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Livid (Healthcare Scam No. 217?)

Diabetes Mine

At my endo appointment last week, the good woman reminded me that she hadn’t seen my “full-body” test results for a while: my most recent eye exam, mammogram and pap smear. This turned out to be a good reminder, as the former two were last done a full ye

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A Theme Is Developing Here ♥♥♥♥

Diabetes Mine

These are my daughter’s new high-tops: And this is my new iPhone 3G cover: Ironically, they cost about the same amount of money.  And clearly, it was my 11-year-old who insisted that I get the MONKEY*PHONE. What does any of this have to do with diabetes

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Feb 4, Gastroparesis │ Gastroparesis: When The Stomach Gets Sluggish

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

by Stacey Colino If you have diabetes, elevated glucose levels can damage nerves needed to help pass food along from the stomach through the

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On Failure, Success, Perfection and Judgment

Diabetes Mine

I am VERY busy and feeling torn in a lot of different directions lately, so if you asked me to rate my diabetes control at the moment, I wouldn’t even know where to begin. A quick look at my meter averages doesn’t paint a very pretty picture: 14-day avera

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Bleeeurrrgh.

Being Diabetic

It’s a long weekend up here in Auckland this weekend, and I’ve got off to a pretty yukky start. Woke up with a completely inexplicable 22.5. The worst thing is - I was awake at 4:45am so did a quick BG test then (I hardly ever test in the night) and it wa

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Video Alert: Don’t Look Now But… It Ain’t Wilford Brimley

Diabetes Mine

I joked with the cameraman that it was the best video he ever made about urine tests. OK, not all the video shorts I taped lately in collaboration with medical supply giant Liberty Medical (yes, the folks with that legendary Wilford Brimley commercial) me

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Top Five Sugar Free and Low Carb Products of 2008

Glucoholic

Happy New Year! Hopefully all of our faithful readers are off to a healthy, happy 2009. As we begin preparing our list of products to review in the new year, we wanted to take a look back at the best sugar free and low carb products of 2008. These prod

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Happy New Year!

Diabetes Mine

Thank you all for visiting and reading and participating throughout the year. I am eternally grateful. ♦ Enjoy your New Year’s celebrations ♦ In very brief, we are looking forward to our annual gourmet dinner, created by the Master Chef Birthday Boy hims

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DFYI- Diabetic Ribbon Campaign

http://diabeticizme.wordpress.com/

I decided to showcase Andrea’s Ribbon Campaign as my first DFYI, it promotes awareness for diabetes. People “know” about Diabetes but aren’t “Aware” of physical and mental issues people with diabetes face from day to day. Andrea is Pro-Active when it come

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Eat Some More Pills, Pillhead.

Dorkabetic

I have never quite understood the people who refuse to take medications because they don't want to have "all those chemicals" or what have you in their bodies. Recently, an acquaintance of mine mentioned that she might have to have her wisdom teeth out s

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