New Tech Device Originally uploaded by cogdogblog. After 35+ year of traditiional insulin via syringes, I am moving into the age of an insulin pump. This little pager size device (Medtronic Paradigm 722) is a powerful litle computer, and comes with a thick ownsers manual. All of the changes are a bit overwhelming. Okay, I [...]
Posted May 18, 2006 @ 8:05 am • No Comments »

After seeing and talking to some of the other diabetic runners on Team-D, and am now more than ever ready to consider getting an insulin pump. I have an appointment for beginning of February to consult with my endocrinologist and diabetes educator, and I might be a “pumper” soon. It should give me much better [...]
Posted January 5, 2006 @ 6:24 pm • 2 Comments »

I’ve written before how the key factor in my management of diabetes was attending summer diabetic camp in Maryland called, Camp Glyndon. The camp was founded by Dr. Abraham Silver, who was pretty ancient back then. Even with web searching could barely find any information on him, a nostalgic photo of him in 1958 published [...]
Posted December 10, 2005 @ 12:13 pm • 30 Comments »

It’s 2:00 AM and I am wide awake. It’s not insomnia that makes me wide awake, its the adrenline rush that is a fortunate by product of a low blood sugar incident. Anytime I wakeup before my alarm clock, its because of “going low.” While I am fortunate it happens that my body jolts me [...]
Posted November 3, 2005 @ 2:37 am • 3 Comments »

For my first 20 some years as a diabetic, I was fortunately free of complications, fairly active, and had a simple, maybe not optimal regimine of care, not really on a diet. I was on one shot a day, and honestly hardly ever tested my sugar levels. Still, I made it through my undergraduate years [...]
Posted October 24, 2005 @ 7:04 am • No Comments »

Sometines we create our own truths, whether they are or not. The other night, the phone rang. It was United Blood Services trying to schedule an appointment with my wife, a regular donor. She was not home, and when I told the person that, he asked, “Well what about you? Do you want to donate?” [...]
Posted October 11, 2005 @ 10:23 pm • No Comments »

Since this running and training are related to and hopefully good medicine for my diabetes, I’ll write a bit here and there of my experiences dealing with the big “D”. This Halloween will actually quiety mark a milestone of my 35th year since being diagnosed. The story goes back to a day in 1970, when [...]
Posted September 30, 2005 @ 7:17 pm • 3 Comments »