a blog about diabetes, body image, and other stuff
The amount of paperwork that goes into signing consent for a clinical trial is staggering, and quite frankly, enough to make even the most confident participant start to feel a little anxious. You're literally writing your name to a multi-page document that says you acknowledge whatever the heck could happen to you, and heck yes, you're OK … Continue reading Living With Diabetes: The Clinical Trial (Part 2)
Control. It's a big theme of this blog, much as it's been a big theme of my life this past year. The diabetes diagnosis wrenched control away from me and threatened never to give it back. Especially those first few months, I felt completely at the mercy of my disease. I thought about it constantly. I … Continue reading Living With Diabetes: The Clinical Trial (Part 1)
The JDRF is the world's leading nonprofit organization supporting Type 1 Diabetes research. Fun fact: they used to be called the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, but changed to the acronym in acknowledgement of the fact that, huh, it's not just kids who get it. (Did you know that Mary Tyler Moore was 33 when she … Continue reading Living With Diabetes: Technology
I name this post not just as a tribute to one of my favorite writers, Zadie Smith, but as a follow up to my previous post (On Mortality), which has left me spinning with energy and desperate to continue to take shots at how stupid societal conventions and expectations are. Despite all the horribleness of … Continue reading Living With Diabetes: On Beauty
Someone, in posting about my blog on Facebook, mentioned that one of the issues it covered was “mortality”. I hadn't thought that was particularly a subject I was writing about, but today's post proved me solidly wrong. Of course this blog is about mortality. It's a blog about chronic illness. In a way, can the two possibly be … Continue reading Living With Diabetes: On Mortality
I never, ever, ever would have believed that one day I'd be writing about SCIENCE on the internet. And like, medicine. And math. These were my least favorite subjects in school. I am solidly an English/Theater type of girl. But hey, I also never would have believed that I'd one day post my weight on the internet. Or a … Continue reading Living With Diabetes: My First Low
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