Why I Do This
Last week I wrote about a lull I've been going through. A mild case of the blues. (Quite mild, in fact...) Read More
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. (Eric Lagergren is not a medical professional.)
A Very Mild Funk
Perhaps it's the time of year, but the past few weeks I've failed to find motivation for the maintenance of healthy habits. I know it's not a big deal; one can't ceaselessly ride the wave of "life's awesome" in the way I'd been doing so for the past — well, let's just say that I've been funkless for a long time... Read More
Worried To Bed, Fine To Wake
It's early in the morning here in Southeast Michigan. How's your diabetes? Mine's doing just fine. Last night when I went to bed, however, I worried that my night might be long and fraught with blood glucose issues... Read More
The Annual Doctor Visit Approaches
I know, right? The title of this week's blog entry? As if I go to the doctor only once a year! Except for the first time in five years, it's actually true that, as far as my primary-care physician is concerned, I'm visiting her again for the first time in a year. The checkup... Read More
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... Read More
30 Things About My Invisible Illness
I'm headed out of town for a couple of days back to Kansas (boyhood home) to attend the Svensk Hyllningsfest in Lindsborg, get back to my Swedish roots, and see some of my family. So to get my blog entry off in time, I decided to do a delinquent answering of the "30 Questions" that came out in conjunction with National Invisible Chronic Illness Week (NICIW) a couple of weeks ago... Read More
Crooked Cannula
Sunday started for me like most days. Wait, let me revise that sentence and begin again. Sunday, as far as diabetes goes, as far as my health goes, started for me like most days... Read More
Set It or Forget It
Wanted to spend my time this week blogging about an aspect of insulin pump therapy — or, more specifically, a feature of insulin pumps... Read More
Age or Illness
I'm 37 years old. That's not young, despite people 15 or 20 or 30 years older than I am telling me, "You're still young." People, I'm over twice the age I was when I graduated high school. My friends have children who are graduating high school this year. I have gray hair... Read More
Good Control Equals Quiet Me
My wife and I have a pretty good group of friends who for years we've met up with at our local microbrewery, which is a short walk from our house. We gather every few weeks or as often as possible to sit around and talk, enjoy a beer or two, play cards, and other good friends good times social activities that, if you want to imagine it, probably looks kind of like a beer advertisement — cue the music... Read More
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