Category Archives: Cystic Fibrosis Related DiabetesHi y’all! I survived the swine flu. I honestly have no idea how I did though. It was horrendous. I was so weak, I couldn’t even lift a bottle of Poweraide Zero to my lips and needed a straw. Since then it has been hard to get back on my feet again. I’ve had two [...]
I have sat down several times to write a new blog post, but I have been having some severe writer’s block. Partially because I think that diabetes is becoming so second nature to me, that I don’t really think about it all that much. That I hope is a good thing to hear for those [...]
Here are a few other tests (by far not all of them) that are important in either the diagnosis of diabetes, or if you have diabetes they are good to have to keep tabs on things. Random glucose test – This is usually a fingerprick, or done while draining your arm/body of blood for other [...]
Also known as the HbA1c, hemoglobin A1c, or Glycosylated (or glycated) hemoglobin test. This is a blood test that measures the average blood glucose levels over the past 2-3 months. Glucose can bind to the hemoglobin which is found in the red blood cells. This causes some sort of modification of the molecule in the [...]
I was about to launch off in a review about an article I read online at the American Diabetes Association regarding two diagnostic tests for diabetes. But then I realized that it may be more important to give you a bit of a description of the tests before I go spouting off my opinion of [...]
Having been to the doctor’s about a billion times in the past few months I have learned a few new things about diabetes that I want to share. I don’t know where I read it, somewhere said that folks with CFRD do not suffer the same complications as “regular” diabetics. This is just bullpuckey! I [...]
That is how my life has seemed to be over the past few months… ok, maybe past few years. After my last oh so awesome post, not even a day later, I got some bad health juju that kicked me on my arse which is why I have been on the ‘downlow’ (or what ever [...]
Over the past, oh year and a half or so, I have noticed a severe decrese in my mental ability to remember things. Mostly affecting my short term memory, repeating things, asking the same questions over and over, not able to remember what tasks I am doing, or have completed… the list goes on. I [...]
I want to send a warm welcome to each and everyone who has recently found my site. For those who have found me from my article in Diabetes Forecast, you may not be familiar with my unique type of diabetes and I want to point you to the top of the page where you can [...]
I hope ya all had a very happy thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is one of my most favorite holidays. Of course that is because of all the food!!! YUMMMMY! Dealing with Diabetes and the copious amounts of food that the holidays bring is a very difficult thing to balance. I thought I would share a few tips [...]
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