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The Positive Effects Of Diabetes: How It’s Shaped Me Into The Person I Am When thinking about diabetes, I often have negative feelings towards it. From battling my blood sugars, taking insulin, adjusting my insulin dosages, fixing overcorrecting or under correcting, long nights, early mornings, and the rollercoaster of emotions. I feel it’s normal to […]

Diabetic Alert Dog For Camden April 20, 2015, was a life changing day for 4-year-old Camden. Actually, my whole family’s life changed! I had noticed that Camden was having night time accidents. I had attributed this to the fact his mom (my daughter) moved to Grants Pass to be closer to Camden and his little […]

  I asked my mother to write about my diagnosis and the years following. I’ve always wanted to get her perspective as being a mother of a Type 1 Diabetic. Now that I’m a mother, I can empathize with a mother’s love and how far it will go. I wanted her to share her thoughts, fears, […]

Why CGM Coverage Matters To Me Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has been becoming more widely used by diabetics. There’re a few different companies who supply it. I, personally use the Dexcom. I only starting using it a year ago during my third pregnancy. I’ve always been a brittle diabetic who has hypo unawareness. So my […]

My fitness journey started around 6 years ago at the age of 18. I had recently started my degree at a university and decided to join the local gym as they were offering a great price for new students. It would be inside this very gym that my life would change forever. The first time […]

My Journey From Gestational Diabetes to Type 1 Diabetes Being a mother has truly given my life meaning, in more ways than one! On my journey through my first pregnancy, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, the one that goes away right? Well in many cases, I had believed this as so. When my daughter […]

Overcoming An Eating Disorder With Diabetes With being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes since the age of 12, I never anticipated all the hurdles that I would have to overcome over the years—including overcoming an eating disorder with diabetes. Nor did I ever anticipate having diabetes at all—but here I am. Throughout my teen years, […]

Being A Mom With Type 1 Diabetes Just like diabetes—motherhood is a lot of work. Both are full-time jobs. Not one is more important than the other. For me— being a mom with Type 1 Diabetes, they go hand in hand. I get asked often “how do you manage”  The kids—they mean. But of course, […]

My Battle With OCD and Diabetes We have all heard of the anxiety disorder that causes people to act or think in repetitive ways is known as OCD (Over-Compulsive Disorder). Where someone may have unwanted thoughts, fears, and/or perform certain rituals. But having diabetes, there is also a form of OCD and diabetes called “Over-Correcting […]