D-Blog Week, Day 5: Freaky Friday
Friday: Just like in the movie, today we’re doing a swap. If you could switch chronic diseases, which one would you choose to deal with instead of diabetes? And while we’re considering other chronic conditions, do you think your participation in the DOC has affected how you treat friends and acquaintances with other medical conditions?When we talk about Freaky Friday, are we discussing the Jodie Foster version or the Lindsey Lohan version? Because in the end I'd rather be Jodie Foster. Or Jamie Lee Curtis. Can I just switch with one of them in real life? I know there are quite a few j...
Source: Dorkabetic - May 17, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Hannah McDonald Source Type: blogs
D-Blog Week Day 2: We, The Undersigned
It's D-Blog Week...join your favorite diabetes bloggers as we write about/share/mouth off about different diabetes-related topics all week. Links and learn more at: Bitter-sweet Diabetes!Tuesday: Recently various petitions have been circulating the Diabetes Online Community, so today let’s pretend to write our own. Tell us who you would write the petition to – a person, an organization, even an object (animate or inanimate) - get creative!! What are you trying to change and what have you experienced that makes you want this change?A PETITION FOR GREATER SEXINESS AMONG PEOPLE WITH DIABETES(I'm pretty much ad...
Source: Dorkabetic - May 14, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Hannah McDonald Source Type: blogs
D-Blog Week, Day 1: Share & Don't Share
It's D-Blog Week...join your favorite diabetes bloggers as we write about/share/mouth off about different diabetes-related topics all week. Links and learn more at: Bitter-sweet Diabetes!Monday: Often our health care team only sees us for about 15 minutes several times a year, and they might not have a sense of what our lives are really like. Today, let’s pretend our medical team is reading our blogs. What do you wish they could see about your and/or your loved one's daily life with diabetes? On the other hand, what do you hope they don't see?1.) Today, I left my insulin pump at home. I comm...
Source: Dorkabetic - May 13, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Hannah McDonald Source Type: blogs
Take Your Mama Out All Night, Yeah...
Happy Mother's Day!Not just to all the moms of the Diabetes Online Community out there, but to MY mom as well. She may not like this picture, but here it is anyway:Taken in 2011, Back row, l-r: Mom, Aunt L, yours truly, cousin B (who has a beautiful 1-year-old now), cousin N (holding her youngest). Front row: cousin N's first daughter and my Nana. My fam has a lot of smart, sassy women in it!She's always been there for me, even in the days before the internet and massive online gatherings of d-parents. She encouraged me to learn how to manage diabetes myself, even if I never logged enough for her liking. ...
Source: Dorkabetic - May 11, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Hannah McDonald Source Type: blogs
I Did It! (Or, an update on the last post regarding moving and stuff)
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Dorkabetic readers...lend me your ears eyes. I have a new home! A lovely little rental in what so far seems to be a friendly neighborhood in Philadelphia proper. It's only been about a week or so. We're still settling in. There's some furniture yet to be rebuilt, and there's definitely a lot of boxes still unopened. We're getting there. When I have a housewarming, some of you are going to be on my first-to-know list!Am I really ready for this? Am I crazy for moving to the city at 31 just to see what happens? The answers are, in this order: I ...
Source: Dorkabetic - May 7, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Hannah McDonald Source Type: blogs
Moving Right Along
There's a lot going on out there, Diabetes Blogosphere. I'm sure most of you have read it all by now. I know I have.All this talk is just making me realize how much I love the word nomenclature. When are we all going to realize that the only two types of diabetes are the "good kind" and the "bad kind", am I right?! If you think I'm actually right, then you have a lot to learn about diabetes, and you also have a lot to learn about my sense of humor. I suggest reading more of this blog.It's been hard to keep up with everything. There's a lot of great points being made out there.What's reall...
Source: Dorkabetic - April 23, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Hannah McDonald Source Type: blogs
All in a Twist
Seriously, how does this happen? What was my pump tubing doing all night? Must be quite the game of Twister you're playing there.Thankfully it didn't stop insulin delivery.If I ever wake up with it in a braid of some sort, I am going back to injections, because surely supernatural forces will be the ones governing my pump tubing. No human amount of wriggling could make that happen overnight.We are serious about soft pretzels here around Philly, but this is not the kind of soft pretzel I had in mind. (Source: Dorkabetic)
Source: Dorkabetic - April 9, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Hannah McDonald Source Type: blogs
