This is weird. I don’t know what to say in a last blog post, because it makes it seem like a black hole is going to open up and suck me into it once I hit “publish.” (I really hope that doesn’t happen, because I still need to shower. I’d hate to be stuck in some Interstellar purgatory and have…
Signing off
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes and Family, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Psychosocial Support, Real Life Diabetes, Website InformationMy diabetes blog turns 13 today. Teenageabetes, in the bloggiest sense. And fitting that my diabetes doesn’t always want to talk to me, has friends I don’t particularly care for, and only listens to me when I threaten it. I have just finished 13 years of writing, now kicking off the 14th. 31 years of diabetes and 13 years of…
You know how sometimes you want a haircut, or a new watch, or to paint the front door of your house bright pink because you can’t stand how everything has looked the same for so freaking long kind of thing? The blog had become that for me. And I wanted a new, bright pink front door. Or, in bloggy-terms, I…
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Author and Webmaster Kerri Morrone Sparling is the creator and author of this website. Contact Kerri You can email me at kerri [at] sixuntilme [dot] com. Purpose of this Website The purpose of this site is to help people with diabetes feel less alone with their disease. Diabetes is a physically challenging and emotionally intense disease to manage, and a…
The search terms that bring people to my blog continue to amaze me in their diversity and weirdness. So much that I wanted to give a quick recap of the strange searches bringing people to SUM this week: Does Muro 128 affect your sense of smell? – Wow. Muro 128 is my favorite old lady drug of choice these days, thanks…
Looking back on 2009 has made me smile, laugh, cry a little bit, and also made me a little bit dizzy. Here’s an in-depth recap of the moment in 2009 that stood out for me – and what I’m looking forward to in 2010. January marked the completion of my first Diabetes 365 project, and also the announcement of my partnership with Dexcom. …
I loved my HP laptop. Loved. Seventeen inches (size matters) of shiny screen with plenty of memory and all my photos and my videos and my writing on it … it was the technological embodiment of my life as a blogger and I took it with me everywhere. Blood sugar logs throughout the course of my pre-pregnancy and now-pregnancy, drafts of articles…
It’s November, which means that NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month) kicks off today. Also, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Not to mention ADM (American Diabetes Month). It’s a whole month’s worth of abbreviations being kicked around this November, so there’s plenty to talk about and plenty of diabetes awareness to be raised. But, of course, no NaBloPoMo is complete on my blog…
I was under the assumption that most people found my blog by searching for “diabetes” or “insulin pump,” or even “medical blogs.” I did not realize how many other routes in there were. How many silly routes there were. People are Googling all sorts of terms and finding Six Until Me. Of note: “Do I often pogo-stick through your mind wearing nothing but…