DBlog Week – Day 2 – We, The Undersigned
Topic for Today:
Click for the We, The Undersigned – Tuesday 5/14 Link ListRecently 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? (Thanks to Briley of inDpendence for this topic suggestion.)
My petition goes out to those who have thought about starting a blog/vlog/tumblr/twitter/<insert favorite social media channel h...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - May 14, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Diabetes Blog Week Source Type: blogs
DBlog Week – Day 1 – Share and Don’t Share
Topic for today:
Click for the Share and Don’t Share – Monday 5/13 Link List.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? (Thanks to Melissa Lee of Sweetly Voiced for this topic suggestion.)
I’m learning to understand how things work. I’m learning that doctors and clinicians are ...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - May 13, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Diabetes Blog Week Source Type: blogs
Lilly Diabetes – Making Insulin
I can cross “tour an insulin manufacturing facility” off my bucket list.
It was absolutely mind-blowing.
There is a lot of science involved, much of which I am not quite bright enough to understand. But the basic idea is that they start with some E. coli bacteria that is modified to produce insulin as it grows, then it is harvested, the insulin is stripped out, purified, packaged up and delivered to us.
One of the best places I could find that talks about how cells work actually used insulin as an example of biotechnology. From an article at HowStuffWorks.com:
To create insulin inexpensively, the gene that pro...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - May 10, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Insulin Manufacturing Lilly Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Lilly Diabetes – Connecting the Dots
Lorraine Sisto, Mike Hoskins, Kim Vlasnik, John Lechleiter, PhD, Adam Brown, Ruth Gimeno, PhD, Scott Johnson, Leighann Calentine, David Moller, MD, George Simmons, Kris Freeman, Cherise Shockley, Scott Benner, Kelly Kunik, Kelly Close, Bennet Dunlap
I recently returned from a short trip to Indianapolis, IN for a visit with Lilly Diabetes*. They hosted a summit with about a dozen people from the diabetes online community and gave us a chance to learn more about what they’ve been up to since the last meeting.
I was pleased with the meeting and felt they did a great job hosting. The group was small, which made it more i...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - May 10, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Adam Brown Bennet Dunlap Cherise Shockley David Moller MD George Simmons John Lechleiter PhD Kelly Close Kelly Kunik Kim Vlasnik Kris Freeman Leighann Calentine Lilly Diabetes Lorraine Sisto Mike Hoskins Ruth Gimen Source Type: blogs
What 33 Years of Diabetes Looks Like To Me
Happy 33rd diaversary, Scott!
Today is not about doing great with your diabetes management. Like everyone else with type 1 diabetes, you have your ups and downs.
Today is not about surviving another year. Like many others with diabetes you are doing much more than surviving. You are living well with type 1 diabetes.
Today is not about celebrating life. That happens every day the Lord blesses you with another morning.
You work so hard at taking care of yourself, physically, mentally, and spiritually. You are brave, strong, stubborn, and determined. You are a great example that diabetes is about never giving up.
You share yo...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - April 26, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts acknowledgement Diaversary happiness hard work Source Type: blogs
Diversifying Exercise (and a Larry Bird)
I’ve been clawing my way out of an exercise funk that started around the first of the year. It’s been a terrible fight so far, and full of speed bumps.
About eight weeks ago I started getting back to the YMCA for basketball. About six weeks ago I twisted my ankle while playing. Worst sprain in a long time. For the record, these injuries usually need a minimum of six weeks to heal, but like an idiot I started playing ball again in just a week and a half.
All was well, though a little sore and tender, until about three weeks ago when I twisted the same ankle again.
I was SO frustrated. Partially at myself for rus...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - April 25, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Basketball Cycling Exercise Low blood sugar Running Source Type: blogs
Who Will Keep Them Safe?
I’m honored to introduce you to Laddie (@MNAZLaddie on Twitter). When the weather here in Minneapolis is nice, she lives here. The other 11 months of the year she migrates to more a more hospitable climate in Arizona. Okay, I was kidding about the 11 months thing, the weather is beautiful here for 5 or 6 months (most years).
She has been such a huge support and inspiration for me, so when she asked if I’d be willing to share a guest post from her I agreed without hesitation. With great pleasure, here she is!
Type 1 Diabetes and My Day on April 15
Almost every time I have two glasses of wine, I convince myself...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - April 16, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Jennifer Christensen Kerri Sparling Laddie Mike Durbin My Sweet Bean and Her Pod Ubergeek & Denise Source Type: blogs
Whispering in my Ear
It’s hard to explain how badly my confidence was shaken after that bad low on Christmas Eve.
I went from a lifetime low A1C of 6.9 in November, to a two-year high of 8.0 in February. Scared? Yeah. Running high? You bet.
That low totally rocked my world, and it’s going to take time to recover from it.
It didn’t catch me off-guard. It didn’t happen while I was travelling, or dealing with some other unusual circumstance. It hit me smack-dab in the middle of my normal routine. That’s the part that stings the most. That I can’t explain it away. That I have to know it could happen again at any...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - March 22, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Fear Low Passed out Scared Unawareness Source Type: blogs
Perception Versus Reality
I wake up to treat a low. I have five glucose tabs, wait until my BG is back up, then fall back asleep.
I’m low again thirty minutes later. I go downstairs and exercise great restraint by eating just one bowl of Lucky Charms (that’s hard to do even when I’m not low…). I pass the time by reading some blog posts, and once my BG is back up, I go back to bed.
An hour later, I’m up again. Low. Again.
In a fit of frustration I eat way more than I need to treat this low.
If I would have caved in to the urges to eat the house down on the first low, I would be sleeping.
My perception told me I was not ...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - March 14, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Hours of Sleep Lost? How Many?
I’m looking at three right here. If you had to guess at a lifetime tally, how many hours of sleep has diabetes cost you?
Hours of Sleep Lost? How Many? is a post from: Scott's Diabetes
Related posts:
Studying Sleep
“What’s YOUR sleep number?”
Lost So Long? (Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog)
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - March 5, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
mySentry Trial: CareLink Pro
Last posts in this series: mySentry Trial: Starting Up, mySentry Trial: Wearing the Sensor, & mySentry Trial: The mySentry Unit
I’m still wearing my old Cozmo pump. It’s long past its warranty period. There are so many cracks in it that I keep it as far away from water as possible. The battery cap is a different color than the cartridge cap, and the cartridge cap is a different color than the pump. It looks more like Frankenstein each time I harvest a part off an old pump to repair this one. But it’s still going, and doing a fine job. But I recognize that the day is approaching where I have to decid...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - February 26, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Medtronic CareLink Pro MySentry Therapy Source Type: blogs
Recent Updates Elsewhere
A few fun posts this time around! Thanks for stopping by!
2/15/13 – Diabetes Blog Weekly Update #20 – at Diabetes Monitor
2/14/13 – My thoughts on a diabetes journal – at Diabetes Monitor
2/14/13 – A Valentine to My Wife – at The Diabetes Experience (The DX)
2/13/13 - Being a PWD in Minnesota - at Decade of Discovery
2/6/13 – Real Life: Scott Says It’s Complicated – at Drinking with Diabetes
2/5/13 – Good diabetes days – at Diabetes Monitor
2/1/13 – Diabetes Blog Weekly Update #19 – at Diabetes Monitor
1/25/13 – Diabetes Blog Weekly Upda...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - February 15, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Decade of Discovery Diabetes Monitor dLife Drinking with Diabetes TheDX Source Type: blogs
Rekindling Hope
Insulin Nation features a story on the bionic pancreas
Hope is a strange thing for someone who has lived with diabetes for as long as I have.
It’s there.
Deep inside me somewhere.
But it’s dormant; smothered to sleep by decades of failed promises and premature excitement (usually involving cured mice).
Ed Damiano showed me something pretty amazing at the CWD Focus on Technology conference recently, and I felt a glimmer. It was like he had a bellows and was delicately nursing to life the embers of hope in me.
The Bionic Pancreas - the tagline on the website is “using mathematics to treat diabetes …...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - February 12, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts CWD Artificial Pancreas Bionic Pancreas Ed Damiano Focus on Technology Hope Sean Oser Source Type: blogs
What are you doing for Valentine’s Day? Want to save a child?
A small group of people who I highly respect asked for some help in spreading a message. If any one of these folks asked me, individually, for help, I’d not hesitate. So when they approached me collectively talking about how we could use social media for social good, I was all in.
Specifically, they’re looking to help the Life for a Child program, which is an International Diabetes Federation program aiming to take “contributions from donors [to] go to established diabetes centers enabling them to provide the ongoing clinical care and diabetes education these children need to stay alive.”
The idea was to ta...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - February 10, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Diabetes Advocates I Support Resources IDF International Diabetes Federation Life for a Child Spare a Rose Source Type: blogs
GINGER.io – Contribute to Science with a Nurse in Your Pocket
Today I’m hosting a guest post from Peter Smith, Account Manager at Ginger.io. They won Sanofi’s Data Design Diabetes Innovation contest in 2011, and are partnering with Sanofi to bring this interesting technology to more people living with diabetes.
Maybe the best way to explain the concept behind Ginger.io is to quote from a great article at Co.EXIST by Ariel Schwartz.
“Your smartphone is an incredibly powerful tool–one that we mostly waste by just using to make phone calls and check email. But it’s really an advanced bundle of sensors that is with us nearly 24 hours a day, collecting massive am...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - January 28, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts behavior Data Design Diabetes Innovation Ginger.io Sanofi Smartphone Source Type: blogs
