Have you ever thought about wandering away from diabetes? Have you ever just had your fill of it all? Have you ever wanted to throw in the towel? Have you ever thought enough is enough? I touched on this a bit in my post a couple weeks ago called “Three Ways to Avoid...
BY HEATHER DERIX, GUEST BLOGGER I so vividly remember the day our world changed. I was in fourth grade, and I was pulled out of class to be told that my five-year-old sister had been rushed to the hospital. She was very sick. It wasn’t until later that I would be told...
Diabetes burnout usually comes on gradually. The other day around 2am, my CGM started beeping low. It wasn’t reading accurately, which is odd because it was reading accurately before I went to bed. But I woke up with it anyway and watched it for a while to make sure I...
I was scrolling through social media when I saw an interesting post. Someone in a diabetes-related group I’m a part of asked the question, “Why do you think there is still no cure for type 1 diabetes?” I saw there were more than a hundred responses in the...
BY BRANDY DAVENPORT, CO-BLOGGER When I was in dental hygiene school (learning how to save the world one floss at a time), the teachers often used the term “armamentarium” as a fancy word to describe the various tools we used. We were expected to gather and prepare...
