Dad likes country music and he likes banjos and it looks as if we’re finally going to head to South Carolina to see him. Weather permitting and all that stuff…

Jan Chait

“But I Gotta Go NOW!”

It’s time to play another round of “Inaccessible Accessible Places.” But first…

Eric Lagergren

Lost It

Let me recap for you a rather boneheaded thing I did on Sunday’s trip home from Kansas during which I lost, for the first time in my tenure as a person with Type 1 diabetes, an important part of my diabetes accoutrement…

Jan Chait

The Web Site SAID It Was Accessible!

The trip to Tennessee I was so looking forward to taking? It was so much “fun,” we came home a day early. My husband wanted to come home the day after we arrived, but the girls — our granddaughter and a friend — wanted to go to a couple of places. Let’s just say that some people have a warped idea of what constitutes “accessible…”

Joe Eldridge

A Break in the Action

Joe Eldridge

Preparing for the Tour of Korea

Joe Eldridge

A Hard Lesson Learned

Joe Eldridge

Greetings From Belgium

Joe Eldridge

Sick in South Africa

Joe Eldridge

The Racing Season Begins

Jan Chait

Calling All Amputees: Information, Please

Eric Lagergren

Pat Down With Insulin Pump

Jan Chait

Greetings From the Bahamas

Eric Lagergren

Retire from Society Completely I Did Not

Eric Lagergren

Bullet-Point Thursday

Jan Chait

Having “Fun” Can Be Infectious

Jan Chait

Vacation Time is Looming!

Jan Chait

New York City: Where the “Fun” Never Ends. (Part 2)

Jan Chait

New York City: Where the “Fun” Never Ends. (Part 1)

Jan Chait

Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired (Not to Mention Hypoglycemic)

Eric Lagergren

Planning Adequately, Eating Poorly

Eric Lagergren

I’m a Traveling Man Who Has Diabetes

Jan Chait

Just Call Me A Peripatetic Diabetic

Jan Chait

Visit to the "Old World" Brings New Surprises

Jan Chait

The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing but the Tooth (Mostly)

Jan Chait

Obsession Isn’t Always a Perfume

Web Team

What We’re Reading: Nominate and Win!

Eric Lagergren

Beware Diabetic Complacency

Jan Chait

Traveling May Be Expensive, But Friends Are Priceless

Jan Chait

Vacations, Like Diabetes, Can Have Their Ups and Downs

Eric Lagergren

Fifty-One On, One Off (Kinda)

Jan Chait

South of the Border (and So Was My Glucose)

Eric Lagergren

Welcome to Miami (Bienvenidos a Miami)

Eric Lagergren

Mind Your Own Business

David Spero

Going Home for the Holidays

Jan Chait

Back From (Another) Trip

Jan Chait

There’s a Reason We Don’t Call it "Hibegon"

Andy Stuckey

Good-bye, and a Surprise Ending

Andy Stuckey

Tales from Nicaragua

Amy Campbell

Summertime…And the Traveling Is Easy!

Andy Stuckey

Regular Doctor Visits?

Andy Stuckey

Diabetes in the Altitude

Jan Chait

Get Packing! But What? And IN What?

Andy Stuckey

More About My Diabetes/Jack Bauer Man-Purse

Jan Chait

Flying With Sharp Objects

Katharine Davis

Airline Carry-On Rules Slightly Relaxed

Jan Chait

Terrorist-Inspired Diabetes Terrors Weigh on Mind

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