Strangely Diabetic

OK Brainiacs… Riddle Me This: Crowdsourcing Diabetes Management

Scott Strange — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:52:36 +0000

Let me explain why the pattern above troubles me. I have been having late afternoon lows off-and-on for months. Normally I would think I need less insulin except for a few pertinent facts:

Last Bolus: 11:30 am Basal rate goes to zero (yes zero) at noon I use Apidra, so the last [...]

I Have To Stop Giving A Sh*t

Scott Strange — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:45:52 +0000

I’ve been pretty absent recently dealing with a big chunk of burnout. Not diabetes burnout, but caregiver burnout. While I really have to do very little for mom, there are a lot of things that roll into the caregiver picture, at least for me.

Always “on” – the monitors are always on. I’m always listening, [...]

And One Petition to Help Them All

Scott Strange — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:12:51 +0000

** A recent petition on Change.org, Revise Names of Type 1 & 2 Diabetes to Reflect the Nature of Each Disease, has stirred up a bit of controversy in the Diabetes Online Community. Personally, I agree with Lee Ann Thill’s assessment and think it is a waste of time and energy. Reading of my friend [...]

We’ve Got DATA!! Uh, So… Now What?

Scott Strange — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:59:34 +0000

** I’m writing this from my viewpoint as a Type 1 diabetic and, as always, Your Diabetes May Vary

The Atlantic posted an article by Thomas Goetz, The Diabetic’s Paradox, that did a very good and accurate job of describing why data collection is the arch-enemy of many diabetics, even addressing the psycho-social aspects of [...]

I Can’t Find The Word For This Type Of ‘-ism’ Or ‘-ist’

Scott Strange — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:10:18 +0000

And it’s not from a lack of trying, the word simply doesn’t exist. Maybe there’s been no need for it, a word to describe a concept that is imbedded in societies around the world. Maybe it simply hasn’t risen to the level where society will take notice. Except, I believe, it has.

Let’s look at [...]

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week – I’m One of the Disorderly

Scott Strange — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:36:42 +0000

I have body image issues. My rather large gut shames me almost everyday.

It dictates how I dress, what I eat, makes me want to stay in and isolate myself so not to feel embarrassed.

After going through therapy for depression, I seem to have found another layer of issues that need addressing. It greatly [...]

It’s Another Diaversary

Scott Strange — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:04:01 +0000

Diaversary, a word I had never heard of before finding the diabetic online community (DOC), is similar to an anniversary or birthday except the “celebrated” date is your date of diagnosis. Some do actually celebrate another year of co-existing with diabetes.

Personally, I used to just view it as another day of being cursed. I [...]

Your Child is Going to Die and We Can’t Do Anything About It

Scott Strange — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:52:10 +0000

“Your child has Type 1 diabetes”

Those are six words that no parent wants to hear. Those six words were a death sentence 90 years ago before the advent of insulin.

Today, most of the developed world has insulin to treat diabetes, but those six words are still a death sentence in most impoverished, undeveloped, and [...]

The Law of Unintended Consequences

Scott Strange — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:25:15 +0000

As a firm believer in the Law of Unintended Consequences (LoUC), it immediately came to mind when I read a post by Dan Diamond over at the Health Care Blog, About Time? Smokers Face Tough New Rules Under Obamacare which details a little known provision of the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aka [...]

What I’ve Learned So Far

Scott Strange — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:10:50 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted, but I wanted to finish up my discussion of the last few years with a summary of what I’ve learned (sometimes I think stumbled into is a better description).

Learning that I was not alone in diabetes what probably the most profound, and yet damaging, thing. Recognizing that [...]